SharePoint Essentials Toolkit ** Release Notes ** ********************************************************** ** IMPORTANT RELEASE ** v10.3.5.3 ********************************************************** [Last updated: June 21st 2023] ********************************************************** ** IMPORTANT CHANGES & NOTES ** ********************************************************** NOTE: The Reports button in top navigation and Report Designer (BETA) will be hidden by default while we improve and update this Reporting page. Report Designer (BETA) will be removed in an upcoming release, due to it's complexity and lack of usage. It will be replaced with a simplified view/list of all reports. NOTE: If you are using the Job Scheduler (to schedule jobs), after updating the software, if you are using a custom service account for the Job Scheduled, you may need to re-apply the Windows Service 'SharePoint Essentials Service' login. For example, you may have modified the service to use a domain account if your organization enforces a group policy that blocks internet access to 'Local System' service account (common if installed on a Windows Server). This only is required for scheduled jobs. Item Query: A new enhancement is being developed for Item Query to use a Search based query. Currently, Item Query uses a 'literal search' in order to be able to find HTML, CSS< JavaScript and Web Parts. As usage of Item Query has grown to more general content queries, we are adding a more performant, faster, searched based query option, returning a similar result format. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Export to SharePoint using different credentials is no longer supported: When exporting to a different site collection from a report, the tool will no longer support using credentials from the Home Page Dashboard for the export Site URL. This previous enhancement was added to allow users to run reports against one environment, and export to another environment using different credentials (such as AAD and AD credentials if the two environments are not trusted/connected/federated). Example: User running report on SharePoint 2013 wants to export the report to SharePoint online but his/her credentials in SP 2013 do not work for SPO, the previous enhancement would allow this to work by using credentials of the 'Export Site URL' from the home page dashboard. This caused issues where the account was using Web Browser Authentication on the exported site and credentials (cookies) expired. The tool would run the report but fail to export. We have removed this enhancement to prevent this. From this release forward, the account credentials used to run the report must also have access to the Export Site (the tool will not automatically grab credentials from the site from Home Page Dashboard due to above issue that created). Please contact us if you still need to have this enhancement working and we can find a workaround to still support this. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying a publishing page that was published in source will now be published in target with comments "Published by SharePoint Content Manager". This change/enhancement was added so that the source published pages and source draft pages will retain their published state. However, this will cause the version number of target pages that are 'published' to be greater than the source version number. Permissions Manager IMPORTANT: Sharing Links that are Expired, are now filtered from report by default. Accounts that previously had access via Expired Sharing Links can be viewed by removing the View filter '(EXPIRED)'. ********************************************************** SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Please ensure you have set up Anti-virus on-access and offline syncing exclusions as specified in the User Manual. This will significantly improve performance for jobs. ********************************************************** ** COMING SOON / ROADMAP ** ********************************************************** A new SharePoint Essentials Toolkit (X Edition / 2024 Edition) is in development. We will be moving new features in our roadmap into this new release. IMPORTANT: The new SharePoint Essentials Toolkit Edition will be based on .NET Core 6, which will require .NET Core 6 to be installed on the machine. PowerShell API in development! We encountered some delays but this is still in progress. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Auto-Discovery of site collections coming soon. This new feature will allow users to activate/turn on a scheduled job which will automatically add Site Collections to the Home Page Dashboard under a group labelled "Sites I have access to". ​Auto-discovery of sub-sites to existing site collections will also be supported. An option will also be added to all "Jobs" to allow auto-discovery of sites to dynamically be added to jobs based on matching rules. This will be similar to an automatic 'Re-fetch sites' but will also look for new Site Collections and subsites. User will be able to specify (matching URL portions, Owners Group membership, SC Admin, Site Title text matches) matching conditions for the Auto-discover jobs to only add sites matching conditions. Users will be able to select site collections they "have access to" to "opt out" of needing access to those site collections by auto-generating email based on Group Owners of "Associated Owners group" of the root site in all 'opt out' site collections. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Jobs UI update coming soon. This update will simplify the view of job threads to show only single row for a job run, when clicked it will then expand to show all 'child' site jobs related to that main job. Improved Edit Job functions will apply to all 'child' site jobs to make it easier to re-run and modify previous jobs and scheduled jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: COMING SOON: Hub site view (to show Hub sites and child associated sites) will be released in an upcoming update. Content Manager: Ability to map users (to different users) when performing copy jobs. Content Manager: Ability to copy only Permission Levels in bulk. Content Manager: Item Query: We will be adding a new 'Send to URL' action to perform against all items that have matched item query, such as old files, Metadata matches, containing specific text. This will allow users to send files to another location in bulk (by URL) and allow 'Leave a Link', similar to how the Send to Location works with a Record Center, moving a file, and leaving an aspx link in original List/Library which is pointing to the file in the new location. This feature will allow user to do this across Site Collections, Sites and Libraries and in bulk. Content Manager: Item Query: We will be adding option to change Content Types and Managed Metadata for all Item results found. Site & List Auditing: Site & User Activity reports will allow auto-archive on schedule, which will allow the tool to retrieve Site and User Activity past 90 days. Site & List Auditing: Modern List experience will be available in reports and Edit List Settings page in upcoming patch. Site & List Auditing: NEW FEATURE "Notifications": We will be adding ability to inject HTML/CSS/JavaScript via Script Editor web part using saved 'Notification templates tied to a GUID. so you may bulk manage new/update/remove notification messages to flag one or more sites. Such as 'Warning: This site contains externally shared content' or 'Thank you for visting our new website, contact xx@xx.com for feedback' or 'Warning: Confidential Information is present in this site'. Permissions Manager: Ability to copy Permission Levels from one site to another. Permissions Manager: Ability to change Permission Levels in bulk. Such as change an account to only have Read rights across multiple sites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: ACTIONS will be introduced to multiple components, we have already started with Item Query ACTIONS. Example: ACTIONS for 'Check User Permissions' results if permissions matches a user or specific accounts, then change Permission Level or Remove account access. ********************************************************** ** FEATURES ** ********************************************************** [10.3.5.3 (BETAS 10.3.4.0 - 10.3.5.2)] No new features [10.3.3.9] No new features [10.3.3.8] No new features [10.3.3.7 (BETAS 10.3.3.1 - 10.3.3.6)] No new features [10.3.3.0 (BETAS 10.3.0.0 - 10.3.2.0)] No new features [10.2.9.0 (BETAS 10.2.4.0 - 10.2.8.0)] No new features [10.2.3.0] No new features [10.2.2.0 (BETAS 10.1.8.0 - 10.2.1.0)] SharePoint Subscription Edition (on-premises) is now supported by the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit. [10.1.7.0] Job History - View Merged Report - This feature is now out of BETA. [10.1.6.1] No new features [10.1.6.0] No new features [10.1.5.0] No new features [10.1.4.0] No new features [10.1.3.0] No new features [10.1.2.0 (BETAS: 9.8.7.0 to 10.1.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (only affects Office 365): Added support for Office 365 Modern Authentication with Web Browser Authentication. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Jobs 'views' have been updated to include a (hidden) 'Parent Job ID'. This has been added to handle grouping of jobs with the same name. However, older jobs will show in the same group with others that have same Job Names (since the Parent Job ID will be blank for older jobs). We will be adding to this change to support bulk changes to multiple site jobs from the Job History and Scheduled Jobs pages to make management of jobs easier. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 'Run Now' jobs, Job History and Scheduled Job logs will now show the column 'Items Processed' with a 'Refresh' button which will allow user to see dynamic/live view of items processed as jobs are running, such as 1020/1200 items processed means the tool has processed 1020 out of 1200 total items. This will help users who are running multi-site jobs ensure they are still running and not hung. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Email Options: The toolkit now has 3 new checkbox options for email, 'Site Owners', 'Site Members' and 'Site Visitors'. These are used for email notifications. Selecting one or more of these checkboxes will have the tool iterate the associated Owner/Member/Visitors group and email all users who belong to that group. This will allow a more dynamic way to notify users of reports for example in multi-site jobs. Broken Link Manager: Find & Replace: Regular Expression support/improvements. When specifying the OLD Value for a link to replace, you can use the keyword @Regex("") to specify a matching expression to replace. You can use a website such as https://regex101.com to build your regular expression and paste it into that syntax above. For example: If you need to remove a query string d= from a URL, you can use OLD VALUE = @Regex("/.{33}") and leave NEW VALUE blank, to remove d= plus 33 characters (GUID) from all query strings. This will change links to remove any matching d= pattern with 33 character GUIDs: Old Link: https://tenant.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/sites/it/Product%20Support/Support_14Jul2020.xlsx?d=w2e4d1fcc414544129df74da10a7b4817&csf=1&web=1&e=m73cDd New link: https://tenant.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/sites/it/Product%20Support/Support_14Jul2020.xlsx?web=1 Content Manager: Bulk Upload Metadata/List Items: Added ability for user to add ID to MS Excel spreadsheet used to populate metadata. If the ID exists, the tool will now allow bulk updates of all metadata matching the IDs specified in the MS Excel file, including Last Modified information. If the ID does not exist or is empty in Excel, a new list item will be created with specified metadata from the Excel file. Permissions Manager: Email Options: Added support for emailing Permissions Matrix and Comprehensive Permission reports, and also for choosing custom 'Views' to be applied to the emailed report(s). [9.8.6.0] No new features [9.8.5.0] No new features [9.8.4.0] No new features [9.8.3.0 (BETAS: 9.8.1.0 to 9.8.2.0)] No new features [9.8.1.0 (BETAS: 9.7.6.0 to 9.8.0.0)] No new features [9.7.5.0] No new features [9.7.4.1] No new features [9.7.4.0] No new features [9.7.3.0] No new features [9.7.2.0] No new features [9.7.1.0] No new features [9.7.0.0] No new features [9.6.9.1] No new features [9.6.9.0] No new features [9.6.8.0 (BETAS: 9.5.7.0 to 9.6.7.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: NEW "Site Collection Template" and "Site Template" columns now available in Home Page Dashboard. They are hidden by default. To make them visible, right click Column Header-> "Show Column Chooser", then select 'Site Collection Template' and 'Site Template', you can also re-order the column headers by dragging them up and down (or drag right and left in dashboard). For existing installations, the values will be blank. Selecting an existing site (in the Home Page Dashboard) will automatically retrieve the Site Template values. You can also re-add the Site Collection(s) (data will be retained) or use Refetch Sites to update Site Template values and then apply filters on it to save as a view (see below). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: NEW "VIEWS" on Home Page Dashboard. Users can now filter by any column and save them as a View. With the addition of above new columns "Site Collection Template" and "Site Template", users can create new custom filtered views, such as 'Team Site (Classic experience)', 'Team Site (Office 365 group)', Modern Team Sites (no Office 365 group), Channel Sites, Publishing Sites, One Drive sites, etc. and save as a View, such as "MS Teams" or "One Drive sites". URL Filters (equals or contains for matching portions of a URL) are also possible to group your sites with custom views, site 'Classifications' filters and sensitivity levels are in the product roadmap. We will be adding built-in views in upcoming releases, such as 'Flat View' and OOTB Site Template Views. In this release you need to create your own views, there are no extra built-in views yet. [9.5.6.0] No new features [9.5.5.0] No new features [9.5.4.0] No new features [9.5.3.0 (BETAS: 9.4.3.0 to 9.5.2.0)] Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items (BETA): New option to bulk upload SharePoint List Items from MS Excel. The target list must already exist with column created. This new feature will allow users to populate SharePoint lists in bulk from a MS Excel spreadsheet and allow bulk updating metadata where GUID or IDs match (not available yet in BETA release). This feature will support large lists and other improvements over the 'Import from MS Excel' built-into SharePoint when creating lists. [9.4.2.0] No new features [9.4.1.0] No new features [9.4.0.0] No new features [9.3.4.0] No new features [9.3.3.0] No new features [9.3.2.0] No new features [9.3.1.0] No new features [9.3.0.0] No new features [9.2.9.0] No new features [9.2.8.0] No new features [9.2.7.0] No new features [9.2.6.0 (BETAS: 9.2.5.2)] No new features [9.2.5.0 (BETAS: 9.2.3.1 to 9.2.4.0)] No new features [9.2.3.0 (BETAS: 9.2.1.0 to 9.2.2.0)] No new features [9.2.0.0 (BETAS: 9.0.3.0 to 9.1.9.0)] Content Manager: Copy Lists: New feature to "Retry Failed Items" when one or more items fail to copy. The tool will attempt to copy only those items that failed so the user does not need to re-run an entire copy job or try to filter the copy job. Content Manager: Copy Lists: New feature to "Only Copy where Item ID/GUID matches". This new option will allow users to use the Item ID from logs or Item Query Reports to selectively copy only specific items/pages/files. See here for help using this new feature: https://cognillo.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/article/412221444 and https://cognillo.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/article/22741009 [9.0.3.0] No new features [9.0.2.0] No new features [9.0.1.0 (BETAS: 8.9.7.0 to 8.9.9.0)] No new features [8.9.6.0] No new features [8.9.5.0] No new features [8.9.4.0] No new features [8.9.3.0 (BETAS: 8.8.3.0 to 8.9.2.0)] No new features [8.8.2.0] No new features [8.8.1.0] No new features [8.8.0.0 (BETAS: 8.6.4.0 to 8.7.9.0)] Permissions Manager: Permissions Matrix & Comprehensive Permission Reports allow user to 'right click' and remove a user's access directly from site, list, folder or item level within report.  [8.6.3.0] No new features [8.6.2.0] No new features [8.6.1.1] No new features [8.6.0.0] No new features [8.5.9.0 (BETAS: 8.4.9.0 to 8.5.8.0)] Job History: NEW (BETA) "View Merged Reports" from Job History by multi-selecting multiple job items to open a merged report of the selected jobs. This allows users to view merged reports from historical jobs. [8.4.8.0 (BETAS: 8.3.7.0)] No new features [8.4.6.0] No new features [8.4.5.0] No new features [8.4.4.0] No new features [8.4.3.0] No new features [8.4.2.0] No new features [8.4.0.0 & 8.4.1.0 (BETAS: 8.3.6.0 to 8.3.9.0)] No new features [8.3.5.0, 8.3.4.0] No new features [8.3.3.0] No new features [8.3.2.0] No new features [8.3.1.0 (BETAS: 8.1.8.0 to 8.2.9.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (Enterprise Cloud Licenses) New option to 'Auto-deactivate on Close'. When enabled, the tool will attempt to auto-release the license used by user, back to pool of licenses (in online license server) when the application is closed. Permissions Manager, Site and List Auditing, Broken Link Manager, Item Query - Now support scheduling 'Merged Reports'. Previously all exported MS Excel reports created a single MS Excel file per SharePoint site (SPWeb), this new feature allows user to 'merge' all reports in the job into a single MS Excel report file. For example, all permissions for a Site Collection (and all subsites) can be merged on a schedule into one report file and exported to SharePoint in the scheduled job (such as weekly). Site and List Auditing: NEW Report - Field Inventory reports help validate usage of SharePoint Fields. Report on SPFields by Field Title or Internal Name. Site and List Auditing: Edit Site Settings - Sharing Buttons toggle - Now has option to allow user to Turn Off Sharing (or Turn On) at Site (subsite/SPWeb) level. This will then hide the Sharing option for users. Permissions Manager: New Report 'User Inventory' - Used to help get more information about users who have access (or had access) to SharePoint. Under "Advanced options -> Additional Fields" users can add additional Azure AD/On-premise AD/SharePoint User Profile attributes to retrieve to display in the report. User Additional Fields such as Office, Department, Job Title, Phone, Last Sign-In, Manager, Group Memberships, custom, etc. [8.1.7.0] No new features ********************************************************** ** ENHANCEMENTS & Changes ** ********************************************************** [10.3.5.3 (BETAS 10.3.4.0 - 10.3.5.2)] Permissions Manager: Remove User now supports displaying if user was not found, then it is not showing as an error but a warning and shows in high level job 'sites' view without having user to view log details. [10.3.3.9] Broken Link Manager: Find / Replacing links in Modern Web pages will no longer create a draft version when user chooses to retain Author (Last modified data), and Suppress Version Creation, and the original file was in published state. Content Manager: Item Query: Added support for more Inclusion Rules. This will allow user to specify if they only want to query Lists, Document Libraries, Page Libraries and additional options to reduce processing unecessary content. NOTE: A new enhancement is being developed for Item Query to use a Search based query. Currently, Item Query uses a 'literal search' in order to be able to find HTML, CSS< JavaScript and Web Parts. As usage of Item Query has grown to more general content queries, we are adding a more performant, faster, searched based query option, returning a similar result format. [10.3.3.8] No new enhancements [10.3.3.7 (BETAS 10.3.3.1 - 10.3.3.6)] Broken Link Manager: Changed when could not replace a link due to Checked out or Password protected to show as an error instead of warning. This will help bring more visibility to items that failed to be processed. Permissions Manager: Remove User from Site Collection - Updated this function to show a warning instead of an error if the user does not exist, and to show this message in the overview of job statuses, so user can easily see the warning was due to user not found and not an actual error with execution. Item Inventory & Permissions Manager: Added ability to right click to 'Turn on Inherited Permissions' for multiple items in bulk. [10.3.3.0 (BETAS 10.3.0.0 - 10.3.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Updated Web Browser Authentication mechanism to use an updated control that will not rely on IE technology. This will improve the login experience in some cases and prevent errors that occured with previous mechanism. Broken Link Manager: Find & Replace: New option in Links->Manage->Options to allow scanning and replacing of 'text bosed links'. These are non clickable links in MS Word which in some cases users may want to try to replace. NOTE: If there is a space (non-HTML Encoded space ' ') in the text based link, the product may not replace correctly as it cannot distinguish between a space and if it is part of URL. HTML Encoded spaces do not have any issue. Content Manager: Item Query: These reports will now show all results from every item/file/page instead of only the first match. Content Manager: Item Query: Increased value of 'Location of match' to show an extra 20 characters to help ensure the values matched are what user was looking for. User can then apply filter to this column in the report. [10.2.9.0 (BETAS 10.2.4.0 - 10.2.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Improved performance for adding sites. Added options to minimize data collected from each site during the import/adding of sites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Simplified default views to remove Number, Group and some other less commonly used columns by default. This will not affect your default view if you have customized them. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New option in Settings to 'Auto Clear Cache' before jobs are run. This helps to avoid authentication issues in environments where web browser cookie tokens expire in a short time frame and need to be regenerated. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: License Improvements: If a site is removed from the Home Page Dashboard, the tool will test if the site is reachable, if it is not reachable, the tool will auto-remove the site from the Licensed Sites list so that it can be available for use. Broken Link Manager: Find & Replace: New options to allow 'sequential replacement' of links (default), or 'Stop at first match', which causes tool to look for replacements (from top of list/rules down) but if one is found, it will stop once matched and not process other rules. This is useful when replacing Document ID or other similar types of links. Broken Link Manager: Find & Replace: New option to allow 'Completely Replace' links that match. This allows users the flexibility to match certain URLs using plain text or using Regex to then completely replace the whole URL including any query strings in URLs. Broken Link Manager: Add support for reporting on, and fixing, MS Excel Data Connection links. Broken Link Manager: Inclusion Rules: Added support for Query - Folder Name and Folder Path now has the option for 'Does not contain'. Broken Link Manager: (SP on-premises only) (Fix/Enhancement) Updated logic to exclude 'Closed Web Parts' within pages by default. Previously, closed web part links were also showing in reports. Permissions Manager: Added support for item/page/file/folder level filtering in Inclusion Rules. Site & List Inventory: Item Inventory: Added 'Has Unique Permissions' column to these reports to help identify all items/pages/files/folders that have uniquely assigned permissions, without the need to build a full permission report. Site & List Inventory: Item Inventory: Added 'Has Sharing Links' checkbox option. This allows users to build a report on items/pages/files and easily identify all items that contain a Sharing Link, without having to run a full permissions report on them. [10.2.3.0] No new enhancements [10.2.2.0 (BETAS 10.1.8.0 - 10.2.