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ADManager Plus MSPs Release Notes

7186 (April 15, 2023)

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • An issue which displayed No data available error message while generating or exporting the Group Members scheduled report.
  • Inability to add file servers in group-based delegation and issues in delegating Microsoft 365 tasks.

7185 (March 28, 2023)

Enhancements:

  • Custom HCM integration :
    • You can now provision users who were previously skipped when the automation process is run for any HCM application with Sync Type as Incremental.
    • For OAuth, you can now use client credentials as the Grant Type in Authorization.
    • You can now customize the Repeat Calling this Endpoint configuration by replacing the field values with EndpointURL or any Header to get consecutive page responses.
    • OAuth authorization now supports uploading client certificate.
    • Added SOAP API support in addition to REST API. It supports both XML and JSON responses too.

Issues fixed:

  • Issue in displaying replication errors in the domain settings.
  • Issue in sending scheduled reports via email in UTF-8 format with BOM (Byte Order Marketing).
  • Issue while using Copy User Attribute to append memberof attribute values in user creation template.
  • Issue in loading the page while configuring Server Settings, when Retain database backup files option is empty in the Retention Settings tab.
  • Issue with rules not getting populated automatically in the user creation and modification template when the template is set as default.
  • Issue in the Custom Report result if both Last Logon Time Stamp and Last Logon Time filters are selected.

7184 (March 18, 2023)

Fixes

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • An issue which prevented technicians from logging into the product in certain scenarios.

7183 (March 15, 2023)

Important update:

  • End of support for PostgresSQL 9.2.x: ADManager Plus will soon end support for PostgreSQL version 9.2. Please upgrade to the latest PostgreSQL version or migrate to Microsoft SQL to continue using ADManager Plus.

Features:

  • Enable remote mailbox: Option to enable and modify remote mailbox for users in bulk.
  • Auto-install hotfixes: Option to automatically download and install ADManager Plus' hotfix updates.

Enhancements:

  • Reports:
    • You can now schedule and store reports without creating sub-folders.
    • Exported custom reports will now display users' photos whenever the User Photo column has been added.
    • Flexibility to export reports with desired objects.
  • Members of a delegated group can now change the default template assigned to a group in group-based delegation.
  • Option to filter users who are not members of any group in the Users Not in Groups report in Automation.
  • You can now check if your ADManager Plus installation location is secure or not in Security Hardening settings.
  • You can now view who created a template in the product.
  • Pop-ups that display Microsoft 365 data in Management, Workflow, Automation, and other modules now use REST APIs to relay information.
  • In a high availability-enabled environment, applying service packs in the primary server would automatically update your ADManager Plus instance in the secondary server.
  • API keys in UltiPro and BambooHR integrations are now masked in the UI.
  • Performance enhancements for optimized AD synchronization.
  • Third-party JavaScript libraries have been upgraded to these versions:
    • jQuery UI 1.13.2
    • Bootstrap 3.4.1
    • Moment 2.29.1
    • JSoup 1.11.3
    • ojdbc8-19.15.0.0.1

Issues fixed:

  • Issue in displaying the members of groups whose member count exceeds 1000 in the Advanced Filter option of Real Last Logon reports.
  • Issue of data mismatch in Mailbox Enabled Users reports' results.
  • Inability to configure the retention policies of Microsoft 365 users when special characters were specified in a retention policy's name.
  • Issue of help desk technicians not being able to unlock users via the reset password console, when the 'Deny Bulk Modification' option was also enabled in the role delegated to them.
  • Issue of service pack application failure when large volumes of temporary tables were retained during backups.
  • Issue in sending notifications via SMS using the POST method.
  • Issue with the macros specified in webhook templates.
  • Issue of technicians not being able to delete non-delegated and unused templates.

7182 (January 24, 2023)

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • High memory utilization issue across environments having M365 configurations with a huge volume of objects.

7181 (January 16, 2023)

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • An issue which prevented users from opening the password-protected reports has been fixed.

7180 (December 31, 2022)

Features:

  • Group Migration: Flexibility to move groups, along with their SID history and membership across domains in a forest with and without using the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT).

Enhancements:

  • REST APIs:
    • You can now create, delete, move, search and list the members of a group using REST APIs.
    • Ability to locate users by specifying LDAP attributes like sAMAccountName, employeeID, and more while modifying a user's attributes using REST API.
  • You can now secure access to your mail server using OAuth, besides basic authentication.
  • Flexibility to create and use naming formats in the Data Source - LDAP Attribute Mapping section while integrating with a custom HCM solution.
  • Option to skip 2FA for help desk technicians.
  • Customize columns while configuring the member, memberOf and manager attributes of objects during provisioning.
  • Duration can now be specified as N days while creating workflow requests to add users to groups, enable users, etc.
  • The sAMAccountName of group members will now be displayed when the members view filter is applied to the All Groups report's result.
  • Any leading and trailing spaces specified in search options will now be automatically removed.

