Hello everybody!

We're excited to announce the release of SharePoint Manager Plus' latest build 4600. The new build supports the following:

New features

• High Availability: Designate one or more secondary servers as standby nodes to maintain availability during unscheduled downtime.

• The following new management actions have been added:
  

• Check In Documents: Select checked-out documents and perform a bulk check-in.

• Clear Version History: Free up site storage by deleting older versions of files in sites, document libraries, or folders.

• Edit Document Metadata: Update the metadata of files in document libraries or lists.

• Versioning Settings: Update the versioning settings for SharePoint lists to manage versions, set version limits, and control who can view drafts.

• Break or Restore Inheritance - Granular:   Break or restore inheritance for sites, document libraries, lists, folders, or files. The separate Restore Inheritance for Sites task has been removed.
  

• The following new reports have been added for both SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online:

• Inactive Files: Lists all files in a site that have not been modified for the specified number of days

• Orphaned Users: Identifies users associated with SharePoint sites but removed from Active Directory (AD)
  

• The following new reports have been added for SharePoint Online:

• List Versioning Details: Lists the versioning settings of document libraries and lists

• Items Shared with External Users: Lists the items shared with external users and identifies who has access to them

• Storage by Version Age: Shows the site storage occupied by file versions older than the last N days

• Storage by Version Count: Shows the site storage occupied by file versions older than the last N versions

• Site Trends Overview: Shows the current site usage, allocated storage, file count, and last activity date

• Site Trends History: Lists day-by-day historical site collections usage changes

• Site Storage Growth Trends: Lists the storage growth and growth rate for site collections over a selected period

• Daily Storage Trends: Lists day-over-day storage and file count trends across the tenant

• Monthly Storage Trends: Lists month-over-month storage and file count trends across the tenant
  

Enhancements

• C-Store (columnar databases) is now supported for Audit reports in environments with large audit data volumes.

• AD-group-based delegation is now supported.

• The following reports under the External and Sharing category   have been enhanced:

• Sharing and Access Overview: The External and Sharing Access report has been renamed Sharing and Access Overview. It now categorizes users based on how they gained access: a direct assignment, organization link, or anonymous link.

• Item wise Sharing Access: The report now displays the link access level.

• Anonymously Shared Items: A new Shared To column has been added to the report.
  

• The user and group selection pop-up in the Management module has been improved.

• You can now schedule the Check Permissions task to generate permission reports at regular intervals.

• You can now subscribe through an in-product form to receive email alerts about important security updates.

• The All List Items report now displays three new columns: the version count, cumulative size of older versions, and total size of all versions.

• Report synchronization performance for the Lists and List Items categories has been improved.

• CSV import support for setting default column metadata in Copy Site Contents has been added.

• The XLS export option has been replaced with XLSX to support the modern Excel file format.

• A user-specific storage unit preference (Auto, GB, MB, or KB) in the Personalize Settings has been added.

• The bundled PostgreSQL database has been upgraded to version 17.10.

• Apache Tomcat has been upgraded to version 9.0.118.

• The Java Runtime Environment has been upgraded to version 11.0.30.

Issues fixed

• SPMP-1623: The Site Statistics report displayed invalid storage sizes.

• SPMP-1626: Usernames containing the domain name could not be entered in the Network Map Drive.

• SPMP-1391: Numeric fields were sorted incorrectly in List and List Items reports.

• SPMP-1625: Certain SharePoint group users could not be selected in the Copy or Move Permissions task due to their email address format.

• SPMP-1689: Group members were not fetched correctly during report syncs when a large number of groups was involved, causing the syncs to fail.

• SPMP-1674: Modifying an advanced filter in a report did not clear the previously applied filter, resulting in an error.

• SPMP-1638: SharePoint site URLs containing supported special characters were not handled correctly during on-demand report generation.

• SPMP-1659: Newly added columns were missing from the Add/Remove Columns drop-down for users with a customized report layout.

• SPMP-1657: The Duo JAR version was upgraded from 1.1.3 to 1.3.1.

• SPMP-1637: Permissions could not be removed using the Remove Permissions management task for users whose names or email addresses contained special characters.

• SPMP-1595: Duplicate alerts and notification emails were triggered for threshold-based monitoring alert profiles, where alerts from the previous event were triggered again along with new alerts.

• SPMP-1673: Report syncs failed for large site collections when the change token length exceeded the allowed limit.

• SPMP-1717: Technicians with long Microsoft 365 login names could not be added.

How to update?

Update using the service pack.

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Regards,

The SharePoint Manager Plus team

Email: support@sharepointmanagerplus.com

Direct inward dialing: +1-408-454-4213