Major New Features in Cayosoft Administrator v7
Microsoft Teams Direct-Dial Number Assignments
Cayosoft Administrator can now assign the next free phone number and Calling Plan in Microsoft 365 cloud to each user in the specified Active Directory user scope.
Support for Azure AD Application Proxy
After a single sign-on to Azure AD, users can access both cloud and on-premises applications through an external URL or the internal application portal. Cayosoft Administrator can now be added along-side other applications set to use the Azure AD Application Proxy.
The Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal has improved Azure AD Authentication Integration
The Administrator Web Portal's Azure Active Directory Authentication capabilities have been improved by adding support for Microsoft Azure MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and Microsoft Azure SSO (Single Sign-on).
Guest Account Management has been added
Cayosoft Administrator now provides three great new features for Microsoft Guest Account Management. First, The Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal has been extended to provide Guest Account Creation, Guest Account Properties Management, and Guest Group Membership Management. Second, Cayosoft Administrator now has the ability to create Guest Accounts in bulk from Text files, Microsoft SQL Server Data Tables, or from Oracle Data Tables. And third, you can now convert regular User Accounts to Guest Accounts and Guest Accounts to regular User Accounts.
Improved Individual Server Fault Tolerance
The Active Directory on-premises configuration now provides the option to specify a secondary domain controller. If the Administration Service identifies issues with the connection to the primary domain controller, it can now automatically fail-over to the secondary domain controller.
Password History Enforcement for Self-Service Password Management
An option has been added to enforce Active Directory on-premises password history for users of Cayosoft Administrator Password Self-Service Management.
Improved Microsoft Teams Governance
Building on the Microsoft Teams Governance features in v6, several new features have been added in 7.0 including Microsoft Teams Policy Assignments.
Google Chrome 80 Support Added
The Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal now supports the use of the new Chrome 80 browser.
Enhancements by ID 
For support end date for each version see Cayosoft Administrator Life-cycle Matrix.
Version | ID | Item | Product Area |
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7.3.1 |
1852 |
Default values for Country\region and mail suffix attributes can be set in Enable Mailbox Web Action using Attribute Polices. |
Product configuration |
7.3.1 |
1853 |
Other Attributes and Virtual Attributes tabs are added to the following Web Actions: |
Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.1 |
2042 |
In Web Portal, end-users can now pick and re-order their own columns in Web UI grids. The new menu item Choose Columns is added to the grid drop-down menu at the top right corner of the grid. When you click this menu item columns picker popup dialog is opened. |
Active Directory and Office365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
4335 |
New hybrid membership rule commands have been added for Cayosoft Office 365 Dynamic Groups to populate Office Groups and Teams based on user information stored in on-premise Active Directory: AD Users membership rule command updates Office 365 Dynamiс Group membership with Active directory users whose accounts are synced to Office 365. Members of the AD Group membership rule command updates Office 365 Dynamiс Group membership with the members of the Active Directory group whose members are synced to Office 365. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.1 |
4919 |
Email address conflict is now checked against mail, proxyAddress and targetAddress attributes of all recipients when performing the following web actions and automation rules if these rules have the alternate email generation: |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6144 |
New Distribution Group Web Action has been improved:
|
Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6629 |
Enable Mailbox Web Action has been improved with a setting to control the creation of a missing cloud account. This setting allows verifying if a corresponding cloud account exists before creating a remote/Office 365 mailbox. If the account does not exist, a Yes setting will create it, while No will cause the action to fail. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6764 |
New User | Create Remote Mailbox and New User | Create On-premises Mailbox rules are improved with the new Alias generation rule setting. This setting allows specifying the format of mailNickname attribute. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 | 6768 | AD Users | Set Proxy Addresses rule improved to allows add, update, or remove email addresses of other types then SMTP. For example, add a new SIP address. | Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6780 |
An issue has been resolved in Compare membership Web Actions (both for Active Directory and Office 365) when group lists were not sorted by default. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6781 |
An issue has been resolved in Dynamic Groups when the imported group was unable to run by schedule. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 | 6839 | The mailbox provision Web Actions:
are updated with the same settings:
|
Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6851 |
Friendly names for additional Office 365 license plans have been added to the product. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6871 |
An issue has been resolved in AD Users | Set Attribute Value rule when it fails if HomePage attribute was selected for an update. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6874 |
Microsoft Teams rule output report now lists all team owners. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6931 |
The "Sign to Cayosoft Administrator" text on the sign-on page in Web Portal can be customized. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6933 |