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: We have added auto-minimize Left Navigation, Live Explorer and Quick Actions if the window size is too small to display correctly. This can be disabled in the Home->Settings page. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: HTTP Status 429 Throttling prevention: In addition to throttling prevention practices we have added (see below article), we have now added 'exponential backoff times'. We have improved how throttling is handled by the tool. Throttling backoff will now use an exponential wait time instead of static. By default the tool will backoff 3 seconds if throttling is detected. It will try again, if it is still throttled it will then wait 6 seconds. If throttled still, it will wait 12 seconds. This is the recommended approach by Microsoft. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/how-to-avoid-getting-throttled-or-blocked-in-sharepoint-online#best-practices-to-handle-throttling Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions: We have added 'Login' column to this report to display the unique login ID for accounts in the report. [10.1.7.0] Permissions Manager: Unique Item Permissions: Added 'Last Modified By' and 'Last Modified' (by person) columns to this report. [10.1.6.1] No new enhancements [10.1.6.0] No new enhancements [10.1.5.0] No new enhancements [10.1.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Email Options: Updated behavior to support user being able to select no views in drop down list to specify which reports theey want to attach to emails. Previously the email would always send all reports if user selects to include report(s) as attachment. Now the user can control which reports are sent. [10.1.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Email Options: Added support for 'Site Owners', 'Site Members' and 'Site Visitors' security group members to be iterated and sent emails. NOTE: (Office 365) This requires Azure AD Consent by a Global Admin (https://www.cognillo.com/sharepoint-essentials-toolkit-consent) to allow the product to iterate Azure AD Security groups. [10.1.2.0 (BETAS: 9.8.7.0 to 10.1.1.0)] Broken Link Manager: Additional Fields: Now allows user to specify the field type as Text or Number. This is to help with when the report is generated, so that the field can be sorted correctly. For example, previously, when adding an additional field (custom metadata) the tool treated all additional fields as text. This caused issues when the value type is number and user needed to sort by this column. This is now addressed by allowing the user to specify the additional field / column type, so that if it is a Number type, when viewing the report, the user can now correctly be able to sort by these numbers, and also apply a 'Sum' for these columns. Content Manager: Item Query: Additional Fields: Now allows user to specify the field type as Text or Number. This is to help with when the report is generated, so that the field can be sorted correctly. For example, previously, when adding an additional field (custom metadata) the tool treated all additional fields as text. This caused issues when the value type is number and user needed to sort by this column. This is now addressed by allowing the user to specify the additional field / column type, so that if it is a Number type, when viewing the report, the user can now correctly be able to sort by these numbers, and also apply a 'Sum' for these columns. Content Manager: Performance Improvements: Copy Lists: Copy Lists had previously validated accounts (user or group) before attempting to apply the user/group to metadata such as Last Modified By or other person type field. This caused significant delays when there were many versions, and also when users were not found in AD/AAD (Active Directory/Azure Active Directory) (which took longer to try to resolve in AD/AAD). New logic has been added to 'cache' valid and invalid accounts, so that the tool will not attempt to resolve/ensure those users are valid every time except once per user. Site & List Inventory: Item Inventory: Additional Fields: Now allows user to specify the field type as Text or Number. This is to help with when the report is generated, so that the field can be sorted correctly. For example, previously, when adding an additional field (custom metadata) the tool treated all additional fields as text. This caused issues when the value type is number and user needed to sort by this column. This is now addressed by allowing the user to specify the additional field / column type, so that if it is a Number type, when viewing the report, the user can now correctly be able to sort by these numbers, and also apply a 'Sum' for these columns. [9.8.6.0] No new enhancements [9.8.5.0] No new enhancements [9.8.4.0] No new enhancements [9.8.3.0 (BETAS: 9.8.1.0 to 9.8.2.0)] No new enhancements [9.8.1.0 (BETAS: 9.7.6.0 to 9.8.0.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (only affects Office 365): Added support for Office 365 Modern Authentication. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Jobs 'views' have been updated to include a (hidden) 'Parent Job ID'. This has been added to handle grouping of jobs with the same name. However, older jobs will show in the same group with others that have same Job Names (since the Parent Job ID will be blank for older jobs). We will be adding to this change to support bulk changes to multiple site jobs from the Job History and Scheduled Jobs pages to make management of jobs easier. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Job logs will now show a sum of all log 'Warnings' and 'Errors' at the top of the log. This will help users identify if there were many problems within the job. Broken Link Manager: Fixing links that are UNC paths, mapped drive paths or any local path with backslashes, such as \\server\folder1\, file:\\server\public\, M:\public\folder1, will not longer an additional rule for changing the \ to /. Additionally, the inclusion rules to specify the UNC/local paths/mapped drive paths to include is no longer required when fixing these type of links. This enhancement was done to simplify the process for fixing links for fileshares/mapped drive/UNC paths. For example, if M:\Finance\ was migrated entirely (with all of the files and folders under it) to https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/finance/documents, the user only needs to add a single mapping of M:\Finance\ => https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/finance/documents to perform the fixes across all files and documents. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Performance improvements made to the browse source/target library folders pop up prompt when copying lists. Content Manager: Item Query: Now supports parsing Large Lists. Previously, when attempting to parse/query large lists, the user will see a warning that large lists are not currently supported. This release now has support to query large lists. [9.7.5.0] No new enhancements [9.7.4.1] No new enhancements [9.7.4.0] No new enhancements [9.7.3.0] Permissions Manager: Enhancement/Bug Fix: (only affects Office 365): Office 365 'Owners' Groups are hidden by default in the SharePoint Owners Group in SharePoint. The SharePoint Essentials Toolkit by default did not show hidden AAD Groups, including the default Office 365 Owners from reports, they appeared in the Site Collection Administrators section of reports. This caused some confusion since users expected to see these in the SharePoint Group node similar to how the 'Members' group shows the Office 365 Team Members AAD group. We have now added logic to show Office 365 Team Owners groups and also their members in all reports, they will also be shown in Site Collection Administrators section as they do in SharePoint. [9.7.2.0] No new enhancements [9.7.1.0] Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying a publishing page that was published in source will now be published in target with comments "Published by SharePoint Content Manager". This change/enhancement was added so that the source published pages and source draft pages will retain their published state. However, this will cause the version number of target pages that are 'published' to be greater than the source version number. [9.7.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Default Connection Timeout: After resolving some issues with Export to SharePoint, and adding the 'Connection Retry Count' enhancement, we have changed the default connection timeout to 10 minutes (600000ms) (previously it was set to 30 minutes). Depending on your environment, some environments may need a longer timeout setting due to bandwidth issues, slow VPNs, throttling, etc. You may change this value as needed in the Home->Settings->Default Connection Timeout setting. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Site counts (that show as labels beside the Site Titles) will now show a count of all visible nodes in the treeview of sites / groups. This will allow users to see a total count (by expanding all nodes) instead of only the next level down. [9.6.9.1] No new enhancements [9.6.9.0] No new enhancements [9.6.8.0 (BETAS: 9.5.7.0 to 9.6.7.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Minor UI improvements for 'Change Group' and 'Modify Group' combo boxes. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: "Expand All" in Settings will now expand only the Group to display site collections, but will not expand anything under the site collection (if sub sites exist). Broken Link Manager: When user selects "Skip Validation of Links", when job is complete they see "0 Broken Links found" (since the tool did not validate any links, it reported 0 broken links). This caused confusion for some users, so we have changed this to show "Links Processed" with count of links detected for the notifications. Broken Link Manager: The following warning types (such as a warning advising the file is checked out or password protected) that advise the tool could not parse items/pages/files for links will now appear in the "Failed Items" 'View' with HTTP Status Code 999*. This enhancement allows users to retry failed items on any of the below types of errors, which is in addition to any other error types. Right click selected (failed items) rows in report -> 'Fix Links for selected Items" • Password Protected • Digitally signed • Read only field • Linked OLE Objects that are not supported (there are a few types, you can turn on legacy linked OLE objects in the options page) • Checked Out files • Items/Files/Pages that have any errors when parsed Broken Link Manager: (For mapped drive paths) Added logic to automatically add File:// variations (as PDF, MS Word etc have different possible variations of appending File:// and File:/// to paths) to inclusion rules and Find Replace Rules if user is changing paths for mapped drives. For example, a MS Excel formula may have M:\servername\path, however in MS Word it would be stored as FILE:///M:\servername\path, pdf is also different. The tool will automatically handle these if users adds M:\servername\path, they will no longer need to add the File:// variations to mapping rules. Content Manager: Bulk Upload Files: Now shows number of folders uploaded and number of files uploaded separately. Previously it showed number of total items/files uploaded which included folders. This will help users with validating jobs with Windows File Explorer folder properties page for validation. [9.5.6.0] No new enhancements [9.5.5.0] Copy Lists: If a user selects the option to include "Include Migration Comments" or "Allow Support for Incremental Jobs and Syncing", these 2 SharePoint fields will now be hidden from the default view instead of appearing in the default view in the target list. [9.5.4.0] No new enhancements [9.5.3.0 (BETAS: 9.4.3.0 to 9.5.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: "Connection Retries Count": New option in Settings page to allow tool to retry connections if first attempt fails (such as the SharePoint context thread has hung). This enhancement has been added to help resolve issues where the tool fails to connect to a site for a report/task/export action and shows "Timeout". The default will be set at 2 retries. Broken Link Manager: New option to include Email links ('mailto' links) in reports. These links will always show as 200 (OK). Email addresses will not be validated by the tool. This is off by default but can be enabled in the Options page (Links (top nav)->Manage->Options). Broken Link Manager: When setting UNC File Share Paths in the "Inclusion Rules", such as \\server\public\share\*, the tool will automatically include the file:// equivalents for the user (such as file://server/public/share/*, file:///server/public/share/*, file:///server/public/share/*, etc). It is no longer necessary to add all of the different file:// paths (MS Word, Excel , PDFs all have different ways to store UNC paths). This will make the Inclusion Rules behave the same as Find Replace rules, where file:// paths will automatically match any URL entered that starts with two backslashes and reduce number of entries needed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: New option in filtering to only include last N Major and N Minor. Previously, we only had option to include last N Major, and all Minor versions were copied. Under the "Filter Options" section, user can now select a new option called "Copy Last N Major and N Minor Versions". This will now allow users to specify how many last Major versions as well as how many Minor versions within those Major versions to be included in a Copy List job. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: New columns "Parent Folder URL" and "Folder Item Count (Recursive)" are out of BETA. [9.4.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: "Default Connection Timeout": Added logic to auto detect if existing installation and has Settings value of 360000 for the "Default Connection Timeout" and updates this to 1800000. This is needed for larger 'multi-site jobs' to avoid timeout errors. [9.4.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: "Default Connection Timeout" has been increased to 1800000 (30 minutes) to help prevent 'timeout' issues on clients while tool is waiting to connect to a SharePoint site, which was a cause for some jobs to fail when the previous 5 minute timeout was hit. [9.4.0.0] No new enhancements [9.3.4.0] No new enhancements [9.3.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 'Process name' (which appears in Task Manager) of the SharePoint Essentials Service has been renamed from "QIPoint.SP.Client.Manager.Scheduler.exe" to "SharePoint Essentials Service". Content Manager: Item Query: New columns "Parent Folder URL" and "Folder Item Count (Recursive)". "Parent Folder URL (BETA)" can be 'grouped' in the report to determine item counts per folder (that match Item Query). "Folder Item Count (Recursive)" has been added to provide a total recursive count of items in each folder (that match Item Query). Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: New columns "Parent Folder URL (BETA)" and "Folder Item Count (Recursive)". "Parent Folder URL" can be 'grouped' in the report to determine item counts per folder. "Folder Item Count (Recursive)" has been added to provide a total recursive count of items in each folder. [9.3.2.0] No new enhancements [9.3.1.0] Permissions Manager: Ability to change Permission Levels from reports. Such as change an account to only have Read rights. Currently this enhancement allows user to select one record at a time to add to a Permissions Template, a future update will allow user to change multiple rows/records permission levels at once (bulk change permission levels). Site and List Auditing: Edit Site Settings: New option to "Restore Recycle Bin", allows parameters for user and date filter. [9.3.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: 'Change Group' and 'Modify Group' name will now have drop down to select existing Group or enter a new group. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Email: Now makes compression (.zip) of emailed reports optional. Zipping will now create a single zip file for multiple reports instead of one zip file per report. Permissions Manager: User Inventory & Orphaned User Reports: Now supports bulk removal of users. Previously you needed to select one user at a time to remove them. This enhancements allows users to select in bulk and click once to remove all selected users from SharePoint. [9.2.9.0] No new enhancements [9.2.8.0] No new enhancements [9.2.7.0] No new enhancements [9.2.6.0 (BETAS: 9.2.5.2)] No new enhancements [9.2.5.0 (BETAS: 9.2.3.1 to 9.2.4.0)] No new enhancements [9.2.3.0 (BETAS: 9.2.1.0 to 9.2.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Active Logs, Job History Logs will now support exporting the current view to MS Excel. This allows users to filter, sort, group the logs as needed and export that view to Excel format. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Export to SharePoint: Now supports option to 'Auto Append GUID' to exported file name. This enhancement has been added due to issue with some subsites/sites with different URLs but having the same Site Title. This scenario caused the reports to be overwritten as two or more sites with the same name would potentially have the same exported MS Excel file name in SharePoint. Adding "Site GUID" to the end of the filename will make the files unique. We are investigating other options for this but at this time this needs to be enabled if you have one or more sites with the same Site Title in the same job. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions Report: Improved format of MS Excel exported file to show improved shading and readability of groupings. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Added support for Export to SharePoint manually or on a schedule. [9.2.0.0 (BETAS: 9.0.3.0 to 9.1.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Report jobs 'Export to SharePoint as SP List Items' will now be defaulted to "Update" instead of "Overwrite". This is to resolve issues where user is trying to export report data but the list is overwritten after each site job and is not aware to change this option. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Report jobs 'Export to SharePoint' no longer will auto-populate "Export to Site URL" field. This sometimes caused user to not be aware this value changed so we have disabled the auto-populate of this field in the Job options. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Email: The email body will automatically have the "(Run Now)" text removed in the email. "Run Now" jobs are non-scheduled jobs. This was confusing for users who did not use the tool often. Only the Job Name will be displayed in the email when the email option is used. Broken Link Manager: New View called "Failed Items" to allow user to run a job against only the items which failed during the job, and not iterate all items/files/pages but only those that failed. This will help improve completion time of jobs. The view "Failed Items" will show only these items which failed to be parsed, allowing user to run a job to only scan/fix links for those files/items/pages without parsing entire library/list Broken Link Manager: Failed items will show in Link Reports with HTTP Status Code "999*error" top identify the items/files/pages that have failed to parse. This was done to allow users to re-run a job only for those items. By default, these records are hidden. The view "Failed Items" will show only these items which failed. Broken Link Manager: Added improved support for SharePoint Master Pages, the tool will now more thoroughly fix links within SharePoint master pages, as Master Pages contain special tags which previously were not picked up by tool and not replaced. Content Manager: Copy Lists: A new enhancement called "Allow Support for Incremental Jobs and Syncing" creates a mapping for source Unique IDs and populates new column in Target to store the mapping. This provides a fix for "Copy Content (if newer)" where duplicates are caused due to Item IDs not retained in target. This also will allow for syncing lists in future update. Content Manager: Item Query: Added new column "Unique Item ID" to allow support for a user to run a query on multiple lists, and then to use the Unique Item ID to perform a copy using new Copy List feature "Only Copy where Unique GUID Matches" Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Added new column "Unique Item ID" to allow support for a user to run a query on multiple lists, and then to use the Unique Item ID to perform a copy using new Copy List feature "Only Copy where Unique GUID Matches" [9.0.3.0] Broken Link Manager: Now supports link detection (and replacement) in SharePoint Calculated Fields. [9.0.2.0] No new enhancements [9.0.1.0 (BETAS: 8.9.7.0 to 8.9.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All reports and logs will support 'lazy cascaded loading' to improve rendering of data for large report or log data. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All 'multi-site' reports which run each site in parallel threads will now show a 'Details' column which shows number of Warnings and Errors (if any) in the job. This will also link to the job logs to view details more easily. [8.9.6.0] No new enhancements [8.9.5.0] Broken Link Manager: Added enhancement for Inclusion Rules. Filtering by Last Modified Date now supports "Between" two dates. Broken Link Manager: Added enhancement for Inclusion Rules. Filtering by Item File Name now supports "Does not Contain". [8.9.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Site Collection Administrators will now appear under "Site Owners" tab in "Live Explorer" for the selected site. [8.9.3.0 (BETAS: 8.8.3.0 to 8.9.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance enhancement/fixes: Large log files will now be automatically split when they reach a certain size to help improve performance for single sites with many log entries. Broken Link Manager: Added support for links in MS Excel Visual Basic code. The tool will report on macros with links inside the VB code and allows user to perform Find/Replace against these links. Permissions Manager: User Inventory: "Account Type" column added to the report. This will help identify and differentiate between AD / Domain Groups vs. User accounts. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions Report: Lists will now show an updated tree view with Folders and Items/files/web pages beneath them to help identify folder and file structure and permission inheritance. Permissions Manager: "Remove User" and "Permissions Template" buttons have been added to the Security Tab Home Page. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory & Field Inventory: Email support - Added ability to apply View(s) to Item Inventory & Field Inventory emailed reports. [8.8.2.0] No new enhancements [8.8.1.0] No new enhancements [8.8.0.0 (BETAS: 8.6.4.0 to 8.7.