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2023.13

Updated: 05/03/2024
Last Release: v2023.13.14.70

 

Core

Added

  • Link Tags – Automatically adds the name of the connector that created the link (1.x)
  • Link Tags – Manually tag existing links with custom tags (1.x)
  • Auto-detect Proxy settings for the client and PowerShell API (3.x)
  • Azure Auth option to Client login (8.x)
  • Added Retry to failed bulk update transactions (14.x)

Updated

  • Third-party libraries (1.x)
  • Installer engine (1.x)

Fixed

  • Creating a new project threw an error that required a restart to clear (1.x)
  • Code signing issue (2.x)
  • Setup.exe not getting signed correctly (7.x)
  • Keyword parser throwing exception for null keywords (9.x)
  • Issue with note Keywords that could cause the wrong notes to be returned (14.x)

 

ACE

Added

  • AI to categorise, describe and normalise Apps (1.x)
  • Device OS End of Life support dates (1.x)

Updated

  • Improved Device OS End of Life support dates (4.x)
  • Improved rationalisation decisions (5.x)
  • ACE Sync for better proxy server support (11.x)

 

Multi Project

Added

  • Cascade Archived/Deleted Flags from Parent to Child projects (8.x)
  • ‘MP’ Flag to Details/Grid admin screen to show fields that are shared across multi-project (8.x)

Updated

  • Locked / Archived / Deleted flags are now per project (1.x)
  • Assigned To / Delegate 1 & 2 are now per project (1.x)
  • Prevent New Links Flag is now per project (1.x)

 

Projection Report

Added

  • Context Menu options. Add/Remove What-If, Add/Remove Out of Scope (1.x)
  • Paging, Projection Report can now be run multiple times and build up a graph of the full time (13.x)

Updated

  • Default Weeks ahead to 4(1.x)

Fixed

  • Datamining reports dropdown showing incorrect reports(1.x)

 

DMR

Added

  • Current Time In Process to DMR (1.x)
  • Options to include All Detail / Custom Fields (1.x)
  • Device End of Life Days Option (1.x)
  • Record a history of changes each time a DMR is saved that can be reverted too. (1.x)
  • Search as you type to DMR Reports list to find reports faster. (1.x)
  • DU Slot note field to DMR tier (1.x)
  • View the Apps of a User via the Apps on their Device (3.x)
  • ‘Expand from Contacts’ option to User Migration Tier (8.x). Using the MigrationId from the Contacts Tier, expand the User’s details from the User Migration Tier
  • Disabled Auto Reload / Disable Auto Collapse options (12.x)
  • Include/Exclude Server-Side Link Tag filtering for faster DMRs (14.x)

Updated

  • DMR performance with Custom Fields 80% faster (2.x)
  • DMR deadlocks now retry up to 3 times (1.x)
  • PowerBI disk caching strategy (1.x)
  • Expression columns tools IndexOf, LastIndexOf, Replace, Format cmds (1.x)
  • Web Endpoint – Support for Report By Internal Name (use int name rather than id in url) (1.x)
  • Web Endpoint – Support for return as CSV (use csv rather than html in the url) (1.x)
  • Web Viewer – Added url parameters to control view. Add following to url (add below to url)
    NoCache, PageLength, NoTitle, NoDescription, NoExcelButton, PageLength (1.x)

Fixed

  • Sharing a DMR via email would break if CRs were present in the share message (6.x)
  • Link Tag bug that causes link tags to bleed between related records (14.x)

 

Connectors

Added

  • Intune Connector (1.x)
  • Housekeeping (1.x)
  • Keyword to AD Conn ‘MS_LastLogon’ to get the higher of the LastLogon/LastLogonTimeStamp values (7.x)
  • Support for Certificates to Azure AD / Intune connectors (7.x)
  • SCCM Connector can be used to publish Apps to Users/Devices from App Grid Context menu (10.x)

