User Admin

• Minor bug fixes

EUM API

• Minor bug fixes

EUM Portal

• Updated CSS and JS files along with structure
  • Simplified custom.css so it only needs to contain the overwrites
  • Better bundling of core CSS and JS files to limit the number of files retrieved during page load

EUM Publisher

• Performance tweaks when refreshing group data

User Admin

• Custom Group Add form for Adding a Data Room Team
• Custom Group Add form for Data Room Folder
• Specify page templates to use for Group Join and Group Member pages
• Support for custom choice fields in User details page
• Specify optional Email delay for Email templates

EUM API

• Configuration Endpoint requires authentication

EUM Portal

• Updated versions for JQuery and JQuery validation
• Data Room UI updates
  • Requested Documents area with notes field displayed
  • Separate Upload Documents area displaying the files available

EUM Publisher

• Publisher substitutions changes prefix to handle escaping for characters
• JS for JavaScript usage
• C# for C# usage
• HTMLEncoded for HTML content that gets rendered on a page
• HTMLRaw Do not escape as content is written as needed
• no prefix (prior implementations) is similar to HTMLRaw where no escaping is done

PowerBI Data Harvester

• Updated to use the fields defined in the User and Group Attributes mapping lists

User Admin

• New, Simplified Setup of Collaboration scenarios
  • Ready to Use Executive Boards, Committees and Projects Packages
  • Easy to Use Request Form that is Integrated with the Envision IT Teams Provisioning Solution
• Integration with LMS 365, an enhanced Learning Portal in M365
  
  • New Partnership with Powerful Online Learning Vendor in M365 Eco System
  • Utilizes familiar M365 Tools such as SharePoint and Teams
  • Learning Opportunity for External Collaborators such as Partners, Customers, Volunteers …
  • New Interface in EUM Admin for Course and Training Plans Administrators
  • Easy setup with menu-driven choices for available Learning assets
  • Integration with EUM eCommerce unlocks additional revenue streams
  • User Registration Provides Instant Access to Configured Courses, Training Plans and Catalogs

EUM Portal

• Ready to Use Portal Templates Offer Rich Content in Simplified User Interface
• Support for multiple Collaboration scenarios, including
  
  • Executive Boards and Committees
  • Projects
• Meeting Packages facilitate Meeting Creation and Participation
• Enhanced Member Directory Widget facilitates contact within Portal communities
  • Email all Members
  • Copy all Member Emails
  • Manage Membership
• People Publishing Updates
  • Rich Interface for Updating Profile Information
  • Ability to Upload/Change Profile Picture
  • About Me Bio
  • Address Information
  • Social Media Links
  • Opt-in for New Member Directory
  • Opt-in to Display Email to Other Members in Directory
  • Opt-in for Newsletter
• New Member Directory
  • Browse, Search and Connect with Members in Portal Communities
  • Members cards with Picture, Contact Info and Social Links, visibility managed by the individual
  • Additional, Configurable Tagging Feature to Highlight User Activity and Roles such as Speaker, Exhibitor, Author
•  Media Picker
  •  Enhanced Portal Content Authoring Experience
  •  Updated WYSIWIG 'Froala' Editor to Create Rich Content Pages
  •  Easy Upload of Images and Files
  •  Metadata Panel to Display Media Properties
  • New Search Feature with Tracking of Recent Files

Publisher

• Feature rich Webpart Embedded Directly in SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams
• Site Administrators can invite external collaborators to Collaboration Spaces
• Support for Finely-grained Permissions
  • Additional Security Trimmed folders can be created and configured, with separate membership with Sites and Teams

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User Manager Features

• User and Group Import
  • A Dashboard in the EUM SharePoint Config site provides
    • Links to the import templates used in the User and Group import process
    • A list to display the import status for each import run
  • Empty import template files are deployed as part of the installation
  • Global Administrators and Users Administrators can edit Member accounts through EUM Admin
• Enhanced Search Experience in User Search
  • No default search results are presented
  • Search is initiated by the user
• Enhanced Search Experience in Group Search
  • No default search results are presented
  • Search is initiated by the user

