Isn't it funny how all announcements always start with extreme hyperbole and then just fizzle out? I hate it when that happens. It's time for a better style of announcement, something a little more muted, but that pleasantly surprises you.
That's what todays release should do for you - It should be a pleasant surprise filled with the things you asked for, or didn't know you asked for but needed anyway. Todays release is named after the Italian (Angelo Azzurro)[https://www.sipandfeast.com/angelo-azzurro] which loosely translated means 'The Azure Angel' or just the blue angel if you're being finicky.
So, what is this Azure Angel delivering to you today? Well. There's a huge amount of bug fixes, there's some very very cool near features and of course we've listened to our clients and made sure we've built some pretty cool feature requests too. Let's dive into them.
Conditional Access: Improvements to deployment
We've added features to our Conditional Access Deployment wizard. This now allows you to easily replace groups and users with the ones in your template. If you are using the same group names and same excluded or included users, you can easily transfer those over.
That's not all we've improved. The overviews for complex objects has been tackled too. No more looking at JSON(Unless you like that sort of thing). Instead, you have a pretty object browser that even allows you to expand deeper. This isn't just for Conditional Access either. We are now using this overview in more places.
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Conditional Access: What-If support
Microsoft was kind enough to share some documentation with us about the new What-If endpoint in Graph, this endpoint isn't even in the Graph API docs yet! The cool thing about the what-if tool is that you can set up your entire Conditional Access environment in reporting mode, and then test the policies using a wild array of simulated scenarios.
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Standards: You want templates? you get them!
Our standards overview has a new nice little button - Save as Template, or the option to Load that template. This is just the start - we'll be including a lot of standard template files for you to use, but feel free to start creating and deploying your own!
Favourites, favourites everywhere
So our menu is quite long - I mean, CIPP has thousands of features and not everyone uses them all the time right? Well. We've changed a couple of things about our navigation. You can now add favourites. Adding them is as easy as going to the User Settings menu, and adding the pages you use most.
Of course we also made sure people no longer see menu items they don't need - The menu is now build dynamically based on your role.
Automatic Tenant Onboarding, and Partner Webhooks
We didn't just play around with stuff that's always visible - but also the back of the mind stuff got a good polish and upgrade. You can now go into the Application Settings and enable Partner Webhooks. Partner Webhooks allow us to do fully automated tenant onboarding - You setup the webhook, and as soon as a new relationship is detected that tenant will be onboarded inside of CIPP.
That's not all you can do with this though; you can now also generate alerts based on the received partner webhooks. Something changes in your partner center? you're the first to know.
Other notable changes
- We've fixed an issue with Edit User/Add user requiring custom fields
- We've fixed PDF exports and increased their sizing.
- We've fixed a bug where loading the extension page gave an error if your tenant cache was empty.
- We've fixed the Azure Lighthouse Search on the Dashboard
- We've improved the overview for MEM policies when deploying them
- We've added all supported policies to be templatable
- So so much more!
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/.
We've added Augmentt as our logo sponsor at https://augmentt.com.
We're adding new logo sponsors AND extension sponsors in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for those! Our latest extension sponsor has been requested quite a bit and we're happy to create a custom CIPP extension for them!
What's Changed
- Added default int value support to standards number type by @OfficialEsco in #2281
- Update with new licenses by @kris6673 in #2292
- Bugfixes - Table Filter and Mail Test by @JohnDuprey in #2296
- Fix Number defaultValue by @OfficialEsco in #2294
- Up version by @JohnDuprey in #2297
- Dev to hotfix by @JohnDuprey in #2298
- Allow retry button while running by @JohnDuprey in #2302
- Fix Switch defaultValue by @OfficialEsco in #2306
- Update footer and UI tweaks by @JohnDuprey in #2309
- Use TenantGUID for DA by @kris6673 in #2311
- Partner Center webhooks by @JohnDuprey in #2314
- Frontend tweaks by @JohnDuprey in #2317
- Celltable fix by @JohnDuprey in #2319
- Dev to release by @KelvinTegelaar in #2320
Full Changelog: v5.4.0...v5.5.0