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Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.86 (2025-02-25)
Improvements and Fixes
  • Microsoft 365 Email OAuth: Added support for the “Request Admin Consent” flow.
  • Internet Usage Reports: All “Top N” widgets at the start of the Internet Usage Report are now filtered by web data, ensuring consistency with the rest of the report.
  • All Connections Busy Error: Fixed a rare issue that could trigger an “All Connections Busy” error.
Download Update
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.85 (2025-01-22)
Fixes & Improvements
  • Memory Usage: Reduced the number of open Elasticsearch indexes from 32 to 3, improving baseline memory usage. Reports on data older than three days may take a few extra seconds to start as indexes are reopened, temporarily increasing server memory usage. Inactive indexes automatically close after five minutes, freeing up memory.
  • Report Errors: Increased the default Elasticsearch timeout from 5 to 20 minutes to handle larger reports, and resolved an error that references a missing scrollId.
  • OAuth Email: Fixed a problem where emails would stop sending when using Microsoft 365 OAuth.
  • Entra ID: Now imports more than just the first 100 groups or users per group.
  • Activity Reports: Can now be exported as PDF or CSV directly from Private Reports.
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.84 (2024-12-13)
Features
  • Email Settings: Added OAuth support for connecting to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace in addition to SMTP.
Fastvue Reporter Email Settings with Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace OAuth
  • Load current filter: The filter used in the currently open report is now loaded when you open the Filters interface, making it easy to quickly adjust filters and re-run your report.
Fixes & Improvements
  • Search Terms: Corrected Ebay search term extraction logic & adjusted exclude keywords.
  • Directory Import: New installations will import users and groups from the default Domain Controller if present.
  • Sophos Firewall: Added support for Sophos Firewall’s IDP Anomaly Events.
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.83 (2024-10-08)

Fixes & Improvements
  • Search Terms: Corrected search term extraction logic for Amazon.
  • Entra ID: Fixed Entra ID data importing issues.
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.82 (2024-09-24)

  • No change. Version number was incremented due to changes in other Fastvue Reporter brands.

Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.81 (2024-08-08)

Entra ID Support

We have added support for importing user and group information directly from Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) in Settings > Directory. For information on creating an Entra ID application with the required permissions and connecting Fastvue Reporter to the Entra ID application, see Importing User and Group information from Entra ID.

Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.80 (2024-08-07)

Settings

We’ve added User Principal Name as an option in Settings > Directory / LDAP > User Display Settings, so that users can be represented by their UPN in all reports and alerts. There is also the option to use their displayName with their UPN in parentheses.

Fixes & Improvements
  • Fixed an issue that prevented editing the IT Security Productivity group in Settings > Productivity.
  • Improved Search Term extraction for Spotify
  • Safeguarding Report: Revised the calculation of incidents in “Web Category Incidents” section
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.79 (2024-05-16)

IT Security Reports and Dashboards

In our previous release, we introduced the IT Security Productivity group in Settings > Productivity to separate security concerns from unacceptable browsing / safeguarding concerns.

In this release, we have added widgets to the Firewall Dashboard and the IT Network and Security reports to clearly highlight activity in IT Security categories such as Phishing and Malicious Websites.

New Productivity Dashboard

The Productivity Dashboard has been significantly improved.

It starts with a handy chart to visualize the spikes and troughs of Productivity throughout the day, as classified in Settings > Productivity.

The rest of the dashboard displays the most critical productivity issue at the top with Allowed Unacceptable traffic (hopefully this row is blank!), followed by Blocked Unacceptable traffic, then Allowed Unproductive, followed by Blocked Unproductive and finally Warned traffic.

Within each row, Fastvue Reporter shows Categories, Sites and Users, making it super easy to identify any issues.

Fixes
  • YouTube Reports: Fixed the issue where YouTube videos accessed via the YouTube ‘App’ (as opposed to the web browser) were not shown in reports.
  • Categories and Productivity: Added support for newly added URL categories. Also fixed the display of categories and their association to Productivity groups when logged in non-English languages.
  • Keyword Reports: Fixed the Edit Keyword functionality when viewing Private Reports
  • Reports: Fixed Report Error: Object of type ‘System.DateTime’ cannot be converted to type ‘System.String’
  • Keywords: Improved drag-and-drop functionality to re-order Keyword Groups in Settings > Keywords. This enables you to change the order of Keyword Groups in the Safeguarding Report.
  • Search Terms: Improved search term extraction for Amazon
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.78 (2024-02-20)

Introducing Fastvue’s New Safeguarding Report

We’re excited to launch our new Safeguarding Report, designed specifically for Digital Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), Student Well-being Officers, and Pastoral Care Teams. This streamlined report focuses on identifying ‘risky’ online behaviors among students, pinpointing searches, videos, and web content related to self-harm, extremism, drugs, and other unacceptable categories as defined by your school.

For a brief overview, watch our quick guide here.

Getting started with the Safeguarding Report:

  • Navigate to Reports > Overview Report > Safeguarding.
  • Optionally, apply filters to exclude staff or include only certain year groups.
  • Select your desired date range and click Run Report, or click Schedule to automatically send the report to the appropriate recipients daily, weekly, or monthly.

This is the initial version, and we’re eager for your honest feedback to refine it further!

Productivity Settings

With the introduction of the Safeguarding report detailing access to categories in the ‘Unacceptable Productivity’ list, we felt it important to separate IT Security concerns, such as Botnet and Malware, from this list, as they are not safeguarding concerns.

We have therefore added a new ‘IT Security’ list in Settings > Productivity, which separates categories such as Botnet and Malware from the existing ‘Unacceptable’ Productivity list.

For new installations, the ‘Unacceptable’ Productivity list is ordered by safeguarding priorities. Existing installations will retain their current ordering, but categories can be re-ordered by dragging and dropping in the ‘Unacceptable’ list under Settings > Productivity. This order is reflected in the ‘Unacceptable Web Categories’ sections of the new Safeguarding report.

If needed, existing installations can reset their Productivity settings to the new defaults by:

  1. Going to Settings > Data Storage > Settings and noting the Data Location.
  2. Stopping the Fastvue Reporter service in services.msc.
  3. Navigating to the data location on the Fastvue server.
  4. Deleting all Aliases.* files.
  5. Starting the Fastvue Reporter service in services.msc. It may take a few minutes for the database to initialize, visible in Settings > Diagnostic > Database.
  6. Navigating to Settings > Productivity to review the new Productivity settings.
Keywords
  • Keyword Groups can now be reordered in Settings > Keywords, reflecting the order of Keyword sections in the new Safeguarding report.
Fixes
  • Adjusted the search term extraction rules for YouTube to prevent duplicated searches appearing in alerts and reports.
  • The categories used in Settings > Productivity are now based on the newer Sophos Firewall categories. Existing installations will see their existing categories, while new installations will only see categories from the latest version of Sophos Firewall. If needed, you can reset your productivity settings to the new defaults by following these steps.
  • Fixed an issue where adding multiple email addresses using commas in the Schedule dialog on the Reports tab didn’t separate the addresses correctly.
  • When YouTube integration is not configured, Internet Usage reports will show raw YouTube URLs instead.
Sophos Reporter 3.0.1.77 (2023-11-21)

General
  • All changes in this build relate to other Fastvue Reporter brands. Specifically, Reporter for Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Firepower and Barracuda. See all release notes here.