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Communication

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10.0.0

Release Notes

2014-11-14

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Kofax Communication Server 10.0.
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© 2014 Kofax, 15211 Laguna Canyon Road, Irvine, California 92618, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. This product is protected by one or more of the following patents: U.S. Patents No. 4,994,926, No. 5,291,302, No. 5,459,584, No. 6,643,034, and No. 6,785,021 and Canadian Patents No. 1329852 and No. 2101327. Third-party software is copyrighted and licensed from Kofax’s suppliers. THIS SOFTWARE CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS OF KOFAX.
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Contents About This Release .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Version Information ........................................................................................................................................................5 Test Environment ....................................................................................................................................
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Contents TC/LINK-LN: Problem With Inbound Text Based Messages ............................................................................... 16 TC/LINK-MD: UCP with Sonera Content Gateway and Listener ....................................................................... 17 Fax over IP: SIP Calls Can Fail with Large Messages .............................................................................................17 TC/LINK-MQ: Incompatible Codepage ....................................................
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Chapter 1 About This Release Version Information The Kofax Communication Server 10.0.0 release has the following build number, which appears in the About window: 10.0.0.0.0.278. Test Environment This release was tested with the following operating systems: ▪ Windows Server 2012 R2 ▪ Windows Server 2012 ▪ Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ▪ Windows Server 2008 SP2 ▪ Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 ▪ Windows 8.
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About This Release All Microsoft hotfixes released until October 1, 2014, were installed. New Features This section lists enhancements that have been added to the product in Kofax Communication Server 10.0.0. Support for Third-Party Software The following third-party software is newly supported with Kofax Communication Server 10.0.0: ▪ Internet Explorer 11 (desktop mode) ▪ Internet Information Server 8 (TC/Web) ▪ SQL Server 2014 (supported for TC/Probe, TC/Report) ▪ IBM MQ 8.
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About This Release Export connectors Supported back end systems Kofax Export Connector 8.0 for Documentum Content Server EMC Documentum 6.0 EMC Documentum 6.5 EMC Documentum 6.6 EMC Documentum 6.7 EMC Documentum 7.0 Kofax Export Connector 8.0 for OpenText eDocs DM OpenText eDocs Hummingbird DM/RM 5.2.1 Kofax Export Connector 7.5 for OpenText eDocs DM OpenText eDocs Hummingbird DM/RM 6.0 Kofax Export Connector 8.2 for IBM FileNet Content Manager FileNet Content Manager 4.
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About This Release ▪ Email files (MSG and EML) For each document type, you can configure the conversion tool in the registry key HKLM \Software\TOPCALL\TCDCLINK\Conversion. See KCS Document Conversion Technical Manual for more details. TC/LINK-MQ: Support for IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 TC/LINK-MQ now supports IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0. The configuration is different to previous releases: ▪ The configuration file AMQCLCHL.TAB is now located in the ProgramData folder.
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About This Release TC/Web Improvements TC/Web has been improved: ▪ Per user customizable columns in the main list view (show/hide, reorder, resize) (292244, 292245) ▪ Inbox and Outbox tools support up to four tabs for views with different filter settings at the same time ▪ You can now filter for cancelled messages in the Outbox (285735) ▪ You can now add custom context buttons (285639) ▪ You can now use PDF viewer instead of Java-based Tiffy viewer to view incoming faxes (306239) ▪ You can now configure th
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About This Release The registry key is created at TC/LINK startup. The default break code value of all the errors is set to '0' ( "LV=0 LX=0 LH=0 LI=0 M1=0") The break code value can be set from 1 to 5. Based on this value, the message retries are initiated. Changes in Behavior This section contains information about the differences in behavior between Kofax Communication Server 10.0.0 and previous releases.
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About This Release TCOSS: Maximum Number of Registrations You can now configure the maximum number of registrations in TCOSS system configuration, line 13, position 9 and 10. (363772) If you use the default value 00 00, the higher of the following two values applies: ▪ Number of users + 2000 ▪ disk space in GB * 5000, but not more than 500,000.
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About This Release 12 Kofax Communication Server Release Notes
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Chapter 2 Upgrade This chapter contains additional information about upgrading to Kofax Communication Server 9.2.0 or later. Please review these instructions carefully. ▪ Before upgrading to a new version of KCS, back up your system using KCS Backup (if you own this tool). ▪ All KCS components installed on a single computer must be updated together; in the following order: 1 Server and link components 2 Client components (TCfW) ▪ If you intend to use Unicode: 1 Update all your KCS computers to KCS 9.2.
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Upgrade can work together in an LCR system, with the restrictions caused by conversion of Unicode to the code page of the non-Unicode nodes. For full Unicode support all nodes of an LCR system need to run Unicode.
