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CVE-2021-42099: Microsoft 365 management, reporting, and auditing - ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus

Zoho ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus before 4421 is vulnerable to file-upload remote code execution.

3 years ago

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M365 Manager Plus Release Notes****Release notes for build 4423 (Oct 21, 2021)

Issue fixes

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, reported by Sahil Dhar through our bug bounty program, has been fixed.
A reflected cross-site scripting (reflected XSS) vulnerability, reported by Sahil Dhar through our bug bounty program, has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4421 (Oct 8, 2021)

Security issue fix

Authentication bypass leading to arbitrary file-upload remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-42099), reported by moon.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4420 (Sep 29, 2021)

Enhancements

Leverage the Mailbox Folder Permission Changes management task to grant permissions to a mailbox’s root folder.
The performance of Azure Active Directory User and Group reports has been improved.
Japanese and Chinese language support has been enhanced.

Issue fixes

An issue of delayed archiving while running audits or generating reports has been fixed.
An issue in generating data for the Mailbox Sizes report has been fixed.
An issue in generating data for Synced Users and Cloud Users reports has been fixed.
An issue with Product Schedulers unavailability to a default admin with Log360 license has been fixed.
An issue in modifying litigation hold for soft deleted mailboxes has been fixed.
An issue in generating data for audit reports when the Callers or Targets filter in an audit profile is applied has been fixed.
An issue in exporting the Inactive Mobile Devices report when the inactive days filter in the report scheduler is applied has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4419 (Sep 22, 2021)

Issue fix

A post authentication command injection vulnerability affecting a REST API URL has been fixed. The vulnerability was reported by Sahil Dhar through our bug bounty program.

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Release notes for build 4418 (Sep 20, 2021)

Issue fix

Issue faced while generating License Details report due to a change in Microsoft API has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4417 (Sep 8, 2021)

Issue fix

An authentication bypass vulnerability affecting some of the REST API URLs has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4416 (Sep 6, 2021)

Issue fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Remote code execution via BCP file overwrite .
Deleted contacts shown in All Mail Contacts report.
Error in retrieving data based on space separated values provided for Like constant in some audit and general reports.
Inability to add technicians in delegation module without MSOnline module.
Days To Expire filter not applied in Soon To Expire Licenses by User report.
Issue faced while using templates to create users along with MFA configuration.
Incorrect data shown when Recipient Type filter is applied in Manage License module.
Missing data in All Users report for MSSQL users.

How to update?

Update using service pack

Release notes for build 4415 (Aug 5, 2021)

Enhancements

Service pack files are now secured with digital signature to prevent unauthorized modifications while updating the product.

Issue fixes

Incorrect data issue in MFA Enabled and MFA Disabled Users report.
Issue in creating Microsoft 365 groups with multiple owners.
Issue in exporting and scheduling reports when the data contains DST (Daylight Savings Time) transition date.
Error in showing Arabic characters in the Mail Subject column of Mail Trace reports.
Difficulty in loading details about draft messages with empty Sent Date Time field in Content Search module.
Missing to show the available data in the monitoring module, due to change in service name.
Issue in managing users based on group membership in License Management scheduler.
Details of external mails not being included in Mail Trace reports, when the count of unmanaged uses is greater than managed users.
Inability to create custom views of audit reports with multiple filter settings.

Other

M365 Manager Plus will now use only service account for performing Microsoft 365 activities. Support for using technician credentials has been deprecated.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4414 (May 12, 2021)

Enhancement

In the light of Skype for Business deprecation, M365 Manager Plus now uses MicrosoftTeams PowerShell module instead of SkypeOnlineConnector module for gathering data for all Skype General reports. Please note that to install MicrosoftTeams module, PowerShell version 5.1 or higher is required.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4413 (May 10, 2021)

Enhancements

This build features enhanced Japanese language support.

Issue fixes

The following issues have been fixed.

Throttling issue while generating Mailbox Permissions reports.
Failing to gather data for SharePoint List Activities audit reports.
Issue in updating reports for users with MSSQL using Windows Authentication.
Empty values in default columns in Mailbox Size Restriction report.
Inability to enable or disable monitoring profiles.
Error thrown when a technician enables or disables report schedules.
Scheduled Stale Microsoft 365 Licenses report showing incorrect data compared to the actual report.
Federated domains not being displayed while working with management tasks or templates.
Not showing the License Status parameter with empty value while applying filters in License Detail report.
Empty Employee ID columns in All Users report.
Password expiry notifier excluding unlicensed users by default even when not chosen by the user.
Issue in removing columns from customized scheduled reports.
Issue in applying filters involving mailbox attributes in Manage License module.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4412 (Mar 29, 2021)

Enhancement

The Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module has been upgraded to the latest version.

Issue fixed

Due to receiving incorrect dates from Microsoft’s Unified Audit Log, there has been a random occurrence of incorrect dates in certain audit logs. This issue has been resolved by our product team.
The issue of All Users report showing incorrect results after the completion of the full sync product scheduler has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4411 (Mar 15, 2021)

Issue fix

Issues faced while applying filters in the Manage License module have been fixed.
Groups that don’t belong to the Top N Groups report were shown earlier. This error has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4410 (Mar 5, 2021)

Highlights

Database backup and restore, and robo update features are now available for MS SQL users.
An option to backup database while manually updating M365 Manager Plus has been added.

Issue fixes

Issue in fetching MFA status of user accounts when REST API is enabled has been fixed.
Issue with technicians being able to create users in domains that do not belong to the virtual tenant delegated to them has been fixed.
The incorrect results issue due to insufficient data while performing mailbox content search has been fixed.
The option to manage users from MFA Enabled and MFA Disabled Users reports which was removed in build 4408 has been added again.
Technicians can now provide multiple values for ManageBy parameter while using CSV to create distribution groups.
Issue faced while applying filter based on Extended Properties in Azure AD STS Logon audit profile has been fixed.
Incorrect data issue faced while applying filter in the Inactive Mobile Devices report has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4408 (Jan 20, 2021)

Highlights

Delta sync enabled reports: To help improve the product performance, few user, mailbox, contacts and group reports will only fetch the incremental changes after the first successful sync.

Issues fixed

The issue faced by virtual tenant-delegated technicians during bulk user creation has been fixed.
Non-English language users can now view their Calendar Folder Statistics report properly.
The issues with Non-Owner Mailbox Access, Email Activity, Dynamic Distribution Group Members, Recently Password Reset Users (Self-Service) reports have been fixed.
MSOnline dependency is removed for the user creation task which can now be done using Graph API.
The tenant configuration issue that occurred due to the global admin role name change by Microsoft has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4407 (Dec 04, 2020)

Enhancement

Support for Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module. You will now experience an uninterrupted, longer session duration with the Exchange Online connection.

Issues fixed

An issue in executing automation tasks when the required objects are imported from a report has been fixed.
An issue in generating data for the Teams User Device Usage report has been fixed.
An issue in displaying the geolocation in audit reports when a proxy is configured has been fixed.
An issue of data mismatch in the dashboard’s license usage tile has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4406 (Nov 12, 2020)

Highlight

O365 Manager Plus is now M365 Manager Plus: O365 Manager Plus has been rebranded to M365 Manager Plus.

Issues fixed

The issue that occurs in mailbox auto reply configuration task when the characters in the message field exceed 400 is fixed.
The issue with updating status in the archive table due to which older audit data was not displayed is fixed.

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Release notes for build 4403 (Oct 12, 2020)

Highlights

License restriction and usage control: In addition to the existing feature of limiting licenses by technician, you can now limit licenses by domain and virtual tenants. Also, restrict the usage of licenses by assigning a limited usage count for technicians, domains and virtual tenants.
Attribute-level delegation: Delegate the attributes in management tasks to Help Desk Technicians.
New audit reports: Track more events in OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Forms, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Exchange Online.
The User License Assignment Details report has been newly added to show you if a license has been directly assigned to a user or inherited from a group to which the user belongs.

