What's New in Cayosoft Administrator v10

New automation rules for Microsoft 365 contact management have been added: 

1. Microsoft 365 Contacts
2. Text file | Create Microsoft 365 Contacts
3. Text File | Update Microsoft 365 Contacts
4. Text File | Add Microsoft 365 Contacts to Distribution Groups
5. Dynamic Group membership query for contacts

Properties (Microsoft 365 contact) Web Action has been extended with new tabs:

1. Member Of
2. Custom attributes
3. Info

Microsoft 365 Users web query has been updated with new settings:

1. Default user state filter value
2. Default user type filter value

Suspend Tool has been migrated to Administrator Service with significantly improved functionality. There is a new Suspend Configuration node in the Administrator Console with default suspend configurations. One suspend configuration for each object type:

1. AD User
2. AD Group
3. AD Computer (New functionality)
4. Microsoft 365 User

For details please see this article: New Suspend configuration.

Modern Suspend rules and configurations work in a co-existence model with the legacy rules. This means that after upgrading to 10.3.0, legacy Suspend functionality keeps working as-is until you choose to switch over to modern Suspend functionality. To start using modern Suspend, set 'Use modern suspend' to Yes in Administrator Console.  

For upgrade details please see this article: How suspend functionality works after the upgrade. 

The following Web actions have been updated with a new 'Require additional owners' setting to enforce multi-owner policies:

1. New Microsoft 365 Group
2. New Distribution List
3. New  Security Group
4. New Team
5. Properties 

An issue has been resolved with the AD Users with Office 365 Licenses rule when the Office 365 users filter had incorrect values.

An issue has been resolved with the Text file | Update AD Users rule when in the 'Contact info' section 'Country' had an incorrect default value.

New automation rules have been added, enabling Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users to be added to Azure Cloud groups:

1. Microsoft 365 Users  | DynamicAttributes Add to Azure Cloud groups
2. Text file | Add users to Azure Cloud groups
3. New User | DynamicAttributes Add to Azure Cloud groups

File storage and reporting have been improved to access reports, templates, and exported data from the remote Admin Console. You can select the file storage type:

1. Local, on the computer running Administrator Service
2. File Share (SMB), when reports, templates, and exported data are saved in a file share in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft 365 Devices | Add to Azure AD Administrative Units rule has been added.

This rule queries the selected Microsoft 365 device scope and for each returned device adds it to the selected Azure AD Administrative Unit, either directly or dynamically via text file mapping.

The following mailbox rules have been updated:

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

The inPlaceHold parameter was removed from the MailboxSearch cmdlets as it is not supported by Microsoft anymore.

Some typos in the User Interface have been fixed.

Microsoft 365 Extension has been updated with the new 'SPO get site method' setting that allows one to select what method is used to get a user's OneDrive site:

1. All
2. SPO
3. MS Graph
4. SCOM

An issue was resolved with the Web Configuration Tool where it broke a previously configured redirect after on upgrade.

The performance of the Suspend | Office 365 User and Guest rule has been improved when updating OneDrive settings.

AD Web Actions and Suspend and Undo Suspend web actions have been updated with additional Other Attributes.

An issue was resolved with the Calendar Properties web action where it was impossible to set the value to '100' for the 'Maximum conflict percentage allowed' setting in 'Booking Options'.

An issue was resolved with the Properties web action for Microsoft 365 Contact when it failed if a contact's manager was empty and the attribute policy was set to read-only or hidden.

New AD Users | Mail-Enable User rule has been added that queries the specified Active Directory scope and adds an external email address to each AD User.

New Microsoft 365 web query Devices and corresponding web actions have been added:

1. Device Properties
2. Enable Device
3. Disable Device
4. Delete 
5. Microsoft 365 Users > User Devices

New automation rules to populate Azure AD Admin Units in bulk have been added:

1. AD Users | Add to Azure AD Administrative Units
2. AD Groups | Add to Azure AD Administrative Units
3. Microsoft 365 Users | Add to Azure AD Administrative Units
4. Microsoft 365 Groups | Add to Azure AD Administrative Units

An issue has been resolved with the Office 365 Groups Certification Review rule when email notification didn't work if the rule was run on the publisher and the group was certified on the subscriber.

An issue has been resolved with the Authentication Methods web action that could cause the incorrect authentication method to be deleted.

AD Users | Create Exchange Remote Mailboxes rule has been updated with an Initialization script section.

 An issue has been resolved with the Mailbox web action for remote mailboxes when users were not displayed on the Delegation tab > Full Access permissions section.

Two new automation rules have been added:

1. New AD Users | Mail-Enable User rule has been added. This rule queries the specified Active Directory scope and adds an external email address to each Active Directory user. 
2. AD Users | Create Exchange Remote Mailboxes rule has been updated with new settings.

An issue has been resolved with the Analytics collection | Microsoft Office 365 rule and several other rules that may cause it to fail with an error 'Cannot query data for more than 120 users at a time'.

Also, the same error was fixed in these rules:

1. Office 365 Users and Guests Inactive
2. Office 365 Users and Guests Inactive | Suspend Users

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The Attribute Policy Generation Builder was updated to fix situations where it might generate fewer random letters than the specified number of characters to be generated.

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A new 'Session Termination' section has been added to the Session Management node in Administrator Console.

Administrators can now stop a running automation rule or a web action from Execution Queue in Administrator Console.

Also, a new 'Terminate rule execution if it takes longer than X (hours)' setting has been added to terminate hanging rules by schedule.

