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Cloudockit Release Notes

Release v14 – October 2022

General
  • Notification message when imputing your product key is improved: easily understand if your product key has expired or if you have reached the maximum number of users.
  • We have removed the ability to embed Visio OLE Object inside Word documents since Microsoft Word is experiencing memory management issues with OLE Object. Visio diagrams are still embedded in reports but not as OLE Objects, which were not activated by default.
  • You can now select exactly where you want your documents to be generated in your SharePoint document library.
  • If you are using Cloudockit Storage, your documents can now only be stored for up to 30 days before being permanently deleted. This change ensures greater security of your documentation.
  • Confluence drop-off parameters are now available through API calls which gives you the ability to schedule and automate Confluence IT Portal generation.
Azure
  • Azure Firewall policies are now fully supported.
  • Azure Application Security Groups are now fully supported.
  • Built-in policies are excluded from reports. Having those policies in reports created very long reports with information of no added value.
Google Cloud
  • Cloudockit now documents and diagrams GCP Cloud Run and SQL.
  • Split-generated documents by Labels and workloads are now available in GCP.
AWS
  • AWS ECS diagrams are now available.
Bug Fixes
  • Diagrams by workloads are making Visio Plan 2 crash.
  • The subnet icon does not appear in Visio Diagrams.
  • Documentation for Cosmos DB setup in a container needs correction.
  • Cannot generate diagrams except for Tailored Diagrams.
  • VMWare – Split by feature not working.
  • Excel reports not showing billing information for resource groups.
  • NSG associated with NIC not displaying in reports.

Release v12 – July 2022

General
Azure
  • Azure Key Vault access policies are now supported
Google Cloud
  • Filtering using labels is now supported for Google Cloud
Bug Fixes
  • Upload and refresh diagrams fix with scheduling in SaaS
  • AWS Location diagrams empty has been fixed
  • The compliance selection section is fixed when navigating the UI
  • Tailored Diagrams icons are not displayed when using the editor is fixed

Release v11 – June 2022

General
  • The Subscription, account, or project names are now visible in the options screen
  • The SharePoint drop-off validation has been improved
Container
  • Configurations can now be saved in Cloudockit Container. This will allow you to load a configuration quickly to launch a document generation without having to define everything manually.
Azure
  • Azure Virtual WAN is now supported
  • Azure Logs Analytics is now supported
AWS
  • AWS diagram hyperlinks now open to the resources section of the AWS Console
Bug Fixes
  • AWS Gov login issues have been fixed
  • Azure billing information not displaying has been fixed
  • GCP track changes have been improved

Release v10 – April 2022

General

Performance Improvements

  • Time to generate documents (word, pdf …) decreased by 20% to deliver you documents faster
  • Memory consumption has been decreased by 20 to 40% to fix the memory pressure customers were experiencing while using Cloudockit Desktop and Cloudockit Container

 

Deprecated Features

  • To stay up to date with how Azure/AWS/GCP platforms evolve, we deprecate some of our existing features:
  • ClassicWorkloads (you will still be able to scan them if you install previous Cloudockit Desktop Version)
  • OnPremscanning (will be replaced once Lansweeper deep on-premises scan is fully integrated)
  • Automation through Cloudockit website: We are transitioning to our REST API that is more flexible as it gives you more control over how you want to automate and schedule document generations
  • Windows Docker Image since we now recommend using Linux Docker Image
  • The Scheduler & ACS workloads that no longer exist anymore have been removed
Azure
  • Azure ARC now supported
  • Azure Synapse now supported
  • Azure Windows Virtual Desktop
Desktop
  • Cloudockit Desktop no longer requires Administrator Mode to run. You still need Administrator privileges to install Cloudockit Desktop but not to run it. This will make your deployment job much easier.
Bug Fixes
  • VMWare – Virtual Machines missing from Excel document generated
  • Container – AWS Gov – Storage Validation Error
  • Desktop – Process cannot access state file
  • Lucidchart – Diagrams not generating in specific environments
  • Recovery Service Vaults – Protected Items missing from the reports