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: IMPORTANT: Email Notifications will now be 'merged' into single email and single report file by default (instead of one email per site with separate files (yes we know that was painful)). This enhancement has been added to all report functions (which have the email alert option). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Upgrades - ConfigPath: For customers who have configured the 'ConfigPath' to use an alternate directory to store reports and configuration files. Upgrading the tool caused a customized ConfigPath to be reset to defaults (My Documents folder). This version will make backup of ConfigPath.txt when uninstalled and will restore the ConfigPath for product updates going forward. This (v8.8.0.0) upgrade will still require manually restoring the ConfigPath.txt file, future versions will no longer require this as the ConfigPath file will be backed up when uninstalled starting with this release. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Now supports deleting multiple sites from Home Page Dashboard at once (this does not delete from SharePoint, you can delete sites from a Site Inventory report). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Memory improvements to all reports to reduce RAM used by tool. Event logs and report data will now be released from buffer after 500 records (per site job) to help ensure large reports and large log data do not hold onto system RAM. This will help improve performance especially for long running jobs such as Broken Link Manager, Permissions Manager, Item Query and Item Inventory. Broken Link Manager: CHANGE: Links within metadata and within file content will no longer have a different "Item Title" in the reports. Previously, links within metadata showed "Item Title" without a file extension (such as "HR Form"), links within content showed "Item Title" with a file extension. This has now been changed so that all links for a single file have the same "Item Title" with a file extension (such as "HR Form.pdf"). Going forward, the type of link can be differentiated by using the "Link Type" column which shows "Document Contents" or the metadata field name. Broken Link Manager: Find & Replace now supports replacing "non URLs" in link HREF Display Text. For example, if user would like to replace "Click here" to "Please click here", the previous versions did not support this fully. This is now working in this release. Broken Link Manager: Additional Fields increased to 20 fields. This allows users to include extra metadata (SharePoint column values) in the reports generated. Broken Link Manager: Link Reports will now show 'Page Number' for PDF and MS Word documents with links in column "Link Description". This is to help users locate links within these files that the tool has found. Content Manager: Copy Lists: New option to allow user to choose "Last N Major Versions" when copying a SharePoint List or Library. This allows user to filter the number of Major versions being copied from source to target. Content Manager: Additional Fields increased to 20 fields. This allows users to include extra metadata (SharePoint column values) in the reports generated. Permissions Manager: User Inventory: Additional Fields increased to 10 fields. This allows users to include extra user information from Active Directory in the reports generated. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Additional Fields increased to 20 fields. This allows users to include extra metadata (Azure AD/AD properties) in the reports generated. Site and List Auditing: Field Inventory: New column "Lookup Field Source" will show the parent source field of the lookup columns found. This will help with migrations and general reporting on how lists are connected and to help locate dependencies. Site and List Auditing: User Activity: (Office 365 only) User Activity for Office 365 will now use the Unified Audit Logs. User will not require extra permissions for this feature, they can be Site Owners or Site Collection Administrators still. Fixes issue caused due to change in SharePoint Online Unified Logging, where report does not show User Login names in correct field and is located in Event Details column. This is now resolved with this enhancement. [8.6.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 200 site soft limit warning increased to 2000. We have removed this limit as the new setting from v8.5.9.0 "Maximum Parallel Threads" default of 3 resolves the issue of competing threads for resources and connections. Permissions Manager: Job History: The Job History will allow you to view 'Comprehensive Permission' and 'Permission Matrix' Reports when a single site job is selected. Previously, only the SharePoint Group, Site Collection Admin, Site, List and Unique Item Permission reports were available. [8.6.2.0] No new enhancements [8.6.1.1] No new enhancements [8.6.0.0] Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Report will exclude permission granted via Sharing Link that is already expired (using View Filter). User can remove this filter (at bottom of report manually) by unchecking (EXPIRED) filter. [8.5.9.0 (BETAS: 8.4.9.0 to 8.5.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job Engine fixes and improvements for all reports. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: NEW "Maximum Parallel Job Threads" in Home-> Settings (default 3) to help prevent jobs from using significant amount of RAM and CPU due to competing threads. This setting can be increased manually for more powerful machines. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All report panels now open on click instead of hover/mouse over. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Live Explorer performance improvements. Broken Link Manager: Added new column to store "Item Unique ID" which is a unique ID for each item/file/web page regardless of the location in SharePoint. This is used in the new enhancements below. Broken Link Manager: NEW enhancement to Inclusion Rules "Query" filter by SharePoint View or by Item Unique ID. Allows users to run jobs to report on links only from a specific SharePoint View or by specifying Item Unique ID (now available in the report). Broken Link Manager: NEW enhancement, right click from report and choose "Only fix links for these (selected) items". This adds the selected items to a new job. This helps for large jobs where a user may only need to fix links for a subset of items/files/web pages, the job will only parse the selected items to reduce processing time. Broken Link Manager: NEW Enhancement, OneNote Find & Replace now supported. Content Manager: Item Query performance improvements for multi-site jobs. Permissions Manager: IMPORTANT: SharePoint Group Owners and Azure AD Group Owners will no longer show in permission reports as having access. Although the SP & AAD group owners could assign themselves access, we removed them from being listed as it caused some confusion for customers when reviewing the reports. Permissions Manager: IMPORTANT: Sharing Links that are Expired, are now filtered from report by default. Accounts that previously had access via Expired Sharing Links can be viewed by removing the View filter '(EXPIRED)'. Permissions Manager: Performance improvements for multi-site jobs. The report will now cache SP Group members and Domain Group members at run-time.  Permissions Manager: NEW Enhancement: Permissions Matrix and Comprehensive Permission reports now allow editing of permissions directly from report. Previously this feature was only available in Site, List and Item level reports. NEW Enhancement: Permissions Reports now have a new 'Advanced Option 'Exclusion Rule'' called "Domain Group Member Threshold". This option (default value is 2000) is used when "Show Nested Permissions (Domain Groups)" is selected.  The option will allow the user to specify the maximum Domain Group members to iterate.  If a Domain Group is found to have access, if the number of members exceeds this threshold, the members will not be iterated nor displayed in the report.  Permissions Manager: SharePoint Group Report: Bulk Add/Remove users to/from SharePoint Groups out of BETA and in full release. [8.4.8.0 (BETAS: 8.3.7.0)] No new enhancements [8.4.6.0] No new enhancements [8.4.5.0] Permissions Manager: Performance improvements for all Permission Reports. Permissions Manager: SharePoint Group reports: Adds new option "Validate SharePoint Group Owners and Members" - this option will toggle validation of Group Owners and Members of SharePoint Groups. A column called Status will show if the account (owner/member) is disabled or not present in Active Directory (Azure AD or on-premises AD) [8.4.4.0] Permissions Manager: User Inventory Reports: "Last Sign In" now supported for on-premises (SP2010 and higher) [8.4.3.0] No new enhancements [8.4.2.0] Broken Link Manager: Improved caching performance for domains that cannot be resolved. Broken Link Manager: New enhancement to Exclusion Rules "URLs in Content": Supports exclusion of all links within HTML tags. Using format such as $$ID=customNav$$ will exclude all links from job that are within an HTML DIV control with ID customNav. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: A "SharePoint Group Owner" permission to content will now be displayed the same way as in Permission Matrix reports 'Group Owner (SP Group Name)', where SP Group Name is the name of the SharePoint group the user is the owner of. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: "Everyone" and "Everyone Except External Users" are now treated as Domain Groups so that they will appear in the Granted Via column. [8.4.0.0 & 8.4.1.0 (BETAS: 8.3.6.0 to 8.3.9.0)] Broken Link Manager: Added support for Excel Binary Format (xlsb) files Broken Link Manager: 'Referred by URL' column now available to show end result URL of a redirect Content Manager: Item Query: Improvements to show "Location of Match" to help user determine where matches are found in report results. Permissions Manager: Permission Templates (Bulk) - to add multiple accounts or remove multiple accounts from one or more SharePoint Groups is now out of BETA. Permissions Manager: User Inventory Reports: Added to Home Page Dashboard Menu. Permissions Manager: User Inventory Reports: User "Last 5 Sign Ins" and "Last Sign in" converted to local date and time of machine. [8.3.5.0, 8.3.4.0] No new enhancements [8.3.3.0] Permissions Manager: User Inventory: Added new fields 'Last Sign-In', 'Created', 'Created By', 'Modified', 'Modified By' to retrieve from User Account information to show in the report. 'Last Sign-In' is only available for Office 365/SPO environments. [8.3.2.0] Permissions Manager: User Inventory: NEW Report, addition of 'User Sign-Ins' for Office 365/Azure AD. This feature requires an account to be used that has Office 365 subscription that supports Sign-In data. [8.3.1.0 (BETAS: 8.1.8.0 to 8.2.9.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Jobs - Now allows user to set a job status to 'Cancelled'. This helps when a job is hung and displays Running, a user can choose one or more jobs to 'Cancel'. The tool will attempt to cancel the job and mark the status as Cancelled. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (Office 365) Add Site: Retrieve All From Web Application option now attempts to connect to the Tenant Administration site to retrieve Site Collections. If this fails, it uses SharePoint search API. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Retrieve All From Web Application now allows you to enter the web application URL with a Managed Path to filter the Site Collections added. Broken Link Manager: Broken Link Manager now supports 'Additional Fields' to add new SharePoint Fields to reports such as any custom SharePoint Column that is not already present in the reports such as ('Project Contact'). Broken Link Manager: MS Excel format .xlsb added to supported file types. Item Query & Item Inventory: Item Query & Item Inventory now support 'Additional Fields' (we renamed from 'Metadata Reports') to add new SharePoint Fields to reports such as any custom SharePoint Column that is not already present in the reports such as ('Project Contact'). Permissions Manager: Sharing Link improvements to display of links in reports. Site and List Auditing: Site Inventory reports now show 'Sharing Settings' to show if Sharing buttons are enabled for Members. [8.1.7.0] No new enhancements ********************************************************** ** BUG FIXES ** ********************************************************** [10.3.5.3 (BETAS 10.3.4.0 - 10.3.5.2)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes authentication issues/errors when user runs reports with Web Browser Authentication due to secure cookie being deleted. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some external links are reported as 'unauthorized' but are valid links. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with Regex not matching results in certain Regex expressions. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Australian Date Time column not copying values correctly to target. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where 'Turn on Inherited' permissions did not change anything in some environments. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where the 'Create Permissions Job' did not display the email of shared external users. [10.3.3.9] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where user tries to manually export report for multiple sites and Item Query results, and only a single Site Collection's data is exported. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where an extra blank folder is created when exporting Permissions Matrix and Site Collection Administrator reports to SharePoint as Excel. [10.3.3.8] Permissions Manager: Remove User from Site Collection: Resolved issue where a user is trying to remove a user completely from site collection, but the user does not exist, the tool shows an error 'User not found'. This is now resolved by changing this to a warning and showing a warning in the report view as well for better visibility into issue. [10.3.3.7 (BETAS 10.3.3.1 - 10.3.3.6)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: ConfigPath - Fixes issue when ConfigPath is updated, a blank 'SPEssentials' folder in My Documents is created even after moving location. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where UNC paths in Visual Basic Macro code in MS Excel xlsm files are not detected or fixed, this is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixes issue where @Regex() rule for Find & Replace does not work and does not match anything. Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixes issue where user imports Find & Replace mappings from Excel more than once, or manually adds entries to Find/Replace mappings and the mapping order is incorrect. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixes issue where user chooses 'Suppress Version Creation' and 'Preserve Author', Modern Pages are still creating a Draft version. This is now resolved. NOTE: Classic pages will still create a Draft version to preserve Author, this is by design and due to web service limitations. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where using Australian region Date Time formatted column, user sees 'String was not recognized as a valid DateTime', this is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy lists using a Date Time filter condition and the list is larger than 1000 items, the user sees 'List View Thrwshold error'. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Scheduled Jobs is not showing logs for Item Query for some query conditions. This is now resolved. [10.3.3.0 (BETAS 10.3.0.0 - 10.3.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports that use "Additional Fields" to include additional metadata: Fixes issue where 'Content Type' column did not show value when it is added to reports. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where in some xlsb files, the xlsb files are not updated and in some cases may get corrupted after a find replace. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some links in OneNote are not detected and also not replaced. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where a large library gives an error 'List View Threshold not supported'. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: User Activity Reports: Fixes issue when using Web Browser Authentication, the User Activity reports hang and never generate. [10.2.9.0 (BETAS 10.2.4.0 - 10.2.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (SharePoint Online) Fixes issues with Add Site being slow after adding large number of sites. This was due to number of requests called and caused throttling. We have improved the Add Site function performance to avoid this issue. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (SharePoint Online GCC High only) Resolves some issues with customers who use GCC high and see multiple Web Browser Authentication prompts even though they have already authenticated once. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (SharePoint Online GCC High only) Fixes issue where some reports showed 'unauthorized'. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where the toolkit crashes when a user has a site with Site Template 'Site Directory' and selects the site to view in Live Explorer. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: (SP on-premises only) (Fix/Enhancement) Updated logic to exclude 'Closed Web Parts' within pages by default. Previously, closed web part links were also showing in reports. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some URLs in PDF files are not replaced due to the link being wrapped on multiple lines. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where the HREF Display Text is not replaced in some PDF URLs. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes issue where in some environments, selecting site with certain Site Template caused the toolkit to crash. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issues where user is trying to copy folders, and the files are not copied except only the folders. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where files with certain special characters give an error in the Copy List job 'cannot find file'. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user uses filter 'Created by' or 'Keep All Versions' in some environments do not copy any files or folders. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: Edit Lists: Fixes issue when using 'Delete Versions' for a list or library and user sees an error 'One or more actions failed'. This is now resolved. [10.2.3.0] Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue caused by version 10.2.2.0 fix, where changing target folder name causes issue where sub folder shows an error copying, but the folder is copied to target successfully. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue caused by version 10.2.2.0 fix, where metadata in Person or Group and boolean (True/False or Yes/No) fields are not copied correctly to target if they have special characters in field name. [10.2.2.0 (BETAS 10.1.8.0 - 10.2.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Trial Version changes: Time limit of 60 days has been reduced to 14 days, if an extension is needed please email support@cognillo.com. Restrictive limitations such as Broken Link Manager Find Replace have been removed to allow better testing during Trial Version review. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Resolves issue where in some environments, Web Browser Authentication did not add sites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Resolves issue where Items Processed count did not show items that failed to be processed, it showed all items attempted to be processed and the errors were shown in separate column. This is is now resolved to show only items successfully processed. Error count in Job History logs has not changed. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where JSON content is in a Notefield, not all links are replaced, some are missed. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where JSON content is in a Notefield, some links are cut off where there is a space. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where template-url tagged links are not replaced. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a mapped drive path has forward slashes instead of backslashes stored, the tool does not replace the links correctly and has a mix of back slashes and forward slashes. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Exclusion and Inclusion rules did not apply to the Site Logo URL. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issues where subsite relative paths with Inclusion Rules, being converted to new absolute URLs, did not replace correctly. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some regular expressions used in @Regex("expression") special command did not work. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Exclusion Rules using *#, skipped links with anchor tags. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Exclusion Rules that equals / or // did not exclude the links corectly. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with Failed Items view showing too many items (they were incorrect duplicates), this is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where lists and libraries over 500 items in some cases could not copy. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where some Person or Group data is not copied correctly in some environments due to certain syntax of login IDs. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where 'Retry Failed Items' showed an error although the file or item was copied correctly to target. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user chooses to copy content but 'No Folder Structure', the tool does not copy items/content. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where files with certain special characters (illegal filename characters) that are present in a filename in SharePoint (such as from renaming when already in SharePoint), do not get copied and show an error. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Resolves issue where user uses the option for 'Show Nested Permissions (Domain Groups)', and the user has AAD groups larger than 500, the reports showed only 499 users in the report. This has now been resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where 'Hide Limited Access' did not hide all limited access permissions from the report views. Site and List Auditing: Resolves issue where a Site Inventory report does not open, and user sees erro 'File not found' for the report, when certain options are selected. Site and List Auditing: Fixes issue where 'List Fields' option required 'List Storage and Site Storage space to be checked. This is now resolved so that these options are not required for List Field reports. [10.1.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Resolves issue where multi-site jobs are displayed in a single line in Job History, they require to be clicked to open all individual site jobs within it. This is an enhancement that was not completed but pushed in last package (in error). This has been rolled back to display all multi-site jons as separate jobs in the Job Histoory, until Cognillo completes the new enhancement where Jobs will be grouped and can be edited in bulk from a single line/entry in Job History. