Friday release day! Today we're releasing CIPP version 4.2.0 and we've worked hard on bringing you new features and squashing bugs. One of the cool new features in my opinion can be found in the user menu to add shortcuts to OneDrive programmatically. We also built a new report creator for BPA reports, We've also tried to implement quality of life improvements for those little things that could bother you during your day to day, and of course we've tackled about 10 feature requests and reported issues.
Grab your cocktail, sit down, and strap in. We're going for a ride.
BPA Report building
Our trusty @johnduprey took a moment(or more, a couple of moments) to create our new BPA report builder that you can find under the tools menu. This report builder allows you to easily compile a report instead of having to work with JSON data. You just click on the fields you want, copy it to your Github and you're off to the races.
Template editing
We've implemented Monaco, which is a Visual Studio code plugin into CIPP. Monaco allows you to edit all templates inside of CIPP. Made a mistake copy and pasting? want to change a template 'true' to 'false'? Change a group name? all possible using the Template editor and viewer. This also allows you to add IPs to Conditional Access, or create an entirely new template by simply changing the IDs.
OneDrive Shortcuts
In the user menu you'll find a new method to add a shortcut to a user's OneDrive. This is the same method as a user pressing "Add Shortcut to OneDrive" from the menu in SharePoint. you can use this to move your users over from the classic syncing, to using shortcuts. Shortcuts use the new OneDrive syncing engine so aren't troubled by file limits and sync issues as much as classically added sites.
To use the new feature, you do need to add a permission and run the CPV Refresh. Make sure you do that beforehand!
Other new features and bug fixes
We can't write about every single feature we've added, because that would swamp these release notes, but here's some other notable things we've added;
- We've added multi-select to the Offboarding wizard. Allowing you to easily give access to multiple mailbox/onedrives/etc in one go.
- The Dashboard now shows you're on All Tenants and does not try to retrieve data
- We fixed an issue with deploying group templates
- We've added the ability to make dropdowns for bulk actions
- We've fixed an issue with deploying CA without any locations.
- We've fixed an issue with the tenant search not always finding results when you don't use an exact match.
- We've fixed an issue with spacing on some pages
- We've added tooltips in a bunch of locations, making texts a little clearer
- We've resolved an issue with OutBoundSpamAlerts not always clearing.
- And so many more.
Fully automated updates
Don't want to manually update your CIPP anymore? We've setup Pull. Pull is a Github application that automatically updates your fork when required. Go to https://github.com/apps/pull to install the tool, select the repositories and you're done! automatic updates forever.
Sponsors
We extend our gratitude to our supporters at https://immy.bot/, https://oit.co/, https://ninjaone.com/, Huntress at https://huntress.com/, https://halopsa.com/, https://www.deskdirector.com/, Hudu at https://www.hudu.com/, Datto at https://datto.com/ https://www.meetgradient.com, https://rewst.io/. and the MSP Net Friends(netfriends.com)
What's Changed
- Frontend tweaks by @johnduprey in #1721
- BPA Field Builder by @johnduprey in #1723
- Switch to BPA Report schema for builder by @johnduprey in #1725
- BPA Report Builder - Load/Publish by @johnduprey in #1727
- Add stretched-link to collapses by @johnduprey in #1728
- Dev to release by @KelvinTegelaar in #1732
Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.2.0