Added a 30-day Trial version with 5 client licenses for use with all functionality until trial period expires.

Added the "DISABLE: Wake on LAN" NIC Policy to the default policies repository to remediate the Wake on LAN security vulnerability.

Implementing this policy on a network adapter will allow NIC Configurator 2023 to monitor and maintain network adapter settings to match NIC policy settings.

Modified Compliance Monitor's screen refresh rate so that a network adapter's down state is displayed on screen sooner (within 60 seconds) than the normal monitor's refresh rate (within 9 minutes).

This new refresh rate also applies when a network adapter on a client computer has been modified by the NIC Configurator 2023 client and needs a NIC reset.

Notifications will occur within 60 seconds that a NIC reset needs to be scheduled and the Compliance Monitor will be set to refresh every 2 minutes until NIC reset completes.

Client Installation Security Update

On the Trial Version, when selecting computers to install the NIC Configurator 2023 client, the list shows all computers queried, however by design the install button will be greyed out if more than 5 computers are selected for installation.

On the Purchased Version, the install button will be greyed out if the computers selected for client installation exceeds the client licenses purchased.

Users can now find computers by the following OS when installing the NIC Configurator Client:

Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008

Windows 11

Windows 10

Windows 8

Windows 7

Increased the refresh interval for Compliance Monitor from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.

Updated the M2 radio button on Client Traffic Flow Monitor to display the following NIC adapter receive and send traffic information.

-- Broadcast Bytes, Broadcast Packets, Multicast Bytes, Multicast Packets

Changed the folder path where Excel Reports get auto-saved to the users documents folder inside a subfolder named MyTekSupport.

Updated the Excel Report button on Client Traffic Flow Monitor so that the report will only run if there is data from NIC Configurator 2023 clients in the monitor.

Added the coding changes I made to the Purchased version into the Trial version. These changes are as follows:

Cleaned up extra empty rows appearing at the bottom of Client Traffic Flow Monitor. Removed the 8 radio buttons on the top portion of Client Traffic Flow Monitor.

Added 3 radio buttons to the top portion of Client Traffic Flow Monitor. In future updates, these buttons will show the following NIC traffic:

--First button (M 1, Default), Unicast Bytes, Unicast Packets, Packet Errors, and Discarded Packets
--The second button (M 2), Broadcast Bytes, Broadcast Packets, Multicast Bytes, Multicast Packets
--The third button, (M 3) All Bytes

Updated NIC Configurator 2023 Client Traffic Flow Monitor to show Unicast Bytes, Unicast Packets, Packet Errors, and Discarded Packets, itemized by network adapter name.An Excel Report button is also active on Traffic Flow Monitor in order to auto-save these metrics with one-click periodically (recommended once a day), as shown on the Client Traffic Flow Monitor page.

Updated Compliance Monitor so that it generates a different message when the NIC Configurator 2023 Client service is detected to be stopped. Updated code so that detecting whether the service has stopped on a client is performed faster. The previous (slower) method would cause freezing when testing on over 1,000+ network adapters. This behavior has been resolved.

Fixed issue with the NIC Configurator 2023 client not installing on remote domains.

Added the ability to start NIC Configurator 2023 Client service on remote hosts using Compliance Monitor. If Compliance Monitor detects the NIC Configurator 2023 Client service is not started, you can right-click remote hosts then select Start Client Service from the popup menu.

Fixed issue with Compliance Monitor not accurately notifying when the NIC Configurator 2023 Client Service has stopped on a remote computer. As of this update, information will be seen in Compliance Monitor and a notification email or text will be sent if those options are enabled. This issue had only occurred when no network adapters were displayed in Compliance Monitor's NON-COMPLIANT dialog window.

Fixed issue with not being able to set Auto-Config on a network adapter when a computer had multiple network adapters with similar adapter display names.

NIC Configurator 2023 Compliance Monitor now detects if the NIC Configurator 2023 Client service has stopped running on remote computers.