Enhancements

The user friendly name of licenses has been updated.
Employee ID attribute will be supported in management and reporting.
Company attribute will be supported in single user creation templates.
The DOMAIN\username login format will be supported for Active Directory users.
The existing JRE version in the product has been updated to jre_1_8_0_162 for enhanced security.

Issues fixed

The issue of the Manager attribute not updating in single user creation templates has been fixed.
The issue of Azure AD Logon Activity reports showing ‘failure’ for all the entries in the Result column has been fixed.
The issue in fetching data for monitoring while the proxy is configured has been fixed.
The issue that resulted in the failure of License Details report has been fixed

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4402 (Sep 19, 2020)

Issues fixed

The issue faced while configuring a tenant due to certificate validation has been fixed.
The Issue in collecting data for reports and tasks based on Rest API has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4401 (Sep 1, 2020)

Enhancements

While creating users using the User Creation Template, you can now add them to Office 365, security, and distribution groups.
In addition to users, you can also add Azure AD devices to security groups.
The latest build will feature an enhanced Japanese language support.

Issue fixes

Issue faced while executing the Modify Office 365 Group members task with the Users with Same Attribute Values report has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4400 (Jul 27, 2020)

Highlights

UI tabs categorization: For enhanced ease of access, all feature tabs of O365 Manager Plus will now be grouped under two main categories:
- Management & Reporting.
- Auditing & Monitoring.
SharePoint Online auditing and alerting: Perform granular audits and get real-time alerts on SharePoint Online files, folders, sync and sharing activities, site administration, sensitivity labels, and more.

Enhancements

Alerts Threshold: Configure the minimum number of events and the time interval within which these events should occur to trigger the alert. This enhancement is available only for builds that use Elasticsearch instead of PostgreSQL for data storage.
Revoke Azure AD Sign in: This task will terminate the user’s active session with Office 365 applications. Executing this task will require the user to reauthenticate in order to use the applications.

Issue fixes

Issue in updating a service account that contains special characters in the password has been fixed.
Issue in generating Daily Reports for Chinese tenants (Azure China cloud) has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4336 (Jul 6, 2020)

Highlights

New management tasks
- Archive team: Archive private channels of teams and their associated site collections.
- Unarchive team: Restore private channels of teams and their associated site collections.
New tenant configuration model: Admins can now configure tenants using Office 365 login instead of the usual long winding manual process.

Enhancements

MS Graph API is now used to fetch Azure AD reports to improve performance.

Issue fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue in generating Mailbox Size Quota report.
Issue faced while scheduling reports that are customized using license based filters.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4335 (Jun 3, 2020)

Highlights

New MS Teams management tasks: O365 Manager has added the capability to manage MS Team members.

Modify Team Members - Add or remove members in bulk from teams or remove all the members of a team in a single click.
Add/remove Team Owners - Add or remove the owners of teams in bulk using CSV.

Enhancements

While selecting users or groups while performing Mailbox Delegation and Shared Mailbox Delegation tasks, technicians can now view the current Send As, Send On Behalf, and Full Access permission status of users and groups.

Issue fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue in filtering data in the Mailbox Auto Reply Configuration report based on virtual tenants.
Issue in generating Mail Traffic Summary and Detailed Mail Traffic reports.
Issue in showing the GMT timezone in the Date column for the following reports,
- OneDrive User Activities
- Daily Office 365 Group Activities
- Daily OneDrive Site Activities
- Daily Yammer User Activities
- Daily Yammer Group Activities
- Teams User Daily Activity
Issue in generating the Mail Trace reports when the records exceed one million.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4334 (May 15, 2020)

Issue fix

The CVE-2020-24786 vulnerability, which allowed unauthenticated changes to the integration system’s configuration, as reported by Florian Hauser, has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4333 (May 14, 2020)

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue in updating passwords for the tenants configured with app password.
Issue in generating Mailbox Usage, OneDrive for Business Usage, Group Usage, and some other reports have been fixed.
Date mismatch issue between certain reports and the corresponding graphs.

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Release notes for build 4332 (May 9, 2020)

Enhancement

Last Access Time column which shows the time at which a mailbox was accessed previously, has been added to some mailbox reports.

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue faced by users with MS SQL configured with Windows authentication in archiving audit logs.
Issue in configuring the license management scheduler using filters.
Issue in exporting help desk roles when the Description is left empty.
Issue in using naming formats in management templates.

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Release notes for build 4331 (Apr 30, 2020)

Highlights

AD technician support: On-premises AD users can now be added as technicians in O365 Manager Plus by just configuring the domains.
O365 Manager Plus license alerts: Technicians can now configure email alerts on O365 Manager Plus license usage and expiry.
Advanced logon settings: Technicians can now configure CAPTCHA in O365 Manager Plus logon page, choose to block users after specified number of failed logon attempts, and configure other logon security settings.

Bug fix

Time zone issue faced while filtering date columns in activity summary reports has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4330 (Apr 23, 2020)

Bug fix

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue in sending out scheduled reports via email while using certain mail servers.
Issue in executing the Modify Naming Attributes task.

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Release notes for build 4329 (Apr 3, 2020)

Highlight

Unlimited access to all management and reporting features on any number of shared mailboxes, public folders, and other non-user resources for free, without additional license consumption.

Enhancement

The Don’t send empty reports option has been added in scheduled reports to avoid sending blank reports.

Issues fixed

The issue of configuring an auto reply with special characters in e-mail content has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4328 (Mar 10, 2020)

Highlights

Management for Teams: Create, update, and delete teams, team channels, and more, in bulk.
Reporting for Teams: Gain deep insights into Microsoft Teams channels, members, team size, usage, and more, with our comprehensive reports.
Modern authentication: Set up a more secure service account login with the OAuth 2.0-based modern authentication for Exchange Online Remote Powershell Session.

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Release notes for build 4327 (Mar 04, 2020)

Highlights

Generate user reports using CSV: Instead of configuring filters, upload a CSV file with the attributes and their respective values based on which users must be retrieved.

Enhancement

Texts and characters used in the product for Japanese language support have been updated.

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue with generating usage reports and inconsistent data in the monitoring module when proxy was configured.
Data mismatch issue in content search profiles running concurrently.
Issue faced while generating Room Mailbox Events report.

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Release notes for build 4325 (Jan 14, 2020)

Enhancements

Enhanced license based filters: Technicians can now directly select the license type based on which users must be filtered from reports,instead of having to manually type the license name.
Group-based filters: In user reports data can now be filtered based on user group membership.
Modify default schedulers: In addition to creating custom schedules, O365 Manager Plus now allows you to modify the run time of built-in report schedulers.
Custom run time: Technicians can now schedule automation tasks at custom intervals.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4324 (Dec 31, 2019)

Highlights

IP based geolocation: The audit, and alert reports now provide the geolocation (Country) from where users performs a specific action based on the IP address of their devices. For example, admins can find out the location from where users login to their Office 365 account, change their passwords, and more.
Elasticsearch: Audit, alert and content search modules of O365 Manager Plus now use elasticsearch instead of PostgreSQL for data storage.

How to update?

For now, elasticsearch is available only for new users. Download O365 Manager Plus, here.
Existing users update using service pack to view geolocation data.

Release notes for build 4322 (Dec 24, 2019)

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

Issue faced while creating Titles, Departments, and Offices to be used while performing management actions.
Issue faced while using virtual tenants created based on Groups (Member Of) attribute.

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Release notes for build 4321 (Dec 17, 2019)

Bug fixes

Some minor issues have been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4320 (Dec 9, 2019)

Enhancements

Japanese Language Support: Japanese keys have been updated for the automation feature, management templates, and more.

