New Features:

• Smart card authentication: The use of smart cards/ PKI/ certificates has been enabled as additional options for ADManager Plus login. If you have such authentication system configured in your organization, ADManager Plus can be configured to authenticate users through it, bypassing other first factor methods.
  
  
• Support for Exchange 2016: With this release, ADManager Plus supports management and reporting on Exchange Server 2016 environment as well.
  
  
• Google Apps reports: These new reports provide detailed information such as, all users, active users, and suspended users in your Google Apps environment.
  
  
• Copy automation: It simplifies the creation of new automations by allowing you to copy the settings of an existing one and eliminating the need to create a new one from scratch. The newly created automation can then be modified, as per requirement.

Enhancements:

• Automation now includes the following:

• New tasks:

  - Modify users using templates
  - Disable, disconnect, or delete user mailboxes.
  - Hide from Exchange address lists.
  - Create groups using templates.
  - Create contacts using templates.
  
  
• New options:
  - Exclude child OUs from the selected OUs, while specifying the scope of a task that should be executed automatically.
  - 'Run now' to instantaneously run any automation from the list of scheduled automations.
  - 'User can't change the password' and 'set password never expires', while automating the 'reset password' task.

• While creating a user account in Google Apps, its group membership and the organizational unit where it must be located can also be specified.

• While managing workflow requests that was created via automation policy, an option to remove objects either from that particular request, or from all the requests generated by that automation policy, is provided.
• Bulk modify templates option allows modification of more fields such as, Google Apps, Office 365, and Lync attributes.
• Report scheduler now includes an option to exclude the child OUs while specifying the OUs for which the reports have to be generated.
  
• Using ADManager Plus’ iOS mobile app, you can now:
  • - View all the workflow requests that you have created.
  • - View all open requests, among the requests assigned to you.

Fixes:

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

• Inability to generate 'NTFS permissions for folders' report of a domain when authenticated with its child domain's credentials.

• In help desk audit reports, SID being displayed in place of distinguished name for a cross-forest group member, when listing group management actions performed by technicians.
• inetOrgPerson object class not being supported in 'group members' report.

• Issue in starting the product after service pack installation if database has been migrated to MS SQL.

• Error in report generation if only multi-valued attributes are selected (in add/ remove columns) to be displayed.

• In user modification templates, issue in applying a modification rule when 'select container' is specified in the conditions field.