Backup
Backup task event-triggered at system shutdown was not executed with ActiveImage Protector v4 or an equivalent edition.
(7456) When the [Auto run missed schedule task] option was enabled, a full baseline backup task was skipped and the scheduled run was not re-executed.
(7815) With the [Password Protection] option enabled for a backup image, but only one letter was assigned for the password, access of the image file was denied.
(7831) When a backup task was scheduled only with the [Shutdown/Restart] option enabled, only base image files were created every time the event triggered a backup task.
Recovery
When a multi-card reader was connected to the system, the GUI froze.
(7754) uEFI system volume online-restored with the Windows module failed to boot up.
Others
(6695) When establishing a connection to a remote agent running a task, the GUI would sometimes crash.
During the upgrade process, an AIVimg32.dll error might have occurred.
(7754) When establishing a connection to a shared folder selected from History in Explorer, a message displayed prompting you to enter credentials again.
(7863) When a P2V conversion task failed, the task log recorded the task as “Successful” in [Dashboard] - [Task Log].
Selecting [Check Update], you may have encountered an issue that the NetJapan Software Update (AutoUpdate.exe) had crashed.

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Updates in Version 4.7.4.3418

Released as ActiveImage Protector 2016 R2 IT Pro Edition.

Added and updated features

IT Pro Creator provides the option to enable or disable the pre-configured proxy server setting.

Changed (Fixed issues)

Recovery
With GUI display in German, the size of the available space was not correctly reported when selecting restore source or creating a new partition.
With GUI display in German, the GUI froze when restoring uEFI system volume.
Others
Problems occurred with the GUI display in German.
(7815) Cannot access image file created with one character password.
IT Pro Creator
External media such as a USB connected media drive is not supported.

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Updates in Version 4.7.4.3396

Released as Server Edition, Desktop Edition, Cluster Edition M2.

Added and updated features

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is supported.
Before updating/upgrading to Windows 10 Anniversary Update, please uninstall and then reinstall this product.
Summary page of Backup Wizard provides indication of estimated size of the base backup image file.
Explorer for browsing folders provides the option to display base image files.
An Enhanced Explorer feature is provided.
The Restore Image Wizard on a Windows system supports restoring a BIOS / uEFI system volume alone to a disk other than the system disk.
The behavior of a scheduled backup defined with a USB device as the storage destination has changed. The following are the changes:
If a USB device specified for the storage destination is disconnected from the system at the scheduled start time, the backup task terminates with error (-301). When re-connection of the USB device is detected, you will be prompted to either resume the skipped backup task (terminated with -301 error) or not.
The [Allow multiple USB device destinations in one profile] option is provided to specify USB devices as the storage destination, even when the original USB is replaced with a different device If the drive is assigned the same drive letter as specified for the storage destination in the schedule. The behavior of the scheduled task is described as follows when [Allow multiple USB device destination in one profile] option is enabled/disabled in [Preference] - [General] setting.
Enabled：The backup task is executed.
* If the folder you specified for the destination does not exist on the USB device, the backup task terminates with error (-301).
Disabled：The backup task terminates with error (-301).

Changed (Fixed issues)

Recovery
In the event that both the BIOS system volume and data volume are restored together, the restore system did not boot up.
Re-sizing the newly created partition was allowed.
（7759/6816）The configured settings were not correctly displayed on the Summary window in the Restore Image Wizard.
（7779）Offline disks may have been displayed as restore target disk selections.
P2V conversion
Connection to a Hyper-V on local host was not allowed.
If converted to a virtual machine on a Hyper-V host, the virtual machine might not have been properly created depending on the combination of the source disk (image)/host machine to run the task/target destination host.
Image Manager
When archiving backup image files, the path to the target destination was displayed incorrectly by default.
Others
The statistics information in Task Summary displayed an incorrect count number.
There have been some cases that AipNotify.exe crashed while sending the task summary.

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Update in Version 4.7.3.3337

Released as Server Edition, Desktop Edition, Cluster Edition M1.

Added / Updated Features

Conversion from physical to virtual disk is supported in Windows PE-based boot environment.
Direct access to a network shared folder in Explorer is supported in Windows PE-based boot environment.

Changed (Fixed issues)

Recovery Feature
Fixed: In the event that you selected an option to restore a volume in reduced or extended size, the GUI crashed.
Fixed: When restoring only a uEFI system volume, the restored volume did not boot up.
Windows PE Boot Environment builder
Fixed: Adding a specific driver in Windows PE boot environment failed.
Others
Fixed: The time stamps of log records migrated from version 3.5 did not display correctly.

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Version 4.7.2.3313

Released as ActiveImage Protector 2016 R2 Server Edition, Desktop Edition, Cluster Edition.
A Push Installer is provided.
A Remote Client Management Console is provided.
The status of multiple remote hosts can be easily monitored.
One-click offers execution of scheduled backup tasks.
Free evaluation version of NetJapan software installed on remote network computers can be upgraded to a full product version.
An Enhanced Backup feature is provided.
Retention policy settings are improved with an added trigger option for deleting obsolete image sets.
The Enhanced wizard allows you to enter credentials if you select a shared folder for the destination storage to save images.
Scripting for backup profiles can be separated for full or incremental trigger.
Missed backups re-run option is provided, so that if your computer was powered off at the scheduled backup time, the missed backup tasks are executed when the computer is restarted.
Enhanced Recovery Feature is provided.
The use of built-in Shrink-on-the-fly for Restore by Volume enables you to restore a volume in reduced size.
Capabilities for initializing and partitioning bare metal disk are provided.
Advanced P2V wizard is provided.
Enhanced virtual conversion includes conversion to virtual machine on vCenter Server of VMware vSphere or ESXi hypervisor.
Enhanced virtual conversion includes conversion to virtual machine on Microsoft Hyper-V host.
Improved E-Mail Notification features.
E-Mail Notification can include task summary (Daily, Weekly, Monthly).
E-Mail Notification provides the option to notify the license status according to the predefined threshold for the remaining days of valid license.
Pre-configure the program to automatically check for updates and download over network.
Configure the settings for a backup schedule by specifying multiple USB devices for the destination to save backup images.
Image files saved on optical media are supported for use and operate.
Improved Explorer function.