Updated

  • Intune Conn, Links can now be stamped with today’s date (6.x)
  • Azure AD Connector (1.x)
  • SCCM Connector Win11 Cpu support list (1.x)
  • Added mapping options to all connectors (5.x)
  • Anonymous option when importing users/devices (5.x)
  • Improvements to self-repairing records for all conns (5.x)
  • AzureAD Conn field mapping to support more parsing options (8.x)
  • HouseKeeping extension to support archiving disabled accounts (8.x)
  • Azure Conn, added 30-second retry to failed Graph API calls (13.x)

Fixed

  • AD Connector various fixes (1.x)
  • AD Connector Manager/Reports fields not working (6.x)
  • Intune conn could sometimes fail to import if Blueprint was blank (7.x)
  • Intune conn proxy support for downloading reports (10.x)
  • Intune conn, ‘Don’t update if Locked’ filter was excluding everything (13.x)

 

UI

Added

  • Filter Tabs as you type on Service Plans, Discovery, and Connectors pages (1.x)
  • Support for ESM Plans to be run from UI buttons (Grid Context Menu) (1.x)
  • Support for User Input on Grid Script Buttons (1.x)
  • Support for Selecting Module Items on Grid Script Buttons (1.x)
  • Defects can now be assigned to other items from the Defects Grid (1.x)
  • Support for displaying Custom Field data on the Details tab in the CustomFieldsPanel (2.x)
  • New Star Rating control on Custom Forms (4.x)

Updated

  • Data imported now correctly displays dates rather than Excel number format (1.x)
  • PS Scripts UI tree doesn’t collapse when saved (1.x)

Fixed

  • Bug in with UATs in UI sometimes not showing all data fields (1.x)
  • Bug restarting a failed download (1.x)
  • US Date format could break History Reports (5.x)
  • Details Tab quick jump menu not showing Item names correctly (7.x)

 

Email

Added

  • Support for Blueprints/Folders in Conditional Email Sends (1.x)
  • Email review button to Email Admin UI (1.x)
  • Keyword for url that can view email in browser 1.x) e.g [UserMigrations-Url-Email-99] [UserMigrations-UrlButton-Email-99-My Button Label]

 

ESM

Added

  • Tab Display Order option to Plan Config to override default alphabetical order (1.x)
  • Add/Remove Blueprint Actions can now user Keywords in their path (4.x)
  • ESM can now add Users/Devices to linked App Groups in Azure [Application-Links](6.x)
  • ESM can now add Users/Devices to linked App Collections in SCCM [Application-Links](7.x)
  • Add to DeployUnit / Remove from DeployUnit actions that also support keywords in DU name (8.0)
  • Support for Defect Readiness (DY). e.g.DY:IsReady (13.x)
  • Support for Task Readiness (TR). e.g. TR:IsReady (13.x)
  • Support for Keywords to ‘Set Field to Value’ (13.x)

Updated

  • Log files to prefix plans with their Ids for easier parsing in high-activity environments (1.x)
  • Custom Field name added to logging when checking Rules (13.x)
  • ‘Add to Blueprint’ will add to multiple Blueprints if the keyword resolves to a new line delimited list (13.x)

Fixed

  • Bug in SCCM Collection membership check (1.x)
  • The previous value modifier in plan rules was case sensitive (1.x)
  • Bug in the Copy Field to Field when copying dates (1.x)
  • Bug causing the add to Blueprint action to fail (6.x)
  • Add to Blueprint false error messages when successfully adding to Blueprint (13.x)

 

Portal

Added

  • New keywords that can be used in Survey JS/CSS to resolve FieldIds / DMR Ids (1.x) e.g. [Helper-InternalFieldNameToId
  • New Star Rating control on Survey pages (4.x)
  • Multi Auth options to Survey pages (Native, AD, Azure) (8.x)
  • Pick DeployUnit control to allow Users to select their own DeployUnits (9.x)
  • New control – Session Tokens for Adv. Survey pages (11.x)

Updated

  • Survey Page general enhancements and control options (1.x)
  • Survey pages can now have DMR’s that are not filtered by the User viewing the page (3.x)
  • Add Link control will now also unreject existing links and Tag link with Survey name (10.x)