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Fixes issue where user runs a manual 'Run Now' report job, and then a Scheduled Job, and sees multiple reports (duplicated) when previewing jobs from Home Page Dashboard (right click->View Reports). In some cases, the 'View Report' section in Home Page Dashboard is also blank. This did not affect Job History. This has now been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Fixes issue where user groups the Active Logs, but the grouping count is not showing. This is now resolved to show group counts in Active Logs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Load Job would not prompt if only a single site is selected, but it should prompt user if they want to overwrite the single site with the stored sites in Job Definition. This is now resolved so that (even if only a single site is selected) the tool will prompt user if they want to overwrite the site in current job with the site(s) in stored job. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue when user is using 'Failed Items' view to review failed items. There was incorrect logic which marked some items/links that did not have errors as a 'Failed Item'. This caused confusion as the logs reported differently. The log files are correct in the Items Processed and error reporting, the issue was with Failed Items view only. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where certain embedded links in html, within Embed Web Parts and Content Editor web parts are reported in tool, but not replaced. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Orphaned User Report: (Fixed for SP 2013, still an issue in SPO) Fixes issue (in SP2013) when running multiple site (typically if there are 20+ sites in a job) to find Orphaned users, the tool had inconsistent entries where some users reported as orphaned, were actually valid and active users. [10.1.6.1] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves Email option to Include Site Owners bug where Microsoft Team Site Owners are not sent an email of the report even if 'Site Owners' option is selected in the Job Options. This is now resolved. [10.1.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Scheduling the removal of a User from a Site Collection does not remove the user in some cases (depending on format of user id and authentication type). This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Links within Excel, in some cases, show error 'index was out of range' and fails to replace links in Excel. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Some password protected files (such as in password protected/restricted editing of PowerPoint files) did not show the file in 'Failed Items' view within the tool. [10.1.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves Email option to Include Site Owners bug where it also iterated hidden AD Security groups within the Site Owners team, causing in some environments the Members group users to also be emailed. Broken Link Manager: Links in some Embed Web Parts are not detected or fixed with tool. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a SharePoint site that does not have any web pages in Site Pages, Wiki Pages, or Pages library, but uses Default.aspx at root site, does not process navigation links when 'Include Page Libraries' and 'Include Navigation Links' are both selected. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Excel files with Password protection ('Restricted read' for example) were not showing in 'Failed Items' view and therefore prevents user from generatinng a Password Protected list of failed files. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where in some non-SharePoint ".aspx" pages, links were not detected or fixed. This is now resolved. [10.1.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves issue when user schedules job for multiple sites and chooses to Email the report, 'Single Merged Email' report did not include all subsites if the SharePoint site has subsites. [10.1.3.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Regex command does not work for realtive URLs to replace certain Regex expressions. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where a user tries to copy a list that is using the Content Type Hub, and the Content Type Hub has not pushed the Content Type to target site, the tool will not create the custom Content Type. This is now resolved, the tool will attempt to detect the Content Type in the target and if it does not exist and it is from a Content Type hub in source, it will try to initiate the pull/sync of Content Types (requires Full Control at Site level). [10.1.2.0 (BETAS: 9.8.7.0 to 10.1.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Resolves issue where some logs will not open and shows 'Log not found' type of error. We have added logic to help resolve this issue. Please contact us if you are still seeing this issue. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site (OneDrive or My Sites): Resolves issue where user chooses to Add Site and selects 'Add all from Web Application', and enters the OneDrive or My Site web application (or tenant) root site (i.e. https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/), but the tool shows cannot find site or fails to authenticate. The tool is expected to add all OneDrive / My Site sites to the toolkit automatically. This issue is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 'Overwrite selected sites' prompt when loading report job definition: Previously only some of the reports would prompt the user when loading a job over an existing job which had sites selected. This is now resolved so that the toolkit will always prompt for all reports if they would like to overwrite the selected sites from the saved job definition they are loading. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History & Scheduled Jobs: When a user cancels a job from the Job Page when it is running, the Job History/Scheduled Jobs page shows status as 'Success', this is now corrected so that canceled jobs will show status as Cancelled instead of Success. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where a user attempts to Edit a Job, and modifies the site URL, a new job is created instead of updating that specified job. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Export to SharePoint: Resolves issue where exporting fails but the logs do not show the details of why it failed to export. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Export to SharePoint: Resolves issue where exporting fails but the Job History showed Export status as Successful. This is now resolved to show the correct status for exporting to SharePoint. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where a duplication of the URL occurs when attempting to change a relative URL to an absolute URL in certain types of content, such as in Text Web Part of Modern Pages. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Scan MS Excel Cells: (NOTE: This feature is enabled by default and takes significant time as it captures every cell referencing a link. This is enabled by default and can be disabled under Links->Manage->Options->Scan MS Excel Cells). Resolves issue where cell links reported using this feature are cut off in the Link URL column of the report if the URL has a space. This is now resolved to display the full URL in Link URL column in the report for 'Cell Links'. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where files with a '#' in the file name did not have it's links picked up by tool/reported on and also the links could not be replaced. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where some links within content that are in JSON format are not detected or fixed by the tool. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user attempts to copy from a source folder and/or chooses a target folder, the tool hangs for an extended period of time if there are more than 1000 files and or folders. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user is attempting to copy a list which has external user accounts in metadata, the user information was not copied and instead put the current user (running the job). This is now resolved to properly support external user metadata  when Copying Lists. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user copies Site Pages, Pages, Wiki pages library and the tool sets the default library home page as the home page (such as default.aspx), but the source had a different home page (such as when it is manually changed by marking the page as the new Home Page). This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Added logic to help resolve a reported issue where a user copies a list to the SAME site, and then attempts to copy that 'copy' back to the same original location and sees an error 'There was a problem while trying to load the source list properties. Details: The operation has timed out' when attempting to copy. New code logic has been added to help address this. If you are still facing this issue please contact support. Content Manager: Copy Sites: Fixes issue where user tries to undock the tabs when Copying Sites, and the tabs are docking to bottom instead of to the left and right like all other jobs & reports. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolves issue where user tries to filter by 'Query all items where Filename 'Ends with' or 'Starts with' and the tool returns all results instead of matching that criteria. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolves issue where user exports SharePoint List Items content to SharePoint as List Items, the Title field data is encoded (for example shows %20 for spaces). This is now resolved so that the fields are displayed non html encoded for users. Permissions Manager (only affects Office 365): Add/Remove Site Collection Administrator: Resolves issue where user has the SharePoint Admin role and attempts to add itself as a Site Collection Administrator to one or more SharePoint sites, which it does not have access to, and sees 'Access Denied'. This is now resolved so that an account with the SharePoint Admin role can add itself as a Site Collection Administrator to one or more sites at once (and also remove itself later using the toolkit). Permissions Manager: Email Options: Resolves issue where user chooses to export the reports to SharePoint and also email users that a report is available, however, the link to the SharePoint page that has the exported reports should be automatically added to the email, but it is not. This is now resolved so the tool will automatically add the SharePoint path to the reports in the email, even if the reports are not attached to the email and only exported to SharePoint. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Resolves issue where user exports SharePoint List Items content to SharePoint as List Items, the Title field data is encoded (for example shows %20 for spaces). This is now resolved so that the fields are displayed non html encoded for users. Site and List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where one of the new Views added to display 'Top 50 Pages', was not sorted correctly to show largest on top. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: User Activity: Resolves issue where 'Location' was not the same 'upper/lower case' and caused issues with grouping and filtering. This is now resolved. [9.8.6.0] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where tool crashes application when parsing a SharePoint List Item for Attachments and the list item does not have a "FileRef" property. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolves issue where user adds more than one condition for Column Value not equals does not return correct results. [9.8.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Resolves issue where some logs will not open and shows loading window for extended period of time. We have added logic to help resolve this issue. Please contact us if you are still seeing this issue. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where Broken Link Report shows incorrect slashes for UNC and local drive paths after a file share link replacement. However, the link is corrected/replaced properly. This is now resolved. [9.8.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Resolves issue when deleting views from the Scheduled Job page, other views are also deleted. This was caused by recent changes in 9.8.1.0 release. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where user tries to parse for links present in Image viewer web parts that are within wiki pages or web part pages, and also specifies those links in the Inclusion Rules 'URLs in Content', and these links have ampersand sign (&) in the URL, they are skipped instead of being included. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where user loads a saved job and only has a single site selected, the tool does not prompt to preserve the site selected and overwrites with the saved job site url(s). This has now been resolved so that the tool will always prompt before overwriting sites selected in the job. Content Manager: (SharePoint 2013, 2016 only) Copy Lists: Fixes issue where copying a SharePoint list which has a Person or Group field/column, and has a value that is a Domain Group, the Domain Group value is not copied to the target list column. This has been resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items: Fixes issue where a SharePoint site that has no lists, still shows 'Next button' even if there are no SharePoint lists available to bulk upload list items to. [9.8.3.0 (BETAS: 9.8.1.0 to 9.8.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where user sees 'Could not apply license' and the SharePoint file/item/page. This has now been resolved. [9.8.1.0 (BETAS: 9.7.6.0 to 9.8.0.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where TLS 1.2 was not supported in scheduled jobs, which resulted to TLS errors in some environments and the scheduled job would not run, this is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Additional Fields Column: In Broken Link manager, Item Inventory, Item Query Reports: Exporting 'Additional Fields' (such as custom columns) did not appear in the report when exported to SharePoint from Job History. This is now resolved so that custom fields to be included in the report also export correctly from Job History. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Additional Fields Column: In Broken Link manager, Item Inventory, Item Query Reports: Fixes issue where 'Document ID' libraries with Document Sets, 'Content Type' fields did not show up with values in report. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issues for MS Visio where links were not detected by the tool. NOTE: Further updates coming to capture some other Visio links still not detected by tool. Broken Link Manager: Added fixes to help resolve issue where 'Preserve Version' option is not selected (such as 'Preserve Version Type') and causes pages to be left checked out after a Find & Replace. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy a subfolder from a library with 500+ documents, but the folders are incorrectly named and scattered in the destination library. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: (SharePoint 2016 and 2019) Resolves issue where user attempts to Delete user from Site Collection(s) and gets 'User not found' error. This is now resolved. User Activity: (SharePoint 2016 and 2019) Resolves issue where the 'User Activity' report 'Event Date' field is empty in reports. This has been resolved. [9.7.5.0] Broken Link Manager: (only affects Office 365) Fixes issue where Broken Link Report log count (such as 130/130 links replaced) show successfully fixed all links, however links in Content Editor Web Parts that are not fixed (due to issue fixed in v9.7.4.0) are not fixed. [9.7.4.1] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where web part page in Site Assets Library does not preserve author (Last Modified Information) even when user selects "Preserve Author" in the options. [9.7.4.0] Broken Link Manager & Content Manager: Copy Lists: (only affects Office 365) Due to a recent change in a Microsoft web service (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/blogs/retirement-of-certain-sharepoint-online-webpartpageswebservice-methods/) Office 365 customers who use the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit will be affected with the following issue: ISSUE: All existing versions of the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit will fail to perform the following: • Broken Link Manager: (Office 365 only) Will fail to save pages with web parts after correcting links. No changes to the page web part links are made, however, the tool leaves the page checked out when it attempts to update links. • Content Manager: (Office 365 only) Copy Lists will fail to copy web pages that contain web parts. User will see ‘Access denied’ when the tool tries to copy the SharePoint page to target location. These issues have been fixed in this release: Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to replace links in a SharePoint Page, however nothing is changed although the tool reports the links are fixed. This is now resolved. This issue did not affect reporting. IMPORTANT: (only affects Office 365) SharePoint Online Classic Wiki pages & Article pages with Content Editor web parts are not currently supported (due to changes mentioned above from Microsoft) for Find \ Replace. We may add back support for this scenario in an upcoming release. If you are affected by this please contact Cognillo support. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where web part page in Site Assets Library is not parsed for links within web parts. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: (only affects Office 365) Fixes issue where user tries to copy one or more SharePoint Pages from a Page Library, but the user sees an error 'Access Denied' and the SharePoint Page(s) are not copied to target. This is now resolved. [9.7.3.0] Permissions Manager: Enhancement/Bug Fix: (only affects Office 365): Office 365 'Owners' Groups are hidden by default in the SharePoint Owners Group in SharePoint. The SharePoint Essentials Toolkit by default did not show hidden AAD Groups, including the default Office 365 Owners from reports, they appeared in the Site Collection Administrators section of reports. This caused some confusion since users expected to see these in the SharePoint Group node similar to how the 'Members' group shows the Office 365 Team Members AAD group. We have now added logic to show Office 365 Team Owners groups and also their members in all reports, they will also be shown in Site Collection Administrators section as they do in SharePoint. [9.7.2.0] Broken Link Manager: Export to SharePoint (MS Excel): In some cases depending on the custom view, the exported MS Excel report/file is blank. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where URL in OneNote has one or more special characters such as %20, but the user enters an Inclusion Rule for URLs in Content without the %20 and uses the HTML decoded value of 'space'. The link is not detected by the tool and does not report on or fix these links. This is now resolved. IMPORTANT KNOWN BUGS for OneNote: Broken Link Manager: OneNote: Please review known issues at the bottom of the bug fixes listing (in this document/Release Notes.txt) that relates to formatting lost in some cases after a replacement in OneNote documents. If you wish to not include OneNote contents from Find & Replace, remove the file extensions .one and .onetoc2 from the Job Options. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items (BETA): Fixes issue where the user tries to bulk upload list items to a column that is Person or Group and has multiple SharePoint Groups. The tool does not set values for the Multi-Person or Group field. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Export to SharePoint (as List Items): Fixes issue where the exported values for Title field in SharePoint report have encoded values (such as %20 for spaces) in the Title field of the report. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Export to SharePoint (MS Excel): Fixes issue where custom 'View' is not retained in some Permissions reports when exported to SharePoint as MS Excel. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Export to SharePoint (MS Excel): Fixes issue where user tries to export multiple 'Views' for a report to SharePoint as MS Excel but some of the reports are not generated. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Edit Permission Level: Fixes issue where text inside of combo box shows incorrect 'null tip' when no selection is made. It showed 'Example: bob.smith@cognillo.com' however for changing permission levels this tip was misleading. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Edit Permission Level: Fixes issue where user cannot change permission level for same account more than once. Example: User tries to change permission level for Sample Team Members group from Edit to Contribute, this works. The user then tries from same screen to change to 'Design', nothing is changed when this is tried. This has now been resolved. Site and List Auditing: Fixes issue where Scheduled Jobs (that completed) still show "Running" in Scheduled Jobs page but shows 'Completed' in Job History. [9.7.1.0] Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying a publishing page that was published in source will now be published in target with comments "Published by SharePoint Content Manager" or "**Checked in using SharePoint Content Manager tool" (when check in is required). This change/enhancement was added so that the source published pages and source draft pages will retain their published state. However, this will cause the version number of target pages that are 'published' to be greater than the source version number. [9.7.0.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixed various issues where the tool did not automatically add file:/// variations for UNC paths. This caused some links not to be replaced that had file:// in front of mapped drive or UNC paths. Example: User adds \\servername\folder\ to Find & Replace but the tool does not add the automatic inclusion or Find & Replace rule for file:///\\servername\folder\. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user performs a Find & Replace on MS OneNote document and in some cases there is an underline on other words within same sentence that Link URL is found and replaced. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user performs a Find & Replace of UNC drive path in a MS Visio document, and the replacement does not change link correctly and shows the old URL value in portion of path. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to replace both UNC path and HTTP / HTTPS path and the hostname of http path is the same as UNC server, such as http:\\contoso and \\contoso, web pages did not replace some links correctly in this type of scenario and show duplicate prefix of http in replaced path. This is now resolved [9.6.9.1] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user adds a URL in Exclusion Rules: URLs in Content but the URL has a comma, the exclusion did not apply to the job. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items (BETA): Fixes issue where user tries to bulk upload to a field with Person or Group column that allows multiple users or groups, bulk upload job shows an error when setting the value for these column types. This is now resolved. [9.6.9.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to replace file share link in OneNote file and the tool shows "Exclusion rules matched skipping...", however no exclusion rules match. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user enables "Scan MS Excel Cells" but the cell references and worksheet name/reference (for UNC and File Share links) do not appear in the Link Report for UNC or Mapped drives. Content Manager: Bulk Upload Files: Fixes issue where "Job Completed" pop up and logs show incorrect count for uploaded items/files. [9.6.8.0 (BETAS: 9.5.7.0 to 9.6.7.