Release v9 – December 2021

General
Documents
AWS
Bug Fixes
  • Missing empty row, in track changes, has been fixed
  • Managed Instances now display the GUI when gathering the metadata
  • SES information is now displayed properly in Cloudockit Reports for AWS Gov.
  • External IP count contains wrong values
  • AWS Lightsail configuration issue
  • Tailored diagrams deselecting when changing screen when using the desktop version
  • Criticism typo fixed

Release v9 – December 2021

General
Documents
AWS
Bug Fixes
  • Missing empty row, in track changes, has been fixed
  • Managed Instances now display the GUI when gathering the metadata
  • SES information is now displayed properly in Cloudockit Reports for AWS Gov.
  • External IP count contains wrong values
  • AWS Lightsail configuration issue
  • Tailored diagrams deselecting when changing screen when using the desktop version
  • Criticism typo fixed

Release v8 – October 2021

IT Portal

Release v7 – September 2021

General
Desktop
Container
Tailored Diagrams
Refreshed Diagrams
Azure
  • Azure Data Share is now fully documented – Learn More
  • Azure Reservations are now detected by Cloudockit
  • Traffic Manager diagrams have been added to your Word documents to enable you to see dependencies with components like Azure Web Apps
  • Azure Analysis Services are now fully supported
  • Cloudockit now gives extensive details about Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Registry with dependencies
AWS
Google Cloud
Bug Fixes
  • Compliance rules not displaying when authenticating with Use Another Account
  • Expiration Time cannot be set in Cloudockit Container
  • Excel displays diagram fields that are useless
  • Components in Tailored Diagrams cannot be moved under specific circumstances
  • Provisioning Date value now reflects VM’s creation time and not the last modification on the VM

Release v6 – June 2021

General
  • Compliance Rules and Tailored Diagram grids have been updated to easily distinguish between built-in items and custom items
Diagrams
  • You can now export and import Tailored Diagram Templates directly from Cloudockit Web UI. Opening new scenarios for sharing your templates
  • Tailored Diagrams now display the connection of Aggregation types with specific arrows for you to not miss connections even if you did not embed the resources
Documents
Container
Azure
AWS
Bug Fixes
  • Azure – OS and OS version information missing from the report
  • S3 drop off not validated in Azure scan
  • Excel documents generation has been fixed for Azure Gov in Cloudockit Desktop
  • SharePoint Online Drop-Off is not working for Container with a Windows image
  • OS Disk size has been adjusted in the Virtual Machine settings section
  • net (draw.io) Native files opening result in “Error loading file / Not a diagram file”
  • Azure App Gateway not shown in Diagrams depending on the App Gateway links
  • Azure Europe datacenters number not displaying
  • GCP-Kubernetes Detection of clusters fail without basic authentication
  • Excel reports not generating successfully
  • AWS – IAM role authentication with Google not displaying accounts
  • Tag Name display in Native diagrams.net (draw.io) shapes data

Release v5 – May 3, 2021

General
Diagrams
Documentation
API Container
Azure
  • Azure Data Factory is now part of the Excel reports
  • Azure Firewall information now displays in SQL managed instances and elastic pools in reports
  • OS of the Azure App Service Plan is displayed in reports and diagrams
  • Public address is now displayed in Word documents, in the settings and IP configuration sections of virtual machines
AWS
  • New AWS regions (af-south-1, eu-south-1, and more) were added to the list of available regions
  • Cloudockit Desktop now supports tag filtering in AWS
  • EC2 Instances that are terminated can be excluded from your reports
Bug Fixes
    • Billing diagrams and metrics diagrams are repeated in multiple sections with the same information
    • Azure Virtual Machine OS information is missing
    • Azure Gov document generation failing for specific configurations
    • Azure Backup section of Virtual Machine is empty

