ADSelfService Plus Fixes and Enhancements - 2016
Version 5.3 Build 5320:
(1/December/2016)
Enhancements:
- Configuring Mobile Push Management (MPM) is now a child's play. All you have to do is request the PLIST file from ADSelfService Plus support team and follow it up by getting the MDM managed certificate from Apple. For step-by-step instructions, click here.
- The server settings of ADSelfService Plus mobile app can now be remotely configured through MPM.
Version 5.3 Build 5319:
(2/November/2016)
Features
- Support for RSA SecurID to protect users logging into ADSelfService Plus through two-factor authentication.
Issue Fixed
- Fixed a vulnerability issue in two-factor authentication.
Version 5.3 Build 5318: (28/September/2016)
Features
- Audio CAPTCHA support for easier accessibility.
- ServiceDesk Plus integration now allows you to automatically create tickets for end user self-service actions in the help desk software.
Enhancement
- Now acknowledgement notifications can be sent for enrollment, self-update and blocked user events to both end users and administrators.
- License usage details will now be included in the license expiration notification email and when exporting licensed user reports.
- Now you can import enrollment data from CSV files of any encoding type.
Issues fixes
- Issue in displaying the login agent image (Credential Provider client) after Windows 10 anniversary update.
- Scroll bar issue in the Windows 10 login agent self-service wizard.
- Issue in NTLM SSO which turned the self-service portal into a blank page in Internet Explorer.
- Issue which caused the Enroll Now button to disappear in the force enrollment pop up.
- Issue in editing self-update layout.
- Issue in saving password expiration reminder schedulers.
- Enrollment issue which forced users to enter both their mobile and email details even when they are not made mandatory.
- Issue which caused duplicate entries in reports when they were exported in CSV file format.
- Issue which caused a script error when a user is deleted from the licensed user report.
- Issue in saving Access URL in Internet Explorer.
Version 5.3 Build 5317: (September/2016)
Enhancement
Now get ADSelfService Plus in your language. Fully localized versions are available for:
- Chinese
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Russian
Version 5.3 Build 5316: (August/2016)
Issue Fixed
- Change password issue which was caused due to a recent Windows update. Refer this forum post for more details.
- Pre-requisites for this update:
- PowerShell 2.0 or higher must be present in the machine in which ADSelfService Plus is installed.
- Active Directory module for PowerShell must be installed in any one of the domain controllers configured under the domain settings of ADSelfService Plus.
Version 5.3 Build 5315: (26/July/2016)
Issues Fixed:
- Login issue in Windows 10 when 'Other Users' option is used.
- Windows logon agent (Credential Provider) issue while establishing remote connection to any PC from Windows 10.
- Windows 10 users not being able to change their passwords from Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen, when password policy enforcer feature was enabled.
- Fixed password sync agent which caused issues in DC.
- Issues in manual linking and unlinking of AD accounts from non-AD applications in Internet Explorer, when auto linking is disabled.
- Employee search getting blocked in Chrome and Firefox browsers.
- Failed login attempts due to incorrect update of Bad-Pwd-count attribute.
- Issue with character count while resetting passwords.
- Users being forced to enter their mobile numbers, which is a non-mandatory field, during directory self-update.
- Issue in sending scheduled reports to admins when multiple domains are configured.
- Incorrect entries in Unlock Account Audit report.
- Customized logo set in the product not being displayed in exported reports .
Version 5.3 Build 5314: (01/June/2016)
Version 5.3 Build 5313: (27/Apr/2016)
Feature
- Two-factor authentication support (Duo security provider) to secure user login.
Enhancements
- Account expired notification to keep end users, their managers and administrators updated about expired accounts.
- Ability to restrict active users for license management.
- Ability to restrict admin logon page access to a range of IP addresses.
- Option to hide secondary mail and mobile enrollment.
- Now you can disable access to mobile web app.
- Separate hide options for mobile access and help guide on end-user page.
- Now you can easily associate a self-update layout to a policy from the self-update layout page itself.
- Separate CAPTCHA settings for select verification mode and select recipient pages.
- Now you can use display name in the from address field for email notifications.
- Allow users to automatically log in to the ADSelfService Plus mobile app by enabling the 'remember me' option [For ADSelfService Plus iOS mobile app users, this feature will be released after the completion of review process by Apple.]
Issues Fixed
- Issue with sending email notifications in HTML format.
- Issue in sending expiration reminders when both account expiration and password expiration fall on the same day.
- Issue which displayed Chinese characters as garbage values in the GINA button.
- Issue in installing the GINA client when the password in domain settings contains double quotes.
- Issue with the logon agent installation in the latest Mac OS version El Capitan.
- Issue which prevented Password Sync Agent installation in domain controllers running a non-English version of Windows Server OS.