EUM Portal

• Updated styling for Gear menu with new icons
• New Gear Menu for Portal
  • Links to EUM Admin, EUM Config, CMS Site
• Updated Gear Menu for Portal Content Authors
• Enhanced People Support Features
  • Default fields trimmed down to only commonly used properties
  • Description section with integrated Froala editor
  • Opt-in choices for Member directory, Display of Email to Members, Newsletter

Publisher

• Froala editor updated to latest version (4.0.17)
• Fully Functional Media Picker to
  • Select and insert images and documents
  • Robust search feature
  • Easily retrieve recent items
  • Metadata panel is displayed in view mode
• Media Upload Feature allows
  • Upload and insert of media through drag and drop or browse modes
  • Dialog for Metadata including
    • Library
    • Filename (pre-populated)
    • Path
    • Title
  • Upload triggers immediate publish
  • Inserts HTML based on Library type

Installer

• New User-friendly Installer
  
  • Two-part installer with dedicated client facing module
  • Secure integration with CRM Customer Database for license provisioning
  • Easy Install

User Manager Features

• Support to Update/Add Email templates
  • Ability to update existing email templates through EUM Admin Interface
  • Ability to add a new email template through EUM Admin Interface

EUM Portal

• Enhanced User Registration
  • A dialog is presented to the user to explain registration steps as they are happening
  • A progress bar counts down completion of registration
• Committee Template Branding Enhancements
  • Addition of custom logos
  • Enhanced section for panel presentation, with usage of background colours and borders designating different categories of documents
• New Meeting Request Enhancement
  • Advanced incremental consent for additional permissions for access to the logged-in user's calendar
  • Meetings are created in the logged-in user's Calendar
  • Integrates with existing Email all members and Copy all Member Emails functionality
• Support for EUM Admin / Portal Hosted Scenario
  • Advanced client installation for EUM hosted installations
  • All Data hosted in Client tenant
  • App Services and Logic apps hosted for client, realizing cost savings, faster response times for support requests and easier maintenance

Publisher

• Improved logging feature

User Manager Features

• New EUM Managers Group for Business Users
  • Members of this new group are EUM Administrators
  • Azure AD Administrator privileges (Global, User, Group) not necessary
  • Allows for EUM Administrators group to be dedicated to technical administrators
  • EUM Admin can be provided with optional access to Azure AD EUM Resource Group for enhanced client support
• Enhanced security for EUM Admin Power BI Dashboard Reports
  • Implementation of RLS (row-level security) to enable security trimming by roles as follows:
    • EUM Administrator or EUM Manager see all EUM Groups and AAD users
    • Group Owners or Membership Managers see all groups they own or manage and all members of those groups
    • Users, whether Member or Guest, see EUM groups they belong to and themselves as a user
    • Everyone – all authenticated users see the report

EUM Portal

• Multilingual support
  • Ability to set enabled languages in dedicated Suite Languages list
  • Enabled languages display in Language Picker
  • Multilingual branding including header, footer, login, page content
  • Multilingual email templates managed through a dedicated library

Publisher

• Support for separate CMS/Live (Published) sitess
• Built in support for Authenticating users in the Portal Content Author group
• Optional Approval workflow for Publishing of Content
• Optional Scheduling of Publishing of Content
• Publisher Developer Mode: Enables fill Publish for local development

User Manager Features

• New EUM Administrator Group
  • Members of this new group are EUM Administrators
  • Azure AD Administrator (Global, User, Group) permission no longer necessary
• Support for Query String Parameters with Authentication
  • Deep links with query string parameters requiring authentication are preserved
• Power BI Paginated Report Support including Row Level Security (RLS)
  • Power BI Datasets
  • SQL DB Data
• Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights Application Dashboard
    • EUM Admin
    • EUM Portal
    • Logic Apps Management (Successes, Failures)

EUM Portal

• Support for Member Rollup Pages with summary info and rollup images for the following:
  • News
  • Events
  • Articles
  • Publications

Publisher

• Content Placeholders
  • Support for Content Placeholders in Layouts and Templates
• Support for Static and Dynamic Snippets
  • Static snippets are not wrapped in comments and are not updated by Publisher when Snippets List is updated
  • Dynamic snippets are wrapped in a comment and are updated by Publisher with the Snippet List is updated.
  • List of snippets and their static and dynamic values output by Publisher in the PublisherJSON file.
• Support for configuration of CMS (Draft mode) and Published (Live site) mode
  • Pages can be created in draft mode and will not be published unless approved
• Rich HTML Extended Field Type
  • Fields can be edited with the Froala editor in the Page Metadata dialog modal in Publisher