Release v4.8 – February 8, 2021

General
  • Spring Cloud is now available from the list of Workloads
  • Spring Cloud components now appear in reports and diagrams
  • Service Map can now be used to detect dependencies between components
Container
  • Cloudockit Container now supports Web UI (in Preview)
Compliance Rules
  • Custom compliance standards can now be exported from Cloudockit SaaS and imported into Cloudockit Desktop
  • A dash (-) now displays in the compliance rules table when no rules exist for a component
Diagrams
  • PDF diagrams are now available for Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-prem – Learn More
  • Tailored Diagrams automatically detect duplicate components
  • Custom Tailored Diagrams can now be exported from Cloudockit SaaS and imported into Cloudockit Desktop
  • Cloudockit now support Refreshable Diagrams (in Preview)
  • Cloudockit Diagrams now include links to help pages
  • Diagrams are now created by location
  • Blank pages are now removed from draw.io, Lucidchart, and PDF files
  • Cloudockit Tailored Diagram support custom fields displayed in the Shape
Documentation
Desktop
  • Cloudockit Desktop now automatically detects when you trigger a scan manually. It will automatically suggest scheduling the document generation so that you don’t have to do that manually next time
  • Cloudockit Desktop now automatically proposes scheduling when creating new reports
Azure
  • In Visio, for Azure Diagrams, you can now click on the shape (Ctrl+click) to open the Azure Portal for a specific resource
GCP
  • Multiple projects in GCP can now be included in the reports once generated
  • Cloudockit Google Cloud documentation now features billing diagrams
AWS
  • Cloudockit API / Cloudockit Desktop can now rescan the 1st day of the Month automatically in AWS
Bug Fixes
  • Client seems to not have the issue anymore
  • Cloudockit Scan Agent gives data from a different date
    Fix billing dates Web & API
  • GCP Storage buckets display a size of 0 bytes
  • Azure – Number of resources per location don’t match the number of components
  • Enable PDF Diagrams generation without Visio selected
  • GCP Location “US” not found
  • GCP Drop-off text is incorrect
    GCP does not display Executive Summary
  • Indicator shows no Rule for a Network Security group and shows Rules for the next Network Security Group
  • AWS Scan is stuck on Lambda

Release v4.6 – November 7, 2020

General
Azure
  • Azure Quota of App Service plan is now displayed
  • Azure Storage account now display the Used Capacity metric
  • Azure DNS Zone is now supported

Release v4.4 – September 28, 2020

General
  • Availability Zones of Virtual Machines are now included in the settings section
  • Service Map can now be used to detect dependencies between components
  • RegionEndpoint.CNNorthWest1 and RegionEndpoint.CNNorth1 are now unchecked by default
  • Users can now click on their name to view their profile that currently contains their product key and expiration date
  • Cloudockit now includes at least one Aggregation Link from a CDKCategoryCDK_SecurityAndManagement_OrganizationalUnit component in the JSON file. This will allow you to ensure that you do not have ‘orphan’ resources in your JSON files
  • Cloudockit Container logo now displays when container setup mode is enabled
Compliance rules
Cloudockit Desktop
  • Cloudockit Desktop now features Button Run Now available in the scheduled job window
  • Cloudockit website now features a direct link to Cloudockit Desktop User Guide
  • One day free trial can now be enabled for the desktop version
  • Cloudockit Desktop now allows specifying the number of days to go back when retrieving billing information
  • Cloudockit Desktop Trial process has been simplified to avoid asking for confirmation many times
  • Cloudockit Desktop now supports the ability to scan AWS, Azure, and GCP on a single EC2 instance and store the results to one central S3 bucket
Diagrams
Documentation
  • Updated Word template to include compliance standards
Api
  • Custom template attribute has been added to the list of API attributes
  • Cloudockit API Web User Interface now displays Powershell & Curl command line before users click on Execute
Azure
AWS
Google cloud

