adTempus 5.1 Release Notes

The adTempus installer has been updated to include SQL Server 2025 Express, replacing SQL Server 2019 Express. During installation, the Upgrade tab will offer the option to upgrade SQL Server Express if an older version is present. This upgrade is optional and you can continue using the installed version of SQL Server Express if you prefer. It is also possible to upgrade SQL Server Express any time, outside of the installer, as discussed in this article.

Fixed a problem with expanding variable tokens that include a format specifier: after expansion the braces surrounding the pattern were left in the final output. For example the token "%TheDate{yyyyMMdd}%" was expanded to "{20251215}" instead of "20251215".

When you edit a script using the adTempus script editor and add references to .NET assemblies, those references are not saved. Any references that were added using an earlier version of the Console are not displayed.

If a Date Rule is configured to use the "Nearest" occurrence relative to "a specified day...", attempting to save the rule fails with error ADT001008E: The "relative to a specified day" option must be selected to use the "Nearest" day, even though the rule is configured correctly.

If a Date Rule is configured to use the "Nearest" occurrence relative to "a specified day..." and also uses an offset number of days before or after that date, the rule may match the wrong date in some scenarios.

When Setup fails to install a component (Console, Server, SQL Server Express), the setup wizard may show an empty error dialog box with no error details. This has been corrected to provide meaningful error information.

When hidden Job Variables are used as part of the command line for a Program Execution Task, the variable values are logged to the Job Detail Log and in adTempus server diagnostic logs. The software was changed to conceal the values in these places.

If the connection type for a Database Operation Task is set to "Other" (using a custom OLEDB connection string), the connection test fails with error ADT005320E: Unrecognized database type "unspecified", and the task will fail if the job is executed.

When upgrading to adTempus 5 from adTempus 4, the database upgrade script may fail when trying to drop a database constraint that is not present in the database. This can happen if the adTempus database has previously been through upgrades from version 3, or if the constraints have been removed for some reason. The database upgrade scripts were modified to ignore missing constraints.

When upgrading an agent-only instance of adTempus, setup does not recognize the agent-only license that is present on the computer and reports that no license was found. This problem was corrected so the license is detected.

PowerShell scripts may fail because some external modules cannot be loaded.

When an email trigger is configured to save the body and attachment separately and the message does not contain an HTML or plain-text body part, adTempus properly saves the attachments but fails to set the EmailProcessing.MessageLocation Job Variable with the location of the saved attachments.

The new Job Schedule and Dependency Visualizer tool displays a Gantt chart showing scheduled execution start times, average execution durations, and job dependencies.

adTempus is now able to create interactive logon sessions for jobs that require them.

adTempus 5.0 introduced support for operations on cloud storage providers including Amazon S3, but this capability did not support non-Amazon S3-compatible storage providers. Support for this was added.

When configuring a database for adTempus to use to store its data, you can now use Microsoft Entra authentication for Azure SQL databases. For example, if adTempus is running on an Azure virtual machine and using an Azure SQL database to store its data, it can be configured to use a Managed Identity for database authentication.

When a job is configured to continue executing all steps even if a step fails, the job can be assigned status "Completed with Errors" if any step failed. This option is set globally on the Job Settings page of the Server Options window.

The adTempus script host has been updated to use PowerShell 5.1 (previously it was using PowerShell 5.0).

When editing Job Control Actions and Job Execution Tasks, if a variable is set to reference itself or another variable, the reference may be removed without being expanded. For example, setting variable MyVariable to "%MyVariable%" results in an empty value in the user interface.

When a Job Variable value is marked as hidden, its value is still visible in Configuration Reports and exports. The software was updated to conceal the value in these places.

After the connection between an Agent and its Controller is lost and re-established, the Controller reconnects to the Agent, but the Agent is unable to send data back to the Controller.

If an imported job contains a Job Control Action that is configured to run another step in the same job, the link to the target job is lost, and the action runs the job from the beginning.

The Job Trigger had an option to "Only match jobs running on the same computer", to match similar functionality in the Job Control Action. Beginning with adTempus 5 this option also caused the triggered job to be run only on the same computer as the triggering job. This option was of limited use due to a faulty premise, and led to unexpected behavior, so it was removed.

Fixed a problem where Find/Replace References correctly found File Service Provider references in File Operation Tasks, but was unable to replace them.

When using a File Trigger with a cloud storage provider, the File Trigger may fail to trigger for files on the provider, without providing any error information. This problem was resolved.

When a file transfer task uploads files to an FTP or SFTP server, the conversion from local time to UTC is applied twice, causing the modification time to be wrong on the target server. For example if the adTempus server is in UTC-4, the file time will be set 4 hours later than it should be.

When a Job Control Action or Job Execution Task passes Job Variables to the target job, it does not properly resolve variable and inline function references contained within those variables.

In some cases, scheduling rules that used the "on or before" or "on or after" settings and were calculated relative to another date rule matched the wrong dates. This problem was corrected.

When a job runs on an Agent, Captured Files for that job may not appear in the history for the job on the Controller.

Note: This update must be applied to the Controller and all Agents for it to be effective. This update resolves the issue going forward, but Captured Files previously sent to the Controller will still not be visible.

When using inline functions, chained method calls are not handled correctly. For example, if you use this syntax:

%=Now().ToString("yyyyMMdd")%

you expect this to be replaced with the current date on yyyyMMdd format. However, everything after "Now()" is ignored, and the resulting string uses the default date format.

When running a PowerShell script using the adTempus script host, environment variables (and Job Variables marked to be included as environment variables) were not set for the script. This problem was corrected.

In some cases when a File Operation Task encounters an error (such as a directory permission error), the task is reported as a failure, but no information is logged about what the problem was. This was corrected so that the failure reason is written to the Job Log.

When you terminate a job that is executing a script using the Script Execution task, adTempus fails to abort the script and it may continue to run to completion even after the job stops executing.