ADManager Plus Fixes and Enhancements for Version 6.2 build 6251 to 6290

ADManager Plus Fixes and Enhancements for Version 6.2 build 6251 to 6290

Version 6.2 Build 6290 (March 2015):

New Features:

Filters in Report Scheduler: ADManager Plus now offers filters using which you can customize the Active Directory reports exactly as per your needs, while scheduling them.

Enhancements:

  • Intensifies security with fixes for security vulnerabilities by updating its JRE (Java Runtime Environment) to 1.7
  • Offers greater flexibility in selecting the objects to be managed via Automation, by adding more attributes/fields to the filters in its report library.

Fixes:

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

  • Headers are repeated for every 5000 rows while exporting the reports to CSV format.
  • The first sheet has 5000 rows and the subsequent sheets have only 150 rows each while exporting the reports to XLS format.
  • While a request is created through Workflow/Automation for bulk user creation via CSV, user details are not displayed in the ‘view objects’ link in the request, if template name is mentioned in the CSV file.
  • Help Desk Technicians are not able to unlock user accounts that are locked out.
  • ADManager Plus mobile app displays locked out user accounts as not locked (lockout status: false).


Version 6.2 Build 6280 (Feb 2015):

New Features:

Office 365 License Management helps you assign, replace or remove the licenses of multiple AD users who are enrolled in Office 365, in one single action. Further, to make it easy for you to specify the users whose licenses have to be modified, this feature provides an option to import the list of users from a CSV file.

Copy AD Group feature allows you to copy the attributes/settings of any group in your Active Directory and use the copied values to create a new:

  • Distribution or Security group in AD, or
  • Group creation template

LDAPS Support which allows you to communicate securely with the Active Directory.

Enhancements:

  • Reinforced security: This release fortifies the protective mechanism with a fix to guard against the CSRF vulnerability.
  • Additional input field types for Custom Attributes: To simplify the specification of values for custom attributes, you can now pick the most appropriate input field type from the new options such as combo box, editable combo box and date picker.

Fixes:

  • Not being able to logon using the password obtained through random password generation.
  • Helpdesk technicians' description getting replaced with the description mentioned in AD.
  • Error in generating the Licensed O365 users report.
  • Not being able to view all the configured File Servers in File Server management.
  • Error when using %sAMAccountName% as SIP URI format for Lync enabled users.


Version 6.2 Build 6270 (Dec 2014):

New Features:

'Reactive' Group Modification Template:  These templates help you standardize the process of modifying AD groups and also automatically populate specific attributes during the single group modification process via:

- Customizable Layout:  With simple 'drag-n-drop' actions, you can place only the desired attributes in the templates; you can also make any attribute editable, read-only or hidden during the modification process. With customized templates, you can provide role-based access to helpdesk technicians for modifying AD groups

- Reactive modification rules:  You can configure conditions to be checked whenever an AD group is modified and auto-update specific attributes, if the conditions are satisfied. These rules are triggered in the background whenever a group is modified and the specified fields are automatically populated with appropriate values.

Enhancements:

  • Cross-domain support in single group creation and modification - you can now add users and also contacts from different domains as members of a group; also, you can now add contacts to groups via single group creation and modification.
  • Reset computer accounts feature to help you reset the passwords of computers that cannot connect to the domain as they cannot be authenticated by the domain controller
  • Multiple group selection in 'Users not in groups' report: You can now select multiple groups while specifying the ones based on which this report has to be generated; fetches all the users who are not members of any of the specified groups
  • Enhanced random password generator: the password policy now offers advanced options like exclude characters, dictionary words, etc. for more efficient and secure password policy generation, in compliance with the organization's password policy
  • Users with empty attributes report now brings custom user attributes also under is scope; will now fetch users even if their custom attribute is empty
  • Enhanced error indicators for the failed CSV-import operations now offer detailed error messages for greater understanding about the reason for the error.
  • While performing single user modification, you can now sort the list of users displayed alphabetically, to locate the desired user without much effort.
  • The AD objects search, located inside the product, now lists the objects in the search result in alphabetical order.

Fixes:

  • Not being able to disable and move user accounts via automation.
  • Issues in helpdesk technician not being able to reset passwords
  • Not displaying the names of requesters (users) who are not helpdesk technicians, while configuring the assigning rules
  • Issues in updating the 'Country' attribute of users in AD via bulk user modification
  • Product does not start when Java crashes due to 'out of memory'
  • 'No Lync server found' message being displayed in the user creation templates randomly

Version 6.2 Build 6260 Nov (2014)

New Features:

Inactive Office 365 users report: This report lists all the Office 365 users who have not accessed their Exchange Online mailboxes during the specified time period.

CSV-based computer modification: This feature helps you modify the attributes of Active Directory computers, in bulk, by importing a CSV file which has the list of computers and their attributes to be modified.

Computers with duplicate attributes report: This report displays all the computers which have duplicate values for the specified attribute.

Enhancement:

OS filter in OS-based computers report: While selecting the operating systems to generate the OS-based computers report, you can use this filter to view the list of only the server operating systems or all the operating systems (server as well as client versions) used in the organization.

Fixes

  1. Issue in setting the Dial-in attribute’s value for AD users via single user modification.
  2. Names of objects modified via bulk user modification feature (using a CSV file) not being displayed in help desk audit reports.
  3. Issue in selecting the required domains for generating the photo-based users report

Version 6.2 Build 6251 (Nov 2014)

Fixes :

  1. When A HDT role is defined to 'Modify Single User' and if 'Deny Bulk modification' is enabled, the HDT will not have any Single user modification options once he logs in.This happens only after upgrading to 6250.
  2. Error when creating DirSynced user in a Federated Domain.
  3. Office 365 License name not visible for particular plan.

Version 6.2 Build 6200 to 6250 :   https://forums.manageengine.com/topic/admanager-plus-fixes-and-enhancements-for-version-6-2-build-6200-to-6241   


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