One Identity Active Roles 7.4.3
Release Notes
October 2020
These release notes provide information about the One Identity Active Roles release.
Release Notes
October 2020
These release notes provide information about the One Identity Active Roles release.
NOTE: If you are currently utilizing the Office 365 Add-on, uninstall the add-on before performing the Active Roles upgrade to version 7.4.3. For more information regarding the changes to Office 365 support see Impact on Office 365 add-on.
Before proceeding with the upgrade ensure to perform a database backup.
Active Roles (formerly known as ActiveRoles®), provides out-of-the-box user and group account management, strictly enforced administrator-based role security, day-to-day identity administration and built-in auditing and reporting for Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD) environments. The following features and capabilities make Active Roles a practical solution for secure management of objects in Active Directory and Active Directory-joined systems:
Active Roles also automates the process of reassigning and removing user access rights in AD and AD-joined systems (including user and group deprovisioning) to ensure an efficient and secure administrative process over the user and group lifetimes. When a user’s access needs to be changed or removed, updates are made automatically in Active Directory, Azure AD, Exchange, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and Windows, as well as any AD-joined systems such as Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X.
NOTE: Mailboxes can be created only for Users, enabling mailbox for a Contact is not allowed.
Active Roles also includes intuitive interfaces for improving day-to-day administration and help desk operations via both an MMC snap-in and a Web interface.
Active Roles 7.4.3 is a service pack release, with new features and functionality. See New features for details.
Active Roles 7.4.3 introduces the following changes to system requirements from those for Active Roles 6.9.0:
NOTE: Microsoft Exchange 2013 CU11 is no longer supported. Refer KB article 202695.
See also System requirements.
The new release of Active Roles extends and enhances the capabilities of the product .
Major new features in Active Roles Version 7.4.3:
NOTE: Modern authentication for exchange online properties is included as a preview feature in this release. The feature is tested and included in the product as a supple-ment to Basic authentication. One Identity reserves the right to provide limited support to this feature as defined in the One Identity Support Guide.
Major new features in Active Roles Version 7.4.1:
Separate configuration and management history databases during installation or in-place upgrade, confirming to Microsoft standards and best practices for replication.
Support for Azure AD Graph 1.6 for Active Roles Synchronization Services.
Use of Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) for Active Roles Service account.
Reset the password for multiple users at one time.
Solution Intelligence for Active Roles.
Log in to MMC interface through 2FA authentication.
Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 in Synchronization Service.
Support for remote mailbox creation and modification.
NOTE: The ‘Remote mailbox migration (RemoteMailbox.ps1)’ script has been provided as a sample script only, to illustrate the steps required, and should not be used as-is in a production situation without modification and enhancement. The use of security credentials within a script in clear text should never be considered appropriate or secure. In testing this script, care and consideration should be given to the authentication and use of credentials, and clear text credentials should not be left in the script once testing is complete. For more details refer the KB article: https://support.oneidentity.com/kb/310525.
Support for Federated authentication feature.
See also Resolved issues.
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