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ControlPoint 8.6.1 - Release Notes

Metalogix® ControlPoint 8.6

Release Notes

September 2021

These release notes provide information about the latest Metalogix® ControlPoint release.

·New Features

·Resolved Issues

·Known Issues

·System Requirements

·Product Licensing

·Third Party Contributions

·About Us

New Features

Version 8.6 of Metalogix ControlPoint introduces the following features:

8.6.1

Enhancements to data security have been implemented and ControlPoint is now FIPS-compliant.

8.6.0

·For ControlPoint On-Premises:

§The Discovery service now processes members of Active Directory groups in Web Application Policies.

§For ControlPoint for Office 365 (ControlPoint Online):

§Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now supported.

§Support has been added for GCC and GCC High tenants.

§It is no longer necessary to initially log into ControlPoint Online as the (Windows-based) ControlPoint Service Account.

·For Sensitive Content Manager:

§A new report, the Compliance Actions Audit, lists actions taken on files scanned by Sensitive Content Manager over a specified date range.

§The Manage Quarantined Files action has been merged with the Manage Scanned Files action.

§The Quarantine Administrators group has been removed.  Now all Compliance Administrators can quarantine and manage quarantined files.

Resolved Issues

The following is a list of issues addressed in  release 8.6.0.

Description

Work Item

Case No.

The issue with expanding the ControlPoint hierarchy when using a modern browser (Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Firefox) has been resolved.

483167

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The issue "Reports run on cached data have incomplete results" has been resolved by having the Discovery service process members of AD groups in Web Application Policies.

470874
480056

4644522-1

The issue "Site Collection Provisioning requests are created but complete with a Request Status of Error" has been resolved.

482273
482393

4765126-1

The issue "In an environment using ADFS, permissions cannot be copied from one user to another" has been resolved by a modification to how ControlPoint handles ADFS authentication.

462333
482070

4689347-1

The issue "ControlPoint Online Installation Fails for Non Default IIS Web Paths" has been resolved.

477069
482897

4776272-1

Known Issues

The following is a list of issues, including those issues attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.

Installation and Configuration

Description

Issue ID

·If ControlPoint is uninstalled using an account that does not have SQL sysadmin privileges, any existing ControlPoint Policies cannot be removed.

Workaround if you want to delete existing ControlPoint Policies:

§Before uninstalling ControlPoint, delete the policies using Manage ControlPoint Policies.

OR

§Uninstall ControlPoint using an account that has sysadmin privileges.

3111

When a manual (scripted) installation is performed, the Launch ControlPoint shortcut is not created on the server's desktop or Start menu.

Workaround: Launch ControlPoint by entering the url in a browser.

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Login and Security Trimming

Description

Issue ID

·When Firefox or Chrome is used as the browser, the Sign out option refreshes the page but does not sign the user out.

Workaround:  This is not an issue with Internet Explorer.

1764

·If a ControlPoint user has permissions to SharePoint sites only through a web application Full Control permission policy, and this permission was granted after the initial run of ControlPoint Discovery, site collections and sites within that web application will not display in Search Hierarchy results if cached data is used.

Workaround:  Before running Discovery, give the user any level of permissions to any site within each site collection in the web application.  Only then will Discovery be able to “discover” that the user has Site Collection Admin rights via the web application policy.  After the next Discovery run has finished, you can remove the site-level permissions.

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Business Administrators Functionality

Description

Issue ID

·Members of the Business Administrators group can run live permissions reports even when the ControlPoint Setting "BAPreventRealTime" is set to True.

1459

·For SharePoint 2010 Claims-enabled web applications, members of the Business Administrators group cannot access sites to which they have permissions if those permissions are granted via an Active Directory Group.

Workaround:  Grant the user permissions to the site(s) directly.

5009

User Interface

Description

Issue ID

·The “Clone Work Area in the new browser window” does not work for dashboard links due to the “Selection” tab being empty.

7768

·For a SharePoint 2013 farm:  The first time ControlPoint is invoked after an upgrade, the dashboard may not display in the main page.

Workaround:  Refresh your browser.

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·When using Internet Explorer build 11.0.9600.18617, report results do not fill the entire results section.

Workaround:  Use a different build of Internet Explorer or a different browser

274025

Multi-Farm

Description

Issue ID

Selection scope is lost when you click on the user drill down link on a Site Permissions report on a remote farm.

420308

ControlPoint Policies

Description

Issue ID

·When using IE with Compatibility View turned off, when the policy rule ‘Control Document/Item deletion’ is selected, the ‘Allow Attachments to be Deleted’ checkbox is disabled. (Work Item )

Workaround:  Turn Compatibility View on or use a different browser.

9576

·The "ControlPoint File Upload Size" policy does not work properly for SharePoint 2016 and 2019.

406454

Operations Involving Workflows

Description

Issue ID

·Reusable workflows are not being migrated during the Duplicate Workflow Definition operation.

1596

Site Provisioning

Description

Issue ID

·Site Provisioning errors when using an https url.  

190522

Compliance Functionality (Sensitive Content Manager)

Description

Issue ID

·If the Terms Detected column is populated in SharePoint for a list item with attachments and the item is rescanned, the Detailed Classification may show a higher severity level for the item than it did in the original scan, even if the content of the item itself did not change.  

This would occur because Sensitive Content Manager evaluates the search terms in the Terms Detected column—which may have been detected for one of the attachments—as part of the analysis.

479384

ControlPoint Sentinel for Anomalous Activity

Description

Issue ID

·The ControlPoint Anomalous Activity Detection timer job is not created in Central Administration upon an upgrade.

Workaround:  

§To add the timer job, re-run the ControlPoint Installer as a Repair.

OR

§Have Anomalous Activity detection performed as part of the ControlPoint Scheduled Job Review.  Refer to the topic “Preparing Your Environment for Using ControlPoint Sentinel” in the ControlPoint User Guide for details.

10447

Reports

Description

Issue ID

·When a report is run on real-time data, only the first page of results that are visible in the UI is exported.  

Workaround:  If you schedule the report, full results will be included in the output file.

314973

·If the ControlPoint Setting “Display URL Instead of Site Name in SharePoint Hierarchy (SHOWURLASTITLE)” is enabled, the site collection/site name is also replaced by the URL in reports using real-time (non-cached) data.

371973

·SP2013: The site link in the site properties report does not correspond to the correct site.

9579

·If a ControlPoint Task Audit is run, the expand/collapse option for the report will not work correctly. The report will be displayed in expanded format, no matter if that option was checked or not.

9412

9409

·Change Log analyses return a maximum of 2000 results.  

Workaround:   Run the analysis on smaller scopes

1455

·When a Most/Least Activity report is scheduled with one or more (but not all) Include Report: options selected, and the Output Type is SharePoint List, a separate list is created for each “Include Report” option.  Empty lists are created for options that were not selected.  

2481

·After drilling down in the results of a Site Permissions report that was run on more than one farm in a multi-farm environment, the selection scope is lost.

420308

ControlPoint for Office 365 (ControlPoint Online)

Description

Issue ID

·If a Permissions analysis is run with the Show External Users Only option selected, both internal and external users are included in analysis results.

NOTE:  This issue generally occurs only when the logged in user is not an Office 365 Global Administrator.

292366

·When you open an item in the ControlPoint Configuration Setting list for editing, a blank Title field displays and will not allow you to save your changes until it is populated.

Workaround:  Copy the Parameter Name to Title field before saving or use the ControlPoint Settings page in the application interface.

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