Release v4.02.04 – June 10, 2020

General
  • Load Balancers now features detailed information like Frontend IP Configurations, Health probes, Inbound rules, and more
Compliance rules
  • Cloudockit compliance rules can now be shared with the rest of your team. When you create a new Compliance Rule, you can choose to make it available to all people who have the same license code
Cloudockit Desktop
  • Cloudockit Desktop is now featured on our new home page which facilitates access to our local solution. Download our desktop version today
  • JSON and LDIF output can be customized with options that are now available in the Web UI and in Cloudockit Desktop
  • You can now import/export plain JSON files into Cloudockit Desktop to allow you to manually edit the configurated file
Diagrams
  • You can now choose if you want to generate diagrams by Location or not
Azure
  • PostgreSQL and MariaDB are now fully documented in Azure
  • SQL diagrams for managed instances/servers in Azure are now included in the documentation
AWS
  • Cloudockit now supports MFA for AWS Access Keys
  • “AmazonIamUser“ and “AmazonIamUserDetail“ are consolidated “intoAmazonIamUser”
  • Filtering by AWS Tags is now supported: you can specify the tag name and its value to filter only the resources you want
  • You can now drop the generated file into AWS S3 Bucket when you use the multi-account authentication scenario with a cross-account role

Release v4.02 – April 30, 2020

General
  • Cloudockit now provides some hints about how to improve your Documents/Diagrams generation. The list of hints is available here: https://www.cloudockit.com/knowledge-base/document-generation-hints/
  • Cloudockit Web UI now supports Notifications that will allow us to share some information with you like New Releases and Tips
  • Cloudockit now supports the Track Changes features (Previously this feature was only available on AWS/Azure)
  • Information retrieval in Cloudockit has been updated to better handle exceptions while scanning a component. For instance, if there was an issue (like lack of permissions) in scanning some particular settings like CORS Settings in a Storage Account, it could prevent the Storage Account from being shown. Now only the CORS Settings will be impacted
  • Cloudockit Web UI limit of time to generate documentation has been changed from 6 hours to 24 hours and an email is now sent if this is not enough time to generate the document with some hints on how to fix it
  • JSON and LDIF files now feature more Links between components as all collection of objects are now flagged as Links when appropriate
Security
  • Audit has been renamed to Password Protected in the Cloudockit Website to avoid confusion. Password for protected documents are sent in a separate email to documents
API
  • Cloudockit API allows filtering on billing entries using JsonBillingDimension and JsonBillingType API Parameters
Documentation
  • You can now generate Word documents that contain only the changes to your environment. This leverages the existing Cloudockit Track Changes features
  • A new template named Essential is now available. This template contains the most important settings for each component but with fewer details than the Full template that can be too verbose for huge environments
  • Names of documents generated have been updated to match Cloudockit Web Interface (for example, Azure Documentation has been renamed to Azure Word Report)
  • Cloudockit now features an automatic mechanism to help produce documents for Huge Environments like automatically decreasing the amount of information displayed, the quality of the stencils, the split of documents…
  • documents: LdifIncludeDiagrams, LdifIncludeBilling
Diagrams
  • Visio Diagrams now features an icon near the shapes of resources that have been added or modified so that you can easily see how your environment evolves
  • Logic App complete diagrams are now included in the Cloudockit generated documents (diagrams/reports)
  • Diagrams of Virtual Networks in the Word document is now resized to fit the width of the page
Azure
  • Runtime & Languages are now displayed for Azure Functions
  • Azure Template App Service section has been updated to show Architecture Diagram in the first section
  • Azure Storage API Version used by Cloudockit has been updated
  • Cloudockit supports Azure Data Factory v2. Azure Data Factory v1 supports is under development
  • Azure Load Balancers are now scanned by Cloudockit even if they are not connected to any Virtual Machines or Virtual Machines ScaleSet
AWS
  • New Hint has been added to detect that you cannot get your Kubernetes Cluster details (Pods, Services…) because you lack permissions (http://cloudockit.com/knowledge-base/document-generation-hints/)
  • Cloudockit API exposes AWS Billing by Tags, by using the IncludeBillingTags API Parameter
  • All AWS API used by Cloudockit (Nuget Packages) have been updated
Google Cloud
  • Drop-off in Google Storage is now supported so you can use your own Google Cloud Storage to store your Reports/Diagrams
  • All Google API used by Cloudockit (Nuget Packages) have been updated

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