AD Users | Set Office 365 Mailbox Settings rule is updated with a new <not set> option that allows ignoring some options and updates another. The rule can now be used to update individual mailbox settings for existing user accounts in bulk. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6934 |
Up/Down buttons are added to the Attribute Policy Scopes list to modify policy scope precedence. |
Product Configuration |
7.3.1 |
6941 |
An issue has been resolved in Convert to shared mailbox Web Action when after conversion some Exchange attributes were not updated properly and the user mailbox still displayed in the mailboxes list instead of the Shared list in Exchange Admin Center. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
6956 |
An issue has been resolved in the Certification review notification when the email address that was set in From field was ignored. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6976 |
An issue has been resolved in the Attribute Policy when Suspend on schedule mode could not be set by default on Suspend User and Suspend Group web action. |
Product Configuration |
7.3.1 |
6978 |
The license cache update status report now has the link to How to send user-friendly license display names to Cayosoft KB article. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
6987 |
Additional events are now reported to the event log when Dynamic Group and Restricted Group membership calculations are completed. |
Product Upgrade |
7.3.1 |
6995 |
AD Users | Set Attribute Value rule is updated with an Initialization script section. |
Automation rules and reports |
7.3.1 |
7018 |
An issue has been resolved in the Office 365 License Web Action when Office 365 addon could not be revoked or assigned. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.1 |
7037 |
An issue has been resolved in Properties Web Action for the hybrid users when the error may occur if ms-DS-ConsistencyGUID attribute contained non-GUID value. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
Version | ID | Item | Product Area |
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7.3.0 |
549 |
New database membership rules have been added for Cayosoft Dynamic Groups:
These commands allow Active Directory and Office 365 group membership to be updated based on a query to Microsoft SQL or Oracle Database tables. This features requires Cayosoft Administrator Enterprise version. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 2516 | Web portal dialog box tabs can be completely hidden or renamed using Attribute Polices.
To get the list of tabs for a chosen Web Action in an Attribute Policy check the Show Property ID and type "tab" in the search field. All tabs on the Web Action form are prefixed with "tab": "tab{tab title}". |
Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 2727 | A new Dynamic Group Administrators role is added to delegate Dynamic Group administration to administrators using the Cayosoft Administrator Automation console. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 2855 | Office 365 license change notification and license cache update process have been improved:
|
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 3447 | Many Web Actions dialog boxes such as Properties pages, Membership pages, Add to groups pages can be now maximized. | Usability |
7.3.0 | 3771 | Enterprise Search has been added to the product to help administers search across multiple separate Cayosoft Administrator installations each having a separate hybrid Active Directory / Office 365 environment configuration.
Enterprise Search allows delegated administrators to find and manage an object across all Active Directory forests. |
Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 4017 | New OneDrive Properties web action has been added for hybrid and cloud-only users to manage OneDrive user settings in Web Portal. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 4298 | Preview query results for an automation rules in the Caysooft Admin Console now displays the real count of objects to be processed by the rule. The list of objects that are in the rule scope can be exported to CSV. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 4362 | Search within the Attribute Policy list is improved in Admin Console. Policies can be found by:
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Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 4374 | Mail Properties Web Action is now available in My Organization > My Office 365 Groups Web Query.
Users can use this action in Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal to view or modify the mail properties of the Office and distribution groups that they own. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 4650 | New automation rule Skype On-Premises Users | Move User to Cloud Voice is added to move a user account enabled for Skype for Business from an on-premises Skype for Business deployment to Office 365.
New automation rule AD Users | Calling Plan assignment (DID Number Assignment) is added to assign a next free phone number and Calling Plan in Microsoft 365 cloud to each user in the specified Active Directory user scope. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 5610 | Cayosoft Administrator is now compatible with Azure AD Application Proxy.
Azure Active Directory's Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications. After a single sign-on to Azure AD, users can access both cloud and on-premises applications through an external URL or an internal application portal. |
Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 5613 | New reporting rule AD Users License Optimization is added that returns a list of Office 365 licensed users and their recommended optimization scenario according to the selected optimization model.
License Optimization shows your potential savings according to the actual usage of various Office 365 features. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6145 | When configuring scope for delegation and policy rules, you can now select or un-select all filtered Admin Units, Web Queries, or Actions. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6161 | The performance was improved for the automation rule Text file | DynamicAttributes Update AD Users Properties to process bigger CSV files. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6228 | In addition to Enterprise Office 365 licenses, the License Optimization feature can now be used to model cost optimizations for Government licenses.
