O365 Manager Plus - Fixes and Enhancements [2017]

O365 Manager Plus - Fixes and Enhancements [2017]

O365 Manager Plus Release Notes

Release notes for build 4115 (29 Dec, 2017)

New Features:
  • Yammer auditing and reporting capabilities.
  • 10 new reports on Yammer.
  • 8 new reports on Skype for Business.
Release notes for build 4113 (7 Dec, 2017)

New Feature:
  • Automatic O365 Manager Plus license management:
    • Enable tenant-based schedulers to automate O365 Manager Plus license management.
    • Customize your schedulers to manage and unmanage selected users using advanced filters.
Release notes for build 4112 (14 Nov, 2017)

New Feature:
  • Log Forwarder: O365 Manager Plus can now be integrated with SIEM solutions such as Splunk, and Syslog Servers to forward Office 365 audit logs.

New Reports: Two new reports on Exchange Online;
  • Active Mobile Devices Report: Get details on the list of devices in your organization that have active Exchange ActiveSync partnerships. 
  • Migration Users Report: Get details on the migration status of users in migration batches.
 
New Management Task:
  • Mailbox Naming Attribute Changes: Modify in bulk, the mailbox naming attributes namely alias, simple display name, identity, and name.
 
New Audit/Alert Actions: The following actions can now be audited under the below-mentioned categories:
  • OneDrive Sharing Activities - Added permission level to the site collection, blocked sharing invitation, broke permission level inheritance, broke sharing inheritance, modified permission level on the site collection, removed permission level from the site collection, and restored sharing the inheritance.
  • OneDrive File and Folder Activities - Deleted file from recycle bin, deleted file from second-stage recycle bin, detected malware in the file, recycled all minor versions of file, recycled all versions of the file, recycled version of the file, and viewed page.

Release notes for build 4111 (13 Oct, 2017)

Features:

  • High Availability: Designate a standby server to maintain high availability during unscheduled downtime.

New Reports:

Azure AD Role Administration

  • Recently Added Member to Role - Gives details on users added to the admin role.
  • Recently Removed Member from Role - Gives details on users deleted from admin role.
  • Updated Company Contact Information- Gives details on updated company contact information.

Azure AD Group

  • Recently Added Members to Groups - Shows details on recently added members of a group.
  • Recently Removed Members from Groups - Shows details on users recently removed from groups.
  • Group Settings Creation - Gives details on group settings created.
  • Group Settings Modification - Gives details on modified group settings.
  • Group Settings Deletion - Gives details on deleted group settings.

Azure AD Password

  • Recently Password Reset Users - Gives audit details on password reset.
  • Recently Password Changed Users- Gives audit details on password changes.Gives audit details on reset user passwords.
  • Forced Password Change - Gives audit details on property set by admins that forces users to change passwords.
  • Updated User Credentials - Gives details on updated user credentials.

Azure AD Applications

  • Application Audit Log - Gives details on admin activities that are logged when an admin adds or changes an application that's registered in Azure AD.

Issue fixed:

  • Issue while importing CSV files with Byte Order Mark characters.


Release notes for build 4110 (21 Sep, 2017)

Highlights:
  • PowerBI auditing and alerting: Audit and get alerts on 20+ critical events in Power BI including added group members, created dashboards, created groups, viewed reports, and more.
Issue Fixed:
  • The issue in reports scheduler which failed to attach the saved reports while sending it via email.



Release notes for build 4109 (8 Sep, 2017)

Highlights:

12 New Management Actions:
  • Bulk Group Creation - Create Office 365 Groups, Create Distribution Groups and Create Mail-Enabled Security Groups
  • Bulk Contact Creation - Create Bulk Contacts
  • Bulk User Management - Modify Naming Attributes and Modify Contact Attributes
  • Bulk Contact Modification - Hide / Unhide Contacts and Modify Contact Custom Attributes
  • Bulk Group Modification - Hide / Unhide Groups, Modify Group Custom Attributes and Delete Groups
  • Mailbox Management - Modify Custom Mail Attributes 
20 New Reports:
  • License Reports - Licensed Users by Service Status, Licensed Groups and Licensed Group Members
  • Mailbox Account Status Reports - Send As Permission, Send on Behalf Permission
  • Applications Reports - Azure AD Applications, Enterprise Applications, Web Applications, Native Applications, Deleted Applications and Objects by Enterprise Apps
  • AAD Devices Reports - Azure AD Registered Devices, Registered Device Vs Owners and Registered Device Vs Users
  • Contacts Reports - All Mail Contacts and Contacts with Owners
  • Group Type Reports - Office 365 Groups
  • User General Reports - User Created Objects, Users with Validation Error and Users with DirSync Provisioning Error
Enhancement:
  • Added new custom attribute columns extension attribute columns in Mail Enabled  Security Groups and Distribution Groups reports.
Bug Fixes:
  • The issue faced while generating Room Mailbox Events report, missing columns issue in OWA Logon by Browser and OS report, and issues in Mailbox Forward-to management task have been fixed.
Release notes for build 4108 (21 Aug, 2017)

