Quadrotech Nova Current - Release Notes

Update security settings in Nova

Update to the security settings page to change the data anonymization selection to a toggle switch

Implement Report Center Field Selector

Improved design for the field selector within the report designer, making it easier to filter the list of fields, see the ones you have selected and re-order selected fields 

Replace Last Password Change widget 

New dashboard widget to show users who have not updated their password in the last 90 days, replacing the existing last password changed widget 

Business Units Management UI 

Ability to update property values (Business Unit, Cost Code and Custom Fields 1 to 3) based on custom rulesets, allowing you to put users into appropriate Business Units 

Add data visualization to Subscription Overview page 

New data visualization added to the Subscriptions Overview page  

Rename "Transponder Map" dashboard widget to "Service Monitoring"

Renaming the existing "Transponder Map" widget to “Service Monitoring” 

Unit of Measure 

Ability to select the unit of measure for each field when creating a report, for example "Show me Mailbox Size in MB and Archive Size in GB"

Policy Reporting for DPC

Introduced capability to display resultant set of policy reporting for DPC

Export DPC Audit Log

Introduced capability to export the DPC Audit Log

Dashboard Widget Improvements

Improvements to the styling of the built-in dashboard widgets

Group Management Delegation

Automated Group Management Delegation

Redesign the report download progress indicator

Update progress indicator shown when downloading reports that prevents the download button from being clicked again until the download has completed

Support multiple fields in stacked bar/line/column charts

Ability to have multiple fields from the same data source within a single chart so users can compare related items

Allow card reordering in report center edit mode

Ability for users to reorganize cards in reports

Add option to select tenant/tenant group to the subscription analysis

Customers with Multi-tenant setup have the option to filter the subscription overview page either by specific tenants or tenant groups

Guest Invitation Delegation

Enabled the delegation of guest invitations

OAuth

Added support for OAuth

Redesign the report download progress indicator

Update progress indicator shown when downloading reports that prevents the download button from being clicked again until the download has completed

Support multiple fields in stacked bar/line/column charts

Ability to have multiple fields from the same data source within a single chart so users can compare related items

Allow card reordering in report center edit mode

Ability for users to reorganize cards in reports

Add option to select tenant/tenant group to the subscription analysis

Customers with Multi-tenant setup have the option to filter the subscription overview page either by specific tenants or tenant groups

Cards for Dashboard

New custom card widgets available on the dashboard that have the same functionality as those found in reports.

Page Title Banner should be in a fixed position while scrolling

Usability improvement to keep the page title visible as the rest of the page is scrolled.

Added Combined Charts

New combined charts give users the ability to show multiple lines/bars on the same chart so metrics can be seen together and easily compared.

Improve Nova Feedback

Ability to submit feedback to the Nova team directly from within the product.

Core UI: Resizing Widgets

Ability to re size dashboard widgets allowing users to make important visualizations bigger, allowing them to create a layout suited to their needs.

Update OneDrive and SharePoint Activity tab to include data visual

Enhave the user profile with data visualizations for the OneDrive and SharePoint tabs to supplement the existing tabular data

New "Report Reader" role

New Report Reader role giving users with this role the ability to view, print, and download (CSV and PDF) reports, but no ability to create, import, clone, or edit reports.

Add Inactive vs Active Users by Service Report

New Inactive users by serivce report to detail users have which workloads licensed and wether they actively use them

Add ability to pin reports to the left navigation

Ability to pin reports to the left navigation for easy access

Teams Naming

Enforced Teams naming conventions

Logo / Custom branding

A company specific logo can be uploaded to Nova, and it will be added to all reports which are generated.

More date filtering

We’ve added the ability to do quarter to date, and year to date when building reports.

Recent Activity in User Profile

There is now a list of all the recent major activity undertaken by the user in the user profile. User Profiles now allow you to see all the recent activities of a given user.

Improved Monitoring Dashboard

New visuals help focus on particular areas of concern.

Beacons now have an improved visual style that better highlights issues and allow administrations to quickly determine where problems are occurring,

Filtering and sorting in Contact Center

Ability to filter and sort within the Contact Center. Find the contact information you are looking for faster and more efficiently with the new filter and sorting options in Contact Center.

DPC: Allow Teams Filtering for Archived Teams

Added the ability to filter out Archived Teams from the Teams View. This allows customers to remove archived teams which are most likely not required to see as part of their daily administration tasks.

Public and Private Sections in Custom Reports

There are now separate sections in Custom Reports for Private and Public Reports. Keep your own reports managed and quickly see what reports have been shared in your organization. This improves visibility in particular of Public Reports.

Meetings Created and Meetings Interacted are now available

Understand how your users are using meetings by seeing how many meetings they are creating and how many they interact with.

Subscription overview

A new visual approach to how you can determine your license structure and usage around subscribed licenses. ​Part of a series of improvements to help visualize license usage and do deeper analysis on license adoption and pricing scenarios

Delegation of Intune Actions

Introduced capability to delegate intune actions.

Set your currency symbol

Report Designers and License Managers can now set the currency symbol to use in reports. Make Reports reflect the currency of your choice and are easier to understand in the context of your organization

Saving a report as you’re building and editing sections

​Improves the flow of report creation and ensures you can keep working and save your data when making and creating advanced reports

New Adoption Accelerator Report format

​New UI for Adoption Accelerator Report which aims to highlight important data points. Spend less time looking for important information in this crucial report

SharePoint tab in user profile

Much like the other workloads there is now a SharePoint specific overview tab in user profile. Get a sense of the SharePoint patterns of a user to better understand how you can aid them​

New report menu structure

A new report menu structure has been introduced which makes it easier to find reports and is less crowded. You’ll also be able to see which reports you worked on recently.

Report and Section descriptions

You can now set a description for a report and for individual report sections. Allows report designers to better describe and put context to the reports that they create.

Report Designer renamed to Report Center

The section in the UI has been renamed to better reflect what it does.

Service Status Widget and page

Helps administrators understand if there are any existing service issues with Office 365.

Report sections render individually

When a report is opened which contains many sections, users will see a performance improvement because the individual sections are rendered as the data is read from the system.

New data sources

There are new data sources for Azure AD Users, Licenses Data and Contacts.

New view for mailbox statistics.

The ‘Mail’ tab in a users profile has been updated and this gives an administrator better ability to understand mail usage for a particular user.

Enforce naming standard for Teams

Gives organisations the ability to control naming conventions for Microsoft Teams; keeping them better managed.

On-premise agent auto update

Reduces workload of administrators and ensures new versions are agent are available

Group based licensing

Allows license administrators to create policies based on groups; simplifying license assignment.

Attribute based configuration policies

Enhances configuration policies so that attributes can be used to define who is covered by the policy.

Viewing extra columns in large tables

If a table has too many columns to fit in the current browser, an option to view those extra columns is available.

ProPlus reports renamed

Microsoft has renamed ProPlus to Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, so we’ve renamed all of the associated reports in Nova.

Product Activations data source is now available that shows current status of Windows Office Installations

This gives you the ability to report on product activations such as ProPlus, by platform

Updates to built-in reports

Improvements for performance and simplicity as well as new reports to help license managers see product activations

Teams data source

A new Microsoft Teams data source to give team-level data gives the ability to report on team size, settings and other data points