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Fixes issue where "Retrieve all from Web Application" did not consistently retrieve all Site Collections. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Fixes issue where "Retrieve all from Web Application" stops retrieving Site Collections if an "Access Denied" error is found. This is now resolved so that tool will continue to try and retrieve all Site Collections even if there is any error found adding sites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Export to SharePoint: Fixes issue when user tries to export to SharePoint on a Schedule or in a Run Now job and see 'Timeout' or 'Forbidden' message and export fails. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to replace a UNC file path in PowerPoint file, however the new URL is corrected but duplicated in the PowerPoint file. This issue was only present in release 9.5.5.0 and 9.5.6.0. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some links within PDF files are not picked up. This issue is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where in some document types (such as OneNote, Visio, text) URLs with hyphens or underscores showed an extra URL entry in the report with the URL split (causing it to show as broken). This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user clicks "Flag Only", then deselects "Flag Only", the "Version Type" and "Preserve Author" options are reset (not kept to original values). This is now resolved so that "Flag Only" will not modify the option values when deselected. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue in Settings page where "Include Email ('mailto') Links" option caused "Handle Document URL links as Absolute URLs" to become deselected. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where source list has items with no value for fields (such as a blank Managed Metadata field value) and when the list has a default value for the field, the target gets populated with the default value instead of a blank field (as it is in source). This is now resolved for Single Line Text, Multi-line Text, Managed Metadata, and Choice fields. However, this issue still exists for Yes/No field types. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where "Shared with" column values are not copied to target. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where copying a SharePoint List with a Multi-Person or Group field, and one or more items have a person or group field that has one or more people or groups in the value, one or more of the people or groups is missed in target when copying the field over. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: Edit Site Settings: Restore Recycle Bin: Fixes issue where restoring "Everything in Recycle Bin" for a "Specified date" gives error "Recycle Bin not found for this condition" and nothing is changed. This is now resolved so it restores all contents from Recycle Bin for the specified date/date range. [9.5.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Fixes issue where Jobs not showing in Job History when the job is for multiple sites. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies SharePoint 2016 Page to SharePoint Online and page is left Checked Out in target after the copy. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where query for Web Part does not return results for some web parts depending on Site Template type. This is now resolved. [9.5.5.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where in some environments, file share links all appear as valid (HTTP Status Code = OK 200), however they are broken links. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Inclusion Rules did not add some of the File:// variations automatically when user enters \\servername\path\*. This is now resolved so that all vriations of File:// and File:\\ are added automatically to inclusion rules when user enters a UNC path in "URLs in Content". Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user sees error in logs, and List Items not copied when copying a SharePoint Custom List and does not select "Include Migration Comments" or "Allow Support for Incremental Jobs and Syncing". [9.5.4.0] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where certain links within Visio documents are not replaced. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where links within Wiki page content that have apostrophes are not picked up by the tool. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to replace HREF Display Text that contains German characters such as 'ä', after the replacement the link does not contain non-English character and breaks. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items: Resolves issue with Date Time format not being set correctly in target list. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items: Fixes issue where multi-value Person or Group fields not set correctly when uploaded to target list. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items: Fixes issue where currency fields not set correctly when uploaded to target list. Content Manager: Bulk Upload List Items: Fixes issue where user tries to Bulk Upload List Items from MS Excel and set the Last Modified date time value but the value from MS Excel is not set for the Last Modified Date. This is now resolved so that user's can set the Last Modified Date of list items using MS Excel 'Bulk Upload'. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where Progress bar count and Job Complete pop up count (of items copied) do not match. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Modern Page with combination of several Modern web parts causes the tool to not be able to correctly copy the web page to target and it shows "Cannot load Component ID". This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where copying a Modern Page between 2 Communication sites, the Modern Page Title is not copied to target. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions Report: Edit Permissions: Fixes issue where user tries to change/edit Permission Levels of a Domain Group for an Item/File/Page, but it does not change the permission level. This is now resolved. [9.5.3.0 (BETAS: 9.4.3.0 to 9.5.2.0)] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some non-English characters show as encoded in reports. This caused the links to not validate correctly and caused Find/Replace to fail matching. Such as German and French characters (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü,ß). Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Find/Replace does not work in Modern Page 'Code Snippet' web part where link has non-English characters, such as some German or French characters (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü,ß). Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user is copying lists/libraries that include 2 or more content types, the "Used In" value in target SharePoint Field (List/Library Settings) did not match source list/library. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies one or more Page Libraries with multiple content types, and sees "Version Conflict". This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Copy Lists does not copy all "Check In Comment" values when Document Library has multiple Managed Metadata SharePoint fields. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies a List/Library with one or more Calculated Fields which include a Date field, does not copy the column to target. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where a List/Library with a Managed Metadata column, has "Display format" set to "Display the entire path to the term in the field" is not retaining this setting in target field settings. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies a List/Library with more than 1 Content Type, and columns are not in same field order in target list after being copied. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies a List/Library with more than 1 Content Type, in some cases, the SharePoint field has special characters, in some cases the field has special characters in the target field name, such as "_x0020_". This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where List or Library is using custom InfoPath form for the New, Edit and/or Display Form, and they are not copied to target in some cases. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where a field with "Required" is enabled, but after copying the List/Library the "Required" setting is not retained in some cases. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy a list or library that has multiple lookup fields, the "Created" and "Modified" values are not retained in target. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy a list with Person or Group field, but the user or group does not exist in the target site/environment, the target field is blank but no warning or error shows in the logs. This is now resolved so that the tool will show warning/error in the logs that the user or group does not exist or could not be matched in target site. Content Manager: Copy Lists: (SPO to SPO only) Fixes issue where user copies multi-choice field (allowing multiple selections) between 2 SPO Sites, the choice values are not retained in target in some cases. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where the folders with more than 500 items/files always shows "500" for "Folder Item Count (Recursive)" value. This is resolved to show correct count for items/files within folders with more than 500 items/files. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Fixes issue where the folders with more than 500 items/files always shows "500" for "Folder Item Count (Recursive)" value. This is resolved to show correct count for items/files within folders with more than 500 items/files. [9.4.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves issue where in the "Site Owners" columns in the reports, the first name and last name were separated with semi colons, this caused issues when user copy and pasted 'Site Owners' values into Outlook. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Unique Item Permissions: Export & Email: Fixes issue where user sees error 'The process cannot access the file path:...' when trying to email or export the report to SharePoint. This is now resolved. [9.4.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: "View Merged Report (BETA)": Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user selects multiple jobs in Job History, then clicks "View Merged Report (BETA)", the Comprehensive Permissions Report missing the last site job in the merged report. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where "Modern Page" with "Quick Links" modern web part shows a URL value for the HREF Display Value (friendly label of link) instead of the link 'Title' which is what user sees on page. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: User Inventory: Resolves issue where user clicks "Reset Default View" however the default view is not restored. Site and List Auditing: Fixes issue where job completes with warnings, and the warnings show double of what the actual number of warnings are. This is now resolved. [9.4.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user loads a saved job but the 'Export' option does not load correct value for "Multiple Files (one report per site)". This was an issue with UI not loading values, it did not affect the actual job (it has correct value), this issue has now been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where application crashes when adding site that has a Team Channel SharePoint site. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user uses the option "Suppress Version Creation" and attempts to replace a SharePoint column that is of type "Link URL", the HREF Display Text is also replaced with the URL. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some PDF links are not picked up by the tool and not replaced. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some MS Excel links are not picked up by the tool and not replaced. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where "Parent Folder URL" is incorrect. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user copies SharePoint list or library that has published versions and the tool creates an extra version in Version History in the target list/library. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Fixes issue where "Parent Folder URL" is incorrect. [9.3.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where "Append Site Title" is disabled after loading saved job. Site and List Auditing: Edit Site Settings: Resolves issue where "Empty Recycle Bin" for "First Level Recycle Bin only" does not work (makes no change) for SharePoint 2016 and SPO sites. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Export to SharePoint as MS Excel: Fixes issue where user chooses to apply a report view to exported MS Excel file, but the columns in exported MS Excel do not match order in report 'View'. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Export to SharePoint as MS Excel: (SP2016) Fixes issue where user exports multiple sites to a 'merged report' but only items from a single site is exported to SharePoint MS Excel file. This is now resolved. [9.3.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Exception Log folder is created in "My Documents\SharePoint Essentials Toolkit\Exception Logs" instead of the path specified in "C:\Program File (x86)\Cognillo\SharePoint Essentials Toolkit\ConfigPath.txt" SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user loads a saved job or edits existing Scheduled Job and "Append Site Title" is always re-selected. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Edit Permissions: Change Permission Level: Fixes issue where user tries to change permission level more than once from same session, the permission level is not changed. [9.3.2.0] Site and List Auditing: Edit Site Settings: Restore Recycle Bin: UI fixes for controls. [9.3.1.0] Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user selects only a single site to open a Permissions Report, however it adds other sites to the report that had been run with that site. This is now resolved so that the tool will only open reports for the site that was selected. [9.3.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Export to SharePoint as MS Excel: Fixes issue where user exports one or more reports to SharePoint as MS Excel file, and enables 'Append Site Title' to report but the SharePoint site has a slash in the site title, causes report not to export. This is now resolved to handle Sites with slashes in the Site Title. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Fixes issue where user removes one or more columns from a Report View, however the column(s) still appear in the exported MS Excel report. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves issues with option to "Append - with date time stamp", where "Merge to Single File" was not an option. This is now resolved to ensure "Merge to Single File" is still an option for "Append - with date time stamp". Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where link inside of Search Web Part / Content Query Web Part "Query Text" was not detected or replaced with tool. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where link inside of some Calculated fields were not detected or replaced with tool. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Export to SharePoint: Resolves issue where user exports Permission reports to SharePoint and sees duplicate values for every record. This was caused by a change in last release v9.2.8.0 not caught in regression tests. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: Site Inventory: Resolves issue where Site Classification value not showing in report for some environments. This is now resolved. [9.2.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue where there is a license activation exception, a folder is created in C:\Cognillo\ExceptionLogs and does not use the ConfigPath variable settings if that was customized. [9.2.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Export as MS Excel options: Added validation for "File Name" field if blank. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Added missing exception handling and logging for when Export to SharePoint fails and no error message is shown. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves new issues found when Job History shows "Failed" for multi-site job but are actually successful. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where tool reports external JavaScript links/references in Modern Page Library 'Repost Page" as broken but are valid. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a URL with folder that contains + or comma, causes tool to incorrectly report URL as broken, but it is valid. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Export to MS Excel: Fixes issue where exporting multiple sites to SharePoint user sees 'Save Conflict' for SharePoint 2019 sites. Site and List Auditing: Site/List Inventory: Export to MS Excel: Fixes issue where 'Externally Shared' and 'Site Sizes' views are not visible in Site Inventory export option (to apply to report). Site and List Auditing: Site/List Inventory: Export to MS Excel: Fixes issue where exporting multiple sites to SharePoint user sees 'Save Conflict' for SharePoint 2019 sites. User Inventory Report: Email Report: Fixes issue where 'Views' are not showing in drop down to apply to emailed report. [9.2.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (Only SharePoint Online) Affects Broken Link Scanning of Modern Pages, Item Query of Modern Pages, Copy Sites/Lists: Resolves issue where in some installations, user sees error of missing Office.PnP.Core.DLL Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where loading a saved Job does not retain export options 'Merge Report into Single File/Multiple Files' nor 'Auto Append Site Title to File Name'. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where source document library has Content Approval enabled, and user chooses to 'Retain Content Approval State' all Approval status shows 'Pending' in target list from source SP 2016 site to target SPO site. User Inventory Report: Email option: Resolves issue where email shows 'Orphaned User Report' instead of 'User Inventory report'. [9.2.6.0 (BETAS: 9.2.5.2)] Content Manager: Copy Lists: (Only SP2010) Fixes issues where copying SharePoint 2010 Page Library to SharePoint Online gives "File not found" error. [9.2.5.0 (BETAS: 9.2.3.1 to 9.2.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Resolves issues where log shows blank after exporting log file and clicking Refresh button. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Fixes issues where Export Status shows Failed but no error in logs as to why it failed. This fix adds more logs for export failures. [9.2.3.0 (BETAS: 9.2.1.0 to 9.2.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Reports: Fixed issues where Merge into Single file option did not always appear when exporting reports to SharePoint as MS Excel. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Unique Item ID column cannot be removed from a saved View. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions: Fixes issue with export to SharePoint as MS Excel formatting, removed black cell borders for cells with no data to improve readability and consistency. Improved group header visibility by adding background shading. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issues with Export to SharePoint as MS Excel and as SharePoint List Items where MS Excel file only shows for one site in multi-site jobs. Site and List Auditing: Site/List Inventory: Fixes issue with export to SharePoint as MS Excel formatting, removed black cell borders for cells with no data to improve readability and consistency. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Fixes issue where Unique Item ID column cannot be removed from a saved View. [9.2.0.0 (BETAS: 9.0.3.0 to 9.1.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Active Logs: Resolves issue where Active Logs intermittently show some jobs as failed, but when user reviews the detailed logs, the job was actually successful. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Job Logs: Resolves issue where Job Log is blank or is not found, or is cut off when viewed. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Job Logs: Fixes issue where Export Status does not show details of the error or does not show a log message for Export Status. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Intermittently a site is moved into 'My Group 1" but was originally in another group after a job is completed. This is now resolved. The workaround was to re-add the site and the job reports and history will remain in tact. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a URL has a non-breaking space "%C2%A0" instead of a standard space "%20" caused tool to incorrectly report the link as broken. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with URLs in metadata such as Link URL fields, which have special characters such as comma, ampersand and apostrophes show as broken but are actually valid.  Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Version History not copied to target location when source site has 24hr setting in Regional Settings. This is now resolved. NOTE: Workaround was to set source site Time Format to 12hr before copying lists, then switch back after completed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user selects a different 'Target List Name' or 'Internal Name' (for URL) but the tool still uses source list title/name. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue with incremental jobs when user chooses "Content->Copy (if newer)" causes duplicates. This was due to the Item ID of source not matching Item ID of target when Item IDs are not retained. A new enhancement called "Allow Support for Incremental Jobs and Syncing" which creates a mapping for source Unique IDs and populates new column in Target to store the mapping. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Modern Web Parts not picked up by the tool when user searches for web parts in Modern Pages. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Text not picked up by the tool when user searches within Modern Pages. This is now resolved and was caused by missing DLL in our package. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where "Column value contains" did not return results in some environments. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where there are no results when user chooses "File Name does not start with" and the Document Library contains one or more folders. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Send using email: MS Excel report attachment to email did not retain grouping when the user exports using a view that has grouping. Site and List Auditing: Site Inventory: Export to SharePoint as MS Excel: Some reports/Excel files are not exported from job intermittently, and no error is shown. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where loading a previously saved job (where multiple sites are selected), the "Select User or Group" field from saved job is not preserved/populated from saved job. Permissions Manager: User Inventory: Export to SharePoint as List Items: Duplicate SharePoint Columns were created in the SharePoint list when the export is executed. User Activity: Permission Changes: This report had two columns labelled "Details". One was empty and not used. This is now resolved. [9.0.3.