User Manager Features

• Registration Starter forms
  • Registration Minimal
  • Registration Static Simple Address
  • Registration Static Full
  • Registration Knockout
  • Registration Dynamic
• User Search improvements
• Power BI Paginated Report Support
• Reports rollup template and page

Publisher

• Automation of PublisherJSON file
• Application Insights Support

Bug Fixes

• Updating members for SharePoint groups that contain & in name
• Consistent date formatting
• Creating user that contains apostrophe in email
• Changing an email of a user was incorrectly reporting error in some cases

User Manager Features

• Ability to add custom (implementation specific) user fields on registration form

Publisher

• Ability to Add People (Person) Pages
• Ability to Configure rollup of related People pages on Event and News Pages

Bug Fixes

• Updating of metadata for Events pages
• Updating of metadata for Events pages
• EUM license correctly displayed in Footer
• Loading image does not display with edit mode with pages with rollup content

User Manager Features

• User and Group Import
• Add Group Selection Page
  • Ability to select what group you would like to create
  • Ability to select what group you would like to create
• SPFx Webpart
  • Provides similar features as EUM V5

Portal Features

• New Page Form
• Edit Page Form
• New Committee Meeting Request Form
• Performance improvements
  • Groups information is stored in session
  • HTML snippets can be defined in SharePoint list and placed on pages
  • Creation of PublisherJSON file for use on Publisher pages

Publisher

• Update snippets on pages if snippet has been modified
• Delta publishing of pages
• Page template support for group join and member pages
• Page template support for group join and member pages
• Apply member folder and pages with parent group permissions

Documents

• Rebuilt Documents using Kendo UI
• Download documents
• Update documents
• Upload documents
• Delete documents
• Documents are stored in different site collections

Known Issues

• Metadata for Events do not fully repopulate the dates, type and people fields on edit
• Metadata for Article do not fully repopulate fields on edit
• Loading image appears within the page editor when the page contains rollups
• When Froala Editor is in Full View in Portal, the Edit Metadata form loads behind the editor
• Webspellchecker is executing on rollups which causes redlines to display on page during edit
• After approving a user by clicking on the link in an email, the EUM license within the footer displays as invalid

User Manager Features

• New security level allows non admin users to add groups
• Ability to change the registered email address for a user account
• License management through EUM Admin
• New Azure AD Page with convenient links
• Quick Links Section with convenient links
• Enhanced Join Page Functionality for Add a Group
• Support for new Member rollup section on Add a Group - Member Page tab
• Support for new Join Page rollup section on Add a Group - Join Page tab

Portal Features

• Updated Group rollups displaying My Groups, Public Groups according to custom or alphabetic sorting

Full release of the EUM Platform with User Manager, Portal, and Publisher. Both EUM Admin and Portal are deployed as part of this installation.

User Manager Features

• Ability to save and load additional user profile attributes in EUM Admin
• Ability to change the registered email address for a user account
• Block sign-in for users

Portal Features

• Ability to access and explore Power BI reports through an embedded Power Service without a Power BI Premium license
• Ability to create committee meetings from within the portal
• Users see a constantly refreshed list of groups within the portal that reflects recent join activity without need for sign in/out
• Registration for Public Groups through a simple flow initiated by clicking a Join button

Full release of the EUM Platform with User Manager, Portal, and Publisher. Both EUM Admin and Portal are deployed as part of this installation.

