The previous Soho Alpha version will stop working on the 30th of June 2010 – to continue testing you need to download the latest version.

If you haven’t downloaded WebSpy Soho Alpha before simply get the latest version and off you go. If you’re an Alpha tester you need to keep reading…

WINDOWS USERS:

Before installing the new build, Windows users must uninstall the previously installed version of Soho Alpha on every machine. Thanks to a bug in the previous version, you need to follow the two steps below to do this:

STEP 1 – UNINSTALL FROM START MENU

• Windows Vista/7 – Start | Control Panel | Programs and Features
• Windows XP – Start | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs

STEP 2 – UNINSTALL MANUALLY

1. Open an administrative command line window
• Windows Vista/7: Go to Start | All Programs | Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator".
• Windows XP: Go to Start | Run, type "cmd" and press OK
2. In the command line window that appears, type the following commands:
   • sc stop "WebSpy Soho Agent"
   • sc delete "WebSpy Soho Agent"
3. The service has now been removed from the system, and the new version may be installed without issue

MAC USERS

Simply launch the new install package and it will automatically overwrite the old one.

LATEST UPDATES:

• Now installs on Mac OS 10.5
• More stable – less crashing and freezing
• Plenty of work has been done based on your feedback. We’re hoping that the below issues are more or less fixed but would really appreciate if you could let us know if you’re still experiencing:
  • High CPU usage after sleep or hibernate
  • All computers disappearing from current activity chart except the local computer
  • Random traffic spikes

FEEDBACK

Thank you to everyone that has submitted feedback so far.

• Please let us know if your network card works or doesn’t work with Soho
• Have a feature suggestion or found a bug? Submit it and vote it up here
• Dedicated Soho Alpha Feedback thread in our forums

Thanks for being involved in our alpha testing phase. We hope you enjoy using the product and we look forward to your comments!

You should be prompted to update your software on startup, but if you’ve turned off that feature, simply go to Tools | Check for Updates.

New Features

This new build sports the following new features:

• Support for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Beta)
  Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (FTMG) is still currently in Beta, and is due to be released around November 2009. For those that do not know, FTMG is the next version of Microsoft’s popular ISA Server. Information and downloads for FTMG can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/edgesecurity/isaserver/en/us/tmg-beta.aspx. We have added support for FTMG beta 2 and 3 for both the W3C text logs (recommended) and the internal SQL Server Express Database logs. If you are currently trialling FTMG, we are very interested to hear your feedback. Let us know how you go!
  

  Now Supported - Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway

• Data purge
  You can now purge data from a storage, and schedule this purge to occur on a regular basis using Tasks. Purge options include data between a date range, data before a date, data after a date, data older than a date relative to now, and all data. This feature will let you easily maintain a single storage that only includes data for the last month or day.
  

  Options for Purging data from your storage

• Import Organization from CSV can now be scheduled using Tasks
  If you are importing your organizational structure from CSV, you can now schedule this action using Tasks. This enables you to update your organizational structure before any reports are run.
  

  Import Organization from CSV via Tasks

• Added Support for ExoServer Web
  If you’re running ExoServer Web, you can now analyze it’s logs using WebSpy Vantage.

Fixes

We also fixed some things that may have been bugging you:

• Improved the start time for the application by improving the logic to check for Storage damage.
• Fixed the IronPort loader (Fixed out of range issues on excessive size fields).
• “Having” filters no longer override the sort order of a Report Template node.
• Fixed an issue that may result in duplicated storages after migrating settings from earlier versions.
• Fixed the inability to remove invalid entities from web module permissions list (users that no longer exist).
• Fixed a timeout issue when publishing storages to the web module.

Why are you still reading? Go update now!

Have fun!