ExtremeZ-IP 5.0 (Released: February 2007)

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ExtremeZ-IP 5.0 (Released: February 2007)
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ExtremeZ-IP 5.0 (Released: February 2007)
ENHANCEMENTS:
* Added support for the migration of existing SFM shares and the replication of SMB shares.
* Added support for nested volumes.
* Added support for migrating SMB "dot underscore" data into data files so that resource and finder information are available through ExtremeZ-IP.
* Added support for performance counters. ExtremeZ-IP publishes counter data so that the status of ExtremeZ-IP can be tracked with tools such as Perfmon and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Some examples of available counters are "Users (Total)" and "Bytes read/sec".
* Added support for client reconnect. Clients will now automatically reconnect to the server after a network outage, server crash or reboot or cluster failover. Files open by the client will remain available after reconnect. ExtremeZ-IP contains a number options to configure reconnect behavior - see the Online Help file for details.
* Introduced a new thread pool architecture within ExtremeZ-IP. ExtremeZ-IP uses a dynamically sized thread pool to manage server activity, which will scale as the server is under load. Prior versions of ExtremeZ-IP would use 2 threads per user session, which limited the total number of sessions that could be handled simultaneously on a fast machine to 700-800 users, with significant overhead for thread context switching and other housecleaning operations. The new thread pooling architecture allows significant more users to be connected while consuming less memory and CPU resources. The thread pool can be configured via the Registry.
* Significant performance enhancements have been made to common AFP commands such as enumerations and getting information about files and folders. These enhancements reduce the amount of time it takes to respond to commands significantly, especially when under stress, and also reduce the load on the server. ExtremeZ-IP now caches more information and spends less time accessing the disk.
* Added support for server notifications, which help notify the remote client that it should reenumerate the contents of open Finder windows. [#7418] [5.0x122]
* Added support for sharing the root of a volume.
* Added support for modifying the serial number without stopping the service - thus allowing upgrades from File to Print Server or an increase in client count without requiring a service restart.
* Improved online help, allowing for the automatic copy of registry value names in order to simplify the process of modifying registry settings.
* Added Unicode support to the ExtremeZ-IP Administrator. The Administrator now properly displays volumes, paths, print queues, files and usernames containing Unicode characters. Administrators can now send Unicode messages to connected users as well. [#2266] [5.0x41]
* Improved logic for saving search index files. Files are now automatically placed in a single, global folder. This global folder can be customized through the Administrator, and individual volumes can override this global setting.
* Added code to cache information about domain controllers to speed up logins for domain users. [#6722] [5.0x41]
* Expanded the number of new clients that can connect to the server at nearly the same time from 5 to 128. This will remove situations where when 100s of users attempt to login to the server within a short period of time, a number of them get an error that the server is not responding.
* Added additional diagnostic logging to the debug log, such as commands processed per second, statistics on the thread pool and its usage patterns, and the number of users connected among other things.
* Added support for UTF-8 (Unicode) server names. [#2552] [5.0x113]
* Added optional feature requiring clients to change their passwords prior to expiration. See online help for more information on enabling this feature using the ForcedPasswordChangePeriod registry value. [#4496] [5.0x122]
* Improved performance when dealing with new files by flushing id/index information to disk less often. [#4854] [5.0x113]
* Fixed AdjustMacPermissions so that it properly creates write-only (drop) folders. [#5224] [5.0x128]
* Added an additional column to the Administrator's Users window indicating the status of a user: "Active", "Idle", "Sleeping" or "Waiting for Reconnect". [#6953] [5.0x122]
* Added support for longer logon messages through the LogonMsgW registry value (see online help for more information). Note that while ExtremeZ-IP supports logon messages up to 1024 characters, current versions of Macintosh OS X will fail to display messages longer than 500 characters. [#7377] [5.0x122]
* Added a warning to the main window of the Administrator when the service is configured to use a non-standard AFP port. [#7471] [5.0x122]
* Improved support for Unicode strings in the EZIPUTIL command-line utility. [#7577] [5.0x129]
* Extended "default domain" code to allows administrators to provide a list of default domains to try (in order) when a user logs on. See the help file for more information on the DefaultDomainName registry value. [#6735] [5.0x132]
* Improved search indexing code to reduce the likelihood that the volume has to be reindexed, and added additional logging to help diagnose why a reindex was needed. [#7039] [5.0x132]
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