User Manager Features

• Membership Manager Role - Ability for a member to manage the membership of assigned groups without elevated Azure AD rights
• Membership Approvals - As a Membership Manager or Group Owner approve users requesting to join a group that requires approvals
• Member URL - Specify an external URL or have the system auto generate a page that group member can navigate to
• Logic Apps for custom workflows - Extend logic apps to execute custom workflows when a user is created, updated and added or removed from a group.
• Assign a Manager to a guest user account - Can be either a member or guest user in the underlying tenant

Portal Features

• Group Join - Ability to display list of groups that a user can request to join (Public Groups)
• User Registration - As part of the login flow, if the user's email is not found in Azure AD, the workflow navigates them to a registration page that is easily customized
• Integrated Content Editor to update pages within the portal
• Anonymous and Group Secured Pages

Publisher Features

• Provisioning of customized pages
• User Registration - As part of the login flow, if the user's email is not found in Azure AD, the workflow navigates them to a registration page that is easily customized
• Automated job that runs every 15 minutes (configurable) to ensure pages are up-to-date on the site
• Publishes EUM Group pages

Features

• Manage Azure AD Groups through EUM Admin
• Assign Group Owners to EUM Groups
  • Must be a member in the underlying tenant
• Group Owners can invite and manage all guest users within the tenant
• Send customized invitation emails on a per-group basis
• Assign a Manager to a guest user account - Can be either a member or guest user in the underlying tenant
• Add guest users to SharePoint Group when added to EUM Group to ensure guest users gain instant access

Initial release of the User Manager Version 6 product within the EUM Platform. Version 6 has a simplified architecture that is built utilizing the Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint and Logic Apps. EUM Admin reads and writes directly against Azure Active Directory users and groups. This simplifies the installation and configuration of the product and provides the greater flexibility to meet our clients need.

Features

• Send customized invitation emails on a per-group basis
• Invite and manage all guest users within the tenant
• Manage Azure AD Security Groups through EUM Admin
• Assign Group Owners to EUM Groups - Must be a member in the underlying tenant
• Assign a Manager to a guest user account - Can be either a member or guest user in the underlying tenant
• Add guest users to SharePoint Group when added to EUM Group to ensure guest users gain instant access

New Features

• Subscription license required

Bug Fixes

• Arm Template Deployment
  • Modifications to Arm Template provisioning scripts
  • Disabled Automation Provisioning Autorun - Need to manually trigger job
• Installation Process
  • Utilize ARM Template for provisioning of Azure Resources
  • Use a Pre-configured Azure Automation PowerShell script for installing EUM components to Azure resources

Database

• Database version has been updated to 5.1

New Features

• EUM Admin
  • Rebuild of LandingAdmin and is now installed under /EUMAdmin
  • Dashboard
  • Staff User Status
    • Add staff users via synchronization from Azure Active Directory
    • Add staff users to EUM groups as Members or Owners
• Installation Process
  • Utilize ARM Template for provisioning of Azure Resources
  • Use a Pre-configured Azure Automation PowerShell script for installing EUM components to Azure resources

Database

• Database version has been updated to 5.1

New Features

• EUM Groups SPFx webpart
  • This webpart displays all the groups that the current logged in user is a member of, previously requested access to, and may join.
• Updated EUM Group Members SPFx webpart
  • This webpart displays all the groups that are associated with the current site URL it is placed on. It will show all groups and members of those corresponding groups.
  • Group owners have the ability to add new / existing users, as well as approve/reject pending requests to join the group from within webpart.
  • This webpart first released in an earlier version, initially named as the EUM Groups webpart, but have now renamed it to "EUM Group Members.
  • We've updated it to include the following features:
    • Ability to specify column widths for each of the fields (Email, Telephone, Organization)
    • Ability to restrict member views

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.19

New Features

• Groups in Landing
  • Public Groups
    • When a user is unauthenticated, this will list all groups that are configured as available for registration and a public group
    • When a user is authenticated, this list will filter out the public groups that the user is already a member of
• LandingAdmin UI Updates
  • UI.js added
    • Centralized configuration of datatables, popups, export functionalities
    • Ability to dismiss operation feedback messages
• Instant On Access to SharePoint Online
  • Ability to put a user into a SharePoint Group
    • There is currently an issue with the Microsoft user access that may delay a user actually getting permissions into a site. We've worked with the Microsoft team on this issue and the work around is to place the user directly in a SharePoint Group. This requires additional configuration at the EUM Api to support this scenario
    • In LandingAdmin, you can specify a SharePoint Group that relates to the EUM Group. When a user is placed into the EUM group, they will automatically be added to the SharePoint Group as well
• Group Logo
  • Associate a group logo to an EUM Group
    • Ability to upload a logo for a specific EUM Group
    • The logo will be returned as part of the EUM Group data as a base64 encoded string