Check Settings command in Microsoft 365 extension has been updated to check connection account role membership and connection to Exchange Online.

The New Shared Mailbox web action has been updated with a setting to specify a manager during mailbox creation.

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New automation rules and web action for modern MFA management have been added:

1. AD Users M365 Authentication Methods (MFA) Status.
2. Microsoft 365 Users Authentication Methods (MFA) Status.
3. Text File User Authentication Methods (MFA) Status.
4. Microsoft 365 Users | Delete Authentication Methods (re-register MFA).
5. Text File | Delete Authentication Methods (re-register MFA).
6. Authentication methods web action.

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A new 'Use legacy EXO commands' setting has been added to the Advanced Settings section in Microsoft 365 extension.

OneDrive Properties web action (AD) and OneDrive Properties web action (MS 365) have been updated with the new 'Maintain OneDrive site ownership' setting. To manage permissions on OneDrive, the Cayosoft Microsoft Office 365 Connection account must be temporarily added to the OneDrive Owners group. This new setting allows retention of the Cayosoft Microsoft 365 connection account as a OneDrive owner, or if it should be removed from the OneDive owners after collection. 

Email settings have been updated to send emails through Exchange Online.

Suspend | Office 365 User and Guest rule has been updated to exclude Azure AD groups with dynamic membership.

Behavior change: If a deprecated automation rule has been migrated with a warning or error it can't be run until post-migration rule settings are checked and confirmed. 

A new Microsoft 365 Users rule has been added.

This is a generic rule to query for Microsoft 365 user accounts that satisfy the specified criteria.

This rule is being added as part of a project to unify core rule queries.

In Forest Settings in the Active Directory extension, the selected Global Catalog can now be edited manually. 

An issue has been resolved when the 'Renew Subscription' button could appear even if the existing license is not expired.

New User | Office 365 Skype post creation tasks rule has been deprecated.

For more information please see: How to configure Teams post-creation tasks instead of Skype Online tasks when provisioning a new user account – Cayosoft Help Center.

Skype online is no longer supported by Microsoft 365 in favor of Microsoft Teams. 

A new Microsoft 365 Groups rule has been added. 

This is a generic rule to query for Microsoft 365 groups based on the specified query criteria and filters.

This rule is being added as part of a project to unify core rule queries.

An issue has been resolved with AD Users | Suspend Users rule when the 'Maximum number of users to suspend' setting worked incorrectly.

The following rules have been deprecated and should be replaced with Microsoft 365 Groups or Microsoft 365 Groups and Members rules:

1. Office 365 Groups
2. Office 365 Groups (Distribution, Security and Mail-Enabled-Security)
3. Microsoft 365 Groups with Membership Empty or Below Threshold
4. Office 365 Groups (Distribution) Members Count
5. Office 365 Groups (Distribution) Members
6. Office 365 Group Members (Distribution, Security)
7. Microsoft Teams Members
8. Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams With No Owners or Members.

These rules are being removed as part of a project to unify core rule queries. 

An issue has been resolved with the AD Users Hybrid Inactive rule when the error occurred that variable could not be found. 

An issue has been resolved with the New Shared Mailbox web action causing the mailbox email addresses to be cleared if it was modified during the creation process.

The new Microsoft 365 Groups and Members Microsoft 365 Groups rule has been added. 

This is a generic rule to query for Microsoft 365 groups and members based on the specified query criteria and filters.

This rule is being added as part of a project to unify core rule queries.

An issue has been resolved with the Office 365 Mailboxes with the Full Permission Granted rule causing it to fail if DisplayName attribute was used in the rule filter. 

An issue has been resolved with the Calendar Permissions web action when user display names were not displayed in the 'Meeting requests' tab.

An issue has been resolved when during the service start Cayosoft Administrator's configuration database could be locked while the service was reading another 'Run History' database and this could cause a significant delay.

An issue has been resolved with connection to the remote Administrator Service when there was an error in the client tools that that service version is incompatible.

The Add members from file web action has been updated. proxyAddresses attribute was removed from the default search attributes of the web action.

When changing the domain controller in Managed Domains table, Domain Controller and Global Catalog will be changed simultaneously if the current Domain Controller is the same as Global Catalog and the selected Domain Controller is also a Global Catalog.

When trying to add a contact to Microsoft 365 distribution group you can now search for the contact by its email address.

Microsoft 365 automation rules and web actions have been improved and upgraded from the legacy MSOL cmdlets to Graph API.

Add members from file (MS 365) web action has been updated to support Contact type objects.

An issue has been resolved where automation rule scheduling can run rules on the wrong day when the time zone was set to UTC+10.00. 

An issue has been resolved with license reporting rules when the newline delimiter works incorrectly for CSV reports.

An issue has been resolved when missing default application for HTML files causes the Administrator Console to close unexpectedly on Execution History reports' opening.

An issue has been resolved with license reporting rules when the license option name was duplicated in the report when the same options occurred in different licenses in the managed tenant.

The following rules have been migrated to EXO 3.1 module.

1. Office 365 Mailboxes with Full Permission Granted
2. Office 365 Shared Mailboxes with Full Permission Granted

An issue has been resolved with the Calendar permissions web action when guests could not be deleted from the permissions list.

A User Interface issue has been resolved with Change History Details and Change History Details from Archive rules - the 'Report format' setting was moved to the top of the main rule section.

An issue has been resolved with Attribute Policy causing an error to occur when the 'User cannot change password' property is set to hidden.

An issue has been resolved with creating an on-premises shared mailbox if the 'Hide from GAL' option was unchecked during creation.