Highlights
  • For Help Desk Delegation, O365 Manager Plus now supports,
    • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled accounts.
    • Federated accounts.
    • Third party IdP accounts.
  • Rest API access can now be configured for Office 365 tenants from O365 Manager Plus.
Release notes for build 4106 (1 Aug, 2017)

Highlight - Office 365 Help Desk Delegation

O365 Manager Plus introduces Help Desk Delegation with the following capabilities;
  • Help Desk Technician: Create technicians to delegate tasks to non-administrative users to reduce the workload of AD admins.
  • Help Desk Roles: Create your own custom roles by selecting any combination of reporting, management, and auditing tasks to delegate.
  • Cross-tenant Delegation: Delegate the rights of one Office 365 tenant to another to make sure critical tasks are always taken care of.
  • Domain-based Delegation: Create roles with domain specific tasks to manage multiple domains effectively.
  • Technician Audit Report: Audit activities of technicians which would be reflected in Office 365 setup with this granular report.
Issue Fixes
  • Missing data issue in distribution lists' Email Activity and Last Mail Received reports is fixed.
Release notes for build 4105 (17 Jul, 2017)

Highlight - Password Expiration Notification

O365 Manager Plus introduces, password expiration notification for Office 365 users. 
  • Schedule group based or domain based password expiration notifications.
  • Configure, how many days prior to password expiration, the notifications must be sent.
  • Set the frequency of notifications (weekly, daily, or on specific days).
  • Customize the message to be sent along with the notification.
  • Notify managers about the password expiration of users.
Release notes for build 4104 (04 Jul, 2017)

Features

New Management tasks: Now you can create user accounts in bulk with O365 Manager Plus.
  • User Creation with License - Create bulk users with license using CSV import.
  • User Creation without License - Create bulk users using CSV import without assigning licenses.
New Reports: 3 new reports on Exchange Online.
  • Mailbox Folder Permission - Get details on current folder level permission status in mailboxes.
  • Room Mailbox Usage Details - Get details on room booking duration and usage time.
  • Calendar Folder Permission - Get details on current folder level permission status in the calendar. 
New Audit/Alert Actions: The following new actions can now be audited under the below-mentioned categories.
  • Azure AD Group - Audit group creation, modification and deletion activities with utmost detail.
  • Exchange Online User Activities - Get audit details on folders accessed by users. (Folder Bind) 
  • OneDrive File and Folder Activities - Audit folders created, modified, deleted, moved, renamed, copied, and restored, You can also get details on files deleted in different stages of recycle bin. 
Enhancements

Export Enhancement: The export feature has been enhanced to improve the user experience.
  • The design has been improved for a user-friendly appeal.
  • Now the graphical representation of the reports can also be exported.
  • Export option is now available for dashboard graphs along with embed option.
Enhanced Reports:
  • Inactive Distribution List and Distribution List Mail Summary Report - New UI component has been added to fetch data older than 7 days.
  • License Details Report -  A new column showing the remaining available license count has been added.
  • User Based Reports - New columns to display User Identity and Proxy Address have been added to all user based reports. 
Enhanced Management Tasks:
  • Mailbox Audit Settings - Soft delete mailbox option has been added.
  • Mailbox Features Settings - New option to enable\disable ActiveSync policy has been added. 

Issue Fixed:
  • The data fetching issue in shared mailbox activities report has been fixed.