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Automations were not closed or cancelled when the product was stopped or restarted during execution.
  • The Service is currently unavailable error message was displayed while modifying groups using CSV, whenever a non-existing AD group was specified in the CSV file.
  • Issue in adding cross-forest members to groups.
  • Help desk technicians were unable to view NTFS shares after upgrading to build 7163 and above.
  • Error in sending workflow notifications via SMS as there was an issue in fetching the value of %UserMobileNumber% and other related macros.

7171 (December 06, 2022)

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Office 365 F3 was displayed as Office 365 F1 in the product.
  • Help desk technicians were not able to reset passwords via the reset password console, when the 'Deny Bulk Modification' option was enabled in the role delegated to them.

7170 (November 29, 2022)

Features:

  • Dynamic distribution groups report: Obtain a list of the dynamic distribution groups in your Active Directory environment using this report.

Enhancements:

  • Scheduled reports:
    • Ability to schedule and generate reports on your Active Directory objects using CSV files at a desired time and date.
    • Logon Hour-Based Reports can now be automatically generated at defined intervals.
  • Bulk user creation automations using data from HCM integrations can now be executed successfully even when there's an issue in validating a user's Manager or memberOf attribute in AD.
  • Flexibility to import and use custom attributes configured in your AD schema.
  • The Server Settings UI has been revamped for effectively managing the retention settings of scheduled reports, audit archive reports, and more from a single place.
  • ADManager Plus' Logon Settings has been moved to the Delegation tab for easy access.
  • The following reports have been added to ADManager Plus' dashboard for better visibility:
    • OS-Based report
    • Locked-out Users report
    • Custom reports

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Issue in searching for an AD object using the AD Search option, whenever there is a leading or trailing space in an entry.
  • Issue in locating an AD object using the search option in AD Explorer.
  • Help desk technicians were unable to view user accounts and groups while delegating GPO permissions, when more than 1000 OUs were delegated to them.
  • Help desk technicians were unable to view the users in an OU delegated to them via group-based delegation, while delegating GPO permissions.
  • Issue in adding Microsoft 365 users to channels in Microsoft Teams while creating a Microsoft 365 account for an existing AD user.
  • Unable to send notifications to user's manager using macros when a user creation or modification task is executed via automation.
  • Workflow requests were not automatically closed when a cross-domain management task was successfully executed as a delayed task.
  • Error in fetching the active user account from UltiPro when there is an inactive user account for the given employee ID.

7163 (November 07, 2022)

  • Notification Profile/Notification Templates:
    • You can now use custom macros in notification messages.
    • Option to send reports as part of the email content in notification templates.
    • Flexibility to customize columns in User Creation notification attachments.
    • Options to configure user and group-based profile criteria.
    • Notifications can now be triggered for the Enable User, Disable User and Reset Password actions.
  • You can now manage Distributed File Storage (DFS) Namespaces and their permissions in File Server Management.
  • New actions such as Set folder permission, Remove folder permission and Bulk modify folder permissions using CSV have been added to the automation module.
  • You can now assign Microsoft 365 licenses via automation and workflow.
  • Flexibility to specify filter, select and domainList as parameters in Search user API request.
  • Workday attributes such as Job_Profile_Id, Job_Profile_Name and On_Leave, Location_Id can now be mapped to LDAP attributes in ADManager Plus-Workday integration.

Fixes:

  • Issue in assigning Microsoft 365 licenses while creating users via user creation templates, when none of its service plans are selected.
  • Unable to delete users using the delete icon in Inactive Users report.
  • Error in creating shared mailboxes in Microsoft 365 when the Exchange mailbox and remote mailbox attributes were not configured during shared mailbox creation.
  • Unable to map LDAP attributes to user records in Oracle database.
  • Issue in adding cross-domain members using the Add to Group task in automation.
  • Synchronization issue in updating the changes made to the Manager attribute value specified in templates.

7162 (October 28, 2022)

What's new:

  • In ADManager Plus builds 7162 and above, NTLMv2 SSO can only be enabled after downloading and adding the Jespa JAR file to the product's lib folder. Click here to learn more.

7161 (October 10, 2022)

Fixes:

  • Issue in displaying license pop-up window in the latest build when updated from builds 7102 and older has been fixed.
  • Issue in displaying the search feature in the management tab of the Spanish localized version has been fixed.
  • An authenticated RCE vulnerability, reported by George Koumettou, has been fixed.

7160 (September 26, 2022)

Features:

  • Orchestration: Option to automate a series of tasks in succession at defined time intervals whenever a user or group management task is carried out in the product.
    • Orchestration Profile: Create a management profile and specify the conditions under which an orchestration has to be executed.
    • Templates: Build orchestration templates from scratch and use them to automate tasks.
    • Webhook templates: Create webhook templates and pre-fill them with REST API endpoints, messages, etc. and use them while configuring an orchestration template. You can also predefine webhook fields that hardly change and those that hold crucial data with environmental variables while creating a webhook template.
  • Integration with Power BI and Rapid7: Integrate ADManager Plus with Power BI and Rapid7 servers, and forward logs seamlessly.
  • Google Workspace backup and recovery: Protect user drives, mailboxes, contacts, journals, notes, posts, tasks and calendar items from accidental deletions, insider threats, and ransomware by backing them up.
  • DC Replication Status Report: Report on the replication status of domain controllers and trigger replication instantly using this report.
  • Lingering objects Report: Fetch the lingering objects in your AD and delete them on the go.
  • BitLocker Disabled Computers Report: Obtain a list of the computers that are not encrypted with BitLocker using this report.