Default License Optimization rule is renamed to Default License Optimization for Enterprise licenses. New Default License Optimization for GCC rule is added to the Analytics Collection runbook. Both of these rules have a new setting Enable this modeling rule that defines which of these rules is in License Optimization calculation. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6233 | The error reporting improved for Enable Mailbox web action when a selected user account already has a mailbox. | Usability |
7.3.0 | 6269 | When performing various hybrid actions in Web Portal for an AD user, a corresponding Cloud user can now be found even if UPN does not match between on-premise and cloud accounts.
If you configure Azure AD Connect to use any attribute other then UserPrincipalName for the name of AzureAD user, you should complete additional configuration in Cayosoft Admin Console: navigate to Active Directory extension > Advanced Settings and set Map cloud users by UPN to No (try anchor attributes first). |
Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6286 | An issue has been resolved in the Enable Mailbox Web Action when Run Mailbox post-creation tasks setting does not reference the global setting on the Active Directory extension. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6303 | Import Oracle Data | Create AD Users, Import SQL Data | Create AD Users provisioning rules are updated to support writing generated users passwords back to Oracle and SQL Server.
Hashmap of generated user passwords is saved in session global variables for use in AD Users | Update Oracle Database, AD Users | Update SQL Database rules within the same runbook. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6312 | Compare Membership Web Action is added for Office 365 users and guests to allow compare and copy membership of one Office 365 user or guest account with another. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6313 | Friendly names for additional Office 365 license plans have been added to the product. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6336 | An issue has been resolved when "Failed to communicate with Administration Service" error may occur if Automatic Sign-in For Azure AD setting was used and the application session was expired. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6337 | An issue has been resolved when automation rules may fail to process an Active Directory object after this object was moved to another OU or renamed. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6339 | A new Filter setting is added to the Active Directory Dynamic Groups > Text File command to filter data in the data source file. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6349 | An issue has been resolved with product upgrade when some settings on New User Web Action were reverted to default values. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6355, 6684 | Export\Import Dynamic Groups Tool is updated to keep default settings and allow setting the Result Page Size setting value.
Also, new parameters are added: - DynamicGroupContainer - exports Dynamic Group by its rule name.
- CsvSeparator - specifies the separator that is used in the CSV file.
|
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6411 | Admin Console now displays the initiator and timestamp of the last update for any automation rule and web action settings. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6420 | The performance of AD Users Inactive | Suspend Accounts rule is improved. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6432 | New Allow guest access in this Team setting is added to New Team and Team properties Web Actions. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6459 | An issue has been resolved in Add members from file web action when several domains were specified in Additional scope in My AD Groups Web Query. | Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6487 | An issue has been resolved in Rename User web action for a user with a remote mailbox when changing the email attribute to a new email address. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6501 | Cayosoft Admin Console can be now installed separately from the Administrator Service. It allows connection to a remote Admin Service.
When you click on the Start menu shortcut, the console is launched and asked the credentials for the connection. |
Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6503 | Manged domains discovery improved for environments with DCs were Global Catalog and ADWS services are deployed separately to Domen Controllers. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6520 | An issue has been resolved in Active Directory user Properties form when daylight saving was incorrectly considered for the user Logon Hours display. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6554 | An issue has been resolved in Active Directory Dynamic Groups in AD Users - Employees under manager membership rule when the user email address was missing in the command preview. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.3.0 | 6585 | A column with password expired attribute can be added to AD Users Web Query in Web Portal. | Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6667 | An issue has been resolved when Administration service may hang on loading Active Directory schema after the initial setup. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6679 | An issue has been resolved when it was impossible to edit the scope of trustee permissions in delegation rule if this delegation rule was created during copying Admin Unit and Create Delegation for Web Administrators was checked. | Product Configuration |
7.3.0 | 6691 | An issue has been resolved when Active Directory user account expiration date was set incorrectly if the expiration date was selected from the calendar on Modify User form in Web Portal. | Active Directory Web Management |
7.3.0 | 6718 | A workaround is now available for environments that experience the Get-FormatData error connecting to their Exchange Online service. To enable the workaround, in Admin Console navigate to Office 365 extension, open Advanced Settings section and in Apply fix for Get-FormatData error select the workaround that will be applied to resolve the issue. | Office 365 Web Management |
Version | ID | Item | Product Area |
---|---|---|---|
7.2.1 |
6344 |
An issue has been resolved with Cayosoft Administrator failing to connect to Office 365 with the error "An item with the same key has already been added." | Product Configuration |
Version | ID | Item | Area |
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7.2.0 |
1374 |
Attribute Policies the Possible values setting have been improved:
|
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
2041 |
Automatic Single Sign-on (SSO) for Azure Active Directory has been added to Cayosoft Web Portal.
