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Active Administrator 8.7 - Release Notes

Quest® Active Administrator® 8.7

Quest® Active Administrator® 8.7
These release notes provide information about this Quest® Active Administrator® release.
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About this release
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New features
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Resolved issues
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Known issues
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System requirements
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Product licensing
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Upgrade and installation instructions
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More resources
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Globalization
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About this release

Active Administrator is a complete, integrated, and proactive Microsoft® Active Directory® administration solution that fills the management gaps system-provided tools leave behind. From a single console, the solution addresses the most important areas of Active Directory including security and delegation, auditing and alerting, backup and recovery, Group Policy, health and replication, and accounts and configurations. Active Administrator makes it easier and faster than system-provided tools to meet auditing requirements, tighten security, maintain business continuity, and increase IT efficiency.

Active Administrator 8.7 is a major release, with new features and functionality. See New features.

New features

As a result of ongoing research and development, and in response to customer feedback, the following enhancements have been made in this release of Active Administrator:

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Security enhancements
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Ability to have a cryptographically random passphrase generated when configuring the Active Administrator Server.
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Support for Modern Authentication and the ability to use Exchange Online to send email alerts.
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HTTPS is now enforced for the web client.
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Performance enhancements
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Performance improvements were made to data collectors in the AD Health pooled agents resulting in optimization in the data processing and less memory utilization by the agent.
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Storage of certificate data has moved from the file system to the Active Administrator database which will allow for faster response time when processing changes and displaying results. Existing certificate data is moved to the database on upgrade.
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Storage of certificate information was optimized to remove storage of duplicate information which now allows for faster processing of certificate status updates.
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Miscellaneous updates
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Managed computers in the Certificates module, that were added through monitored objects, now list the monitored object source.
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Log files are now written to ProgramData directory, rather than the Program Files directory.
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System requirements updates
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Support has been added for the following:
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Windows 11 for the console and workstation agent
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SQL Server 2022 for the Active Administrator server database.
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Support has been removed for the following:
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Windows 8.1
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Windows 2012 and 20012 R2
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Autorun
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Resolved issues

Resolved issues

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.
 
Table 1. Resolved issues
Resolved issue
Issue ID

AD Health agent performance window sometimes displays the incorrect agent.

257765

GPO last changed date only updates if region setting is in English.

315185

Audit agents cannot be installed after applying Microsoft KB (June 8, 2021—KB5003637).

346741

Adding sites to a pooled agent does not give the option to add domain controllers in the site to be managed.

364003

Certificate management object monitoring removal and re-adding issue.

368649

Newly created accounts are detected as inactive due to a bad lastlogondate attribute.

368845

Inactive accounts report not working due to timezone issues.

386640

Changing the date or time for the datetime filter on Audit report resets the other value.

396691

Unable to modify the schedule for an Assessment report.

400109

Unable to update the schedule for the Configuration report.

400118

Support for Windows 11 for the console.

415629

Users with a comma (or certain other special characters) in their Common Name cannot be provisioned.

418063

Adding domain controllers to DC management module causes the following error: "The given key was not present in the dictionary."

424719

Documentation guidance updated for the number of domain controllers that can be monitored by one agent.

456219

Diagnostic console is only available to the user who installed it.

461549

When logging SQL exceptions the SQL account and clear text password are logged.

467727

Audit event and report exclusions do not work properly if the users / groups being excluded are located in an OU outside of CN=Users.

469010

Timezone for a scheduled task in formerly 8.5 or earlier Active Administrator databases were being incorrectly set to null.

443513

Console sometimes closes unexpectedly when viewing agent status details by double clicking.

399792

AD Health agent may fail to restart after memory usage issue.

415005

Sites and domain controllers are not being enumerated if the "dNSHostName" property is missing.

417811

Failures during site or domain controller enumeration are preventing successfully enumerated items from displaying.

417814

AFS service using 90% of available CPU.when clearing cleared cached items.

420201

GPO repository actions are not generating Active Administrator auditing events.

420660

Unable to validate a new archive database.

421568

Unable to add computers to Certificate Manager which are missing a DNShostName property.

422126

Agents are assigned work, but workload evaluations are failing to run for pooled agents assigned to sites in environments where the site is missing the CN=Servers property.

429524

GPOs are failing to deploy and delete when certain folder redirection settings are present.

433586

Site name resolution results sites and domain controller not displaying when installing an AD Health agent or viewing a pooled AD Health agents properties.

450952

GPO backup purging not working as expected. Backups are not being removed from the backup store.

460423

Audit agents are not using the correct connection strings if the SQLNCLI11 provider is not being used.

463781

When the audit agent tracks an event that cannot be updated in the database, an error message should be logged.

470940

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