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Release notes for build 4319 (Dec 2, 2019)

Bug fixes

Some minor issues have been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4318 (Nov 13, 2019)

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Issue in displaying the storage consumption details in Daily OneDrive Storage Used report.
Issue in sending out email notifications for the first and final occurence of an event in the monitoring module.
Data fetching issue in Room Mailbox Events report.
Issue in displaying child public folder permission details in Public Folder Permission report.
Issue in Last Sync Time details in Active Mobile Devices report.

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Release notes for build 4317 (Nov 8, 2019)

Highlight

O365 Manager Plus introduces Office 365 management templates. With these templates pre-configure all the standard values like office address, office phone number, manager of a department, etc. needed for Office 365 user, group, and contact creation processes.

Custom templates: In addition to the default templates, admins can create custom templates based on organizational requirements using the drag-n-drop layout.
Creation rules: Create rules that auto-populate fields based on conditions specified. For example, create a rule that assigns John as the manager for the users whose Department is Finance.
Automate Office 365 management with templates: Use templates while creating automation policies to quicken the user provisioning process.
List of templates: Following are the templates provided the tool:
- User creation templates.
- Group creation templates.
- Distribution or mail-enabled security group creation templates.
- Dynamic distribution group creation templates.
- Contact creation templates.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4316 (Oct 22, 2019)

Highlights

New reports

O365 Manager Plus has added 41 new reports on Azure Active Directory. The newly added reports and their categories are as follows:

Azure AD Logon Reports

Azure AD Failed Logons: Shows all the failed sign-in activities in Azure AD.
Azure AD Failed Logons Due to Bad Password: Lists all the sign-in activities failed due to bad password in Azure AD.

Azure AD User Management Reports

Recently Created Users (AAD logs): Shows the details of Azure AD user accounts created in the specified period.
Recently Deleted Users (AAD logs): Shows the details of Azure AD user accounts deleted in the specified period.
Recently Updated Users (AAD logs): Shows the details of Azure AD user accounts modified in the specified period.
Recently Password Changed Users (AAD logs): Shows the details of Azure AD password changes made in the specified period.
Recently Password Reset Users (AAD logs): Shows the details of Azure AD password resets done in the specified period.
Recently Password Reset Users (Self-service): Shows the details of password resets made by users themselves in Azure AD.
Recently Restored Users: Shows the details of Azure AD accounts restored in the specified period.
Recently Enabled Users: Shows the details of Azure AD user accounts enabled in the specified period.
Recently Disabled Users: Shows the details of Azure AD user accounts disabled in the specified period.

Azure AD Role Management Reports

Recently Added Member to Role: Shows the details of new roles assigned to Azure AD users.
Recently Removed Member from Role: Shows the details on who removed which user from which role and when.
Show all new reports

Enhancements

Help desk technicians can now manage O365 Manager Plus license.
Technicians can now view the overview of Office 365 service health status in O365 Manager Plus.
Capability to enable/disable SMTP authentication for mailboxes.
All the deleted users can now be restored using O365 Manager Plus, irrespective of whether they are managed by the tool or not.

Bug fixes

Issue in managing Office 365 licenses that have reached their warning quota.
Issue in showing managed users count for technicians.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4312 (Sep 9, 2019)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus has added mailbox folder permission management capability to its latest build.

Mailbox Folder Permission Changes - Assign/modify mailbox folder permissions of users/groups in bulk.
Remove Mailbox Folder Permissions - Remove the mailbox folder permissions assigned to users/groups in bulk.

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Release notes for build 4311 (Aug 28, 2019)

Bug fixes

Some minor issues have been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4310 (Aug 13, 2019)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus now allows two new management actions, and six new reports on Azure Active Directory and Calendar.

New Management Tasks:

Modify Calendar Permissions - Assign or modify calendar permissions for users/groups in bulk.
Remove Calendar Permissions - Remove calendar permissions for users/groups in bulk.

New reports

Azure AD User Audit logs - Provides audit details of activities performed by users in Azure AD.
Azure AD Application Audit Logs - Provides audit details of activities performed by various applications in Azure AD.
Azure AD Sign-in Activities - Tracks all the sign-in activities in Azure AD.
Azure AD External Users Audit Logs - Provides audit details of activities performed by external users in Azure AD.
Azure AD External Users Sign-in Activities - Tracks external user sign-in activities in Azure AD.
Calendar Folder Statistics - Shows all calendar-related information including calendar type, path, size, and number of items in the calendar.

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Release notes for build 4309 (Aug 8, 2019)

Enhancements

Customize tabs: Administrators and technicians can arrange the reporting, auditing, monitoring, management, and other feature tabs of O365 Manager Plus according to their convenience.
Office 365 license modification: When the technicians choose a new set of Office 365 services that are allowed by an Office 365 license, they can opt whether the new services should replace or append to the already existing list of Office 365 services.

Bug fixes

The following issues have been fixed,

Data mismatch issue in the Last sent time, Last received time, and Last activity time fields in DL by Last Mail Activity, Inactive DL by Last Sent mail, Inactive DL by Last Mail Received, and Last Mail Received by Mail Enabled Groups reports.
Issue faced while configuring audit schedules.
Issue in fetching previous day’s data for scheduled reports.

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Release notes for build 4308 (Jun 17, 2019)

Highlights

Office 365 Automation: Automate user account onboarding, stale accounts clean up, license management, and other essential user and mailbox management tasks. Also,

Create automation policies: These event-driven policies once triggered carry out a chain of tasks automatically at specified intervals.
View automation audit reports: Keep track of the automation policy execution history along with the automation policies created, modified, delegated, and deleted.
Choose data source: The source of data for the automated tasks can be CSV files, shared locations, or O365 Manager Plus reports.

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Release notes for build 4306 (May 27, 2019)

Enhancement

Japanese Language Support: Japanese keys have been updated for the content search feature, audit filter settings, and more.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4305 (May 14, 2019)

Highlights

New mailbox audit actions: O365 Manager Plus now audits 26 new actions on Exchange Online mailboxes which include changes to mailbox audit settings, client access settings, litigation hold settings, and

more.
Advanced audit and alert filters: Configure audit and alert profiles to fetch granular data based on event properties and business hours.
- Property-based filter: Filter audit logs based on time, actor, target, result, IP address, and other properties of an event.
- Business hours-based filter: Configure business hours in the tool to filter audit logs based on it. Create alerts for critical actions happening in the Office 365 setup during business or non-business hours, as required.

Enhancement

Archive History report now shows the time stamp of the oldest and latest log present in an archive file.
Mailbox Retention Policy, Password Changed Users, Mailbox Storage Info, and other reports can now be generated for virtual tenants.

Issue fix

Issue in fetching yesterday, today, and last 7 days’ data in scheduled and saved reports is fixed.

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Release notes for build 4304 (May 3, 2019)

Enhancement

Spam Summary report now shows the inbound, and outbound mail count for all spam event types.

Issue fixes

Issue in listing messages from recoverable items folder in content search results.
Issue in fetching dynamic distribution group members.
Issue in displaying user-friendly license names in License Details report.

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Release notes for build 4303 (April 3, 2019)

Issue fix

Issue in fetching Skype for Business data has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4302 (Mar 7, 2019)

Highlights

Notification templates support
- Create custom, reusable notification templates that define the recipient list, message, and the module (report, alerts, monitoring, etc.).
- Share these templates with other technicians for configuring email messages for report, alert, search, and monitoring profiles.

Enhancements

Dashboard to reports navigation: The dashboard tiles and widgets now have a direct link to navigate and view the reports quickly.

Issues fixed

Issue in generating Mobile Devices reports.
Issue in configuring scheduled reports with filters.
Issue in emailing scheduled reports.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4301 (Feb 27, 2019)

Highlights

Language support: O365 Manager Plus is now available in Chinese.

Bug fix

The data fetching issue in the monitoring module has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4300 (Jan 30, 2019)

Highlights

Introducing Office 365 mailbox content search and virtual tenant creation capabilities in this build.