SSO for Azure AD allows already authenticated users to sign in to Cayosoft Web Portal using their Office 365 account, without providing their credentials to Cayosoft Administrator. All user interactions happen with the Microsoft Office Sign-in page and might include multi-factor authentication steps depending on the Azure AD configuration. |
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
2733 |
Change History database size can now be controlled new rules that have been added for the export Change History to an external archive. Reporting over Archive Change History and Change History Details from Archive rules were also added.
If the Change History database size grows to over 2GB and if Archive Change History rule is not set up, administrators will see the alert message: "Change history database size exceeds 2GB. Change history is not being archived." |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
2799 |
Home Phone property has been added on the Active Directory and Office 365 user properties forms. | Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
3039 |
Generation value setting in an Attribute Policy can now be configured to remove special symbols (for example remove a dash) before taking first or last N characters from some object attribute. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
3069 |
Office 365 Guest account creation and management has been added to the Web Portal with the New Guest and Guest Properties web actions. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
3044 |
New automation rules have been added for the bulk provisioning of Office 365 Guest user accounts: | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
3405 |
Compare Membership Web Action for Active Directory was updated to allow adding and removing members on the comparison dialog box. To use this feature you must set the following two new Web Action configuration settings:
|
Active Directory Management |
7.2.0 |
3497 |
In Attribute Policies the comma symbol can be used with Possible values: you should use "{c}" token in possible value string that would add a comma symbol.
For example, a possible value like "Company A, Inc" should look like "Company A{c} Inc." |
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
3565 |
Shared Mailboxes can be set up so that members can see what other members have sent as or on behalf of this mailbox.
New Shared Mailbox wizard (Cloud-only and remote) and Shared Mailbox properties Web Action was updated with the following new settings:
|
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
5108 |
An issue was resolve with the upgrade of Cayosoft Web Portal. The Web Config Tool was updated to add HTTP headers considering environment settings. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
5392 |
New Web Actions were added to convert an Office 365 user account to a guest account and to convert a guest account to Office 365 user account: | Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
5585 |
Microsoft Teams owner membership will now updated so that any added or removed team owner is also added or removed as a team member.
New Maintain owners as members setting has been added to the following Team web actions: |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
5606 |
Post-query Filter setting was added to Scheduled Suspend and Undo Suspend automation rules:
|
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5654 |
An issue has been resolved with the Analytics collection | Teams Usage rule where the Office 365 connection account wasn't removed from the team even when Maintain teams ownership setting was set to Remove. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5673 |
New Text file | Create Admin Units rule was added.
Use this rule when you need to perform bulk creation of Active Directory Admin Units and corresponding delegation rules. The text file data source should be in a comma-separated variable format (CSV). |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5800 |
A new Office 365 Groups (Mail-Enabled) with Delegated Permissions reporting rule was added.
Use this rule when you need to get the list of Office 365 mail-enabled groups that have any delegated permissions specified. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5801 |
An issue with the Teams Certification Review rule has been resolved. The issue: a team may be deleted although the Remediation and Expiration setting was set to Report and Archive.
Team removal by user setting has been added rule for better control. The settings controls weather the team can be deleted or archived by the reviewer. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5811 |
The Analytics Collection | Teams Usage rule was updated with new Last posting activity calculation setting.
This setting allows the admin to specify if the top post is considered or all posts should be considered in the calculation of Teams usage statistics. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5828 |
An issue has been resolved with Attribute Policies and unexpected behavior if Other Attributes 17 and 18 are missing in Active directory AD Users Properties. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
5833 |
Microsoft Teams Certification Review rule now allows you to include or exclude archived teams from subsequent certification process.
The new Archived teams filter setting was added to the rule to control this behavior. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5874 |
Private team channels are now supported during analytics collection using the Analytics Collection | Teams Usage rule.