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Version 4.6.1.3142

Released as IT Pro Edition.

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Updates in Version 4.6.1.2993

Released as Server Edition, Desktop Edition Service Pack 1.

Added / Updated Features

Server 2008 (x86/x64) is supported.
Boot Environment Builder (Windows PE) now supports using Windows 10 ADK to build a PreBoot environment in a Windows 10 64-bit uEFI environment.
Boot Environment Builder (Windows PE) now provides resolution setting.
[Preference] - [Agent] setting is now provided. The specified proxy server may be used for activation and online checking of ActiveImage Protector's updates at NetJapan's Web site.
After a scheduled task is created, the first backup task can be immediately executed.
The first scheduled task can be manually executed ahead of the schedule.
Folder structure display is improved in ActiveImage Protector Boot Environment (Linux).
Upon execution of a scheduled task which USB HDD is specified for destination storage, if the destination disk is not connected to the system, the scheduled task is skipped. AIP Desktop Edition provides you with the option that reconnection of the USB HDD, when detected, should immediately resume execution of the scheduled backup task.
Specifications of a Scheduled Backup have been changed, so that in the event that while Windows Update is in progress, a scheduled backup task gets to the time to start, the schedule is automatically postponed to start one hour later. Upon completion of Windows update, if a backup task is scheduled to start before the one-hour postponed schedule, the postponed schedule will be cancelled.
When restoring a selected volume to expanded size, you are allowed to specify the target volume size (only NTFS volumes are supported).
When restoring a selected volume, the volume GUID of the restore target can be maintained. (Select this option only when you restore a volume in the original size, overwriting the target volume.)
You can now create a backup schedule by configuring the settings for Event Trigger only.
The authentication method has changed when specifying the path of a network shared folder for the destination storage in the Backup Wizard,

Changed (Fixed issues)

Backup Feature
Fixed: (6711) When a backup image file is created for a disk having a volume before extended partition, the image file size may increase.
Fixed: (6735) Schedule trigger [Run at System Shutdown/Restart] is disabled.
Fixed: (6688) When the backup option [Verify image file when backup task completes.] is enabled and the Verify Image task ends with an error, the log information may be incorrect.
Recovery Feature
Fixed: Some incorrect information is included in Summary page of Restore Image Wizard.
Fixed: If Restore by Disk is selected to restore to a disk larger than backup source, restore at the same proportion as the original volume is not supported.
Fixed: (6710) Up to a 2TB volume is supported to restore to GPT disks and bare metal disks. The same is true when restoring in extended size and overwriting.
Fixed: (6705) Restore by overwriting logical volume is not supported.
When you restore a volume, regardless whether the option is enabled or not, disk signature is restored from the image file.
ActiveImage Protector Boot Environment（Linux）
Fixed: (6542) NTFS volume on a GPT disk cannot be mounted when the system boots up.
Fixed: (6704) NTFS volume on a GPT disk cannot be mounted as writable.
Fixed: (6717) Specifying a static IP address is not supported.
(6716) With [Separate image file for each disk] option enabled, if network shared folder is specified as the destination storage for image files, the backup task fails with -559 error.
ActiveImage Protector Boot Environment（Windows PE）
Fixed: (6608) In some system environments, console window is not available to launch in Windows PE 64-bit based boot environment.
When a system volume is restored to overwrite an existing system volume, the system does not boot up.
Other Utilities
Fixed: (6703) If only console settings are configured, Check for Update is not supported.
Others
Fixed: (6708) When activation is attempted from the Notification Area and failed, activation was reported as "Succeeded".
Fixed: The product's registration information may be incorrectly displayed when the OS is upgraded.
Fixed: If the [Activate upon installation] option was disabled during product installation, activation was not automatic even after the first activation was manually performed.

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Version 4.6.0.2813

Released as ActiveImage Protector 2016.
New GUI design.
The newly designed Dashboard provides additional information to monitor current backup status, created schedules, executed tasks, etc.
The Backup Wizard is designed to provide intuitive operation.
The Restore Image Wizard can simultaneously select multiple images and multiple restore targets.
Enhanced Image Management now features additional capabilities such as Verify Image, Consolidate Images, P2V Conversion of Images, etc., of image files selected from the list.
Backup schedules can be created to start execution of backup tasks triggered by more flexibly defined events.
AIPBE builder now supports Windows PE-based boot environment from the USB drive.
AIPBE builder now supports a Linux-based boot environment (supporting ISO file as AIPBE media, USB drive to directly boot up AIPBE).
Auto-Update Notification.
Activation procedures have been modified.
Windows PE-based boot environment supports the following operations:
Restoration of system volume in a uEFI environment.
[Restore BCD］feature is provided to restore boot settings for BIOS boot system in Windows 7 or later when only system volume is restored.
Enhanced A.I.R. technology provides system recovery on dissimilar servers and hardware, bypassing the restore process.

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