Office 365 Mailbox Content Search: This feature allows you to search through content across all the mailboxes in your organization. The highlights of this feature include:
- Keyword-based and pattern-based search: Detect credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other sensitive information that follow a specific pattern, with this capability.
- Automated search schedules: Create a custom search schedule by configuring the search criteria, and selecting the mailboxes to be looked into. The schedule automatically runs at specified intervals and sends a detailed report to your inbox.
- Unrestricted search: While the default content search option provided in Office 365 is restricted to the mail subject, body, and recipient type, O365 Manager Plus allows you to search through message headers, mail folders, message ID, and many more other mail attributes.
Virtual Tenant: Based on your administrative requirements, create virtual tenants by segmenting and grouping domains, users, groups, mailboxes, and other Office 365 objects, and delegate them to O365 Manager Plus’ technicians.
- Group-based delegation: Create virtual tenants by filtering users based on their group membership, and delegate them to technicians.
- Attribute-based delegation: Create virtual tenants by filtering Office 365 objects based on country, department, usage location, and other attributes, and delegate them to technicians.

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Release notes for build 4222 (Dec 21, 2018)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus has added fifteen new management tasks, an option to update the product manually, and enhanced some of the existing management tasks to handle Exchange Online mailboxes, users, and groups effortlessly.

New Management Tasks:

The following 15 new management tasks have been added:

Add/Remove Distribution Group Owners - Add or remove owners of distribution groups in bulk.
Add/Remove Mail Enabled Security Group Owners - Add or remove multiple owners from multiple Mail-enabled security groups.
Set Manager to Mail Contacts - Assign a user as manager to multiple contacts.
Modify SMTP Address of Groups - Modify the SMTP address of distribution lists, mail-enabled security groups, Office 365 groups, and dynamic distribution groups in bulk.
Modify SMTP Address of Contacts - Modify the SMTP addresses of contacts in bulk.
Modify SMTP Address of Mailboxes/Mail Users - Modify the SMTP addresses of mailbox users and mail-enabled users in bulk
Set Send As Permission of Groups - Assign or remove Send As permissions of distribution, mail-enabled security and Office 365 groups.
Set Send As Permission of Dynamic Distribution Groups - Assign or remove Send As permissions of dynamic distribution groups in bulk.
Set Send On Behalf Permission for Groups - Assign or remove Send On Behalf permission of distribution, Office 365, mail-enabled security, and dynamic distribution groups in bulk.
Modify Security Group Members - Add or remove multiple members from multiple security groups.
Add/Remove Security Group Owners - Add or remove multiple owners from multiple security groups.
Create Security Group - Create security groups in bulk.
Clear Mobile Device Data - Wipe data from mobile device in bulk.
Remove Mobile Device - Remove mobile device in bulk.
Add/Remove Dynamic Distribution Group Owners - Add or remove multiple owners of multiple dynamic distribution groups.

New Report

Stale Office 365 Licenses: Get details on the unused Office 365 licenses in your organization.

Enhancements

Administrators and delegated users can now manually check for product updates from right within the product, and configure email notifications to get informed about the available and completed product updates.
‘Remove all members’ option has been included in all group membership management tasks.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4221 (Dec 11, 2018)

Enhancement

Updated Japanese keys that were not available earlier.

Bug fixes

Issue faced while fetching data for a custom time range has been fixed.

How to update?

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Release notes for build 4220 (Dec 4, 2018)

Bug fix

Some minor issues have been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4219 (Nov 23, 2018)

Highlights

Schedule audit & monitoring reports: O365 Manager Plus has enhanced the report scheduler with the capability to schedule audit, and monitoring reports. Users can also,

Schedule multiple reports: Create schedules to automatically generate multiple reports in a single schedule at specified intervals.
Refine reports: Select the desired attributes, and set up filters to view the exact data that you need in the reports.
Share schedule: Administrators can share the schedules with other technicians to allow them to view and run those schedules.
Download scheduled reports: Download the PDF, CSV, XLS, or HTML formats of scheduled reports anytime after they are generated from the schedule history.
View scheduler history: View the list of schedules created with the details of the scheduler owner, last run time, scheduler run status, and more.

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Release notes for build 4218 (Oct 26, 2018)

Highlights

The dashboard has been enhanced with:

Usage view dashboard, to get insights on every day Office 365 service usage statistics through embeddable graphical widgets.
Inbuilt management options, to execute management tasks right from the dashboard tiles.
Dashboard tiles, to customize your dashboard with predefined data tiles, to get a quick snapshot on password expired users, service health status, mailbox audit status, and a lot more.

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Release notes for build 4217 (Oct 19, 2018)

Bug fix

Issue faced while migrating from PostgreSQL to MSSQL has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4216 (Oct 11, 2018)

Bug fix

Some minor issues have been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4215 (Oct 1, 2018)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus has added auditing and alerting capabilities for Microsoft Streams. Users can now audit and create alerts for thirty-five activities under the following categories:

General user activities: Keep track of user activities pertaining to tenant settings,user settings, and data export.
Stream video activities: Audit video creation, deletion, upload, download, and other user activities on Streams videos.
Stream group channel activities: Audit group creation, deletion, membership changes, and other channel related activities.

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Release notes for build 4214 (Sep 27, 2018)

Highlights

22 new reports on Exchange Online, and Azure AD have been released. The reports are:

Mailboxes with External Mail Forwarding: Gives the list of mailboxes with email forwarding configured to external domains.
Mailboxes with Internal Mail Forwarding: Lists the mailboxes for which email forwarding is configured to internal domains.
Mailboxes without Mail Forwarding: Provides information on the mailboxes for which email forwarding has been disabled.
Guest Users: Lists down the external users in your Office 365 setup.
Guest Group Members: Gives information on the guest users who are members of various groups.
Users with Send As Permission: Lists the users with Send As permission.
Users with Send On Behalf Permission: Lists the users with Send On Behalf permission.
Groups with Send As Permission: Provides information on the groups that have been given Send As permission.
Groups with Send On Behalf Permission: Provides information on the groups that have been given Send On Behalf permission.
Mailboxes without Delegates: Provides the list of mailboxes without any delegated users.
Mailboxes without Inbox Rule: Lists the mailboxes without inbox rules configured.
Sweep Rules: Lists the mailboxes with sweep rules configured along with their details.
Mailboxes without Sweep Rules: Lists the mailboxes without any sweep rules configured.
Transport Rule List: Gives information on the transport rules, and the details on changes made to them.
Quarantined Messages: Provides the details of quarantined messages in your Exchange Online environment.
Azure Unlocked Users: Gives the list of recently unlocked users.
MFA Enabled Users: Provides the list of MFA-enabled user accounts.
MFA Disabled Users: Provides the list of MFA-disabled user accounts.
Groups without License: Lists the groups without any license assigned to them.
Mailbox Message Configuration by User: Provides details on message settings for each mailbox in your organization.
Auto-empty Deleted Items Folder: Lists the mailboxes that have the auto-empty deleted items folder on signing out option enabled.
Trusted/Blocked Senders and Recipients: Provides details on the senders/recipients trusted and blocked by each mailbox.

