What's New Cayosoft Administrator v7

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Default values for Country\region and mail suffix attributes can be set in Enable Mailbox Web Action using Attribute Polices. 

Product configuration

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Other Attributes and Virtual Attributes tabs are added to the following Web Actions:

1. New Equipment Mailbox
2. New Room Mailbox
3. New Shared Mailbox
4. New Distribution Group

Active Directory Web Management

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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

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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:

1. AD Users
2. Members of the AD Group

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

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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:

1. New/Clone User
2. New Room/Equipment/Shared Mailbox
3. Enable Mailbox/Mail-Enable User
4. New Distribution Group
5. Text file | Create AD users
6. Import Oracle Data | Create AD Users
7. Import SQL Data | Create AD Users
8. AD Users | Set Proxy Addresses

Automation rules and reports

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New Distribution Group Web Action has been improved:

1. Group Type selection is removed since if you make a group as Distribution List in on-prem Exchange, Azure AD Connect would also make it a Distribution List in Exchange online.
2. Create groups using Active Directory setting is added. It is used only when the Exchange extension is configured. If set to No, the group will be created through the Exchange server.
3. Validate suffix with Office 365 setting is added. It used for hybrid Exchange environments only. When set to Yes, the action will not allow a suffix that isn't listed as a valid domain for the Office 365 tenant. 

Active Directory Web Management

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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

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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

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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

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An issue has been resolved in Dynamic Groups when the imported group was unable to run by schedule.  

Automation rules and reports

1. New Equipment Mailbox
2. New Room Mailbox
3. New Shared Mailbox
4. New User
5. Clone User

are updated with the same settings:

1. Primary email prefix generation rule
2. Primary email suffix
3. Show email prefix and suffix controls
4. Email Alias generation rule (mailNickname)

7.3.1

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Friendly names for additional Office 365 license plans have been added to the product. 

Office 365 Web Management

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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

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Microsoft Teams rule output report now lists all team owners. 

Automation rules and reports

7.3.1 

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The "Sign to Cayosoft Administrator" text on the sign-on page in Web Portal can be customized.

Active Directory and Office 365 Web Management

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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

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Up/Down buttons are added to the Attribute Policy Scopes list to modify policy scope precedence.

Product Configuration

7.3.1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Additional events are now reported to the event log when Dynamic Group and Restricted Group membership calculations are completed.

Product Upgrade

7.3.1

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AD Users | Set Attribute Value rule is updated with an Initialization script section.

Automation rules and reports

7.3.0

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New database membership rules have been added for Cayosoft Dynamic Groups:

1. Oracle Database 
2. SQL Server Database

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

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}".

1. When running the Update License Cache command a service restart is no longer required, and user sessions are automatically recreated instead.
2. A license cache update status report with the list of all new, updated and removed licenses or applications has been added. 

Enterprise Search allows delegated administrators to find and manage an object across all Active Directory forests. 

1. Name
2. Property ID
3. Rule or Value
4. Admin Unit
5. Web Query
6. Web Action,
7. Trustee 

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.

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.

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.

License Optimization shows your potential savings according to the actual usage of various Office 365 features.

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.

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).

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.

Also, new parameters are added:

When you click on the Start menu shortcut, the console is launched and asked the credentials for the connection.

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1. Possible values can be applied to multiline controls like the Address/Street field on the User Properties form.
2. For multiline controls use "{c}" and "{n}" tokens to add a comma symbol or newline respectively.
3. Allow user input checkbox has been added to allow web portal users to either choose a value from possible values or set their own value. 

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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. 

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1. Archive Change History rule automatically archives and then cleans up the Change History database.
2. Change History Details from Archive Rule will query an external Change History Archive Database and displays Change History details for any Active Directory or Office 365 operation that is stored in the archive and satisfies the specified search criteria.

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." 

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1. Text file | Create Office 365 Guest Users 
2. Import SQL Data | Create Office 365 Guest Users 
3. Import Oracle Data | Create Office 365 Guest Users 

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1. Allow editing membership
2. Allow membership changes for the groups

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For example, a possible value like "Company A, Inc" should look like "Company A{c} Inc."

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New Shared Mailbox wizard (Cloud-only and remote) and Shared Mailbox properties Web Action was updated with the following new settings:

1. Copy items sent as this mailbox
2. Copy items sent on behalf of this mailbox

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1. Convert to Guest
2. Convert to Member

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New Maintain owners as members setting has been added to the following Team web actions:

1. New Team 
2. Team Properties
3. Team Membership 

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1. AD Users | Process Scheduled Suspends
2. AD Users | Process Scheduled Undo Suspends
3. AD Groups | Process Scheduled Suspends
4. AD Groups | Process Scheduled Undo Suspends
5. AD Groups | Report on Scheduled Suspend Operations
   
6. AD Users | Report on Scheduled Suspend Operations

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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).

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Use this rule when you need to get the list of Office 365 mail-enabled groups that have any delegated permissions specified.

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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.

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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.

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The new Archived teams filter setting was added to the rule to control this behavior.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This dialog was added to Other properties section in the following rules:

1. Text file | Create AD Users
2. Text file | Update AD Users
3. Import SQL Data | Create AD Users
4. Import SQL Data | Update AD Users
5. Import Oracle Data | Create AD Users 
6. Import Oracle Data | Update AD Users

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New Team removal by user setting is added to the rule.

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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.

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New Limit scope to this Azure AD Administrative Unit setting has been added to the same Web Queries.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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1. AD Groups with Membership Empty or Below Threshold
2. Exchange Distribution Groups with Membership Empty or Below Threshold
3. Office 365 Groups (Distribution) with Membership Empty or Below Threshold

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This message is displayed in the Cayosoft Administrator Console and Logs.

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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.

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1. AD Users | Set Office 365 Mailbox Settings
2. New User | Office 365 Mailbox post creation tasks
3. Office 365 Users | Mailbox post creation tasks

See details in Microsoft has removed Clutter on the 31 January 2020 and proposes Focused Inbox instead article.

Office 365 Web Management

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Office 365 Web Management

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For details see this KB: https://cayosoft.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040408252

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Now alternate email addresses can be used for O365 users' self-service password reset.

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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..

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The new Disable permission inheritance setting is added to Create AD User Home Folder command in these rules and web actions:

1. AD Users | Set User Profile & Home Folder
2. AD Users | Set User Home Folder by OU
3. AD Users | Set User Profile by OU
4. Clone User
5. User Properties
6. User Template Properties  

Active Directory Web Management

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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.

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It is now possible to run the AD Users | Set Office 365 Mailbox Setting rule only for recently created users.

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Self-Service Management

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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. 

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Also, the management of Active Directory Managed Domains on the Active Directory settings page has been improved:

1. The single view displays all domains from the forest where Cayosoft Administrator service is installed, plus all trusted domains. 
2. Domains are grouped by forests, providing per-domain and per-forest configuration.

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For this, a new setting called Enforce password history is added to the Self-Service - Password Self-Service Enrollment Details web action.

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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.

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You can create Dynamic Group rules in bulk or update membership rules for existing Dynamic Groups.

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• AD Users | Assign Teams Policy
• Office 365 Users | Assign Teams Policy

These rules query the specified users' scope and for each returned user assign specified Microsoft Teams policies.

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This setting allows the exclusion of confusing characters such as i, I, l, o, O, 1 and 0 from user-generated passwords.  

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Now you can use a CSV file to import members to Dynamic Group.

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• AD Users with Suggested Update to UserPrincipalName (UPN) Suffix
• AD Users | Find & Replace UserPrincipalName (UPN) Suffix

It is now possible to granularity limit the scope of these rules.

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