Release notes for build 4103 (15 May, 2017)

Feature - Microsoft Teams audit and alert: Two audit and alert categories have been added for Microsoft Teams.
  • Microsoft Teams Events: Track events such as channels added, teams created, teams deleted,and users signed in to Teams.
  • Microsoft Teams Settings Changes: Shows the details of channel changes, team changes, and organization level changes in Microsoft Teams.
Enhancements - Enhanced license management: The following enhancements have been made to simplify management of the product’s license:
  • CSV import: Apply or revoke the product license of specific users by importing a CSV file containing the list of users.
  • Apply filters to easily search for users during license management.
Release notes for build 4102 (26 Apr, 2017)

Enhancements:
  • CPU usage has been optimized for better performance.
Issues fixed:
  • Login failure issue faced by users logging in as technicians using their Office 365 credentials.
Release notes for build 4101 (19 Apr, 2017)

Features: In 
Audit and Alert, 
5 new profile category in Exchange Online
  1. Malware Detection - Audit emails containing malware along with details such as received time, sender, recipient and more.
  2. Spam Detection - Get audit details on emails marked as spam along with details such as received time, sender, recipient, and more.
  3. DLP Policy Matches - Provides audit details of emails that match DLP policies.
  4. Transport Rule Matches - Provides audit details on emails that match transport rules.
  5. Mail Trace - Shows audit details on successfully delivered emails, failed emails, pending emails, and emails sent to groups and public folders.
Reports: 18 new reports on Exchange Online and Azure Active Directory
  1. Dynamic Distribution Group Members - Get details on members of dynamic distribution groups.
  2. Room Mailbox Events - Get details on calendar events of room mailboxes.
  3. Room Mailbox Booking Count - Shows the booking count of each room mailbox.
  4. Room Mailbox Configuration - Get details on room mailbox configurations.
  5. Calendar Log Events - Get details on all calendar events.
  6. Recently Created Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were created in the past 'x' days.
  7. Recently Modified Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were modified in the past 'x' days.
  8. Recently Deleted Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were deleted in the past 'x' days.
  9. User with Empty Attributes - Get details on users with null attribute value.
  10. User with Same Attribute Values - Get details on users with same attribute values.
  11. Mail Activity by Connector - Get details on emails sent and received using connectors.
  12. Connectors - Get details on all connectors.
  13. Sharing Invitation Activities - Get details on sharing invitations created, accepted and deleted.
  14. Sharing Revoked Activities - Know about revoked sharing permissions.
  15. Sharing Activities - Shows the details of files and folders that were shared including to whom it was shared and when.
  16. Anonymous Link Activities - Get details about anonymous links created, modified, and deleted.
  17. Access Request Activities - Know about access requests sent, accepted, and denied.
  18. Company Link Activities - Get details about company-wide links created, modified, and deleted.
Enhancements:
  1. Custom attributes: Added 15 Exchange Online custom attribute and 5 extension custom attributes.
  2. Additional columns: Added new columns like Company, Direct Reports, User Account Property, Previous Recipient Type, and more in user based reports.
  3. Embed alerts: Now you can embed alerts in dashboards to keep a constant check.
  4. Custom URI settings: Now you can use custom URI to configure product settings.
  5. Profile creation: You can now choose how the target and caller should match while creating a new profile.
  6. Performance improvements: Performance improvements have been done in mail traffic based reports.
Bug Fixes: The following bugs have been fixed:
  1. Timezone difference issue that was present in audit reports.
  2. Issues faced while editing profiles only with groups.
  3. Account configuration issue due to the applied group policy.
Release notes for build 4100 (16 Mar, 2017)

Features:
  • Office 365 management, audit and alert features to aid you in holistic Office 365 administration. Learn more

Bug fixes:
  • Data mismatch problem in Group members based reports, Mail activity based reports, Folder message count and size report has been fixed.
Release notes for build 4014 (10 Feb, 2017)

Features:
  • 2 new reports on Exchange Online for easy mailbox license management.
    • Licensed Mailboxes - Shows mailboxes that have been assigned Exchange Online license.
    • Unlicensed Mailboxes - Shows mailboxes that haven't been assigned Exchange Online license.
Enhancements:
  • The need for generating each and every report has been reduced, since
  • Once a report is successfully generated, the other derived reports will also be updated
  • The data will be updated irrespective of the technician who generated it.
Issues fixed:
  • While you try to edit the settings of an already scheduled report, default values were displayed instead of the previously saved values. This has been fixed
Release notes for build 4013 (9 Jan, 2017)

Features:
  • Office 365 compliance reports – Now ensure security of your Office 365 environment and easily comply with IT regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, GLBA, and FISMA with purpose-built reports.

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