Bug fix

The missing data issue faced while using monitoring feature with MFA-enabled accounts has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4213 (Sep 14, 2018)

Highlights

23 new reports on device usage and every day user activities happening in various Office 365 services. These reports are:

Active Users by Service - Gives number of active Office 365 users based on service.
Daily Office 365 Group Activities - Gives details of Office 365 groups and activities happening on it categorized based on service.
Daily OneDrive Site Activities - Gives details of every day OneDrive for Business site activities.
OneDrive User Activities - Gives details of every day user activities on OneDrive for Business.
Office Activated User Count - Gives the count of Office 365 account activations by product type.
User Account Activation Count by Device - Gives the number of users who have activated Office 365 subscription on their devices by product type.
Office 365 Activated User Details - Gives you details of users who have activated Office 365.
Last User Activity by Service - Gives details of Office 365 services for which users have license, and their last activity.
Office Activation by Device - Gives the number of users who have activated Office 365 subscriptions on their devices categorized based on the product type…
Last Outlook User Activity by App - Gives details of last Outlook user activities by app type.
Daily Outlook User Activities - Gives details of every day Outlook user activities.
Outlook Unique User Count by Version - Gives the unique user count by the Outlook version.
Skype User Count by Device Type - Gives the count of Skype for Business users based on the device type.
Daily Skype User Activities - Gives details of every day Skype for Business user activities.
Skype User Device Usage - Gives details of devices used by Skype for Business users.
Skype User Last Activity by Session Type - Gives details of last Skype for Business user activity by session type.
Teams User Daily Activity - Gives details of every day Microsoft Teams user activities.
Teams User Count by Device Type - Gives the Teams user count by the device they use.
Teams User Device Usage - Gives details of devices used by Microsoft Teams users.
Yammer User Count by Device Type - Gives the Yammer user count by the device they use.
Daily Yammer Group Activities - Gives details of every day Yammer group activities.
Daily Yammer User Activities - Gives details of every day Yammer user activities.
Yammer User Device Usage - Gives details of devices used by Yammer users.

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Release notes for build 4212 (Sep 11, 2018)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus now allows you to perform 10 new management tasks:

Disable Outlook Auto-mapping - Disable Exchange Online mailboxes from being auto-mapped to the Outlook client of users with full access permission.
Set Mail Forwarding - Enable or disable email forwarding, and configure forwarding addresses for shared mailboxes.
Trust/Block Senders and Recipients - Create a trusted or blocked senders list of users/domains to control spamming. Trusted/blocked senders will also be considered as the trusted/blocked recipients respectively.
Shared Mailbox Creation - Create multiple shared mailboxes at a time using CSV.
Hard Delete Users - Remove users from the recycle bin.
Change UPN - Change the User Principal Name of multiple users at a time using CSV.
Dynamic Distribution Group Creation - Create multiple dynamic distribution groups at a time using CSV.
Add/Remove Office 365 Group Owners - Add or remove Office 365 group owners from multiple groups using CSV.
Add/Remove Group Members using CSV - Add or remove multiple users from multiple groups using CSV.
Group-based License Modification - Add or remove licenses of Office 365 users based on their group membership.

Enhancements

The following management tasks have been enhanced:

Modify Distribution List Members - Users can now add groups as members of distribution lists.
Modify Mail-enabled Security Group Members - Users can now add groups as members of mail-enabled security groups.
Mailbox Permission Changes - Users can now disable auto-mapping while giving full access permission to mailboxes.

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Release notes for build 4211 (Aug 29, 2018)

Highlights

Daily usage reports: Thirty six new reports that provide statistical details on every day user activities, and usage of the following Office 365 services:
1. Exchange Online: Reports on every day mailbox storage consumption, quota status, email app usage, and more.
2. Skype for Business: Reports on every day count of user activities, organizer activities, Skype minutes consumed, P2P sessions organized, and more.
3. OneDrive for Business: Reports on every day usage of files, site, storage, and more.
4. Microsoft Teams: Reports on every day count of Microsoft Teams user activities, group activities, and devices used.
5. Yammer: Reports on every day count of Yammer user activities, group activities, and devices used.
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Release notes for build 4210 (Aug 14, 2018)

Highlights

Global Search: Users can now easily locate reports, management capabilities, audit/alert profiles, articles on topics that you need assistance for, and anything across O365 Manager Plus from a single search box.
Users Without Photo Report: With this report view the list of mailbox users who do not have a profile picture.

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Release notes for build 4209 (Aug 3, 2018)

Highlights

Support for MFA-enabled accounts: In Tenant Settings, users can now configure MFA-enabled Office 365 and federated accounts using app password.
Create custom monitoring profiles:
- In addition to the default monitoring profiles, create custom profiles to monitor selected components of Office 365 services.
- Configure real-time email alerts while creating custom profiles, to know about incidents or advisories in selected components.

Enhancement

Tenant Settings: Identifying and troubleshooting the issues in tenant settings has been made easier with the enhanced UI.

Bug fix

Issues faced while generating OneDrive for Business and Azure AD reports have been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4208 (July 13, 2018)

Highlights

Disk space usage alerts: Audit logs, reports, and other product related data consume space in the installation drive. With the new feature, users can:
- View the product’s disk space usage statistics.
- Configure the minimum threshold for the free disk space in the installation drive.
- Choose to receive alerts when the free disk space goes below the set threshold limit in the installation drive.
Product and event notifications: Administrators will now receive email notifications on new build releases and upcoming webinars and workshops.

Enhancements

User attributes like Location, Contact Number, Country, and more have been added to the mailbox reports.
Captcha image (word verification image) has been added for a more secure login.

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Release notes for build 4207 (Jun 29, 2018)

Highlight

Monitor background job status: Users can now view the status of background jobs like report generation, mailbox/user management, report scheduling, and more.

Bug fix

Issue faced while generating Messages by Subject report has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4206 (Jun 21, 2018)

Highlight

Archive and restore audit logs: Historical audit data of all Office 365 services can be now be archived, and restored at your convenience in a single click.

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Release notes for build 4205 (Jun 1, 2018)

Bug fix

Data retrieval issue in Mail Trace audit profile has been fixed.

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Release notes for build 4204 (May 22, 2018)

Highlight

Language support: O365 Manager Plus is now available in Japanese.

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Release notes for build 4203 (May 9, 2018)

Highlights

Inbox rule report: This new report will list all the inbox rules created by users, along with the complete details of the rules.
Set mailbox storage threshold and retention period:
- Specify the maximum storage limit at which the users must be prohibited from sending emails, and the storage limit at which warning must be issued to them.
- Specify retention period for the deleted mailbox items.
File audit actions: 3 new actions in OneDrive for Business can now be audited:
- Extended File Accesses
- Extended File Views
- Extended File Modifications

Enhancements

The following management task has been enhanced.

Enable/Disable Mailbox Archive - Enable or disable mailbox archiving for multiple mailboxes in a single window, and configure custom names for mailbox archives.

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Release notes for build 4202 (Apr 19, 2018)

Highlights

Manage better with reports: Generate detailed reports on mailboxes, users, and groups, and manage the desired objects right from the reports, using the built-in management options.
Export management task status: You can now export or email the status of the management tasks you perform in PDF, CSV, HTML, or XLS format.
Bulk select options: Select any number of users or mailboxes you want to manage in a single click without any restriction.
Bulk Group Members Management: The following features have been introduced to add new members and remove existing members from groups in bulk.
- Add/remove distribution list members.
- Add/remove mail-enabled security group members.
- Add/remove Office 365 group members.
Archiving Disabled Mailboxes Report: Provides the list of archiving disabled mailboxes.
Exchange Online Users Report: Get the list of all users with details of their mailbox attributes.
UI revamp: Executing management tasks becomes simpler with the enhanced UI.

Enhancements

Enhanced bulk mailbox management tasks:
- Modify Mailbox Permission - Modify multiple mailbox permissions of different groups of users at the same time.
- Mailbox Message Size Restriction - Set maximum size for the mails that can be sent and received by users, and choose to block mails from particular senders.
- Configure Mailbox Auto Reply - Create auto reply messages using rich-text editor.
- Modify Mailbox Custom Attributes - Modify multiple custom attributes of multiple users at a time without CSV.
- Set Litigation Hold - Configure Litigation Hold URL and notes.
- Set Exchange Roles - Add/remove multiple roles of multiple users at a time.
- Delegate Mailboxes - Add/remove multiple delegate permissions (Send As, Send on Behalf, and full access) of multiple users at a time.
Enhanced bulk user management tasks:
- Reset Password - You can now choose the Password Never Expires option while resetting users’ passwords.
- MFA Settings - Enforce users to configure multi-factor authentication.
- Group Accept Mail From - Restrict groups from accepting mails from particular users.
Enhanced bulk contacts management tasks:
- Modify Contact Custom Attributes - Set multiple custom attributes for multiple contacts without CSV.