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user chooses Inclusion Rule 'Folder Path' and the folder path inputted by user has spaces or special characters, the inclusion is not matched and there are no results. This is now resolved, the tool will automatically add HTML encoding for spaces and special characters as needed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: (SharePoint 2010 only) Fixes issue where user copies SharePoint 2010 list with Lookup Fields that support multiple values, the values are empty in target location. Permissions Manager: User Inventory: Fixes issue where user chooses to Email a Single Merged report, the tool does not correctly merge the reports, each report is still emailed separately and not merged. This is now resolved so the tool merges the reports and sends as single merged report via email. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where user chooses to export a 'Check User Permission' report to SharePoint as MS Excel, for multiple sites, however the exported report only includes a single site. This is now resolved. [9.0.2.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where xslt files 'data' values are encoded after a Find/Replace. This causes rendering issues. This is now resolved so that content area 'data' in xslt files are not changed after a Find/Replace. NOTE: HTML Encoding/Decoding is used in files by the tool in order to detect URLs and URL matches such as for spaces and other special characters that need to be handled. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user tries to copy a Publishing Web Page from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online Publishing site and gets error 'The file is not checked out'. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolves issue where user tries to copy SharePoint List with date time field, the date time field value is incorrect in target list in some environments. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where if Permission reports are generated for more than one Site Collection, and multiple Site Collections have the exact same SharePoint Group name, the second Site Collection does not show the nested accounts/members under the SharePoint Group (Granted Through). This is now resolved. [9.0.1.0 (BETAS: 8.9.7.0 to 8.9.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where user updates a Scheduled Job and the tool creates a second scheduled job entry instead of updating existing job. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (SharePoint 2010 only) SharePoint site that was created with code or PowerShell, and is missing the ‘Default Associated SP Groups’ (such as Owners, Members, and Visitors groups) gives error in Live Explorer. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where SharePoint web pages with Content Editor web part with an image URL, which has special characters in the image file name are reported as broken, but are valid. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where in SharePoint Publishing Pages, if there are relative image URLs in the 'Page Content' metadata value, the link is detected in report but is not replaced. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy a SP2010 Generic Custom List to SharePoint Online and gets error 'Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.' and the items are not copied. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy a SP2010 List to SharePoint Online and the Last Modified Information is not preserved in target list. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy SharePoint Online Modern Page that has List View Web Parts, the List View Web Parts are not copied to target Modern Page. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user tries to copy SharePoint on-premises Custom List to SharePoint Online that has Choice or Date fields, see error "string was not in correct date format". This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where in some cases, users nested under SharePoint Groups or AD Domain Groups do not appear in subsite reports. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where Granted Via showed '(EXPIRED)' label beside some entries. This label was only supposed to be shown if the permission was granted via an Expired Sharing link. This is now resolved. [8.9.6.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user selects "Require Versioning" to replace links but the tool still replaces links in Web Page Libraries where Versioning is turned off. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where in some environments, the Home Page Dashboard list of sub sites under selected site collection is not displayed after job run, and need to be added back in tool if user removes a Site Collection Administrator. [8.9.5.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Inclusion Rule used to query where "Item File Name" "Contains" did not filter for file extensions correctly when user inputs certain file extensions. [8.9.4.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where "Access Denied" or "Unauthorized" shows as HTTP Status code "File not Found". Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where URLs with Query string show "File not Found", this issue was present only in the last release 8.9.3.0 and is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where copying a list with folders causes "Conflict" errors. This was caused in a recent update which tried to retain ID of folders but caused issues if folder ID was later than file ID. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where SPLookup Field value is not copied when copying from SP2010 to SharePoint online. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with user getting "Unknown error" when copying a Page Library from source SP 2010 or SP 2019 Team site to SharePoint Online. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where export to SharePoint did not export custom columns from "Additional Fields". Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where report is blank when SharePoint Column Type = 'Text Field'" and Column Name contains multiple spaces such as "My Custom Field". Permissions Manager: Unique Item Permissions generated through "Item Query" job: Fixes issue where Site Collection Administrators did not show in the report at item or folder level, however all of our other reports the Site Collection Administrators access is shown in reports. This was now added for consistency. [8.9.3.0 (BETAS: 8.8.3.0 to 8.9.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where jobs affecting large SharePoint sites where report logs are very large (over 100MB) causes performance degradation. The tool will automatically split logs into smaller files behind the scenes to resolve this issue. There is a new option in the Settings page to manage the threshold for when logs are split. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue where a report is created for a site but the green check mark/tick does not appear beside the site to indicate that a job was run for that site. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where a multi site job shows "Pending" in the job Active Logs but the job was completed successfully and shows 'Success' in the Job History. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user tries to export using 'Merge Single File' and the tool does not include custom SharePoint 'Additional FIelds' selected in job settings for Broken Link Manager, Unique Item Permissions, Item Inventory or Item Query. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user tries to export to SharePoint, and the tool does not include custom SharePoint 'Additional FIelds' selected in job settings for Broken Link Manager, Unique Item Permissions, Item Inventory or Item Query. Broken Link Manager: Fixes 'False Negatives' issue where some SharePoint internally pointing links show as valid 200/OK but were actually broken. This related mostly to SharePoint Publishing page and Modern page URLs pointing internally to another SharePoint resource such as another file. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a valid link in SharePoint Note Field / Column of a Wiki page or Web Part Page is missing in report, or shows as broken but is actually a valid link. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where accounts granted access via certain Sharing Link types did not show up in report for Folders. This happened in only some scenarios depending on the Sharing Link group. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where SharePoint on-premises sites have longer than 90 day trimming enabled but the tool only allowed user to retrieve last 90 days of reporting/activity data. This is now resolved. [8.8.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Home Page Dashboard not showing green check mark image beside sites to indicate the job was run for those sites. [8.8.1.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where user has Find/Replace OLD VALUE and NEW VALUE that is the same site URL or list URL (such as https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/hr/documents/) as NEW VALUE (except with a new folder path/string added to NEW VALUE (such as https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/hr/documents/newfolder/)). When replacing MS Excel formulas, the URL replaced has duplicate folder name. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with InfoPath XML form replacement of template URL, where the URL encoding is removed after Find/Replace (such as spaces with %20 become spaces in new URL). This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: (SP2010) Fixes issue where user sees error "Cannot preserve Author" in logs. The last modified user from uploaded file is then not retained. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issues with Exporting custom views to MS Excel and SharePoint where some columns not appearing from a custom view. [8.8.0.0 (BETAS: 8.6.4.0 to 8.7.9.0)] Broken Link Manager: Fixes memory leak where RAM is not returned to system after large jobs.  Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Additional Fields are not present in report when exported to Excel or to SharePoint. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where in some environments, the linked CSS or JS files are not picked up by the tool, even if option is turned on. This is now resolved so that CSS or JS externally linked files from SharePoint Pages are parsed when the 'Scan linked CSS and JS files' option is turned on. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where organization uses Single Sign On (SSO) and Web Browser Authentication, the tool hangs when it attempts to Copy List Items. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes issue where user with Single Sign On (SSO) gets error 'not authorized' when using Web Browser Authentication (WBA). Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes memory leak where RAM is not returned to system after large jobs.  Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Additional Fields are not present in report when exported to Excel or to SharePoint. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where loading saved job did not restore some of the query criteria nor the Additional Fields. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes memory leak where RAM is not returned to system after large jobs.  Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Additional Fields are not present in report when exported to Excel or to SharePoint. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where loading saved job did not restore some of the query criteria nor the Additional Fields. Permissions Manager: (SharePoint 2010) Fixes issue where in Comprehensive Permission report, user selects multiple Site Collection Administrators and chooses 'Remove Site Collection Administrator', only one user was removed. This is now resolved to remove all selected users from Site Collection Administrators. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where User Inventory Additional Fields are not present in report when exported to Excel or to SharePoint. Permissions Manager: Fixes issues with Export to SharePoint as merged report where some reports fail to export, fixes issue where some views not applied correctly to merged exported Excel report. [8.6.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user "Exports" any report to a directory, and the directory has flag "Archive" attribute on the parent folder, the export fails. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a Wiki page has only a single link, the report as well as a Find/Replace does not detect the link. If more than a single link is on the Wiki page, the issue does not occur. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a List Item has an attachment of XML type, the user sees an error in the logs during a Find / Replace, however the links are replaced successfully. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes issue where user sees "Access Denied" when uploading content from multiple folders in the file system. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes issue where user clicks "Confirm Path" multiple times and items are duplicated in the upload job list box (for review). Site Audit: Fixes issue where user exports a report as SharePoint List Items and sees error "Invalid Number" and the export fails. This is now resolved. [8.6.2.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some URLs in XML and text based links are not detected by the tool. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where for MS PowerPoint files, in some locations, the value of HREF Display Text is not displayed in Link report. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where links in InfoPath Forms or XML data fields are no longer encoded after a Find/Replace. This is now resolved. [8.6.1.1] IMPORTANT: Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where XML formats (including XSLT, XSN file types) are encoded after a Find/Replace. For example: After a Find/Replace, (affected only XML, XSLT, XSN files) all tags with '<' were converted to '<'. This issue was caused by an enhancement in last release (Sept. 18th 2019), which was meant to only encode the URLs (after a find replace), but the bug caused the job to encode the entire XML document. This is now resolved to only encode the URL in XML, and not the entire XML document. If you were affected by this issue please contact us at support@cognillo.com for steps to fix automatically with the tool. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some URLs in XML documents are not picked up by the tool, such as in-between xml markup as link in data/content. Example: https://url/sites/FormData/Pages/UpdateSpecification.aspx?SpecificationID=23&Form=SpecForm23.xml Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where Add Site Collection Administrator and Remove Site Collection Administrator did not work for Comprehensive Permissions Report. [8.6.0.0] Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions Report: Fixes issue where user clicks "Remove User from Site Collection Admins" and gets "User not present" error. This error only occurred in Comprehensive Permissions Report when trying to remove a SC Admin. [8.5.9.0 (BETAS: 8.4.9.0 to 8.5.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes "Connection timeout" issue for large jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes "Out of Memory Exception" for large jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where sites go into wrong 'Group', occurred in multi-site jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes "Access Denied" issue in Live Explorer for Contributors & Viewers. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Site Title has certain special characters, export to SharePoint fails Broken Link Manager: Fixes errors parsing links in some OneNote documents. Broken Link Manager: XML, XSLT, XSN file types will now always have URLs encoded when replaced. This fixes issues when replacing links in InfoPath forms that have URLs and it can break the form if XML has special characters such as '&'. Permissions Manager: SharePoint Group Report: Bulk Add/Remove users to/from SharePoint Groups out of BETA and in full release. Permissions Manager: Sharing Link Report (from Unique Item Permissions view): Fixes some cases where Sharing Link URL was under Name field. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where Add Site Collection Administrator and Remove Site Collection Administrator did not work for OneDrive sites. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user deselects "Hide Limited Permissions" but still the report does not show Limited Permission level. [8.4.8.0 (BETAS: 8.3.7.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes new/other cases license issue where user may see "Maximum Activations exceeded" but the user has not passed license activations for the account. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where after running a report (typically for 100+ sites), after the Home Page Dashboard is refreshed, if user has a custom group for the Site Collection, some subsites appear in the wrong Grouping, called "My Group 1". This is now resolved. [8.4.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where in some environments, scheduling 'Single Merged Reports' does not merge the site reports intermittently. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes license issue where user (on Virtual Machine) may see "Maximum Activations exceeded" but the user has not passed license activations for the account. Broken Link Manager: Logic added to handle case where hidden HTML tag of "$#8203;" (example: using F12 developer mode, the url appears as https://tenant.sharep$#8203;oint.com/si$#8203;tes/somepath") causes Broken Link Manager to not pick up URL correctly. This appears to be caused by some migration tools with Note Field rendering. This is now resolved, the special HTML characters "$#8203;" will be treated as "" so they may be identified and also fixed (Find/Replaced) correctly. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where AD Security Groups with "Shared" permission level showed as "User". This is now resolved so AD Security Groups with "Shared" permission level show correctly under Type = Domain Group. [8.4.5.0] Permissions Manager: Add/Remove Site Collection Administrator: Resolves issue where Global Administrator cannot add or remove Site Collection Administrator to or from One Drive sites. This is now resolved (requires account to have Global Administrator role for this function). Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where checking permissions for "Everyone except external users" shows granted through "Everyone except external users" instead of "Directly" when the built-in group was granted access directly. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where user changes query to "Last Modified By" and then to "Created By", the control becomes hidden. This is now resolved. [8.4.4.0] Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: (SharePoint 2010 only) Fixes issue where user is not found if Domain name is different from NetBIOS name. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: (SharePoint on-premises only) Fixes 'Name' field when checking for permissions for an AD Group, the Name field showed email address for name instead of the login name for AD Groups. Permissions Manager: User Inventory & Orphaned User Reports: (SharePoint 2010 only) Fixes issue where users are shown as Invalid/missing but are valid (not disabled) and present in domain (occurred in some environments). [8.4.3.0] Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: (Office 365 only) Fixes issue in version 8.4.2.0 where Azure AD group memberships not shown for External Users. [8.4.2.0] Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where report included Limited Access permissions. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where report did not include a "SharePoint Group Owner" permission to a SharePoint List Item. [8.4.0.0 & 8.4.1.0 (BETAS: 8.3.6.0 to 8.3.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where a missing icon (in the application) causes the function Add Sites and the Home Page Dashboard to hang and crash in some environments. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes for scheduling 'Single Merged Reports' Content Manager: Item Query: UI and OR condition fixes Permissions Manager: User Inventory fixes format for Sign Ins and Last Sign In. [8.3.5.0, 8.3.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs show error cannot find referenced assembly. This issue has been resolved in this release. [8.3.3.0] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue with OneNote document links not appearing in report if there are (or were) embedded documents in the OneNote file. Permissions Manager: SharePoint Groups: Resolves issue in this report where user tries to 'Change Group Owner' or 'add or remove members' from a SharePoint Group that belongs to a different SharePoint subsite but was still listed in that subsite. User gets error 'SharePoint Group not found'. This is now resolved. [8.3.2.0] Permissions Manager: Fixes issue found when generating Permission reports for SharePoint 2013. User receives error "The field or the property "MemberCanShare" cannot be found" and the report does not generate. This has been resolved. Site and List Auditing: Fixes issue found when generating Permission reports for SharePoint 2013. User receives error "The field or the property "MemberCanShare" cannot be found" and the report does not generate. This has been resolved. Site and List Auditing: Resolves issue where label for Recycle Bin was GB, but the values are in MB. This has been resolved. Site and List Auditing: Fixes label of Site Inventory Report 'Recycle Bin (GB)' to 'Recycle Bin (MB)', as the value for Recycle bin in the report are in MBs. [8.3.1.0 (BETAS: 8.1.8.0 to 8.2.9.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (Office 365) Add Site: Retrieve All From Web Application - Fixes issue where not all Site Collections added to the tool for a Global Tenant admin user or Tenant SharePoint Administrator. Broken Link Manager: International language support fixes - Resolves issue where some German, Dutch and several other non-English characters in URL did not encode correctly in reports causing them to show as 'broken' but actually are not. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a migration from some other system causes URLs to have 'zero-width spaces' (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space) in the URL. This space caused the tool to break the URL into multiple segments (showing a broken link where it actually worked from a user click). This has been resolved so that the tool ignores zero-width characters since clicking them also ignores these special characters. Broken Link Manager: Trial Version - Fixes issue where Import function caused the NEW URL VALUE to be changed to the OLD URL VALUE and prevented a valid 'preview' of a find replacement. This is now resolved to show NEW VALUE as the one specified in the MS Excel mapping file. Broken Link Manager: MS Excel format .xlsb added to supported file types to correctly parse files with extension .xlsb file contents, formulas and cells. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where internal cell references show in reports as broken. Internal cell references are now skipped and not shown in the Link reports. