New Features:

MS Office 365 Support

• Support added for provisioning of user accounts in Microsoft Office 365.
  

Lync Management and Reporting

• You can now modify policies such as conferencing, archiving and telephony, associated with a specific Lync User.
  
• Option to enable, disable or delete a user from the Lync Server control panel included.
  
• Reports for Lync Enabled as well as LCS or OCS enabled users included.
  
• Reporting capabilities added for Lync disabled users.
  

Exchange Policy Settings

• You can now apply Exchange 2010/2013 policy settings such as sharing, role assignment, retention, UM Policy and policies on ActiveSync to appropriate mailboxes.
  

Others

• Option to enable mailbox archiving.
  
• Enhanced support for localization and internationalization.
  

Enhancements:

• Exchange features enhanced to support enabling and disabling of ActiveSync (2010,2013) / User Initiated Synchronization(2003) and MAPI Protocol.
  
• Multiple 'OS selection' enabled under OS based reports.
  
• Reset Password option under Bulk User Modification enhanced. Separate delegation included for actions under the same.
  
• Delegated actions under 'Bulk User Modification' will hence be displayed based on the domain selection.
  
• Single User Modification templates enhanced to include 'Home Folder' Permissions
  
• Option to set custom attributes included under modification rules for 'Single user' and 'Single Contact' modification
  
• Language settings for the product can now be configured in 'Personalize' Page.
  

Fixes:

• Issue in setting custom period at the time of scheduling audit reports fixed.
  
• Issue in handling special characters at the time of displaying object properties in AD Explorer corrected.
  
• Issue in clearing 'memberOf' attribute, post unchecking it in Bulk User Modification resolved.
  
• Issue in user identification at the time of modifying 'Deliver' options in Bulk User Modification handled.
  
• In 'Permission for folders' report, issue in selecting a computer object under an OU name containing special characters corrected.
  
• Issue at the time of creating a department fixed. Leading white space trimmed.
  
• Issue in using 'Random Password' type in custom script resolved.
  
• Issue in creating groups with pre windows 2000 name greater than 20 characters fixed.
  
• Issue in naming reports, exported in XLS format corrected.
  
• Issue in displaying groups at the time of domain change resolved.
  

Build 6180 (March 2014)

New Features:

• Logon Hours Configuration: This new option in single user creation feature enables you to specify the appropriate time period for a user to login. You can configure the 'logon hours' attribute at the time of creating a new user account.
  
• Enhanced data selection popups: You can now select the number of accounts to be showed in the pop-ups & display the matching objects even as you type the name in the search box. With this new feature, selecting required accounts for any management or reporting operation will be easier and more convenient.
  
• Improved delivery restriction feature, in bulk user modification, now allows you to set the desired size limit for sending or receiving emails either in KB or MB, as required.
  

Issue Fixes:

• Issue in viewing the 'users in groups' report in Excel 2013 format, has been addressed
  
• Issue with Help desk technicians enabling/disabling users via 'single user modification' in specific scenarios resolved
  
• Issue in creating mail enabled users in non-English Exchange environment handled.
  
• Naming format fields sometimes not being displayed as per the specified naming-format at the time of new user creation has been corrected
  

Build 6170 (January 2014)

New Features:

• Logon Hours Configuration: Set/modify the desired logon hours for your users, in bulk, by just pointing and clicking on the required time slots in the user-interface. You can even specify unique logon hours for each day of the week or set the same logon hours for all days, instantly.
  
• Enriched HDT Audit Reports: The HDT audit reports now also provide in-depth information about all the attributes that are modified by the helpdesk technicians, in two different views: the standard view and the summary view. While the standard view offers complete details about each and every attribute modified, the summary view provides a high level view of the actions performed.
  
• Manage Users' Group Membership via iPhone App: This new feature empowers you to manage the group memberships of your users from anywhere, anytime. Using the enhanced iPhone app, you can now add users to group, remove them from a group and even set primary groups for multiple users, at one go, even when you are on the move, right from your mobile phones.
  

Enhancements

• Manager Can Update Group members Option included in Group Modification with that Option.
  
• Hide / Display Password option included in Admin server settings.
  
• 'Move home folder' feature significantly enhanced to include an option to either delete or retain the existing home folder.
  

Issue Fixes:

• Issue in Real last logon and Inactive Users report generation due to high number of DCs addressed.
  
• Issue in Modifying the Account Expiry Time resolved.
  
• Problems with selection of child OUs with special characters in IE handled.
  
• Issue in removing the description of computer object handled.
  
• Issue in modifying a user's primary group using mobile app has been fixed.
  
• Issue of difference in time at the time of exporting 'Inactive users' report corrected.
  
• Fixed issues in copying User Modification Templates with modification rules.
  
• Issue in Email validation at the time of saving scheduled reports cleared.
  
• Creating Groups with more than 20 characters made possible.
  
• Lync Server display issue fixed.
  
• employeeID attribute can now be used to disable users through Automation.
  
• Issue in Server Permission Report generation resolved.
  

Build 6151 (October 2013) & Service Pack 6.1 SP 6.2 (January 2014)

New Features:

• Lync 2010/2013 support: With this new component of ADManager Plus's user creation templates, you can configure all the appropriate Lync server settings for your users even as you create new accounts for them. While Lync makes intra-organizational communication swift, the new user creation templates make even the process of configuring / enabling intra-organizational communication equally swift.
  
• Exchange Server 2013 support: You can now configure user mailboxes in Exchange Server 2013 and apply the appropriate mailbox policies required to govern them as well; use all the latest features and advantages innate to Exchange 2013 and make your Exchange mailbox management efficient and top of the line.
  
• 'Drag-n-Drop' Customization in user creation templates to fine tune the process of creating new user accounts to fit your organizational policies and requirements to a T; make any attribute mandatory, read-only or even hidden as per your needs or based on the technician to whom you will be assigning the user creation template.
  

Enhancements

• LCS/OCS/Lync configuration in user creation template: The user creation console will now have a separate tab exclusively to configure all the appropriate settings to enable instant communication in your organization. This feature will enable you to specify the appropriate value for LCS/OCS and even Lync Server settings from the same screen.
  
• Exchange 2010 Policies Support: You can now configure Exchange mailboxes for the new user accounts that you are provisioning and also apply the appropriate policies at the same time using this feature.
  
• Revamped 'Avoid Duplication' feature to check for duplication of critical/specific attributes at the desired level (OU / Domain /Forest) and perform the appropriate operation to avoid duplicate values.
  
• Enhancements in 'User Modification Templates':
  
  • Updates to organization attributes (Title, Department, Offices and Companies) in 'Admin' tab will reflect in user modification templates that have been already created.
    
  • 'Member Of' attribute has been added to 'Modification Rules' component in user modification templates.
    
  • Delete users' existing group membership information during the modification process.
    
  • Unlock user accounts via templates during user modification process.
    
  • Recursive naming formats will now be supported in users' description and custom attributes.
    
  • Execute a custom script on successful modification of a user account.
    
  • Move users' to a different container during user modification process.
    

Issue Fixes:

• Polish characters not exported in PDF format.
  
• Additional email address attribute in 'group creation template'.
  
• Hiding the new password generated during single user modification.
  
• Issues in Cleanup scheduler.
  
• Issues in authorizing HDTs for 'Move Home Folder' action.
  

Highlights of Previous Releases

ADManager Plus announces iPhone app for Active Directory User Management.