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.18

New Features

• License Support Subscription Model
• LandingAdmin User Search Updates
  • Added additional buttons for
    • Clear MFA
    • Delete Deactivated Users

Bug Fixes

• Wrong entry twice in Password Expiry or Warning page displays login error
• MFA Type selected as “Setup at next login” throws error while adding user

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.17

New Features

• EUM Bulk Updates
  
  • Bulk changes to user from LandingAdmin Search
  • Send specified email to selected users
  • Updated selected users status
  • Require selected users to set up MFA
• MFA Types
  • New MFA Type of 'None'
  • Allows users to opt out of using MFA for login
  • Can be enabled/disabled by Configuration Admins through LandingAdmin portal
  • Admins can also require user(s) to specify their MFA preference during login

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.16
• MFA Types updated

New Features

• EUM O365 API
  
  • Allows for API to use same authentication as Office 365
  • *Can be used in Flow, SPFx Webparts etc.
  • Limited set of functionalities as it is initially to support Users and Groups
• SPFx Webpart
  • Webpart that can be added to SharePoint Online or Microsoft Teams
  • *Add Groups to Team site
  • Add New / Existing Users to Groups
  • Approve/Reject users requesting permissions to join Group
  • Quickly email selected group members using your email client
• Landing
  • Template website now contains a section for users to discover groups anonymously
  • Group page displays description of group

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.15
• Each Group now contains description, summary and Site URL fields

* Requires additional setup / configuration

New Features

• Impersonate a User
  
  • Ability to login as another user to validate or troubleshoot issues end user is experiencing
  • Login flow (Password checks, MFA validation, Disclaimer acceptance) is performed for the current user logging in prior to being impersonated
  • Additional audit logs to capture impersonation
  • Customize who is allowed to impersonate a user
• Ability to re-send emails to end user
  • User Details page within LandingAdmin now has an option for Administrators (Group Owners, Group Editors, Configuration Editors) to send selected emails to user

Database

• Database version has been updated to 4.14

New Features

• Deprecation of Landing website
  • End User Pages now live under identityserver
    • Registration
    • Set Password
    • Forgot Password
    • My Profile
• Updates to Login flow
  • Auto detection if account exist after input of email address
  • If account does not exist, user is transfered to the registration page
  • If user associated their account with a social provider, user is automatically redirected to social provider to login
  • Private registration links can be used to associate user to a group
  • MFA info is collected during login, if an administrator enables MFA and user does not have a preference set
  • User is required to complete an email verification as part of registration if they specified their email address, or MFA information is being required
• Email Templates
  • New email template for users who register and associate their account with a social provider
  • New email template for approvers to notify them that a user requested to join a group
  • New email template for users to be notified when an approver either approves or rejects the request to join a group
  • Additional tokens have been added to email templates to support the new login flow
  • Note: Upgrading to this version will require you to update your email templates to utilize the new pages within identityserver
• Groups
  • Group Approvals
    • Users can request to join one or more group
    • Approvers are specified by email address on group details page
    • User details page displays pending group requests
    • If a user requests to join a group, the approver for that group is granted access to view that user's details.
    • Publicly available groups can require approvals before user is added to the group
    • Note: Administrators must ensure users in approval email list have appropriate permissions in Landingadmin
  • Can set a display name for Groups
  • Default search status is set to Active
  • Registration private link available on Group details page

New Features

• Updated scripts for deploying EUM as an Azure App Service
• Support for Azure Key Vault and Windows Credentials Manager
• Secure entries in Azure Application Settings, web.config, app.config, and appsettings.json can be stored in the Azure Key Vault for Azure App Service installs, or Windows Credentials Manager for On Premises installs.
• Password Expiry
• EUM can be optionally configured to force a user to update their password during the login process if their password age is greater than the define value. There is also the ability to display a warning period prior to the password expiry to notify the user that their password is about to expire.

Bug Fixes

• Group Owners have the ability to associate a user to one or more groups during user creation.
• If restrictions were applied to EUM that only allowed Group Owners to only view users that belong to a group they are an owner of, the UI restricted the Group Owner to associate the new user to a group prior to saving the record. We've updated the UI so Group Owners now have the ability to put a user into their group(s) prior to saving the record.