To access private channel usage information, the Office 365 connection account must be an owner of the target private channel. An account cannot be channel owner without also being a parent Team member or owner. The new Maintain private channel ownership setting was added to Analytics Collection | Teams Usage rule to automatically add the connection account to the ownership and membership. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5890 |
Friendly names for additional Office 365 license plans have been added to the product. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
5895 |
An issue has been resolved with suspending Active Directory users with on-premises mailboxes. The suspension may produce an error in Result dialog when the setting Suspend related Office 365 Account was set to Yes. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5898 |
An issue has been resolved with the Office 365 Mailboxes with Full Permission Granted rule. When the Maximum returned results value was taken from the Office 365 extension settings but not from the rule settings when specified. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5900, 5946 |
New AccountEnabled and DisplayName columns were added to the Office 365 Mailboxes with Full Permission Granted reporting rule showing the state of the user(s) that has permissions on the Office 365 mailbox. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5902 |
An issue has been resolved with the Analytics collection | Microsoft Office 365 rule. The rule would fail if there are multiple mailboxes with identical DisplayName. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5907 |
Custom generation tokens were added to the Attribute Policies.
Custom generation tokens allow attributes values from the user who is executing an action (initiator) to be used in the Attribute Policies that are applied to the creation of Active Directory and Office 365 objects. Custom generation tokens should be set on the corresponding Web Action configuration form. |
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
5912, 5952 |
An issue has been resolved with rules related to Exchange online. These rules could fail after the Exchange online session recreation. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5922 |
An issue has been resolved with Dynamic Groups when renaming a Dynamic Group caused it to fail.
Clear DN Cache command was added in the Active Directory extension to clear the Distinguished Name cache. This cache is used to improve the performance of DN lookups. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5937 |
A selection (picker) dialog was added to several provisioning rules for point-and-click mapping between data source columns and target user properties.
This dialog was added to Other properties section in the following rules: |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5940 |
Microsoft Teams Certification Review rule allows for the secifiation of the action that will be performed when a team owner selects to remove a team during the certification: delete or archive.
New Team removal by user setting is added to the rule. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
5980 |
An issue has been resolved in the Initial Configuration Wizard when %ProgramData%\CayoSoftware\AdminAssistant\Logs directory didn't exist. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
6028 |
An issue has been resolved with sign-in to Web Portal when a user is flagged with "User must change passwords on the next login" and the Web Portal setting for Default domain name for Active Directory accounts has been specified. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
6029 |
An issue has been resolved in Office 365 License Quotas. In the Administration Console the bottom scroll bar was not visible when the right scroll bar was displayed. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
6031 |
An issue has been resolved in exporting Office 365 License Quotas when a new license was added to a managed Office 365 tenant. | Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
6038 |
Secondary owners for all Active Directory groups can be viewed or edited even when the group is not an Exchange Distribution Lists.
A new setting Show secondary owners was added to Active Directory group properties that allows specifying if secondary owners should be displayed for all groups or only for Exchange Distribution Lists. |
Active Directory Web Management |
7.2.0 |
6063, 6264 |
The scope of Active Users, Guest users, and Teams Web Queries can now be limited to an Azure AD Built-in Administrative Unit.
New Limit scope to this Azure AD Administrative Unit setting has been added to the same Web Queries. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
6119 |
An issue has been resolved with the My Office 365 DLs Web Query when one of the groups in the query scope had empty ExternalDirectoryObjectId attribute. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.2.0 |
6123 |
The New User | Add user to AD group(s) rule has been improved and renamed to AD Users | DynamicAttributes Add to AD Groups automation rule.
Use this rule when you need to modify Active Directory users' membership in multiple Active Directory groups. You can specify CSV file with User Anchor attribute and Group DistinguishedNames instead of specifying group DistinguishedNames in the rule settings manually. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
6201 |
An issue has been resolved in Microsoft Exchange extension when WSMan service reports an error if Connect URI setting contained a space in its value. |
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
6238 |
An issue has been resolved with the Text File | Update AD Users rule that would fails if there were duplicates in anchor attribute values. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
6265 |
An Office 365 Licensing Healthcheck runbook was added. This runbook consists of individual reports that each details the status of Office 365 Licenses in your tenant. Review output reports for potential issues and cost optimizations. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
6301 |
Active Directory Dynamic Groups now allow you to specify the number of objects to include in one page for an AD DS query. A new Result page size setting was added in membership rule settings in Dynamic Group. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.2.0 |
6187 |
NOTE: Support for Internet Explorer 10 or 11 is deprecated.