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issues with text based links in MS Excel incorrectly shown as broken links due to extra trailing special characters from text based URL. Content Manager: Copy Sites (BETA) - Added fixes to enable Export and Import of Site and List Mapping file. Permissions Manager: Orphaned User Reports - Fixes performance issues in jobs. Fixes issue where Azure AD Group enabled Site Owner showed as 'Not Valid' but were valid Azure AD Group Owner accounts. Permissions Manager: Remove User from Site Collection - Fixes issue where the job failed when using Web Browser Authentication type for multiple site jobs. This did not have an issue if a single site was chosen. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue with Sharing Link report not displaying Expiration date for some links, also fixes formatting of Sharing Link name in report so it is more user friendly. [8.1.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where 'Check for Updates' tries to update existing version due to installer path - searches for QiPoint build value. This is resolved by correcting new company name 'Cognillo' in update path. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue in Home Page Dashboard where Item Inventory report details not showing in menu. Site and List Auditing: Fixes issue where checking SharePoint 2010 site, user sees error 'Url' has not been initialized. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Bulk Upload controls disabled in some cases when using Offline License Key. [8.1.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes for saving 'Views' in Permissions Matrix report and others where grouping is duplicated from a previously selected view. [8.1.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Online License Activation issue fixed where license fails to activate although the online license server is accessible. This related to the license cache storing old values from previous versions. Changes in the recent versions (through upgrades) caused this and should now be resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where "Site URL" combobox shows 'Sites Selected 0" but multiple sites have been selected. This is now resolved. Site and List Auditing: Site Inventory: Root web site size showed the total site collection size and would cause SUM to be incorrect if the user groups and SUMs by the Size (MB) column. This is now resolved so all sites in Site Inventory show their individual site size. A Site Collection Size column is available to compare site size compared to entire Site Collection. [8.1.4.0] Job History and Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where 'Author' column in job grid shows the user running the job, however this is blank if Web Browser Authentication is used. Job History and Scheduled Jobs will now display the current user logged into the local machine. Site and List Auditing: Item Inventory: Fixes issue where export to SharePoint List is blank. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Item Query 'Condition' is not shown in some cases in the report header. [8.1.3.0] Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with logging messages Site and List Auditing: List Inventory: Fixes for List 'Total List Size (MB)' not including List Item Attachments sizes. [8.1.2.0 (BETAS: 7.6.0.0 to 8.1.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance fixes to tab switching. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where user saves a View to overwrite an existing view but the grouping is not preserved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where a Windows Security prompt is required to log into the site, it is not shown in Web Browser Authentication. This is now resolved to show all prompts that may occur in Web Browser Authentication to successfully create security token cookies. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue to Add Site when multiple site collections are imported and the connection uses Web Browser Authentication, the user is prompted multiple times to authenticate the site collections. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where a root site of a site collection is deleted from Home Page Dashboard, other sites within that site collection sometimes are removed from Home Page Dashboard (this did not affect SharePoint content but caused user to have to re-add the sites to the tool). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes some issues where license is lost and needs to be re-inputted. Sometimes re-inputting the license also fails to work. This has been resolved. (Please advise us at support@cognillo.com if you still encounter license issues and we will fix them if there are still outstanding issues with this.) Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some links in Modern Pages are detected as broken but are not. This involved URLs in modern page web parts that had URLs in bulleted lists or inside tables. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a user selects 'Preserve Author' and the tool shows the user 'does not have required Full Control' to use this feature, even though the user has Full Control through a SharePoint Group or Activate Directory Group membership. This is now resolved, we also added an option in Links->Manage->Options to suppress this check and allow user to continue with job. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes to the upload count when uploading files from multiple folders. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where if there is a Web Browser prompt such as a security prompt, this is not known to user and the Copy Lists hangs in the first page and never copies items. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes UI issues and logic for Item Query reports. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where Azure AD group members did not show the display name of the user but showed a 'true' or 'false'. This is now resolved and related to a change in the SharePoint Online web service. We have made changes to prevent this from occuring again even if there is a web service array length change. Site and List Auditing: Site Inventory: Fixes issue where sites with greater than 700 items showed in Site Inventory reports with larger Total Size than they actually had. This is now fixed. [7.5.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Job History, Bulk Upload and Scheduled Jobs sections could be disabled in some Windows 7 builds. This is now resolved. [7.5.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes bug where user loads a saved job and the Sites selected shows a count of 0. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where 'Last Modified By' did not show user picker options and no person results are shown. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where a Modern Page has a custom web part and user uses 'Web Part with Name' the web part is not shown in the results. This is now resolved. [7.5.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where reports are hanging in some SP2010 environments/builds. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue when copying a SP2010 list to SPO including permissions, it copies correctly but the log shows an error "Details: This operation is not allowed on an item that inherits permissions.". This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Item Query "Last Modified By" showed no results in SharePoint on-premise environments (SP2010 to SP2019). This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Item Query "Column Value" and "Version Count" showed no results in SharePoint SP2010. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Item Query "Delete Permanently" option did not delete the item in SharePoint. [7.5.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where floating window could not leave main window. This is now resolved so a floating window can be dragged to outside application window such as another desktop. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes some issues with exporting and views (in exported Excel) are not retaining all columns in SET report view. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue if SET is installed to non default directory and a custom ConfigPath setting is used, the Settings is not retrieved from the custom directory. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: (SharePoint 2010) Fixes issue for query where "If Checked Out = True" did not return results. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Copying Lists from SP2010 to SP2016 or SP2019, a Person or Group field is not copied to target list. This is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where copying from SPO to SPO, sometimes the log will show 'Value cannot be null'. This is now resolved. [7.5.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: when user clicks 'Update Credentials' for one or more sites and chose Web Browser Authentication. The tool did not open a Web Browser window automatically to collect the credentials to use. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Note Field in 'Site Pages' library did not copy to target. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where web parts in Modern Pages sometimes did not copy correctly to target site if they are in different site collections. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where user chooses Has Web Part with Name and Has HTML that Contains, did not yield results. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: (SharePoint 2019) Fixes issue where Last Modified is greater than weeks ago did not work correctly. Content Manager: Item Query: (SharePoint 2019) Fixes issue where Last Modified date and person did not appear correctly in report results. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Sometimes the job status showed Pending when the job was actually complete. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user saves a Job to Remove User Permissions, if they selected Web Browser Authentication, and loaded the job, it reverted to Office 365 authentication. Policy Manager: Fixes issue where 'Successfully Scheduled Job' appeared in the notification bar. Policy Manager: Fixes issue with Site URL and Site Title values showing in wrong column in emailed Excel reports. Site & List Auditing: Fixes issue where several columns including 'Report Date' did not appear in when the report is emailed to users as Excel attachment. [7.5.4.0] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where 'Find where Web Part Name' did not work for web parts in Modern Pages. This is now resolved to identify all web part instances with matching Title in all SharePoint web page types. [7.5.3.0] Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where 'Enable Capturing of Activity' shows enabled even if the SharePoint Feature is 'Enabled' but no visible audit options are selected. This is now updated so the tool will also verify that options are selected for audit capturing, such as capturing file changes. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where a custom view may get duplicated in the tool drop down list. Policy Manager: Updates to the UI controls. [7.5.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improvement to combobox drop down list performance for 2000+ sites listed. Permissions Manager: User Access Requests: After accepting or declining an access request and then re-running the report showed the 'Pending' invitation still. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a link in PDF bulleted list display text does not replace even though it matches the URL in Find Replace logic. This is now resolved. [7.5.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue if more than 2000 sites in Home Page Dashboard, picking a single site from Job Options pages loaded slowly. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where MS Excel External Links (valid and broken) did not show in Active Logs nor the log count. [7.5.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue where an Identity Provider (IdP) or Security Token Service (STS) Provider has security hardening and the servers have removed TLS 1.0 and 1.1 certificates/support. They may receive 'underlying connection was closed'. This is now resolved. For more information see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365, https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2017/06/20/tls-1-2-support-at-microsoft/, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings In addition, Microsoft recommends if you have installed .NET Framework 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 on Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2, then you should install the patch below to apply a patch to the .NET framework: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42883. By default the tool requires at least .NET Framework version 4.5.2. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue in Modern Pages where there are embedded tables, the tool was not picking these links up. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where URLs in MS PowerPoint files that have a URL as the Display Text and user performs a find replace only the link URL was updated but not the display URL. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where links created using Share Link or Copy Link were validated as OK, however since SharePoint uses a web service for the redundant links (with URL containing something like '/:b:/r/'), these were appearing as valid where they may be broken and showed 'Item not found'. This has been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where links created that point to another document using 'Link to Document' (Content Type) or 'Create Link' (Modern Pages), as these were text based URLs (text files), if there is a space in the URL, the space was not picked up correctly in the report. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue in some PDF files where the link is not detected in some types of PDF annotation areas, created by some types of tools and where links are in a bulleted list. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Added support to read page responses from _layouts/15/Doc.aspx, _layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx, _layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx types of links to determine if the web service has located the items. Previously these links always showed OK, even if the file was not found. Content Manager: Item Query: Landing Page "All Items Report" had incorrect value to retrieve all items and has been corrected. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user creates a custom 'View' and saves it. The view was not appearing for new jobs as an option. This is now resolved. [7.3.5.0] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue with List Inclusion value is not kept if the sites selected changes. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where 'Default View' is not restored if a built-in View has been deleted. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issues with using combination of 'Created By' and 'Created Date' query filters returning blank reports. Site & List Auditing: Fixes issues with Scheduled Jobs failing with "Errors encountered while connecting to site.. get_LastItemUserModifiedDate()". This is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: Fixes issue where Site ID in some environments is not correct in MS Excel exported report. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: SharePoint Group reports not exporting to SharePoint as List Items. This is now resolved so the report can export to SharePoint as List Items on a schedule or manually. Permissions Manager: Site Collection Administrator exported reports (as MS Excel) were showing blank for 'Report Date'. This is now resolved. [7.3.4.1 (BETAS: 7.2.6.0 to 7.3.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (Cloud Enterprise / Floating License models) Auto-deactivation was not releasing license correctly in previous release. This is now resolved to auto-release shared license for other users to consume/use at specified time intervals. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issues with recurring exports to SharePoint where in some cases the SharePoint Column is duplicated for some report fields. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issues with numeric column values being stored as Single Line of Text data types in SharePoint exported reports. This is now fixed to store number values in Number columns when 'Export to SharePoint' is used. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issues with exporting as SharePoint Essentials Lite Client (.qpcx') to SharePoint. This failed to export to SharePoint for some of the reports. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where links found in PowerPoint files partial/relative paths were replaced but not the actual 'HREF Display Text' if it also contained a matching URL. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes alignment issues for Item Query when multiple conditions are set. [7.2.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Web Browser Authentication: Fixes issue where in some cases user is not prompted to login when the cookie session expires. Therefore causing Live Explorer to be blank. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Last Modified Date of sites in Home Page showed date which when the SharePoint System account may have made changes. We update the logic to use LastItemUserModifiedDate where possible. For more information, see https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/15112005-modified-dates-in-site-contents-should-reflect-con SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Live Explorer 'Ctrl+A' did not copy all Lists or Site Admins to clipboard. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (SharePoint 2010) Fixes issues with Live Explorer displaying 'Could not access Site Admins' while user has access to Site Collection Administrators. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue with 'Review Changes' not showing all change values correctly. Example: 'Disabled' appeared as 'False'. This is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: Edit Site or List Settings: Fixes issue with 'Review Changes' not showing all change values correctly. Example: 'Disabled' appeared as 'False'. This is now resolved. Permissions Manager: Remove User from Site Collection(s): Fixes issue where user selects a subsite and an error occurs. We have updated the logic to prevent subsites from being selected with the 'Remove User' feature. This function removes a user from entire Site Collections, not individual subsites. We have also updated logic to make this more clear in the UI/User Interface. [7.2.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Web Browser Authentication prompt has a close button to help with SSO logins where window stays open. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue in case where user uses Last Modified Date query, and chooses 'N Number of days', and saves the job, when user loads the job the number of days is not restored. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: (Office 365) Resolves issue where custom lists with multiple attachments shows an error "Details: Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user" when trying to copy some of the attachments. This has now been resolved. [7.2.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue in multiple reports where they do not automatically open the report when multiple sites are selected. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue in upgrades, such as when user clicks 'Check for Updates'. In case where the application shows an error when an update is performed while attempting to force shut down the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit (if opened) for the update. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue in the scenario where user selects multiple sites in Home Page Dashboard, the report is missing 'Report Date' in the footer of the grid report. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixes issue where user tries to save a View, it sometimes gets duplicated in the 'Views' drop down box. [7.2.2.0] Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where user cannot add or remove Site Owner(s) from one or more Site Owner SharePoint groups using the Site Permissions 'Site Owners' report. [7.2.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where Date Time columns did not sort correctly. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue found where nested AD User within AD Group was not found in previous version/release. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where AD Group members are not shown in Site Collection Administrator report if an Active Directory group was a SC Admin. This is now resolved so tthe members inside of the AD Group are also displayed, previously it only showed the name of AD Group but not its members. [7.2.0.0] Permissions Manager: Removing a user's permissions across multiple Site Collections caused an error. This is now fixed. Permissions Manager: (Office 365) Fixes issue where in some permission reports in SharePoint Online, the Name field was empty and the user name was only shown in Display Name field. This is now resolved. [7.1.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where multiple instances of the tool could be opened. The tool will now only have one instance running at one time. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Updated 'Migration Comments' message if user is not found in target. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Fixed issue in the report 'Default view' to resolve issue where user could not modify and save over the default view (to create a new default view). Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Resolves issue where if user clicks to 'Save Job' in Check User Permissions report, and had 'Show Nested Permissions (Domain Groups)', then re-loaded this saved job, the setting was not kept. This has been fixed. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: (Office 365) Fixes issue in SharePoint Online environments, there were multiple entries with Guids that came from SharePoint as invalid users. These are created for Sharing Links, and we have now excluded them from being visible in the Orphaned User Report. [7.1.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved some issues with exporting multiple site reports (for different Site Collections) to SharePoint as Excel where only one site report would get exported. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed issue where saving a Job caused duplication of the Job entry in drop down list. This is now fixed. Permissions Manager: Permission Templates: Remove user caused 'object reference not set to an instance of an object' if using Web Browser Authentication. This is resolved. [7.1.7.0 (BETAS: 6.9.3.0 to 7.1.6.0)] (2019 Edition Officially Released) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improved performance of Home Page Dashboard menus. There were some performance issues when users had generated 1000+ report files. This cause dthe Home Page Dashboard to open slowly as it took time to retrieve the latest jobs to display in the menu. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where PDF files, that contain a link with display text or URL containing an en-dash character '-' was replaced with incorrect encoding '%E2%80%93' which broke the link. This has now been resolved to support en-dash character in PDF file links replacements. Broken Link Manager: Fixes performance issue for large lists over 100,000 items hung (stuck at 'Calculating job time...') when user selects Inclusion Rule Query by Folder or File name or Path. This has now been resolved. Permissions Manager: Orphaned User Reports: Resolves issue where a report is generated for more than 1 site, the report did not allow user to remove all of the orphaned users (right click menu not present). This has been resolved. [6.9.