Fixed

  • File uploader not working on New Item pages (1.x)
  • Custom JS/CSS not loading on Self-Schedule page (11.x)

 

API

Added

  • API Calls to get DMR schema has Json and run DMR from Json (1.x)
  • API Calls to add/remote User Account Roles (1.x)
  • API Calls to search links using new link tags (1/x)
  • Get-MSProjectionReport cmd added to run a report from PowerShell (6.x)
  • Contact API Calls to List, Get, Update Contacts (14.x)

Updated

  • MS Module updated to support changes in PowerShell 7.4+ (9.x)

Fixed

  • Get-MSDataminingReportSchema ‘-AsJson’ is no longer required (7.x)

 

General Updates

Added

  • Global option to not update MS Account Domain names from AD Sync (12.x)

Updated

  • Improved syntaxy error feedback when previewing survey emails (3.x)
  • Improved window titles, popups, and other headers (9.x)
  • Improved DMR Menus, no longer require a restart to see saved reports (9.x)
  • Series of new DB performance improvements (3.x)

Fixed

  • Issue with LimitNumItems option on UI Buttons not being respected (1.x)
  • The last change save dialog was overwriting locked items (1.x)
  • Replacing a resource in the Admin section cleared the description
  • Custom Form Tab order but being respected (3.x)
  • Process Grid Totals not updating with a filter on reload (3.x)
  • Importing Device data was clearing the assigned users of the device (3.x)
  • Importing Link reject/delete by LinkId not working (7.x)

2023.12

Updated: 20/06/2023
Last Release: v2023.12.10

 

Multi Project

Fixed

  • Incorrect Blueprint counts in Multi Project
  • Property history bleed in Multi Project (10.x)
  • Links history bleed in Multi Project (10.x)

 

Defects

Added

  • ‘Remove Defects from multiple items’ to Grid Context Menu

Fixed

  • Too many defects on a single item preventing that item from being viewed

 

Tasks

Added

  • Discovery Tab support
  • Process order not being respected (9.x)
  • Tags without a colour not displaying (9.x)

 

ESM

Added

  • Plan Categories
  • ESM support for Tasks
  • ESM support for Defects
  • Fixed Defects / Tasks not working via API invoke (9.x)
  • Support for Readiness tests in Rules (9.x)

 

Portal

Added

  • Support for Script Buttons to Test-Signoffs pages
  • List Web DMR page @ “/1/reports” (10.x)

Fixed

  • ‘Forgot Password’ link on login page
  • Importing Surveys duplicates emails

Updated

  • Surveys to support showing/adding/removing links for Defects and DeploymentUnits (9.x)

 

UI Updates

Added

  • Jump to Module/Project to Task bar Icon (10.x)
  • ‘View Details’ button to UI Notifications
  • Icon Colour can be set for Apps, Users etc in Project Admin
  • ‘Disable Auto Reload’ button to main grid tool bar (9.x)

Updated

  • Details dropdowns to textbox with a mini dropdown
  • Main window title to move connection info to tooltip of app icon (10.x)

Fixed

  • Admin buttons displaying overlapped under extreme screen scaling
  • Dependencies sometimes breaking in Tree View
  • Can’t Import Task updates using UI (10.x)

 

SSO

Updated

  • SSO for better multi domain support

 

ACE

Fixed

  • SSO for better multi domain support

 

Core

Added

  • Function Timer option to appSettings.json
  • Server Health Report beta
  • Parallel running support to Scheduled Tasks
  • Log the deletion of items to the projects history
  • Project Resource Categories
  • Better logging to start up sequence

Updated

  • Housekeeping for Project / Global split with extra logging
  • 3rd party packages
  • Core from .Net 6 to .Net 7

Fixed

  • License sync adding unnecessary rows to history
  • Housekeeping tasks not running under some circumstances (9.x)
  • Date bug in file importer not respecting DST (10.x)

 

DMR

Added

  • Args options to Web Buttons in DMR
  • Support for Url filters on Web DMR Reports (9.x)

Updated

  • When run anonymously limit items to creating User’s restrictions
  • Removed caching from Web DMRs where filters are used (10.x)