Microsoft has begun the rollout of the new Microsoft Edge browser for Windows users as a replacement for Internet Explorer, support for IE 10 and 11 is now deprecated for Cayosoft Web Portal. Users who connect to the Web Portal with IE 10 or 11 now see a confirmation message to continue using Web Portal with an unsupported browser. For optimal user experience, best performance, and fully supported solution, please use one of the modern browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Firefox. See Supported web browsers article for details or download Microsoft Edge. |
Product Configuration |
7.2.0 |
6309 |
An issue has been resolved with the AD Users | Set Attribute Value rule where the defined rule scope was ignored if it was run as a post-rule in New User Web Action. | Automation Rules and Reports |
Version | ID | Item | Area |
---|---|---|---|
7.1.0 |
572 |
The Active Directory New Distribution Group and Group Mail Properties web actions now work to create and modify hybrid Distribution Groups without requiring an active Exchange server by setting the necessary attributes directly. | Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
2862 |
New AD Users Hybrid Inactive reporting rule was added and Office 365 Users Inactive Rule was updated.
This rule returns hybrid users that meet both Active Directory and Office 365 inactivity criteria. The Office 365 Users Inactive rule was reworked to look at inactivity criteria across multiple cloud services. The existing rule was renamed to Office 365 Users Inactive Mailbox. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
3454 |
Multiple users can now be selected before using the Reset Password web action so that multiple Active Directory and/ Office 365 user's password can be set simultaneously. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
3575 |
Three rules were updated making it possible to get a report to show all groups with less than x members with the following reporting rules:
|
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
4148 |
The Office 365 Tenant License Change Notification was updated. Now the message provides instructions and the link to KB on how to resolve this issue.
This message is displayed in the Cayosoft Administrator Console and Logs. |
Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
4502 |
When a user attempts to sign-in to the Administrator Web Portal and the User must change password at next login flag is set to Yes, the user will be prompted with password change before signing into Web Portal. This setting can be control using the Web Portal settings. |
Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
4617 |
Multiple rules were updated to reflect changes made by Microsoft. Focused Inbox instead of Clutter setting was added for remote and Office 365 mailboxes for both Mailbox web actions and in these rules:
See details in Microsoft has removed Clutter on the 31 January 2020 and proposes Focused Inbox instead article. |
Automation Rules and Reports
Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
4760 |
An issue has been resolved when new change records were not added to the Operational Auditing in case of using Add to Groups web action to add an object from the current domain to a group in a different domain. | Active Directory Web Management |
7.1.0 |
4824 |
An issue has been resolved when Convert to shared mailbox web action was available for mailboxes that have been already converted to remote shared mailboxes. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
4884 |
A new option was added to use a full domain name for the Remote Routing Address setting in New User | Create Remote Mailbox rule and for targetAddress prefix setting in Rename User web action. | Automation Rules and Reports
Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
4892 |
New Teams Policies web action was added allowing delegated administrators to view and modify Microsoft Teams policy assignments for hybrid and Office 365 users in Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
4894 |
An issue has been resolved when the Archive Execution History rule consuming excessive memory during execution. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
4942 |
Web action execution was improved so that long-running hybrid operations, like New User with remote mailbox creation, no longer delay completion of the faster non-hybrid operations, like Reset Password. | Performance |
7.1.0 |
5013 |
Object search performance is improved for Active Directory web queries where the scope is an Organizational Units with 500K+ objects. To enable this optimization, a new Disabled partial name search setting was added to Active Directory extension and to all Active Directory web queries and Object Picker web queries. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5018 |
Now Cayosoft Administrator supports Office 365 tenants with new "Security Defaults" enabled. Please note that additional configuration steps are required for Cayosoft Administrator to work correctly in such environments.
For details see this KB: https://cayosoft.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040408252 |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5029 |
New $TargetGroupId token was added for Dynamic Groups, that can be used in the email subject and body templates. $TargetGroupId is set to target Active Directory group ObjectGuid or Office 365 group ObjectId. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5031 |
A new option with for short domain name was added for targetAddress prefix setting of the Rename User web action. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5033 |
The Send As permission was added to Office 365 Mailboxes | Grant User Permissions rule. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5049 |
A new Session Management node was added to the Administrator Console. This node has configuration settings that define the maximum number of PowerShell sessions to run simultaneously for interactive operations in Admin Console and Web Portal. These settings should not be changed without the explicit direction of Cayosoft Support. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5054 |
Now a hybrid shared mailbox can be created for Active Directory users without a Microsoft Exchange Server being available on-premise. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5056, 5075 |
An issue has been resolved when after an upgrade the data source field becomes empty for in the rules Text file | Dynamic Attribute Update Office 365 Users Properties and Text file | Dynamic Attributes Update AD Users Properties. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5068 |
A new Alternate email setting was added to Contact Info section in Text file | Create Office 365 Users and Text file | Update Office 365 Users rules.