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Chapter 3 Resolved Issues The following issues reported for a previous version of the product are fixed in this release. Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL ▪ Heartbleed bug - Kofax Communication Server uses OpenSSL version vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. (323524) ▪ POODLE attack - Kofax Communication Server affected by POODLE issue, OpenSSL 1.0.1i and lower.
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Resolved Issues TC/LINK-LN: Special Characters Not Shown Correctly Special characters like vowel mutations are not shown correctly after update to KCS 9.2. (SPR00178638) A new registry key NOTES/DoNotConvertAttachmentsToLMBCS is added. If set to default, LINK/LN will convert all text to LMBCS before sending it to Domino Server. ▪ 0 - Convert all text to LMBCS (default value) ▪ 1 - Do not convert You can use the registry key NOTES/DumpInboundMessagesToFiles to debug the conversion files.
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Resolved Issues TC/LINK-MD: UCP with Sonera Content Gateway and Listener Kofax Communication Server now supports UCP with Sonera Content Gateway and Listener for incoming SMS via TOPS SMSC client .NET 6.0.29. The TOPS SDK has to be installed separately and needs a workstation license at the time of installing TOPS. (319380) See TC/LINK-MD Technical Manual for more details.
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Resolved Issues Fax over IP: Message Wait Indication and Avaya Although both Avaya Communication Manager and KCS Fax over IP support message wait indication signaling using the SIP NOTIFY method, message wait indication does not work. (317751, SPR00119076) List of Solved SPRs Component Rank (Bug ID) Title KCS 2 (345892) Possible vulnerability in OpenSSL KCS 2 (374048) TCOSS may stop generation of Resource Bottleneck Observation related Event Logs entries.
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Resolved Issues Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCLINKMFP Manual 2 (318490) Reg-Value TCLINKMFP\TCMIME\EnableEmbeddedMIME must be set to "0" TCLINKSM Manual 2 (318523) Generating test certificates are not possible with www.thawte.com TCMWAMX Manual 2 (319186) TCMWAMX Manual has to be adapted for KCS 10.
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Resolved Issues 20 Component Rank (Bug ID) Title Integration\Kofax Capture 2 (318820) Faxes with reception error treated as successfully received messages when forwarded to KC via KCC Integration\Kofax Capture 2 (365274) KCC - Error importing the message to KC if body with message header is enabled and a message is sent from KCS to KC user Integration\Kofax Capture 2 (318638) For Import Content with 'Body & Attachment', Body is not normalized to PDFA KCS\Legacy\TCDC 2 (319364) TCDCSIGN uses
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Resolved Issues Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCDCLINK 2 (317957) TWS DocConv result inserted as Notes RTF body image alternative TCDCLINK 1 (326201) PDF documents show scrambled characters after conversion.
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Resolved Issues 22 Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCLINK 2 (318831) Module TCLINK.EXE might write wrong information to the KCS tracefile TCLINK 2 (317815) A huge leak of "open objects" when sending a large number of non- ANSI text files attached to a single message via TC/LINK TCLINK 2 (318826) Link crashes when rejected extension is used TCLINK 2 (317900) #NAME? TCLINK 2 (317868) Japanese characters within the Text body are garbled after update the KCS 9.
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Resolved Issues Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCLINK-MX7 1 (325552) Notifications have wrong originator. TCLINK-MX7 2 (319249) Removal of empty message body does not work on a non unicode tcoss TCLINK-MX7 1 (324072) Error 5018 after upgrade to KCS 9.2 when sending sms in IMCEA-Syntax via Link-MX7 TCLINK-MX7 2 (319500) UTF-8 message via Link-MX7 appears in TCfW as a blank message TCLINK-MX7 2 (323939) MX7 TCLINK.
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Resolved Issues 24 Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCOSS 2 (318925) Small fonts in the conversion of the FAX RTF cover with KCS 9.2 / Windows Server 2012 R2 TCOSS 2 (318710) FaxDeskPro license should be removed from TCOSS/license tool TCOSS 2 (318526) XY or X8 reception errors when receiving FAX messages in T.
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Resolved Issues Component Rank (Bug ID) Title TCWeb 2 (318752) new created message gets lost if you forget to enter a recipient TCWeb 2 (317777) Uneven alignment of a columns in Recipient tab, Recipient picker and Distribution Lists TCWeb 2 (350586) TcWeb may rarely show "Error 501" texts in all columns of Inbox grid after Previous button has been pressed TCWeb 2 (317890) TcWeb allows not logged in user to open another user's attachment TCWeb 2 (317966) TcWeb allows arbitrary aspx file to
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Resolved Issues 26 Kofax Communication Server Release Notes
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Chapter 4 Known Issues This section contains information about potential issues that you could encounter while using Kofax Communication Server. TC/Web: Message Count Missing in Inbox / Outbox TC/Web no longer displays the message count if you filter messages with the status “New and Read”. (319699) TC/Web: Sorting in Recipient and User Tool In the Recipient and User tools, it is no longer possible to sort entries by clicking a column header.