Fixed

  • Blueprint AllOnOneLine option causing duplicate rows
  • DMR not showing default values for Test-Signoffs
  • DMR showing Buttons that were set to disabled
  • DMR bloating transaction logs
  • Self-Schedule tier breaks if User & Device with same ID are both in a DU (9.x)
  • DMR not launching from Sub-Process Dashboard widgets

 

API

Added

  • Invoke-MSEsmPlan Api call
  • Update-MSAccounts Api call
  • Export-MSModuleAttachment Api call
  • Update-MSArchiveTestSignOffs, Update-MSLockTestSignOffs, Remove-MSTestSignOffs Api calls
  • Remove-MSDefectFromModuleItems Api call
  • Append switch to Custom Form Data api call
  • Api calls for Creating/Editing Custom Form fields

Updated

  • Change History Report returns a new ‘Status’ property with information

Fixed

  • Add-MSApplicationLinksTo not respecting ‘Rejected’ links (10.x)
  • Import-MSUserAppDeviceLinks not createing links in mutli project (10.x)
  • New-MSConfigCustomFormFieldStub had invalid cmd parameters (10.x)

 

Connectors

    Fixed

    • SCCM malformed SQL when User-App links is turned off (9.x)
    • Proxy Connect failing in AD Azure Conn (9.x)

     

    Dashboard

    Added

    • Support for sorting DMR reports by Total / Label (9.x)
    • DMR Widget can use && in the filer to append to internal filter (9.x)
    • DMR Widget can launch DMR Reports popup (9.x)
    • DMR Widget support for up to two columns to group by (9.x)

     

    Keywords

    Added

    • Script Button Keywords for Emails [{Module}-UrlButton-Script-{ScriptId}-{Button Text}-{arg1}-{arg2}-{arg3}]
    • [Attachment-ItemDetails-Shortcut],[Attachment-ItemDefects-Shortcut],[Attachment-ItemTasks-Shortcut]
    • [Attachment-DefectParent-Shortcut],[Attachment-TaskParent-Shortcut], [Attachment-TestSignOffParent-Shortcut]

      Fixed

      • Support for Blueprint Keywords in Test-Signoffs emails

       

      Breaking Changes

      Added

      • SQL Server connection string requires trusted connection

      2022.11

      Updated: 13/01/2023
      Last Release: 2022.11.9

      Core

      Added

      • New roles to Datamining to restrict Users from Creating / Running DMRs (11.5.x)
      • Announcements Page (11.0.x)
      • Support for formatting dates in Custom Form keywords (11.0.x)

      Updated

      • Save functions performance (11.5.x)
      • Removed view password button (11.5.x)
      • 3rd party packages (11.5.x)
      • 3rd Party Packages (11.0.x)
      • DB History Triggers (11.0.x)
      • Housekeeping tasks robustness (11.0.x)

      Fixed

      • False positive permission warning messages in logs (11.9.x)
      • Links deleted via Housekeeping not updating history (11.5.x)
      • A crash when using Process Filters in Data Sources (11.2.x)
      • When editing Test Sign-Offs wrong test type may be shown (11.0.x)
      • Multi Project cross-over bug (11.0.x)

      Azure AD Connector

      Added

      • New Azure AD Connector (11.5.x)
      • Create Users and Devices (11.5.x)
      • Link Users to Apps via Group Membership (11.5.x)
      • Link Users to Devices via Ownership (11.5.x)
      • Properties, Group membership, Direct Reports, etc (11.5.x)

      Updated

      • Proxy support (11.9.x)
      • Performance improvements (11.9.x)
      • Logging improvements (11.9.x)

      Fixed

      • Bug fixes (11.9.x)

      Connectors

      Updated

      • AD Conn – New keywords and fixes (11.0.x)
      • AD Conn – Not able to remove links (11.0.x)
      • SCCM Conn – misc. fixes (11.0.x)

      Fixed

      • Minor fixes to Azure, SCCM and ACE connectors (11.6.x)