Now alternate email addresses can be used for O365 users' self-service password reset. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5088 |
Cayosoft Suspend now supports in-place upgrade. | Suspend Tool |
7.1.0 |
5109 |
An issue has been resolved with using the Text file membership rule in Dynamic groups. The rule would fail if the text file has more than 50 000 users. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5129 |
An issue has been resolved when some Dynamic Groups failed to execute on schedule after upgrade from older versions. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5130 |
An issue has been resolved when Active Directory default credentials may not be validated properly if they were set using the UserPrincipalName format. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5137 |
An issue has been resolved when the message set in the Dynamic Group's output section is displayed two times on the email report. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5141 |
Performance and scalability of Administration Service have been improved for environments with 100+ Admin Units, delegation rules, and attribute policies. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5154 |
An issue has been resolved when Active Directory group membership was not displayed if a group web query had a set of specific settings configured.
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Active Directory Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5246 |
Additional events are now reported to the event log when a Database upgrade starts and finishes. | Product Upgrade |
7.1.0 |
5247 |
An issue has been resolved with Admin Service become unresponsive after an upgrade, when the Admin Service is a subscriber in a replication group and the publisher was not upgraded first. | Product Upgrade |
7.1.0 |
5291 |
The Changes by this user web action report will display only the first 1000 records when the volume of change history is exceptionally large. To see all the records it is recommended to use the Operational Auditing dashboard. | Active Directory Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5299 |
The error message shown when the Admin Service fails to connect to a required server or service has been improved. | UX Improvements |
7.1.0 |
5307 |
An issue has been resolved when the Admin Service checks Global Catalog Availability for trusted domains even if these domains are set to be excluded. Excluded domains will no longer be checked. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5372 |
A new command called Share Statistics has been added to the Actions in the Rules Node in Administrator Console. Clicking this button, sends anonymous rule executing statistic to Cayosoft. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5421 |
Quick filters have been added in OU object selection dialog boxes in Web Portal.
Now when a list of OU names is displayed in the Select Organizational Unit dialog box, you can specify the OU name under the Parent OU column to find the required OU.. |
Active Directory Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5434 |
Support for Microsoft Exchange Online Modern Authentication has been added. The setting Support modern authentication in the Advanced Settings section in Office 365 extension enables this new feature. | Product Configuration |
7.1.0 |
5461 |
An issue has been resolved in the AD Users | Set User Profile & Home Folder rule when permission inheritance on the home folder is disabled by default.
The new Disable permission inheritance setting is added to Create AD User Home Folder command in these rules and web actions:
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Automation Rules and Reports
Active Directory Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5488 |
Friendly names for additional Office 365 plans have been added to the product. Friendly names are stored in the O365LicenseCache.xml file. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5526 |
An issue has been resolved with the Office 365 Dynamic Group output report when member type is shown as unknown. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5531 |
A new command called Copy Into has been added to Office 365 web queries. This command copies the selected web queries to selected Admin Units. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.1.0 |
5532 |
An issue has been resolved when running the Analytics Collection Runbook. In some cases the runbook would report an error "Your tenant is Disabled for this service". | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5544 |
An issue was resolved that prevented the proper replication of the Password to encrypt data Setting used with the Password Self-Service Enrollment when run on a subscriber. As a result of this issue, users enrolled on the publisher service were not able to reset their password or unlock their account on the subscriber. Note: If you are using Self-Service Enrollment and have replication configured... after the upgrade to 7.1.0, an additional rule must be run to apply a fix to user accounts who already enrolled with incorrectly replicated Password to encrypt data Setting. The rule name is AD Users | Fix Replication Issue for Self-Service Enrollment (See KB20190517-1 for more information).
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Self-Service Management |
7.1.0 |
5574 |
Initialization Script Section was added to the AD Users | Set Office 365 Mailbox Settings rule.
It is now possible to run the AD Users | Set Office 365 Mailbox Setting rule only for recently created users. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.1.0 |
5576 |
The Text file | Populate AD Users Self-Service Q&A Profile rule can now be run for Users that have not enroll in Self-Service. This is achieved by setting the Filter AD data to the new setting titled Users that did not enroll into Self-Service.. | Automation Rules and Reports
Self-Service Management |
7.1.0 |
5629 |
The Analytics collection | Microsoft Office 365 rule now has an option to optionally collect archive mailbox size.