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Known Issues As a consequence, a downgrade from KCS 10.0 to KCS 9.2 is not possible without additional actions. (551344) Workaround: Delete the file +TECH/ASYSCONFCCCC: 1 Open a command prompt on the KCS server. 2 Go to C:\TCOSS\SYSTEM\. 3 Run the command tcdel +TECH/ASYSCONFCCCC. Reply is: “1 Files deleted, 441 Bytes freed”. 4 Close the command prompt.
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Known Issues TCfW: Opening RTF Attachments Occasionally Fails Opening RTF attachments in TCfW sometimes fails with the error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Another attempt to open the attachment succeeds without any errors. (320488, SPR00120108) Workaround: Do not use Microsoft OLE control for displaying and editing attachments. Add the extension RTF to the registry value HKxx\SOFTWARE\TOPCALL\TCFW\WorkStation \ShellExecuteExtensions.
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Known Issues 30 Kofax Communication Server Release Notes
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Chapter 5 Support Changes This section lists the changes in support level in this release of Kofax Communication Server. End of Support for IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0 IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0 and older versions are no longer supported with this release of Kofax Communication Server. Only IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 and later is supported.
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Support Changes End of Support for Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Office 2003 is no longer supported with this release of Kofax Communication Server. Only Microsoft Office 2007 and later is supported. This applies to the following Kofax Communication Server components: ▪ Kofax Communication Server client applications ▪ Document conversion End of Support for Lotus Notes 7.x Lotus Notes 7.x is no longer supported with this release of Kofax Communication Server. Only Lotus Notes 8.0 and later is supported.
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Chapter 6 Modules Overview This section lists the modules included in this release of Kofax Communication Server. KCS Client Software Modules Module Version Changed Data Dynamics ActiveBar (activebar) 1.06.04 No ClientPro for Lotus Notes (archiveln) 4.03.00 No Setup Tools InstallTSP (InstallTSP) 1.00.02 No KCSclients Common and Setup (kcsclients- 10.0.0.0.0.278 common) Yes Setup Tools Task Remover (KillTask) 1.02.01 No Microsoft Shared Files (mscomdlls) 1.00.
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Modules Overview Module Version Changed Sound Voice Engine (tce_snd) 2.00.28 No TC/Engine (TcEngine) 2.04.00 No TCfW Communication Server Client (tcfw) 5.43.08 Yes TCfW Communication Server Client Library (tcfwlib) 1.00.00 No TopDeskLite (tcfxdlit) 4.04.03 No Fax Viewer (tcfxvw) 4.01.00 No Image IO Library (tcimgio) 2.31.07 Yes tclaunch 3.03.04 No TC/Lib (tclib) 7.30.01 Yes Language File Tool (tclng) 1.07.01 Yes Language API (tclngapi) 1.00.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed Line Server Application Image Template(app_img_templ) 2.06.02 No Line Server TC18 Application Image Template(app_img_templ18) 3.04.00 No Advantys ASPSmartUpload(aspsmart-aspsmartupload) 3.00.00 No Attachment to URL Conversion(at2url) 1.30.01 Yes Modules from the BCPlatform (KCS and KCSclients) in Subversion(BCPlatform) Belus Xzip(belus-xzip) No 2.05.00 branchbox No No Binary Trace Converter Tool(btrconv) 1.05.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed Intelligent Network Component for TCOSS 7 FoIP(FoIPTNC_Fx7) 3.23.00 Yes Intelligent Network Component for H.323 Call Controll(FoIP-TNC_H323) 3.22.14 Yes Intelligent Network Component for HTTP(FoIP-TNC_Http) 3.23.00 Yes Intelligent Network Component for SIP Call Controll(FoIPTNC_Sip) 3.23.00 Yes Intelligent Network Component for Persisent Storage(FoIPTNC_Store) 3.23.00 Yes Merlin Component for FoIP T.30 (T.38 and Passthrough) (FoIP-TNC_T30) 3.22.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed TC/LINK-LN(ln) 2.19.03 Yes LogWinEvent(LogWinEvent) 1.30.00 Yes LS1 Trace Tool(ls1trace) 1.02.01 No Line Server Diagnostic Tool(lsd2) 2.06.01 No TC/LINK-WM and TC/LINK-MD(md) 2.30.03 Yes KCS MetaMail(metamail) 1.01.01 No TC/LINK-MFP(mfp) 1.08.02 Yes KCS MFPConnect(mfpconnect) 2.05.00 No Microsoft Data Access Objects(microsoft_ado) 2.08.00 No TC/MIME(mime) 2.30.02 Yes BAPI to XML Tool(mkbapixml) 1.00.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed KCS Monitoring WMIProvider_Applications(MonitoringSetup-WMIProvider_Applications) 1.02.09 No KCS Monitoring WMIProvider_KCS(Monitoring-SetupWMIProvider_KCS) 1.30.01 Yes TC/LINK-MQ(mq) 2.30.01 Yes Microsoft Shared Files(mscomdlls) 1.00.02 No MSLync 1.00.02 Added Microsoft Script Control(msscript) 5.00.01 No (msvc10redist) 10.0.40219.1 Added Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Runtime(msvc6redist) 6._s.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed SpiderMonkey Library(SpiderMonkey) 1.05.00 No (sxapi) 4.2.8 Added HW System Manuals(sys_man) Removed TC15 Configuration Tool(tc15tool) 1.05.06a No TC16 EPLD(tc16-epld_2x) 2.5 No TC16 ECP 3.x(tc16-epld_3x) 3.4 No Line Server TC18 FPGA(tc18-fpga) 1.02.00 No TC400(tc400) 5.01.01 No Utility to read Active Directory schema(tcadutil) 1.30.00 Yes TC/Archive(tcarch) 2.21.05 No TC/CAPIFax(tccapifx) Removed TC/CPUNr(tccpunr) 1.30.