Issues Fixed

The following issues have been fixed:

Issue in configuring the ActiveSync feature while setting mailbox features.
Issue in the reports scheduler that prevented users from configuring the time period for the report data.

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Release notes for build 4201 (Mar 30, 2018)

Bug fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

Issues faced while managing O365 Manager Plus licenses.
Data mismatch in Mailbox Size and Inactive Exchange Users reports.

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Release notes for build 4200 (Mar 20, 2018)

O365 Manager Plus adds the capability to monitor the health and performance of Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, and ten other Office 365 services, all from a single console.

New Features

Office 365 Service Health Monitoring for major Office 365 services, 24x7. Sends out real-time email alerts when a service degradation is detected.
Endpoint Health Monitoring to track the health and performance of service endpoints to keep track of their availability.

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Release notes for build 4119 (Mar 13, 2018)

Highlights

O365 Manager Plus now provides the option to export reports as password protected documents.

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Release notes for build 4118 (Feb 26, 2018)

Highlight

O365 Manager Plus now supports management of Office 365 tenants configured in independent Azure cloud deployments, including Azure Germany, Azure China, and Azure US government.

Enhancement

You can now forward Office 365 audit logs to any Syslog server in Common Event Format (CEF) for better analysis and visualization.

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Release notes for build 4117 (Feb 19, 2018)

Highlight

O365 Manager Plus can now be integrated with ManageEngine Log360.

New Report

ActiveSync Enabled Mailboxes - Get the list of mailboxes that are allowed to sync with mobile devices using the ActiveSync protocol.

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Release notes for build 4116 (Jan 15, 2018)

Highlights

2 new reports on distribution lists.
- Inactive Distribution Lists by Last Sent Mail: Get details of the inactive distribution lists based on their last sent mail activity.
- Inactive Distribution Lists by Last Mail Activity: Get details of the inactive distribution lists based on their last mail activity (mail sent or received).
12 new audit actions to track Microsoft Teams’ events such as the addition, removal, and update of bots, tabs, members, and connectors.

Enhancement

Maximize graphs: Option to maximize and get a better view of the graphs in reporting and auditing sections.

Issue fixed

SSL issue in Chrome browser.

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Release notes for build 4115 (29 Dec, 2017)

Highlights

Yammer auditing and reporting capabilities: You can audit and generate alerts on 17 actions in Yammer which fall under the following categories:

User Activities: Audit groups and messages, created and deleted, along with the files created, modified, deleted, renamed, and viewed by users.
Settings Changes by Admin: Audit network, security, and profile related modifications made by admins, along with hard/soft delete settings modified, users suspended, and data exported by them.

New Reports

10 new reports on Yammer

Yammer Events Log - Get audit details on all user activities in Yammer.
Yammer Group Created - Get details on Yammer groups created by users.
Yammer Group Deleted - Get details on groups deleted from Yammer.
Yammer Message Deleted - Get details on Yammer messages deleted by users.
Yammer File Created - Get details on Yammer files created by users.
Yammer File Downloaded - Get details on Yammer files downloaded by users.
Yammer File Shared - Get details on Yammer files shared by users.
Yammer File Description Updated - Get details on Yammer file descriptions changed by users.
Yammer File Renamed - Get details on Yammer files renamed by users.
Yammer File Viewed - Get details on Yammer files viewed by users.

8 new reports on Skype for Business

Skype Licensed Users - Get details on licensed Skype for Business users
Skype Dial-in Users - Get the list of dial-in users with their numbers in Skype for Business along with the details on the audio conference ID, provider, and more.
Skype Removed Users - Get details on Skype for Business users whose licenses have been removed recently.
Session Details - Get details on audio and video sessions carried-out by users in Skype for Business.
Skype Numbers - Get details on user and service numbers being used in your organization in Skype for Business.
Voice-enabled Users - Get details on voice-enabled users with their telephone number, location, and more.
Auto Attendant Details - Get details on auto attendants configured, with details on the destination telephone number, language ID, status of the attendant, and more.
User PSTN Settings - Get details on voice enabled users’ PSTN settings in Skype for Business.

Enhancements

Expand Graph option is now available in the dashboard to expand and view the graphs more clearly

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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.

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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 site collection, blocked sharing invitation, broke permission level inheritance, broke sharing inheritance, modified permission level on site collection,removed permission level from site collection, and restored sharing inheritance.
OneDrive File and Folder Activities - Deleted file from recycle bin, deleted file from second-stage recycle bin, detected malware in file, recycled all minor versions of file,recycled all versions of file, recycled version of file, and viewed page.

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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.

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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:

Issue in reports scheduler which failed to attach the saved reports while sending it via email.

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Release notes for build 4109 (8 Sep, 2017)

Highlights: 12 new management tasks and 20 new reports

New Management Tasks:

Bulk Group Creation

Create Office 365 Groups - Create Office 365 groups in bulk.
Create Distribution Groups - Create distribution groups in bulk.
Create Mail-Enabled Security Groups - Create mail-enabled security groups in bulk.

Bulk Contact Creation

Create Bulk Contacts - Create contact objects in bulk.

Bulk User Management

Modify Naming Attributes - Modify the naming attributes of users.
Modify Contact Attributes - Modify the contact attributes of users.

Bulk Contact Modification

Hide / Unhide Contacts - Hide or unhide contacts from GAL in bulk.
Modify Contact Custom Attributes - Modify the custom attributes of contacts.

Bulk Group Modification

Hide / Unhide Groups - Hide or unhide groups from GAL in bulk.
Modify Group Custom Attributes - Modify the custom attributes of groups.
Delete Groups - Delete existing Office 365, distribution, and mail-enabled security groups.

Mailbox Management

Modify Custom Mail Attributes - Edit the custom mail attributes in bulk.

New Reports:

License Reports

Licensed Users by Service Status - View all available licensed users based on services used.
Licensed Groups - View all available groups with Office 365 license.
Licensed Group Members - This report shows users, who are all licensed because of being a member of a licensed group.

Mailbox Account Status Reports

Send As Permission - View the list of users, mailboxes, contacts, and other objects with send-as permission.
Send on Behalf Permission - View the list of users, mailboxes, contacts, and other objects with send on-behalf permission

Applications Reports

Azure AD Applications - View all available Azure AD applications.
Enterprise Applications - View all available Azure AD enterprise applications.
Web Applications - View all available Azure AD web applications.
Native Applications - View all available Azure AD native applications.
Deleted Applications - View all deleted Azure AD applications.
Objects by Enterprise Apps - View all available objects created by enterprise applications.

Azure AD Devices Reports

Azure AD Registered Devices - View all available devices registered to Azure Active Directory
Registered Device Vs Owners - View all owners of devices registered to Azure Active Directory.
Registered Device Vs Users - View all users of devices registered to Azure Active Directory.

Contacts Reports

All Mail Contacts - View the list of all mail contacts.
Contacts with Owners - View the list of contact objects with owners.

Group Type Reports

Office 365 Groups - View the list of Office 365 groups.

User General Reports

User Created Objects - Gives details on groups and service principles created by users.
Users with Validation Error - Shows details of users with validation error.
Users with DirSync Provisioning Error - Shows details of users with DirSync provisioning error.

Enhancement:

Added new custom attribute columns and extension attribute columns in Mail Enabled Security Groups and Distribution Groups reports.

Bug fixes

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.

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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.

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Release notes for build 4106 (1 Aug, 2017)

Highlights

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.

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Release notes for build 4105 (17 Jul, 2017)

Features

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.

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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 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 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.

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Release notes for build 4103 (15 May, 2017)

Features

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.

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Release notes for build 4102 (26 Apr, 2017)

Enhancements:

CPU usage has been optimized for better performance.