Archive mailbox sizes are used for Office 365 License Optimization. A large number of archive mailboxes may negatively impact performance of the Analytics collection runbook under certain conditions. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
VER | ID | ITEM | AREA |
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7.0.0 |
1415 |
Now a secondary Domain Controller can be specified per managed domain. If the Administration Service identifies issues with the connection to the primary DC, it would automatically fail-over to the alternative DC.
Also, the management of Active Directory Managed Domains on the Active Directory settings page has been improved:
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Product Configuration |
7.0.0 |
2700 |
You can now enforce password history for Change my password web action in Self Service and for I forgot my password task on the login page.
For this, a new setting called Enforce password history is added to the Self-Service - Password Self-Service Enrollment Details web action. |
Active Directory Web Management |
7.0.0 |
3553 |
Now when copying a dynamic group two additional settings are copied to the new Dynamic Group: Add change details to Change History and Execution History and Label. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
3811 |
An issue has been resolved with the MFA Settings web action when the user status being displayed incorrectly if this user was excluded from Baseline policy after MFA was enabled for him.
New Detect if MFA is enabled via policy setting is added to MFA Settings web actions that allows disabling algorithm that detects if MFA enabled through the baseline policy. |
Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
3856 |
An issue has been resolved where some Office 365 DNS domains were not available in the list of possible UPN and group name suffixes in Office 365 web actions. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
3980 |
New web actions have been added to create and modify Office 365 shared mailboxes: the New Office 365 Shared Mailbox web action and Properties web action. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4051 |
A new tool is added to perform export and import Dynamic Groups.
You can create Dynamic Group rules in bulk or update membership rules for existing Dynamic Groups. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4130 |
New automation rules to assign Microsoft Teams policies have been added:
These rules query the specified users' scope and for each returned user assign specified Microsoft Teams policies. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4273 |
An issue has been resolved when duplicate SelfService tags may appear in accountNameHistory user attribute that led to Self-Service notification rules failure. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4308 |
A new password policy setting has been added: Exclude similar characters in generated passwords setting.
This setting allows the exclusion of confusing characters such as i, I, l, o, O, 1 and 0 from user-generated passwords. |
Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4604 |
An issue has been resolved when an email was not sent after running Dynamic Group if the output type section was set to Sent HTML Report and group membership had not changed. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4626 |
The start time of the Cayosoft Administration Service was improved with additional information caching between sessions. | Product Configuration |
7.0.0 |
4697 |
An issue has been resolved when users were not able to select text from the Web Portal object grids. | Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4825 |
An issue has been resolved when the Default password option was ignored in the AD Users | Create Office 365 Accounts (Cloud) rule. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4835 |
Now if a new Team creation failed then an Office Group, which was created as part of the new Team unsuccessful creation, would be deleted. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4890 |
Now virtual attributes can be used in New User with Linked Mailbox and New Linked Mailbox web actions. | Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4907 |
The new type of membership rule is added to the Active Directory Dynamic Groups: Text File.
Now you can use a CSV file to import members to Dynamic Group. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4914 |
An issue has been resolved when records in Execution history in Administrator Console were sorted incorrectly. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4917 |
An issue has been resolved where it was impossible to customize message text in output email if the email output type was set to Sent E-mail Report. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4930 |
The country name was changed from Taiwan, Province of China to Taiwan both in Administrator Console and Web Portal. | Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4931 |
Now if Microsoft Hybrid extension is set to On during initial configuration, then in Active Directory extension > Cayosoft Suspend Policies section the Run related Office 365 user suspend and undo suspend setting is set to Yes automatically. | Product Configuration |
7.0.0 |
4964 |
Now Active Directory and Office 365 domain suffixes in Web Portal forms are now sorted alphabetically. | Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
7.0.0 |
4977 |
An issue has been resolved when the output section in Dynamic Groups was not copied when copying a Dynamic Group. | Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
4978 |
In Administration Console > Microsoft Office 365 extension, the Update license command was renamed to Update License Cache. | Product Configuration |
7.0.0 |
5006 |
Query criteria section was added to these rules:
It is now possible to granularity limit the scope of these rules. |
Automation Rules and Reports |
7.0.0 |
5019 |
Cayosoft Web Portal supports Chrome 80.
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Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management |
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