Notifications can also be sent to email addresses and mobile text numbers if configured in the Compliance Monitor dialog by clicking the Notification button.

Fixed the freezing issue when clicking on the Save button in Schedule Verifier 2023 dialog.

As of this update, clicking the Save button will correctly auto save the contents of the dialog into an Excel spreadsheet if Excel is detected on the computer.

NIC Configurator 2023 trial download (64-bit) is released.

Modified NIC Configurator 2018 Compliance Monitor with cosmetic changes for a better look and feel.

Added space to the top of Compliance Monitor for a display Ad.

When auto-configure is enabled on a network adapter and any of the following properties are configured in the network adapter's NIC policy, NIC Configurator 2018 will ensure that TCP Chimney Offload State is configured correctly (either Disabled or Enabled) in the Windows operating system where the network adapter(s) resides.

If ANY of the following properties are enabled in the NIC policy, TCP Chimney Offload is set to Enabled.

If ALL of the following properties are disabled in the NIC policy, TCP Chimney Offload is set to Disabled.

ARP Offload

NS Offload

IPv4 Checksum Offload

Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4)

Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6)

TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)

TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6)

UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4)

UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6)

 

Added support for the VMWare VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter used in virtual machines.

The below Windows network administration functions have been added in Compliance Monitor as menu options. These options appear after right-clicking a selection of rows in the Compliant or Non-Compliant sections. Clicking a menu option will perform that task on each computer in the selection and display the results on the screen for your analysis.

Disable TCP Chimney Offload

Enable TCP Chimney Offload

Display TCP Connections

Display All Connections

Display Route Table

Display IP Config

Display IP Config /ALL

Display Contents of the DNS Cache

Release IP Config from DHCP Enabled Network Adapters

Renew IP Config on DHCP Enabled Network dapters

Flush DNS Cache From Selected Computers

Register This Host with its DNS Server

Force Group Policy Updates

 

In some cases, in the Non-Compliant section of Compliance Monitor, an empty row would appear at the top of the list and this empty row would be counted towards the number of network adapters that are Non-Compliant with their NIC policy.

As of this update, this behavior has been resolved.

NIC Configurator 2018 now includes the following Power Management options, which are available to be added to a NIC policy.

Option 1: Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power

Option 2: Allow this device to wake the computer

Option 3: Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer

All options ccan be saved to a NIC policy as Enabled or Disabled.

Updated NIC Configurator 2018 documentation to include instructions on how to remove the software and automatically remove NIC Configurator 2018 clients installed on remote computers.

Fixed source code in Compliance Monitor that did not show all NICs on a computer as being down even though Compliance Monitor displays the computer as unreachable.

As of this update, when a computer is identified as being unreachable, all network adapters on that computer will read as being "DOWN!!!" in Compliance Monitor.

On the Client Removal dialog box, when querying for computers by entering a domain name, if the domain entered was unable to be found, a "Could not find the Active Directory domain object. Please try again." message would appear, however after clicking the OK button to clear this message, another (unplanned) error would occur which exits the main dialog program, not allowing retry. This has been corrected.

As of this update, after the "Could not find the Active Directory domain object. Please try again." message appears, the program will return back to the main dialog box allowing you to try again.

If a domain name is entered to find computers to remove the NIC Configurator 2018 client, the name must be in the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) format.

(example: vegas.myteksupport.com, or myteksupport.com).

In Compliance Monitor, the "Message / Non-Compliant Property" column now shows the non-compliant network adapter advanced property(ies) by name, which makes it easier to remediate these property settings values back to your NIC policy preferences.

However, if Auto-Configure is enabled, NIC Configurator 2018 will automatically remediate the settings to match the settings in the network adapter's NIC policy.

In Compliance Monitor, if a computer or network adapter is listed as Down, the text and background color in that particular row will now be highlighted in a different color to accentuate the importance of remediating the network adapter status back to Connected.

The default Sort of rows in Compliance Monitor has now been set to Ascending on the Computer Name column. Previously, the default sort was Descending on the NIC Policy column.