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Active Roles 8.0.1 LTS - Release Notes

Active Roles 8.0.1

Active Roles 8.0.1

Release Notes

19 May 2023, 15:45

These release notes provide information about the Active Roles 8.0.1 LTS release. For the most recent documents and product information, see Active Roles Technical Documents on the One Identity support portal.

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About this release

Active Roles 8.0.1 LTS is a patch release with no new functionality.

This release fixes a potential breaking change due to the deprecation of the Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell, effective from June 2023.

  • For more information on this breaking change and its related enhancements, see Enhancements.

  • For more information on other resolved issues fixed in this release, see Resolved issues.

  • For more information on the list of known issues, see Known issues.

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements implemented in Active Roles 8.0.1 LTS.

Table 1: General enhancements
Enhancement Issue ID

In preparation for the deprecation of the Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell, Active Roles 8.0.1 LTS is updated to:

  • Use Exchange Online PowerShell v3 instead of earlier versions.

  • Use cmdlet Connect-ExchangeOnline instead of the deprecated cmdlet New-PSSession when establishing Exchange Online connections.

For more information, see Announcing Deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell in the Microsoft Tech Community portal.

NOTE: You can continue using cmdlet New-PSSession to connect to on-premises Exchange Server deployments.

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Table 2: Synchronization Service enhancements
Enhancement Issue ID

Updated the Generic SCIM Connector with the following enhancements:

  • Added support for the following Starling Connect connectors and connector versions:

    • Pipedrive 1.0

    • ServiceNow 2.0

    • SuccessFactors HR 9.0

    • WorkdayHR 3.0

    • Zendesk 1.0

    NOTE: While the Generic SCIM Connector may work with other SCIM 2.0-based Starling Connect connectors, One Identity tested it to work only with these connectors and connector versions.

  • Added new Query only synced attributes setting to support querying only attributes that are specifically defined for synchronization.

  • Added new Starling cursor-based pagination setting to support Starling Connect connectors using cursor-based pagination instead of the SCIM protocol-defined index-based pagination method.

For more information, see Configuring data synchronization with the Generic SCIM Connector in the Active Roles Synchronization Service Administration Guide.

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In preparation for the deprecation of the Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell, Active Roles Synchronization Service is updated with the following enhancements:

  • Increased the minimum required version of Exchange Online PowerShell to v3.0.0.

  • Replaced New-PSSession cmdlet calls with Connect-ExchangeOnline cmdlet calls.

  • Updated the Microsoft 365 Connector (formerly known as Office 365 Connector) and the Microsoft Azure AD Connector to support certificate-based authentication and automatic configuration.

For more information on configuring the updated connectors, see Working with Microsoft 365 and Working with Microsoft Azure Active Directory in the Active Roles Synchronization Service Administration Guide.

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The Synchronization Service Capture Agent now supports Local Security Authority (LSA). For more information, see Configuring Additional LSA Protection in the Microsoft Windows Server documentation.

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Table 3: Web Interface enhancements
Enhancement Issue ID

The Active Roles Web Interface was updated to support quick searches for AD LDS and Azure AD objects. These settings are enabled by default: disabling them will result in AD LDS and Azure AD objects not appearing in quick search results.

412502

Resolved issues

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.

Table 4: Active Roles Service resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, scheduled Active Roles operations could fail with the following error if the Active Directory domain controller (DC) assigned to perform the scheduled operation was unavailable:

The server is not operational.

This issue occurred because Active Roles did not fall back to another working DC in the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) process in such cases, and is now fixed.

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Table 5: Configuration Transfer Wizard resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, the Active Roles Configuration Transfer Wizard could not be installed, even if the required Active Roles ADSI Provider was installed.

This issue was caused by a version checking problem, and is now fixed.

389286

Table 6: Console (MMC Interface) resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, when applying both an Access Template (AT) using a Full Control permission and another granular AT denying access to certain password-related attributes (such as PasswordNeverExpires, UserCannotChangePassword, UserMustChangePasswordAtNextLogon) to a user, the deny AT did not take effect for the user.

This issue was caused by the AT specifying an explicit deny not taking precedence over the AT using the Full Control permission.

The issue was fixed by ensuring that explicit deny ATs always take precedence over inherited allow permissions.

410412

Previously, in certain environments, Active Roles might not update Dynamic Groups in time when adding a new rule or forcing a rebuild. Also, in case of more than 1,000 changes, the changes were not processed until the nightly scheduled task.

To solve this problem, Active Roles features a rebuilt Dynamic Group logic that removes the 1,000 group member limit for normal group membership changes, and also ensures that changes are now always processed immediately.

405859

Previously, when configuring the mail configuration in Configuration > Server Configuration > Mail Configuration > Default Mail Settings Properties to use Exchange Web Services with Exchange Online and send approval responses by email, response emails sent by approvers could stuck indefinitely without being processed by Active Roles. This problem did not affect approval workflows using on-premises Exchange Server mailboxes.

The issue was caused by approval notifications not supporting Exchange Web Service modern authentication, and is now fixed.

404659

Previously, when configuring the mail configuration in Configuration > Server Configuration > Mail Configuration > Default Mail Settings Properties to use Exchange Web Services with Exchange Online and send approval responses by email, the mailto: links of approval workflow notification emails always contained the service account address even if an impersonated account was configured in the mail configuration settings.

The issue was caused by approval notifications not supporting Exchange Web Service modern authentication, so Active Roles could not collect emails from the impersonated account. Instead, it was falling back to the service account address.