Issues fixed:

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Release notes for build 4101 (19 Apr, 2017)

Features:

Audit and Alert

5 new profile category in Exchange Online

Malware Detection - Audit emails containing malware along with details such as received time, sender, recipient and more.
Spam Detection - Get audit details on emails marked as spam along with details such as received time, sender, recipient, and more.
DLP Policy Matches - Provides audit details of emails that match DLP policies.
Transport Rule Matches - Provides audit details on emails that match transport rules.
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

Dynamic Distribution Group Members - Get details on members of dynamic distribution groups.
Room Mailbox Events - Get details on calendar events of room mailboxes.
Room Mailbox Booking Count - Shows the booking count of each room mailbox.
Room Mailbox Configuration - Get details on room mailbox configurations.
Calendar Log Events - Get details on all calendar events.
Recently Created Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were created in the past ‘x’ days.
Recently Modified Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were modified in the past ‘x’ days.
Recently Deleted Calendar Events - Shows the details of calendar events that were deleted in the past ‘x’ days.
User with Empty Attributes - Get details on users with null attribute value.
User with Same Attribute Values - Get details on users with same attribute values.
Mail Activity by Connector - Get details on emails sent and received using connectors.
Connectors - Get details on all connectors.
Sharing Invitation Activities - Get details on sharing invitations created, accepted and deleted.
Sharing Revoked Activities - Know about revoked sharing permissions.
Sharing Activities - Shows the details of files and folders that were shared including to whom it was shared and when.
Anonymous Link Activities - Get details about anonymous links created, modified, and deleted.
Access Request Activities - Know about access requests sent, accepted, and denied.
Company Link Activities - Get details about company-wide links created, modified, and deleted.

Enhancements:

Custom attributes: Added 15 Exchange Online custom attribute and 5 extension custom attributes.
Additional columns: Added new columns like Company, Direct Reports, User Account Property, Previous Recipient Type, and more in user based reports.
Embed alerts: Now you can embed alerts in dashboards to keep a constant check.
Custom URI settings: Now you can use custom URI to configure product settings.
Profile creation: You can now choose how the target and caller should match while creating a new profile.
Performance improvements: Performance improvements have been done in mail traffic based reports.

Bug fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

Timezone difference issue that was present in audit reports.
Issues faced while editing profiles only with groups.
Account configuration issue due to the applied group policy.

How to update?

Update using service pack

Release notes for build 4100 (16 Mar, 2017)

Features:

Office 365 management, audit and alert features to aid you in holistic Office 365 administration.

Exchange Online Management: Handle mailboxes in bulk to eliminate redundant actions and save time.

Mailbox management: Handle mailbox litigation hold settings, permission settings, address list changes, mailbox feature settings, and more.
Public folder management: Enable or disable email for public folders. Delete unwanted public folders in bulk instead of removing them individually.
Shared mailbox management: Enable or disable shared mailboxes. Handle mailbox permission changes, configure auto reply messages, configure Litigation Hold changes, and more.

Azure Active Directory Management: Manage Azure Active Directory with its repository of users cautiously.

User management: Block, unblock, delete, and restore users in bulk. Edit users’ contact and address attributes and change their managers and domains from one place.
License management: License management is made easy with our simple user interface. You can assign, remove, or modify licenses in bulk with a single click.
Group management: Configure email settings for all your Active Directory groups. Choose which types of senders (internal, external, or both) groups can receive emails from.
Contacts management: Alter contact attribute values in bulk. O365 Manager Plus lets you add multiple values while bulk editing contacts.

Exchange Online Auditing - With this feature, keep track of:

Non-owner mailbox accesses, admin activities, and mailbox delegations to check for malicious activities.
Owner, non-owner, and admin activities on Exchange Online groups, group delegations, emails sent as groups, and more.
Contacts created, modified, or deleted by users.
Public folders created, modified, or deleted by users.
Any changes made to critical mailbox permissions.

Azure Active Directory Auditing - With this feature, keep track of - With this feature, keep track of:

Failed logon attempts due to an invalid username or password, which are indicators of brute force attacks.
Password and license changes made by users.
Recently created, modified, or deleted user accounts and user groups.
Group membership changes.

OneDrive for Business Auditing - With this feature, keep track of:

Files created, modified, deleted, renamed, or moved—with details on who did what action and when.
Sharing invitations, accepted and rejected access requests, and created, accepted, and deleted file sharing activities.
Partially and fully downloaded files, as well as uploaded files.
Synced devices and more.

Auditing for Compliance Management - With this feature, keep track of:

Security searches and created, modified, or deleted compliance security filters.
Created, modified, or deleted Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and retention compliance policies.
New case hold policies, DLP matches, activity alerts, users, and groups.
Management role groups that are created or deleted, including their members, and more.

Office 365 Alerting - Get notified about critical activities and changes happening in your Office 365 environment with custom alerts for each Office 365 service. O365 Manager Plus lets you:

Create custom alerts for specific actions.
Specify whether all mailboxes or only select mailboxes need to be monitored for suspicious activity.
Create your own custom alert messages to send to administrators.
Email administrators about which action triggered an alert to help them locate the source of the action immediately.

Bug fixes

Data mismatch problem in Group members based reports, Mail activity based reports, Folder message count and size report has been fixed.

How to update?

Update using service pack

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

How to update?

Update using service pack

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.

Release notes for build 4012 (23 Dec, 2016)

Features:

Business hours filters: Now view important events based on business hours or non-business hours through filters.
Last Mail Received (new report): Shows the date and time of the last mail received by distribution lists and mail-enabled security groups.

Enhancement:

New report filtering options:The following filtering options are now supported to enhance the data analysis process.
- Date – filter reports based on a particular day or custom date range.
- Multi values – enter comma separated values for a column to filter the reports.
- Conditions – new set of conditions to filter the reports.

Release notes for build 4011 (8 Dec, 2016)

Features:

High availability support to ensure minimal downtime.

Note: Available only when integrated with AD360.

Enhancements:

Now get detailed information on emails sent and received, both internally and externally, in Email Activity by Users report.
Archive Mailboxes report now shows you the archive status of each mailbox.

Issues fixed:

Issue which caused a session time out error during Exchange Online report generation.
Missing columns while exporting reports.

How to update?

Update using service pack

Release notes for build 4010 (15 Nov, 2016)

Features:

13 new reports on Exchange Online and Azure AD, to provide you complete visibility on Office 365.
- Room Mailboxes - Gives the email address, user principal name, alias and other details of existing room mailboxes.
- Equipment Mailboxes - Gives the email address, user principal name, alias and other details of existing equipment mailboxes.
- Users with Photo - Lists the details of mailbox users who have a display picture.
- Dynamic Distribution Group - Gives details on groups which have prescribed conditions, that must be satisfied, to be a member of them.
- Distribution List Members - Lists the members of distribution groups with their name, group in which they are member of, email address, and more.
- Groups with Disabled Members - Lists the groups with disabled users as members.
- Users not in Groups - Lists the users who are not members of any group.
- Recent Successful Logon - Lists the users with successful logon attempts with details on, when they did it, client IP and more.
- User to User Email Activity - Gives details on inbound and outbound emails, delivered and undelivered emails, on a user to user basis.
- Email Activity by Group - Gives details on distribution groups with the number of inbound and outbound emails, their respective sizes and more.
- Users in Multiple Groups - Gives details on users who are members of multiple groups.
- Recent Logon Failure - Gives details about the users who faced logon failures and the reason for it, in the past ‘n’ days.
- User Logon Activity - Gives a summary of logon attempts by users and their status.

Enhancements:

Report menu UI enhancement for easier navigation:
- Now you can view the list of all reports available, in the main window, when you select the reports menu.
- New pane in the top which lists all the categories of reports available.
- See similar reports listed in the left pane every time you select a report.

