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GPOADmin 5.16 - Release Notes

Quest® GPOADmin® 5.16

Quest® GPOADmin® 5.16
These release notes provide information about the Quest GPOADmin 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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Getting started with GPOADmin 5.16
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About us

About this release

GPOADmin gives organizations control of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) across the enterprise. Built to augment the Microsoft GPMC, GPOADmin provides comprehensive GPO management with additional features such as offline editing, reporting, archival and restoration, version control, test framework, change notification and approval, and quick rollback in the event that an object change has unexpected results.

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 Quest GPOADmin:

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Synchronization updates
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Synchronization Target Editor configuration options are all now available through menu options, right-click context menus, and the editor’s toolbar.
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Ability to see the synchronization progress status and export the data to a .csv file for future reference.
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Failed synchronization:
Notification sent when a synchronization fails.
Improved error messages on synchronization failure.
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Microsoft Intune support
GPOADmin now includes support for Microsoft Intune’s configuration profiles. This allows administrators to control the configuration profile settings and assignments through workflows and gain insight to how they are applied though the Settings and Difference report.
NOTE: The Microsoft Graph API used to access Intune policy settings is a beta release which is actively being updated. For this reason, support for Microsoft Intune’s configuration profiles is available for preview purposes only. Specifically, the following configuration profiles are not supported in GPOADmin 5.16:
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Custom profiles for the Android device administrator platform.
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Delivery Optimization profiles for Windows 10 and later.
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MX Profile (Zebra only) profiles for the Android device administrator platform.
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VPN profiles for Windows 8.1 and later.
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Wi-Fi import profiles for Windows 8.1 and later.
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Administrative Template profiles for the Windows 10 and later.
Please provide any feedback on this feature to Customer Support.
The following workflow actions are supported:
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Register/ Unregister
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Check In/ Check Out/ Undo Check Out
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Migration Actions
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Modify Security
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Apply Workflow / Approval Workflow order
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Failed Deployment
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Get/ Import
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Roll Back/ Restore/ Delete
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Incorporate Live
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Deploy
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Check Compliance
The following PowerShell commands have also been added to help manage Intune support:
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Get-ConfigurationProfileAssignments
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Add-ConfigurationProfileAssignments
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Remove-ConfigurationProfileAssignments
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Clear-ConfigurationProfileAssignments
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Get-IntuneOptions
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Set-IntuneOptions
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Clear-IntuneOptions
The following right has been added:
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Modify Configuration Profile Assignments right added which grants the user the ability to modify the Assignments on a Configuration Profile.
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Performance enhancements
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Removed display delays when selecting objects and performing workflow operations when using an SQL configuration store.
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Improved time to enumerate containers.
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Added /R = Re-migrate items switch to the Configuration Migration utility.
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Additional platform support
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.NET Framework 4.8 is required
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Upgrade enhancements
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The following are maintained during an upgrade:
Settings in the configuration files
A list of migration tables in the "Set Synchronization Targets" dialog.
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Temporary folder contents, including Custom Workflow Actions are included in an upgrade.
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Miscellaneous updates
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The dashboard and all associated files have been removed from the product.
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The Utilities folder and all associated files (AD_Resolve_Test.exe and adodb.dll) have been removed from the installation media.
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Difference reports displays the correct information when comparing wireless network policies with the same name.
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Unregister and remove history removes all traces of the GPO history and backups, including the GPOs directory in the backup share location.
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Windows Firewall: ICMP4 settings displays correctly in difference reports.

Resolved issues

The following is a list of resolved issues in this release.

Table 1. Resolved issues
Issue
Issue ID

Unregister And Remove History option available for locked GPOs in GPMC Extension.

226691

Exchange and Gmail use the wrong “From” address if SMTP options are set.

228027

Powershell documentation requires updates to URI form for synchronization targets.

228899

When using AD LDS, Access Denied error is received by non-administrators when deploying a GPO with approvals disabled.

238960

Importing OUs takes a long time in an environment with many OUs.

244658

All versions of a registered object with valid backups are not displayed when selecting a difference report through the right-click method.

245222

MMC snapin closes unexpectedly when closing GPOADmin on a remote computer using a non-administrator user.

246570

Protected settings are not validating for users who do not have Read access on Protected Settings root.

247767

Ability to add duplicate change window entries in the modficationSchedule table in SQL causes GPOAdmin to close unexpectedly when registering an object.

253291

Unable to open gpreport.html files in Chrome/Edge if extracted from a GPOADmin backup.

256591

GPOs with ( ) in the name cannot be moved in PowerShell using Move-Item when using an SQL configuration store.

258133

Lookups for the GPOADmin server SID does not function properly.

259371

GPOs in the Lost and Found container do not appear in the live environment.

260918

GPOs in an approval workflow cause an Index out of Bound error if they are moved to the Lost and Found container during the process.

260919

Configuration Migration may fail when migrating containers.

262998

Merge fails and generates the following error: "The process cannot access the file '<PATH>\registry.pol' because it is being used by another process."

263239

Merge fails and generates the following error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

263240

GPODiffConfig updated to handle "Windows Firewall: ICMP4" values .

278337

Difference Report displays the wrong preference registry settings with collections.

279438

Unable to see registered GPOs when trying to link GPOs.

279447

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