Change Log

Version 4.0.10124.28883

Released on May 5th 2010.

New features

  • Rewritten setup for an easier, intuitive installation The Setup Assistant has been rewritten to make the installation even easier and intuitive.
  • Reporting A reporting web page has been added that can be used to see enrollment, reset and license statistics in the system.
  • Email notifications Option in the configuration to send email notifications when certain events takes place in the system. The events implemented are password reset by user, password reset by helpdesk, user enrollment, user locked out from SPR, account unlocked by user and enrollment reminders.
  • Mobile enrollment with validation An option in the configuration allows for users to update their mobile number, in Active Directory, during the enrollment process. There’s also an option that requires validation of the entered mobile number by sending a verification code to it.
  • Custom Wizard Messages A custom message can be showed for the end-user when the user has completed an enrollment, a password reset or a password change.
  • Forced re-enrollment Re-enrollment can be forced either through the Helpdesk for a single user or through the Group Policy Object for all users affected by the GPO.
  • The new Specops theme The new Specops theme has been applied to all web pages and administration tools.
  • "User must change password at next logon" option in Helpdesk When a password is reset through Helpdesk, the option “User must change password at next logon” can now be set.
  • User initials column displayed in the Helpdesk search result page The “initials” attribute is now displayed in the Helpdesk search result page to make it easier to distinguish users.
  • “Reset password...” link enabled when computer is locked In Windows Vista or Windows 7 the “Reset password…” link is shown when a computer is locked.
  • Command-line tool to manage SPR objects The administration tool now contains a command-line utility (SPOBJMGR.EXE) that can be used to manage SPR sub-objects in Active Directory.
  • Turkish language added.

Fixed bugs

  • Helpdesk stopped responding when searching for all users In an environment with a lot of user accounts the Helpdesk stopped responding if the result was to large.
  • Alt-Gr now works in the secured browser The Alt-Gr button didn’t work in the secured browser, making it impossible to type some kind of characters.
  • Double login issue automatically handled Connecting to a server where the client component was installed forced the user to enter the credentials twice. Only applies when connecting from a Vista/Windows 7 client to a Windows Server 2008 (or later).
  • View certificate" button is disabled if an invalid certificate dialog is shown If an invalid certificate was used at the Web server the certificate warning dialog showed up, making it possible for end-users to browse the file system without being logged on. The “View certificate…” button in the dialog is now disabled.

Version 3.2.9251.25872

Released on September 9th, 2009.

New features

  • Support for installing the client component on a Citrix server [Client].

Fixed bugs

  • Trying to “Unlock account and reset password” for a user affected by the Default Domain Policy (or a fine-grained password policy) would generate the error “The referenced account is currently locked out” [Server].
  • If the client component was installed on a Windows Server 2008 (or higher), a Remote Desktop Connection (using the RDP 6.0 client or higher) to that server would require two logins [Client].
  • Trying to view a user residing in an OU containing a slash (/) would generate the error “Unknown error (0×80005000)” [Server].
  • Errors in the Norwegian translation file would show incorrect information [Web].
  • The default language (English) was not added to the list of available languages for the Reset and Change web pages [Web].

Improvements

  • Before using mobile phone numbers configured in Active Directory, all special characters and white spaces except the plus (+) sign are removed [Server].

Version 3.2.9154.17431

Released on June 16th, 2009.

Fixed bugs

  • The “Show characters” option in the Enrollment and Reset web pages doesn’t work when using Firefox.
  • If the “Passwords must meet complexity requirements” option is enabled in the Default Domain Policy, the “Disallow user name in password” rule doesn’t work as expected.
    Both the “Must not contain your username” and “Must not contain any part of your username” rules are displayed, but only the “Must not contain your username” should be displayed.
  • The Specops Password Policy (SPP) rule “Disallow user name in password” doesn’t work as expected.
    If the option “Disallow full user name in password” is selected in the SPP policy, both the “Must not contain your username” and “Must not contain any part of your username” rules are displayed. If the option “Disallow part of user name in password” is selected in the SPP policy, then none of the rules are displayed.
  • The “Reset password…” link doesn’t show up if the Welcome registry value has been configured on the client.
    If the registry value “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Welcome” has been configured on the client, then the “Reset password…” link is not displayed.

Version 3.2.9125.24753

Released on May 5th, 2009.

New features

  • Autoenrollment of users.
    This new feature makes it’s possible to pre-populate questions and answers for users.
  • Helpdesk can now be configured to use a delegated security model.
    This means that all password reset operations are performed in the security context of user accessing the web page. See the Configure the Helpdesk to use delegated security model section for more information.
  • If a user has been locked out from the password reset service, a reminder (balloon tip) for enrollment will be shown at logon.
  • Answers entered during Enrollment and Reset is now by default secured by password characters. A “Show characters” option has been added to be able to see the characters entered.
  • Improved language selection handling.
    See the Language selection section for more information.
  • Hungarian language added.

Version 3.1.8353.19575

Released on December 18th, 2008.

New features

  • Improved Setup Assistant to simplify the installation process.
  • The “Reset password…” link in the login dialog box can be configured to be available when the computer has no contact with the domain. This makes it possible to reach the Password Reset web page, that’s exposed to the Internet, from the login dialog as soon as the computer has an Internet connection.
  • The enrollment notification balloon on clients only shows up when a new enrollment is required. The recommendation balloon has been removed.
  • Change password page now requires user name and password before the affecting password rules are shown. Prevents unauthorized users from finding out affecting password rules for other users.

Fixed bugs

  • Long timeout (10–15 seconds) when entering a wrong answer during password reset.
    This only happened when DNS reverse lookup (IP address to DNS name) wasn’t configured in the DNS. The logging function on the server timed out when trying to get the DNS name for an IP address. The DNS name is no longer used, only the IP address.
  • “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error when trying to use the Reset Password web page and only mobile verification code is used as authentication.

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