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Modules Overview Module Release TP80 Hardware Library(TcdcSetup-tp80) Removed Transputer Link Hardware Driver(TcdcSetup-tplink) Removed TcdcSetup-visualstudio7 Removed DDI Monitor Client(TcDdiMon-Client) 3.05.00 Yes Disk Utility(tcdisk) 7.10.09 No Disk Test Utility(TcDiskTest) 1.02.00 Yes TC/DistMF(tcdistmf) 1.02.03 No TC/DownloadFile(tcdownloadfile) 1.00.01 No File Voice Engine(tce_file) 2.01.01 No Host Voice Engine(tce_host) 2.00.10 No LS1 Voice Engine(tce_ls1) 1.04.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed TCMC PrefViewer(tcmc-tcprefviewer) 4.06.01 Yes TCMC Store(tcmc-tcstore) 4.04.01 Yes TC Monitor(tcmon) 7.30.00 Yes Error Messages(tcmsg) 1.08.00 Yes Message Wait Agent for Lotus Notes(tcmwaln) 2.02.00 No Message Wait Agent for Microsoft Exchange(tcmwamx) 1.04.02 Yes tcmxsnap 1.00.07 No TC/Net(tcnet) 3.05.00 No TC/NetworkHelper(tcnetworkhelper) 1.01.02 No TC Open Server Software(tcoss) 7.94.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed SPI for Lotus Notes(tcspiln) 1.03.03 No SPI for Microsoft Exchange(tcspimx) 1.30.00 Yes KCS Service(tcsrv) 8.01.13 Yes Voice Statemachine(TCStateMachine) 2.01.06 No Status Agent(tcstatus) 1.10.01 Yes TC/Setup Script Editor(tcstpedt) 2.14.01 No TCECP Switch Script(tcswitch) 2.00.04 No Server Extensions(tcsx) 7.28.02 No Transport Interface(TCTI) 2.14.10 No TC/Tool(tctool) 1.00.00 No Language File Translation Tools(tctrans) 1.03.
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Modules Overview Module Release Changed TOPS SMSC SDK(tops-sdk) 6._0._29 Yes TP80 Hardware Library(tp80) 7.14.01 Yes Transputer Link Hardware Driver(tplink) 7.11.01 No TC/SNMP Trap Tools(traptools) 1.00.00 No TC16 HW Testprogram(tt04-tc16) 1.03.02 No TC22 HW Testprogram(tt04-tc22) 1.03.01 No Line Server Test Program 05(tt05) 1.01.01 No Line Server TC18 DSP Test Program(tt06-dsp) 1.05.02 No Line Server TC18 PPC Test Program(tt06-ppc) 1.04.01 No Microsoft SAPI 4(tts-sapi_40) 4.
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Modules Overview 44 Module Release Changed UsrDDE(usrdde) 1.30.00 Yes User IO(usrio) 2.30.02 Yes TC/Report VBPerf(vbperf) 2.30.00 Yes Voiceprompt Library(VoiceLib) 2.01.05 No VRS Components(vrs_components) 5.01.01 Yes VRS Test(vrstest) 1.04.07 Yes WConfig(wconfig) 7.94.04 Yes TC/LINK-X4(x4) 1.13.05 No Xerces-C XSLT Processor(XercesC) 2.06.01 No XML Integration(xml) 2.16.00 Yes XML to TCSI conversion Tool(xml2tc) 1.00.01 No XmlExit 1.00.07 Added XmlValidator 0.00.