SPACEWatch v5.7.70
Category SPACEWatch New Releases
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We don’t always describe new updates to SPACEWatch in the blog, but v5.7.70 includes some new features that are definitely worth taking the time to explain in more detail.
This update brings some new features and fixes to SPACEWatch Enterprise, SPACEWatch for Exchange and SPACEWatch for Domino. Read about all the changes. If you have an up-to-date maintenance contract you can download this update via My Account – if you don’t know how to log in then contact support@sharpeware.com.
Here are a couple of the major new areas of enhancement in this update:
Enhancements to space database maintenance
We've included a number of enhancements to help with automating the maintenance of your SQL space databases. These include:
The new User Finder
The most significant new feature in this update is the new User Finder. You’ll find this on the new Find – Users menu option. We previewed this in an earlier blog (see 'Who's used all the space?'). This deceptively simple tool is actually very powerful.
With this new tool can you instantly see the results of analyses like
What's more you can see the results rolled up by organization structure as well, using your directory details taken from either Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory or IBM Domino Directory depending on where the files are being stored.
Here’s an example:
Who’s taking up most storage with their audio files?
By the way, what you class as ‘audio files’ can be defined by you: we give you a range of file types to get you started, but you can alter these any way you want – or even create your own set of file types. We call these sets of file types ‘highlight groups’ and you can manage them from the File Types summary window.
Go to Data – Summary and click on the Types tab. Use the Settings button to manage your Highlight Groups.
And here are the same results organized as a tree:
User Finder results organized along directory lines
The User Finder shows you how many files – and how much storage they’re taking up – for each user. Along side this data it also shows you the total files/storage all files owned by that user.
As with any other area of SPACEWatch you can see detail by double clicking a result – in this case you will see all the files listed. You can also save the results to a variety of formats and use them in other applications, or print a formatted report.
Finally, you can also visualize your results in a chart like this:
Visualize results in a chart
Bookmark :
We don’t always describe new updates to SPACEWatch in the blog, but v5.7.70 includes some new features that are definitely worth taking the time to explain in more detail.
This update brings some new features and fixes to SPACEWatch Enterprise, SPACEWatch for Exchange and SPACEWatch for Domino. Read about all the changes. If you have an up-to-date maintenance contract you can download this update via My Account – if you don’t know how to log in then contact support@sharpeware.com.
Here are a couple of the major new areas of enhancement in this update:
Enhancements to space database maintenance
We've included a number of enhancements to help with automating the maintenance of your SQL space databases. These include:
- If this is your first data collection to a new SQL database, the structure will now be automatically created for you
- If you collect data remotely, e.g. to a local SPACEWatch data file, you can now automate the merging of these data files into your SQL space database
- We've slightly updated the SQL databases structure in a way that lets us optimize data maintenance - in some cases this will result in an up to 50% performance improvement
- If you really want to, you can now zap the SQL space database before starting a new collection - this will erase all space data (and can't be undone - so please use with care!)
- You can now verify your space database as a routine task - although we recommend only doing this when required (e.g. when data collection was interrupted due to a system or network failure). This option attempts to validate the data that is already in the database.
The new User Finder
The most significant new feature in this update is the new User Finder. You’ll find this on the new Find – Users menu option. We previewed this in an earlier blog (see 'Who's used all the space?'). This deceptively simple tool is actually very powerful.
With this new tool can you instantly see the results of analyses like
- top 50 users who have created audio files (where 'audio files' are any file types that fit this description)
- users with files unused for more than 6 months
- top users with unused audio files.
What's more you can see the results rolled up by organization structure as well, using your directory details taken from either Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory or IBM Domino Directory depending on where the files are being stored.
Here’s an example:
Who’s taking up most storage with their audio files?
By the way, what you class as ‘audio files’ can be defined by you: we give you a range of file types to get you started, but you can alter these any way you want – or even create your own set of file types. We call these sets of file types ‘highlight groups’ and you can manage them from the File Types summary window.
Go to Data – Summary and click on the Types tab. Use the Settings button to manage your Highlight Groups.
And here are the same results organized as a tree:
User Finder results organized along directory lines
The User Finder shows you how many files – and how much storage they’re taking up – for each user. Along side this data it also shows you the total files/storage all files owned by that user.
As with any other area of SPACEWatch you can see detail by double clicking a result – in this case you will see all the files listed. You can also save the results to a variety of formats and use them in other applications, or print a formatted report.
Finally, you can also visualize your results in a chart like this:
Visualize results in a chart