      Cross Project

      Added

      • Cross Project Beta Support (11.5.x)
      • ‘Add-MSModuleItemsCrossProject’ API call (11.5.x)
      • ‘Remove-MSModuleItemsCrossProject’ API call (11.5.x)

      ACE

      Added

      • Per Application Thresholds (11.5.x)
      • Add ACE Button to Main Grid Ribbon (11.5.x)
      • Target App Status Column the Rationalise To Apps (11.5.x)
      • Extract Software Year to App Edition field (11.5.x)
      • ‘Move to Rationalised’ option to the App Grid context menu (11.5.x)
      • ACE – Application Confidence Engine (11.0.x)

      Updated

      • Record ACE History changes made in the UI as the AceAcc (11.5.x)
      • Improved Version extraction from App Name (11.5.x)
      • ACE window size default changed to 95% of MS main window (11.5.x)

      Portal

      Added

      • Support for HyperLink control to Surveys / Sign-Offs (11.5.x)

      Updated

      • PowerBI Endpoint Url now supports ‘HeaderFormat’ param (?headerformat=PrefixedName, InternalName, DisplayName) (11.5.x)
      • Test Sign-Offs now support Custom Fields on the Sign-Off page (11.5.x)
      • Added Keyword Support for DeployUnit Portal Warning Messages (11.5.x)

      Fixed

      • Invisible in menu items showing on Portal pages (11.0.x)
      • Banner area not showing on Portal pages (11.0.x)

      Email

      Updated

      • ‘Send To’ field can be changed from Email/Email2 to custom keyword values (11.5.x)
      • Emailer now supports Azure OAuth User/Pass (11.5.x)

      API

      Added

      • ‘Import-MsModuleLinks’ via Contracts API call (11.5.x)

      Fixed

      • Confirm-MSAccountExists returning incorrect Blueprint Rule membership (11.2.x)

      Updated

      • API client architecture (11.0.x)
      • Import-MsModuleData no longer required an explicit CSV/Excel flag set (11.0.x)
      • Confirm-MSAccountExists also returns Role and Blueprint rule membership (11.0.x)
      • Send-MSEmails allows the report file name to be se (11.0.x)

      ESM

      Added

      • Confirm User/Device Azure Group membership (Azure AD Conn) (11.5.x)
      • Add User/Device to Azure Group (Azure AD Conn) (11.5.x)
      • Remove User/Device from Azure Group (Azure AD Conn) (11.5.x)

      Updated

      • Allow disabling of plan phases when called from a Scheduled Task (11.5.x)
      • Improved Details/Custom Field auto-detection (11.0.x)
      • Blueprint root now allowed in rules (11.0.x)

      Keywords

      Added

      • Team Member Keywords (CreatedBy, PackagedBy, AssignedTo, OwnedBy, DelegateTo1, DelegateTo2) (11.5.x)
      • Added Variants -FirstName, -LastName, -FullName, -Email, -DisplayName (11.5.x)
      • Contact Type keywords
        e.g. [App-ContactType-Emails-UAT Contact] [App-ContactType-Emails-<All>] (11.5.x)

      Dashboard

      Added

      • DMR Field Totals Widget (11.0.x)
      • DMR Field Summary Numbers Widget (11.0.x)

      Updated

      • Widget Args UI panel (11.0.x)

      Datamining Report

      Added

      • Time In Process Tier (11.0.x)
      • Email Report Tier (11.0.x)
      • Link Caching for faster multi-tier DMRs (11.0.x)
      • More DMR helper calls to PS API (11.0.x)

      Updated

      • DataSource for App Rationalisation Status (11.0.x)
      • Nulls now return as ” for easier filtering (11.0.x)
      • DMR Custom Form tiers speed (11.0.x)
      • DMR Context Menu Options (11.0.x)
      • Colour Columns support for date keywords (11.0.x)

      Misc. Reports

      Fixed

      • Toolbar Pivot error if no report was run first (11.0.x)

      Importer

      Updated

      • Links import has more fields available to match on (11.0.x)

      Fixed

      • Import Preview not respecting notes (11.0.x)

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