- Issue which automatically capitalized the first letter of the password while trying to login through Safari mobile browser.
- Issue with the listing of security questions during password reset.
- Issue in mobile web app which failed to show the retry option during self-password reset.
- Enforce password history settings will no longer create temporary passwords containing part of the username.
- Issue which sent unencrypted user password to OpenLDAP server.
- Password expired notification filter issue in notification delivery report.
- Issue which failed to notify administrators about users' change password actions.
- Issue which duplicated security questions in database when the character ' is used while adding the question.
- Issue in showLogin page when NTLM SSO is enabled and NTLMv2 session security is forced.
- Issue with saving automatic reset & unlock scheduler configuration.
- Issue in backing up MySQL database.
- Fixed some vulnerability issues.
Version 5.3 Build 5312: (15/Mar/2016)
Features
- Single Sign-on support for SaaS applications to simplify identity management.
- Password policy enforcer to enforce and display custom password policies across the web console, GINA/CP (Ctrl+Alt+Del) client, and password sync agent.
Version 5.3 Build 5311: (05/Feb/2016)
Issue Fixed
- Missing 'Don't inherit child OUs' option in OU/Group selection under policy configuration has been restored.
Version 5.3 Build 5310: (28/Jan/2016)
Features
- 64-bit version of ADSelfService Plus for Windows is now available for download.
- Mobile App Deployment: Now you can push ADSelfService Plus mobile apps to end users’ devices directly from the self-service portal.
Issue Fixed
- Blank page issue in GINA portal when auto send password via text/email is enabled.
- Blank page issue when the reset password page is accessed directly by entering the URL.
- Issue in automatically unlocking the locked out accounts.
- Issue which failed to display mobile numbers during password reset/account unlock process when the number contains non-numeric characters.
- Issue which disabled force enrollment for the entire domain when force enrollment is disabled for any one self-service policy associated with that domain.
- Issue which prevented the data fetcher for external database from running.
- Issue which displayed incorrect headers and values of user report in dashboard.
- XSS vulnerability issue caused by editing the title field under rebranding settings.
- Missing file content check for title image and product logo under rebranding settings.
Version 5.3 Build 5309: (4/Jan/2016)
Issue Fixed
- This release fixes many grammatical errors that were found in the product user interface and help documents to provide a better user experience.
Version 5.3 Build 5308: (30/Dec/2015)
Enhancements
- Users' secondary email address and mobile number can now be used for sending auto-generated password, enrollment notification, and password and account expiration notification.
- Now you can automatically link AD accounts with other providers for password synchronization by mapping custom attributes.
- Ability to personalize the password expired notification content.
- Ability to preview the password expiration notification template.
- Ability to automatically retry the password expiration notification in case of any failures.
Issues Fixed
- Issue which forced users to begin password reset process from scratch when password complexity rules were not met.
- Issue in sending enrollment notification to a group if it has more than 1500 members.
- Issue which caused errors in enrollment report when users’ display name exceeded 255 characters.
- Issue faced in auto-enrollment while importing mobile numbers with special characters ‘-’ and ‘()’.
- Issue faced in auto-enrollment where only the last security question of multiple questions was used to enroll users when importing from a CSV file.
- Issue in updating Manager field in self-update from force enrollment page.
- Issue faced in enrollment when mobile format is specified, which forced users to enter secondary mobile numbers even when it was not mandated.
- Issue in executing UpdateManager.bat file when the product is installed in a drive other than the default drive.
- Issue faced with displaying dateTime macro in subject field of Scheduled Reports.
- Issue faced while sending password expiration notification that sent incorrect days for expiration when notification has been configured to be sent on specific days.
Version 5.3 Build 5307: (16/Nov/2015)
Feature
:
- The password self-service logon agent (Credential Provider extension) has been enhanced to support Windows 10.
Enhancements:
- Enrolled Users report can now be filtered based on enrollment type; also shows secondary email address & mobile number used for verification code.
- Now you can filter the logon agent (GINA/CP extension) reports based on operating system and sort the result.
- Now you can search the Security Questions report based on questions.
- Ability to run a custom script after a self-unlock account action.
- Ability to add request headers in Custom SMS settings.
Issues Fixed:
- Issue caused by Password Strengthener when the restricted patterns length exceeds 1000 characters.
- Issue in sending Email & SMS (Custom SMS provider) when SSL is enabled by the SMTP/SMS provider.
- Issue in password expiry notification configuration, which caused notification to be sent on password expiry date without being set.
- Issue in installing the logon agent using the product user interface when scheduler is running in background.
- Issue which crashed the application while restricting service accounts without necessary permission.
- Issue in closing the logon agent (GINA/CP extension) window.
- Issue in inactive users report generation, when multiple DCs are configured for a domain.
Please click on the link to check the fixes and enhancement on the previous version of the application:
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