Enhancement:

  • You can now assign well-known security principals as security filters to a GPO.
  • Custom Reports:
    • Flexibility to copy a custom report.
    • You can now perform management actions from custom reports.
  • Reports on all computers, recently created computers and BitLocker enabled computers and custom reports now display BitLocker status and recovery passwords.
  • You can now list shared mailboxes and delegate access to them using REST APIs.

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Error in authenticating MS SQL server using Windows Authentication while configuring the server for automated AD user management.
  • Microsoft 365 licenses were not displayed in the product due to Microsoft Graph API issue.
  • When the first N characters option was configured in a naming format, the last N characters were displayed; no name was displayed when the number specified was greater than the length of the name provided.
  • Issue in creating requestor roles with just Modify User Attribute enabled for the Choose Template option.
  • Issue in deleting the Organization attribute of users in bulk, when more than 125 users were selected.
  • Error in fetching a report on inactive computers with the Password Last Set Time filter, via automation.
  • The temporary tables created while generating reports were retained in the database, even after displaying the reports' results.

7151 (August 01, 2022)

Enhancement:

  • ADManager Plus can now be integrated with Jira Service Management Data Center, in addition to Jira Service Management Server.

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Issue in updating to the latest build, when large volumes of data are stored in the tables in Management and Workflow modules.
  • Issue in removing redundant entries in the database caused by Microsoft 365 module changes while updating to the latest build.
  • Issue in updating to the latest build when non-english languages are configured in the machine where ADManager Plus is installed.

7150 (July 20, 2022)

Features:

  • GPO management and reporting: Five new reports have been added for enhanced GPO management and reporting. They are:
    • Resultant Set of Policy Report
    • Linked GPOs Report
    • Empty GPOs Report
    • GPOs with Inactive Policy Settings
    • Comparison of GPOs
  • You can now modify the custom attributes of computer objects.
  • It is now possible to recover the deleted AD groups.
  • Schedule and automate database backups in the product.
  • Option to view disk space information of the server where ADManager Plus is installed.

Enhancements:

  • Management: Option to enable/disable computers from Single Computer Modification
  • Custom HCM authorization: OAuth2.0, Bearer, Basic Authentication and API Key have been added to authorize API requests.
  • Help desk delegation: Customize columns while selecting technicians in the delegation tab.
  • Workflow:
    • Flexibility to add comments in workflow requests.
    • Create workflow requests to add users to Microsoft 365 groups, enable and delete Lync accounts of users, enable litigation hold, and more.
  • AD search: Option to apply filters and customize columns while searching for users, groups, computers and contacts.
  • Naming formats:
    • While configuring naming formats, it is now possible to preview the output format.
    • You can now choose words, initialize capitals, use Nth character, random numbers, and more in naming formats.
    • Option to automatically increase the numbers in the specified alphanumeric name to avoid duplication of attributes like logon name, mail, etc.
  • Automation:
    • Additional options have been added to the reset password action in user automation.
    • Flexibility to copy the configurations of an existing automation policy.
    • While configuring successive tasks in automation policy, it is now possible to set time in minutes.
  • A larger number of Microsoft 365 reports now use Microsoft Graph API in place of Azure AD module for swift communication.
  • Report on security policy settings like account policies, local policies, event log, restricted groups, system services, file system and registry settings using the GPO Settings report.
  • Flexibility to sort domains alphabetically for easy identification.
  • Option to use SMS verification as a two-factor authentication method.
  • You can now configure the department attribute for computer objects.
  • Flexibility to customize columns while modifying users, groups, computers, etc.
  • Administrators can now disable concurrent logins for technicians, and also have the flexibility to sign technicians out of their active sessions.
  • Two new filters, member and memberOf have been added to filter group-based reports' results.
  • Option to create a remote shared mailbox using the shared mailbox creation template.
  • Ability to delegate compliance reports to help desk technicians.
  • You can now search and select OUs while creating AD objects.
  • Member-based group reports have been optimized for enhanced performance.
  • A Custom Script field has been added to the Shared Mailbox Modification Templates.
  • You can now validate the Telephone Number and Mobile attributes with a format of your choice in templates.

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

  • Technicians with ServiceDesk Plus configuration privilege were able to obtain authentication tokens of privileged accounts.
  • Issue in creating workflow requests using REST APIs.
  • Issue in generating reports on active computers and recently created users.
  • The client secret key was missing while configuring a new Microsoft 365 tenant in the product.
  • External senders were able to send messages to groups despite enabling the Requires that all senders are authenticated option for them.
  • Technicians were unable to login to the product due to synchronization issues.
  • Error in displaying user data while modifying users' photos using the Manage User Photos option.
  • Issue in deleting objects from a bulk user modification request in workflow.
  • While creating a new user, technicians other than those with administrator privileges, were unable to configure home folder permissions.