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GPOADmin 5.19 - Release Notes

Quest® GPOADmin® 5.19

Quest® GPOADmin® 5.19
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
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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:

Platform support updates

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The following support has been added:
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Support for Intune Compliance Policies for #microsoft.graph.windowsUpdateForBusinessConfiguration.
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The following support has been removed:
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Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
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SQL Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2014
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Exchange 2013
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Scripts no longer support the inclusion of .exe files. Any existing scripts that contain .exe extensions should be unregistered.

Protected Settings Policy Baselines

If you have GPOADmin configured with SQL as the configuration store, you can select to assign Protected Setting policies to individual GPOs as policy baselines.

When this option is enabled, the Watcher service will validate the settings against the policy baseline when a registered GPO is modified outside of GPOADmin. If a deviation is detected, a notification will be sent to all subscribers of the policy deviation notification. The notification will include a difference report that is focused on only the settings from the baseline.

PowerShell updates

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New Remove-DomainAndObjects command which removes the specified domain and all associated objects from the configuration store. (This is only supported with SQL as the configuration store.)
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New Select-Delete command that allows you to delete a GPO using its live or Version Control ID.
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Clear-ActionAccount command updated to ignore history entries where the action account has already been cleared.
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Improved the performance of the Get-Unregistered command. (This is supported for SQL only.)

Reporting enhancements

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New Group Policy Object Settings Priority Report that can help to determine if a particular policy is having its settings overwritten based on its position in the link order.
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Ability to export GPO Comparison reports to a .CSV file.
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All Actions report updates:
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Ability to select to run the report on all trustees or only select trustees.
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Approvals made through an Exchange distribution group are included in the report history.

Performance improvements

The following areas have been updated to improve performance:

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GPO enumerations when editing an OU.
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When selecting sync targets, GPOs are displayed in a container structure within a dialogue rather than a flat list.
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Ability to enable or disable the refresh of objects on selection.

Importing and exporting objects

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Ability to compress exported objects to a zip file.
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Ability to import compressed objects from a zip file.

Deployment enhancements

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Warning message sent when:
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users are trying to deploy a GPO that does not include any policy settings.
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users are added to the Notification Manager without any notifications configured.
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Administrators can schedule a deployment for a time outside of the allowed modification window.
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A post deployment check is run to ensure the GPO has associated settings.
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Ability to adjust the timing of steps in a synchronization to account for timing delays in your environment.

Miscellaneous updates

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Ability to prevent users from editing policy settings based on all computer and all user extensions.
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Ability to restrict the link source to include only policies from specific containers.
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Ability to select the connection option (encrypt connection or trust server certificate) when configuring SQL as the configuration store.
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Ability to delete an object from the live environment and remove it's backups in the same operation.

Resolved issues

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

Table 1. Resolved issues
Issue
Issue ID

The Add-User and Add-Trustee commands are not adding users to the GPOADmin Trustees table correctly.

500608

PowerShell does not validate naming rules correctly when using the Select-Register or Select-RecursiveRegistration commands.

497863

Upgrade does not update actionslist in XML for change window.

428460

Change Auditor Working Copies report displays "Placeholder" instead of "Show/Hide".

Clicking the Show or Hide link goes to the top of the report rather than expanding and collapsing the row.

428685

All connections should be saved when a GPOADmin console is closed.

432462

Error received when attempting to modify GPOs: "The following error occurred executing the stored procedure or method GetItemModificationSchedule: There is already an object named 'ch' in the database."

437754

Child OUs are not appearing as manageable objects in live environment view.

440524

Difference report does not support Windows Time Service or IE Compatibility view settings.

445715

Unregistered child OUs do not appear in the Unregistered search folder.

445851

GPOADmin closes unexpetedly when merging a GPO with 2022 specific settings on a 2016 GPOADmin server.

449127

Offline child domains cause new empty containers to not display the New context menu.

441036

Non administrators are unable to import into an existing GPO from the live environment.

461602

Console becomes unresponsive when clicking on the Notifications tab of the Lost and Found container with an AD/ADLDS configuration store.

467746

“Administrative Template" type Intune policies can no longer be registered.

468473

Protected settings policies can be applied before they are approved.

484588

GPOADmin closes unexpectedly when attempting to display the properties of an object in the Lost and Found container if the backup for the object cannot be found.

489439

Group Policy Inheritance does not match comparing GPOADmin and GPMC.

485798

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