Release notes for build 4009 (27 Oct, 2016)

Features:

45 new reports to give you complete visibility into Office 365. Some of the important reports include:
- Distribution List Message by Subject - shows the subject of the mails received by distribution lists, their size, sender details and more, in the past 7 days.
- Mail Enabled Public Folders Items - gives the mail enabled public folders’ details on items present, their size, when were they created, and more.
- Public Folder Activity - gives an audit trail of user activities on public folders.
- Undelivered Emails - gives details about the undelivered emails in the past 7 days.
- Spam Detections - shows mails marked as spam along with details such as received time, sender, recipient, and more.
- Skype User Activities - shows how users have used Skype for Business over a period of month.
- Recently Created Users - gives details about the users accounts that were created in the past ‘n’ days.
- Recently Deleted Users - gives details about the user accounts that were deleted in the past ‘n’ days.
- Group Creation Report - gives details about the groups that were created and the user who created it in the specified duration.
- Group Deletion Report - gives details about the groups that were deleted and the user who deleted it in the specified duration.
- Show all new reports

Release notes for build 4008 (18 Oct, 2016)

Features:

10 new reports to give you complete details on contacts and password expiration status of users.
- Audit log - shows all the contacts, and the users who created, modified,and deleted them in the specified duration.
- New contacts report - shows the new contacts added in the specified duration.
- Modified contacts - shows the contacts modified in the specified duration.
- Deleted contacts - shows the contacts deleted in the specified duration.
- Inactive contacts - shows the contacts which have been inactive for the past 7 days.
- Contacts activity - shows details on mails sent and received by all the contacts in the past 7 days.
- Never expiring passwords - shows users whose passwords never expire.
- Soon to expire passwords - shows users whose passwords expire within ‘n’ days.
- Password expired users - shows users whose passwords have expired.
- User authentication - shows whether the users have enabled multi-factor authentication or not, their email IDs, mobile numbers, and more.

Enhancements:

Now you can add Azure accounts under administrator settings even if they are not associated with Office 365.
Rebranding option: Customize the product logo to suit your needs.
Customize the description and logo while exporting reports.
Send the reports immediately to any email address.
Printable view for reports.

Issues fixed:

Out of memory error has been fixed.

Release notes for build 4007 (Sep 2016)

Issue fixed:

Issue in configuring Office 365 accounts and generating Exchange Online reports when the proxy settings are not configured.

Release notes for build 4005 (Sep 2016)

Features:

18 new reports to give you a complete picture of shared mailboxes, public folders, and user activities in Exchange Online environments.

Shared mailboxes Reports
- Shared mailboxes - shows all the shared mailboxes in Exchange Online.
- Shared mailbox access - shows who accessed what shared mailbox and when.
- Send as shared mailbox - shows send as activities in shared mailboxes including when and by whom the activity was performed.
- Shared mailbox activities - shows who performed what action and when on shared mailboxes.
- Shared mailbox size – shows the size of shared mailboxes and other related details.
- Inactive shared mailboxes – shows all the shared mailboxes that have not been logged on in the past ‘n’ days as specified by you.
- Top used shared mailbox – shows shared mailboxes with the highest number of inbound and outbound emails.
- Mails sent by shared mailbox – shows details of email messages sent from shared mailboxes such as recipient, subject, received time, etc.
- Mails received by shared mailbox – shows details of email messages sent to shared mailboxes such as sender, subject, received time, etc.
- Email activity by shared mailbox – shows the email messages sent and received by shared mailboxes.
Exchange user activities reports
- Non-owner mailbox access - shows mailboxes that were accessed by non-owners including who performed what action and when.
- Send as activities by non-owners - shows send as activities in mailboxes by non-owners including the send time.
- Mailbox logins - shows send as activities in mailboxes by non-owners including the send time.
- Exchange user activities - shows user activities in mailboxes including who performed what action and when.
- Never logged on users - shows users who have never logged on to their Exchange Online mailboxes.
- Mailbox size over time - shows the mailbox sizes over a specified period of time.
Public folder reports:
- Public folders list – shows all the public folders in your Exchange Online environment.
- Mail enabled public folders – shows all mail enabled public folders in your Exchange Online environment.

Enhancements:

Performance improvements – faster report generation and lower memory consumption.
Now you can configure your proxy server settings from the product itself so that requests from the product can be forwarded to Office 365 through the proxy server.

Release notes for build 4004 (Aug 2016)

Features:

30 new reports including OneDrive for Business reports.

OneDrive for Business Reports
- OneDrive files accessed - displays details on all accesses to files in OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive file modifications - provides details on all the modifications made to the content or properties of files in OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive renamed files - shows details on the files renamed in OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive moved files - provides details on the moved files in OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive file operations - tracks files which were copied, deleted, moved, renamed and restored.
- OneDrive file uploads – displays details on the files uploaded to OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive downloads - gives details on the files downloaded from OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive deleted files - gives details on the files deleted from OneDrive for Business.
- OneDrive events log - tracks all the user activities in OneDrive for Business.
Activity reports
- Exchange admin activity - tracks all the administrator activities in Exchange Online.
- Azure admin activity - tracks all the administrator activities in Azure.
- SharePoint admin activity - tracks all the administrator activities in SharePoint.
- In-Place Hold activity - tracks the changes made to In-Place Hold objects and also displays details on In-Place eDiscovery.
- Litigation Hold activity - shows details on all the changes made to Litigation Hold on mailboxes.
- Admin roles - shows users with administrator roles and their role details.
- Exchange admin roles - shows users with Exchange administrator roles and their role details.
Exchange Online general reports:
- Migration statistics - shows details about the users migrated from Exchange on-premises to Office 365.
Mailbox size reports
- Archive mailbox sizes - shows the mailbox size and archive count of archive-enabled mailboxes.
Account status reports
- Soft deleted mailboxes - displays the Soft deleted mailboxes along with their Hold details.
- Mailboxes with delegates - shows the mailboxes that have been delegated to other users.
Mailbox content reports
- Mailbox clutter details - shows the clutter settings of all mailboxes including items in clutter folder, folder size, and more.
OWA reports
- OWA attachment policies - shows the various attachment types that are allowed and blocked for each OWA attachment policy.
- OWA attachment policy by users - shows the OWA attachment policies associated with each user.
- Address book policies - shows the address book policies and filter parameters.
- Address book policy by user - shows the address book policy associated with each user.
Mail traffic reports
- Spam traffic summary - gives a summary of spam and malware traffic in Exchange environment.
- Domain traffic summary - provides a summary of mail traffic in all the domains in Exchange.
Group reports
- Groups accept mail from - shows groups, their type, and from which senders (internal or external) they can accept mail from.
License reports
- Soon to expire licenses by user - displays the number of days in which the user’s licenses will expire.

Enhancements:

Now you can delegate Office 365 users as product technician and allow them to log in to O365 Manager Plus using their Office 365 credentials.
License details report now provides you additional information including the purchase date and license expiration date.

Release notes for build 4003 (Jul 2016)

Features:

Support for MS SQL as the back-end database.
O365 Manager Plus can now automatically check for updates and install them if the product has been configured with PostgreSQL database.

Enhancements:

Added new columns to mobile devices reports.

Issues Fixed:

Issue in configuring mail servers that required TLS or SSL authentication.
Issue faced in generating Folder Message Count and Size report has been fixed.

Release notes for build 4002 (June 2016)

New Reports:

Office 365 reporting gets more detailed with the addition of these new reports - Mail Traffic Summary, Cloud users, and Synced users.

Enhancements:

Added new columns to give additional information in reports.
Failures encountered when configuring new Office 365 accounts will now list out the cause of the failure to enable easy troubleshooting.

Release notes for build 4001 (June 2016)

Issues fixed:

Issue faced while opening the product using the desktop shortcut has been fixed.
Issues encountered while adding an Office 365 account has been fixed.

Release notes for build 4000 (May 2016)

Features:

Extensive Office 365 reports to gain valuable insights on all important aspects of your Office 365 environment. View the list of all reports.
Ability to customize, export, schedule, publish and embed the reports.

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