This issue is now fixed, so when you configure an impersonated account address, that email address will appear properly in the approval workflow email messages.

404217

Previously, the change history for operation types Deprovision, Undo Deprovision and Run Scheduled Workflow remained indefinitely in the management history database despite running the Change Tracking Cleanup scheduled task.

The issue is now fixed and old management history records are deleted as expected.

399889

Previously, users received an Access denied error in the Web Interface when attempting to create a new cloud-only user if any of the following Access Templates (ATs) were assigned to them in the Active Roles Console:

  • Azure Cloud User - Full Control

  • Azure Cloud User - Create Objects

  • Any custom AT based on the settings of Azure Distribution Group - Create Objects

  • Any custom AT in which you assigned the Full Control permission on the Azure users container.

This issue is now fixed, and assigning these ATs to users now delegate the proper administration permissions.

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Previously, when adding members to a room mailbox with the Properties > Resource Information > Resource in-policy requests > Selected recipients setting, deleting an added user either via Active Roles or native Active Directory tools resulted in Active Roles failing to load the list of added users.

This issue occurred because Active Roles Console could not load the list of assigned users due to the null value of deleted users, and was fixed by filtering out deleted users from the list.

390095

Previously, undoing the deprovision of a user object that was originally licensed via group-based licensing would result in the previous license reassigned to the object directly instead of inheriting it from the group.

The issue is fixed and now if a user has a license inherited from a group, after deprovisioning and undo-deprovisioning it, the license will be inherited from the group again instead of being reassigned directly.

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Table 7: Management Tools resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, the Active Roles Management Pack for SCOM showed an incorrect version number.

This issue is now fixed.

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Table 8: Installer resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, attempting to install Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server via the Active Roles installer required users to manually install the prerequisite Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio packages, as they were not included in the Active Roles installation package.

This issue was fixed by including the packages in the installer.

411389

Previously, in the Introduction page of the installer, the Release Notes URL was incorrect and did not work.

This issue is now fixed.

388317
Table 9: Synchronization Service resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, when running the Azure BackSync with the Azure AD Connector for several thousand users, Synchronization Service did not indicate the number of processed user objects until all user objects were processed. Because of this, it could appear that nothing happened until the on-screen counter jumped to the total number of processed objects.

The issue is fixed, and now the counter of processed objects in the Azure AD Connector increases gradually, as expected.

401938

Previously, the Synchronization Service Capture Agent recorded and processed password change events for computer accounts.

This behavior was changed so that the Capture Agent no longer logs and forwards password change events for computer accounts to the Synchronization Service.

307297

Previously, the SCIM Connector did not support synchronizing data from WorkdayHR via Starling Connect.

This issue was fixed by updating the WorkdayHR schema.

294258
Table 10: Web Interface resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

Previously, when setting a custom global color scheme in Customization > Global settings > Color scheme, the customized Web Interface scheme could appear incorrectly in the user interface, with the sidebar colors, various selected elements and certain panes not following the base color of the scheme.

This issue was fixed by adjusting the management of customized Web Interface themes.

407336

Previously, customizing the Web Interface could negatively impact the functionality and performance of object search queries. Following customization, queries in the Web Interface could return too many objects, and query searches could slow down due to performing complex internal filtering before displaying query results in the Web Interface.

This issue is now fixed, so customized Web Interface instances now work without any such problems.

395064

Previously, searching for Azure objects took approximately 15-20 seconds.

The issue has been resolved by modifying Microsoft Graph API pagination to reduce network traffic. As a result, searching for Azure objects is now significantly faster.

389314

Previously, when selecting an AD LDS user, the Web Interface returned an Unable to load contents error instead of listing the avaiable user management actions.

This issue is now fixed, and the list of actions is now populated correctly.

386102

Previously, using a personal view to open an Organizational Unit (OU) whose name contained special characters resulted in a Directory object not found error.

This issue was caused by Active Roles removing these special characters from the OU name when saving the configured personal view, and it is now fixed.

322727

Previously, when using the Customization > Directory Objects > Customize Navigation Bar > General option of the Web Interface to open the Item Properties of the Reload button or the Restore Default button, clicking OK to close the dialog without any changes and reloading the configuration resulted in the changed Reload or Restore Default button no longer working.

This issue occurred because Active Roles was unable to get the target URL of these buttons, resulting in the Item Properties > URL to open field appearing empty in the Web Interface. If this field was left empty, clicking OK in the dialog to save the button settings broke the button.

To fix the issue, the Web Interface now sends a pop-up alert to inform users that the URL to open field cannot be left empty.

322689

Previously, when copying a shared, equipment or room mailbox in the Web Interface, the copied mailbox did not inherit the original mailbox type, and was created as a standard User Mailbox instead. In other words, the value of its msExchRecipientDisplayType attribute was always set to 1073741824 instead of inheriting the original value.

This issue was caused by a Web Interface infrastructure problem, and was fixed by implementing a switch case to determine the type of mailbox and add the proper attribute during the copy process.

307164

Previously, if a user was assigned to a group with a temporary membership, attempting to assign the same group membership again to the user via the Member of > Add command resulted in Active Roles overwriting the temporary group membership of the user. This behavior differed from the Active Roles Console, which returned an error message in this scenario.

To ensure that the Web Interface works the same as the Active Roles Console, the Web Interface was updated to filter out already added elements, and return the following message when attempting to assign the user again to the same group:

The object 'groupName' is already in the list and cannot be added for the second time.
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