⬆️ We expect most of the rollout to be completed by the end of November. There’s no need to refresh your Pia tenant, you’ll automatically receive an email with the Release Notes as soon as the latest version becomes available to you.
Enhancements 🌟
- Introduced a new option in the automation package configuration form that allows CSP license provisioning to exclude licenses with an annual commitment term. (#29774)
- Updated the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation to support a new primary email address format: [first 3 letters of first name][first initial of surname]@companydomain. Example: John Smith → JohS@abc.com. (#33528)
- Updated the SmartForms: Staff Onboarding automation with the ability to utilize the default primary upn suffix from the Pia: Staff onboarding configuration. (#32757)
- Added support for Cloud Hybrid environments to allow the mailbox management of mailboxes hosted in either Exchange Online or Exchange On-Premises. (#32881)
- Updated the Litigation Hold processing logic for Exchange Remote Mailboxes to support delayed Exchange Online licensing. When the license is provisioned during a later scheduled execution, Litigation Hold will now be enabled automatically if configured. (#33029)
- Enhanced the Pia: Win10 Outlook Troubleshooting automation with improved error handling. If Outlook cannot be found on the selected device, a clear notification is now displayed to the technician in the Tech Assist bot before the automation is stopped. (#33297)
- Added support to the Pia: Create a Group automation for email addresses containing unsupported characters, including the en dash (–, U+2013), ensuring these inputs are handled appropriately. (#33306)
- Improved the Pia: Computer Space Cleanup automation to execute more efficiently, reducing processing time and memory consumption when handling large-scale file deletion tasks. (#33447)
- The Pia: Reset Network Password automation has been optimized to reduce memory consumption when processing user directory data, improving reliability for tenants with a high volume of directory objects. (#33478)
- Added an informative description to the Re-Enable Exchange Licensing After Onboarding option within the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation configuration to provide greater clarity on its purpose and behaviour. (#33492)
- Refreshed the license GUID translation matrix to ensure Microsoft 365 licenses are displayed using their latest friendly names, providing clearer and more consistent licensing information. (#33515)
- Improved the audit output of the Pia: Bulk Add/Remove User to Groups automation by including group display names alongside group details, making audit logs easier to review and interpret. (#31573)
- Updated Pia: Staff Onboarding (SmartForms) to allow the Description field to be selected as a hideable field in Additional Fields configuration. (#33568)
- Updated the Using Azure Key Vault for Secrets PiaPack to demonstrate best practice security standards for handling secrets. (#33760)
- Enhanced the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation to better handle Azure propagation delays by introducing retries when validating additional user attributes, helping ensure onboarding completes successfully. (#33875)
- Updated the Pia: Staff Onboarding (Semi Hybrid) automation to prevent duplicate Microsoft 365 license provisioning when onboarding workflows loop back and reprocess earlier stages of the automation. (#33927)
Bug Fixes 🐛
- Fixed an issue with Pia: Staff Onboarding automation where license procurement could repeat during password-complexity retry loops, causing repeated procurement/confirmation behaviour and blocking user creation flow progression. (#32914)
- Resolved an issue with the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation where the user name containing apostrophe was not being processed correctly. (#33048)
- Fixed a license deprovisioning confirmation-message bug in the shared Microsoft 365 deprovisioning input function so users no longer see a false "No license was selected for deprovisioning" warning after making a valid selection. Updated related audit wording to correctly reference deprovisioning. (#33252)
- Fixed Pia: Re-enable Offboarded Staff (Semi-Hybrid) automation input casing so the On-Prem child package correctly receives the selected AD user, preventing null user-detail resolution during re-enable execution. (#33254)
- Resolved an issue with the Pia: Bulk Mailbox Permissions automation where a user was not assigned with the required mailbox permissions. (#33279)
- Fixed an issue where the AD: DirSync activity could loop beyond the PowerShell execution limit. (#33307)
- Resolved an issue in the Pia: Manage User Licenses automation where Microsoft 365 license assignments could fail due to delays in Azure propagating the user's usageLocation. The automation now verifies that the usage location update has been applied before attempting license assignment. (#33311)
- Fixed a password-reset automation issue that could cause memory errors while retrieving Azure AD group members in large tenants. Azure member retrieval now safely handles blank/invalid property selection and reset packages now request only required user fields for improved performance and stability. (#33337)
- Resolved an issue in the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation where valid email domains were not included during Exchange mailbox configuration. (#33344)
- Fixed an issue in the Pia: Re-Enable User License automation that could cause license reassignment failures due to delays in Microsoft 365 processing license removals. The automation now confirms the license has become available before proceeding with reassignment.
- Resolved an issue in the SmartForms: Staff Onboarding automation where some license subscriptions could be unintentionally skipped when multiple subscriptions shared the same license SKU. (#30794)
- Resolved an issue in the Pia: Change Calendar Permissions automation where completion messages could incorrectly imply that calendar permission changes had been successfully applied. Messaging has been updated to more accurately reflect the outcome of the automation. (#31833)
- Fixed an issue where the Pia: Network Drive Troubleshooting automation can loop indefinitely at confirmation step. (#32668)
- Fixed an issue in the Pia: Staff Onboarding automation that could generate incorrectly formatted UPNs when the configured UPN suffix contained leading or trailing whitespace. (#33685)
- Resolved an issue in Pia: Staff Onboarding (On Prem) automation where newly created on-premises user accounts could be assigned incorrectly formatted User Principal Names (UPNs) during provisioning. (#33739)
- Fixed an issue where an ambiguous time format could cause Pax8 subscription modifications from occurring. (#33754)
- Fixed an issue where the Pia: Staff Onboarding (Semi Hybrid) automation would present the incorrect Active Directory UPN in end of package extension automation. (#33755)
- Corrected a grammatical error in the Set External Email Sender Banner automation hub PiaPack. (#33759)
- Fixed an issue in the Pia: Computer Performance Report automation where the reported "last installed patch" could be inaccurate on Windows Server 2016 systems due to limitations in legacy patch inventory queries. (#33930)
- Resolved an issue in the Pia: Staff Offboarding automation where the original Organizational Unit (OU) of a user account was not always captured in execution data. (#34147)
- Added a fix for Triage that allows setting the SLA/Priority when a change of Ticket type occurs at the same time as the priority change. (#34148)
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