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Added logic to help resolve issue where user exports report to SharePoint and sees 'BaseTemplate has not been initialized'. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where links inside of Web Part properties in the XSL Link field were not detected or corrected by the tool. This is now resolved so the XSL Link field within web parts are checked for links and corrected as needed. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where PDF bookmarks in PDF files created using Adobe Acrobat software were reported as broken in some cases but were valid links to pages within the PDF file. This is now resolved, PDF bookmarks which link to within the PDF file are skipped by the tool. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where right click 'Open in Browser' causes page not found due to incorrectly set URL. This is now fixed. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where in some cases, when a user tries to view a User Activity report, there is a pop up that shows 'No data found' for the site however there is audit data present for user activity. This is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Fixes issue where if a user selects sites from 2 or more different site collections, the report only opens for the first selected site collection and does not advise user that only the first report is provided. The tool will now show a pop up message to the user that they must select sites of the same site collection (at one time) to view User Activity reports. [6.9.1.0] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where PDF bookmarks (in some PDFs) show as broken links but they are valid. We added some conditions to skip PDF bookmarks from link detection. Permissions Manager: Remove User: Added conditions to display warning in logs as this function is not currently supported for SharePoint 2010. Remove user function only works with SharePoint 2013 and higher (including SPO). Permissions Manager: Scheduled Jobs failed to run in last release. This has now been fixed. [6.9.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where URL in Home Page Dashboard panels are not updated to the selected site URL due to threading issue. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes some UI control alignments. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with copying OneNote document. Previously, a site's OneNote Notebook did not copy sections correctly. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes some issues with certain custom content types not copying correctly and gives 'error creating field' in the logs. Content Manager: Item Query: Loading a saved job did not correctly load the Date Time control if the user used a date for the item query rules. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permissions report: Fixes issue where the Site Collection Administrators section is not showing for Office 365 Group sites. The Site Collection Administrators report shows up correctly in all reports, however the section was missing in Comprehensive Permissions report for Team Sites/Office 365 group sites. This is now resolved so there is a Site Collection Administrators node and users listed under it for Office 365 groups/Teams. [6.8.9.0 (BETAS: 6.8.1.0 to 6.8.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Updated Home Page Dashboard site section to fix issues where the main group is selected with a site, the tool treated this as a multi-site job where it should only be single site job. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes intermittent 'export to SharePoint' issues where user may receive "'BaseTemplate' has not been initialized." error and the export fails. Broken Link Manager: Fixes compatibility issues with Word 365, Excel 365 and PowerPoint 365 displaying links after Find & Replace. This does not affect MS Office desktop versions. If you encounter any issues with MS Office 365/online and links, you can use the tool to replace the links again and it will fix any display issues for Office 365 online versions. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues when copying Custom Lists with Attachments showing multiple versions in version history for each attachment. The tool will now display one extra version in version history for list items with attachments. A comment is added 'SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Migration of list item attachments'. Permissions Manager: Fixes issues with removing Azure AD Domain Group directly from SharePoint List/SharePoint Items from List and Unique Item Permissions reports. Permissions Manager: If user is not found when attempting to remove a user from a report, the 'User not present' log message will now appear correctly with a orange 'Warning' background, previously it did not have orange background and appeared with standard white background and not easy to see the issue (user not found). [6.8.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Updated password encryption everywhere to use AES and 256 bits key length to ensure all passwords have optimal protection in credential cache. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Update Credentials feature 'Clear Cache' did not work in the last release, this is now fully functional to clear cache for Web Browser Authentication as needed. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issues in case where user selects 'Include Navigation Links' but does not select 'Include Page Libraries', no links are detected. This issue is now resolved so a user can select only 'Include Navigation Links' to parse only navigation links and not requiring user to also check site page links. Permissions Manager: Comprehensive Permission reports showed 'Open Report Online' link even if the report was not exported to SharePoint. This is now fixed. Permissions Manager: Orphaned User reports: Fixed issue where scheduled Orphaned User reports did not export in some environments. This is now resolved to export these reports to SharePoint on a schedule. [6.7.9.0 (BETAS: 6.7.8.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issues with Quick Action buttons 'Large Files' and Items with Many Versions' had incorrect setting applied when generating report. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs did not retain the daily, weekly or monthly options when user selects 'Edit Job' from an existing Job. This is now resolved so the user will see the schedule for any job that is edited. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs had a duplication in logs for the Job Run Time. Some fixes have been made to Scheduled Job logs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where in some SharePoint Online environments with Single Sign On, the user cannot Add the Site using Web Browser Authentication. [6.7.8.0 (BETAS: 6.7.7.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Change Logs (in Edit Permissions change logs and Edit Site/List Settings change logs) was showing 01-01-0001 in certain countries/regions. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolves issue where 'Open Report' button does not appear in certain jobs, user had to open report from Home page instead. This is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where if an OOTB field is in source, and is the field title is renamed. When it is copied to target, the field is the same as the OOTB field name and not the updated one. This is now resolved to update Title of Field in case it was changed. [6.7.7.0 (BETAS: 6.7.6.0)] Broken Link Manager: (SharePoint Online only) Resolves issues with Find Replace and link detection for Modern Pages (Site Pages) in SharePoint Online. Some changes to SharePoint Online caused issue with the tool. This is now resolved to properly support Modern Pages. Site & List Auditing: Performance improvements for jobs. [6.7.5.0 (BETAS: 6.7.2.0 to 6.7.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Live Explorer not updating site information when you you change site selections if many jobs (100+) running using Office 365 authentication. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issues where "Add Site" does not work for some SSO/Single Sign On environments. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where aspx files in Document Libraries that are 'Leave a link' type from a 'Send to Location' function, did not get detected in the last 2 versions of this tool. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed issue where Item Query hung in some SharePoint 2010 environments and did not start. Depending on fields present. This is now resolved. Content Manager: all features: Fixed some formatting issues in logs [6.7.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue with empty tooltip message in some report pages from last release. [6.7.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue with Trial version pop up getting stuck in a loop in certain scenarios. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Performance fixes for Retain ID feature. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues where in some environments List Attachments were not being copied with list items. Permissions Manager: Fixes issues with feature where SharePoint 2010 removing user from group did not work. Permissions Manager: Fixes issue where Check User Permissions does not support External Users in Office 365 (such as with @outsidecompanyname.com). [6.6.9.0 (BETAS: 6.6.6.0 to 6.6.8.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes some issues where sites show pop up briefly for Web Browser Authentication. This is now fixed to minimize the Web Browser Authentication connection prompts. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where the 'Open Report' buttons did not update job count if the job is cancelled/completed and re-run in the same window. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes further issues with Web Part page copying, some web part positions off are now corrected. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues when copying Lookup Lists, some types of lookup field types did not work correctly. This has been resolved but there is a known issue if 'Enforce Relationship Behavior' is set, such as 'Restrict Delete'. Site & List Auditing: Fixes scrolling issues with Edit List combo box. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where the 'Open Report' button did not show up for some machines, this is now resolved. [6.6.5.0 (BETAS: 6.5.8.0 to 6.6.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Export to CSV feature had mismatch for some field headers and values. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Changes to Home Page Dashboard now saves immediately and not on program exit. This resolves issue where you may click refresh on Home Page Dashboard and a deleted site or group re-appears. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History and Scheduled Job log fixes to Items Processed and counts not being exactly equal to items found. Site & List Auditing: Resolves issue where SharePoint 2010 jobs fail and do not have data in the reports. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues with Web Part page copying. [6.5.7.0 (BETAS: 6.5.4.0 to 6.5.6.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes license errors and issues with multi-threaded jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where some jobs are stuck in Running state. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Scheduled Jobs and Job History column values for 'Items Processed' were not correct in some cases. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Scheduled Jobs and Job History job status showed success but the job failed due to failed connection. This now correctly shows 'Failed' status. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Resolves issue where the buttons are pushed off of the page if the Site URL is very long. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where an error is shown in Active Logs for OneNote onetoc2 files, this is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where items which are 'Folder' Content Type did not have meta-data copying over to target. This is now resolved in the event your folders have column metadata. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where you see an error 'There was a problem while copying the item version. Details: Problem fetching people picker search results. Details: You can only publish unpublish documents in a minor version enabled list'. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where custom web parts were not copying correctly in wiki and web part pages to target. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Fixes issue that occurs if the Job Options tab is minimized a blue icon appears for the tab. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Resolved some alignment issues with controls. Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Item Query: Fixes issue where 'Has no Checked In Version' in some environments returned no results where it should have had results. This is now resolved. [6.5.3.0] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where PowerPoint links not detected in last release. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where Preserve Author failed to work in some SharePoint 2010 environments in last build. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues with Calculated Field as list column not copying. [6.5.2.0 (BETAS: 6.4.4.1 to 6.5.1.0)] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where Inclusion Rule 'Query' where Item File Name 'Equals' did not work in some environments. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue from last release where in some cases, an absolute URL link in a PDF has underscores preceding the URL after the Find / Replace. This is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues where Person Field not showing valid or correct user if the environment uses SSO/Single Sign On or is a federated environment. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with date filter not working and showing an error for 'Created Older than' option. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues with some large lists not able to complete job. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issues with Survey lists not copying correctly. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Improvements and fixes to version history being copied from source to target. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with web parts not copying over in last 2 releases, caused by a previous fix. This is now resolved and added to our unit tests to ensure this does not break in future releases after code changes. Permission Manager: Comprehensive Permission Reports now show 'Full Control' beside the name of the Site Collection Administrators record. Previously it was blank. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where right click menu link for SharePoint 2010 environments opened an incorrect page not present in SharePoint 2010. This is now resolved to open the correct Permissions page for SharePoint 2010. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Resolved issues with some environments where sub sites were not appearing in activity report or the option to view User Activity was not enabled. [6.4.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed Home Page Dashboard menu alignment. [6.4.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue with deleting of groups and site collections in Home Page Dashboard not working after clicking Refresh. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue with HTML Window.Open parameters can cause false broken link in reports. [6.4.2.1] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard no longer sets panel collapse/expand status on focus. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs and Job History showed 'Success' even if License had an error. This is now resolved to show 'Failed'. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs and Job History showed duplicate 'Time Elapsed' and 'Items Processed' if there was a license error. This now shows the correct time elapsed and items processed if there is a license problem. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Last Modified By user does not get carried to target in federated environments. This is now resolved. [6.4.1.0] Broken Link Manager: Find / Replace: Issue found in case for doing a Find/Replace and Last Modified By user could be incorrect if there is another user with exact same Display Name, randomly occurred. Added logic for handling users with the exact same user Display Name. In rare cases, the tool uses the display name for some of the version history which caused issues when another user had the exact same display name. This is now resolved so it always uses Login ID to assign the last mopdified by person. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying a Survey could have issues where 'Allow Multiple Reponses' is set to Yes. We have added logic to warn user if an extra step is needed to change this setting in target list prior to copying survey results. We are working on improving this fix. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where removing Site Owners or Site Collection Administrators from a SharePoint Group (from the reports or Home Page Dashboard) gave an error 'User not found'. This has been resolved. [6.4.0.0 (BETAS: 6.2.6.1 to 6.3.9.6)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with window not maximizing to full screen in some desktops. Broken Link Manager: Added fix for Quick Launch and Top Navigation links showing Item Title and Item URL of a web page. This is now set to blank as Quick Launch and Top Navigation apply to the Site level. Quick Launch and Top Navigation links still appear under Link Type = WebPageContents. This is by design. Broken Link Manager: Added fix for Find/Replace issue where in some rare cases, a trial license message appeared in files even though the license was a Full Version. This is now fixed in this release. Please contact us for more information about this if needed. Broken Link Manager: Added fix where some links in PDF file (special annotation regions) were not picked up by the tool. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Added fixes/support for copying Survey lists, Calendars and Asset Library with Videos. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolved issues with Copying Term Store where the Term/Term Set GUID is already present. The tool will now show a warning and continue even if the Term Set exists. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolved issues with Version History not copied correctly in some scenarions such as if version last modified by person is no longer present in AD. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolved some issues with Copying lists from a site where it is using a Content Type Hub Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed issues with Date Last Modified not preserved in certain countries/regions and time zones. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed issues where the Item Query report did not show results if combined with some other criteria. These cases are now resolved to support multiple criteria. Permission Manager: Resolved issues where Person or Group picker did not take input correctly in some cases. This is now resolved and has more information in the picker menu. We are working to further improve this control. [6.2.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes to Top Navigation showing vertical scrollbar when window is collapsed below 600x800 height and width. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Scheduled Jobs and Manually Run jobs were separated and did not show all jobs in the Job History for a site in the Home Page Dashboard. We have resolved this, so that both manually run and scheduled jobs are listed together, sorted by date, in the Home Page Dashboard. Broken Link Manager: (This issue only affected version 6.2.0.0) Fixes issue where performing a Find and Replace using a Scheduled Job sporadically caused files to show a Trial Version message on the top of the file even though the product is fully licensed. This is now resolved. If you experienced this issue please contact us if further help is needed. Broken Link Manager: Links inside of metadata of files that are contained within Document Sets were not detected. This issue was caused by a previous update, this is now resolved. [6.2.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where site icon button on Live Explorer panel opened page not found for sites. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where after copying a List View Web Part in a web part page or wiki page, the Title URL is incorrect as it has some duplication. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where user may see an error 'Maximum Site Licenses used' or 'There was a problem with License file' when attempting to run a Copy Lists job. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes further issues found when using multiple conditions. [6.2.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Close all tabs appears to hang the application momentarily. This has now been resolved. We are working on an update to make hiding tabs more instant, currently the tool is checking for 'Running Jobs' before closing each tab which causes some delays. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where Wiki and Web Part pages in Office365/SharePoint Online failed to copy certain web parts. This is now resolved. Please see 'Known Bugs' below for other information about the Copy Lists feature. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issues when using multiple conditions. [6.2.3.0] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where reports by 'Total Size (MB)' were including List Items. List Items with 0MB value were being displayed in the report. This is now resolved. [6.2.2.0, 6.2.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where 'Run Now' failed to work in some environments SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixes issue where 'Add to Job' did not work in some cases SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Edit Job did not load all job properties such as email addresses. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Sites UI update to resolve some controls being cut off in some environments and resolutions SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue whwere a user clicks 'Add Sites ' and clicks Pause or Cancel and the Add Site process did not cancel or pause correctly, this is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: Site and List Size report label UI fixes Permission Manager: SharePoint 2010 only: Reports showed a duplicate entry, such as a User twice, this did not affect accuracy of the reports however it showed extra records where they should not have been. This is now resolved. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where multiple 'Edit Permissions' tabs are opened when only one Edit Permissions tab should open. This is now resolved. [6.2.0.0] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where List Inclusion rule did not work in some environments. Site & List Auditing: Fixes issue where Site and List Content Type reports did not export to SharePoint in some environments. Permission Manager: Resolves issue where Check User Permissions Export did not work in some environments. [6.1.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where Site Description on the Home Page Dashboard properties panel was not displaying correctly, this is not resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes formatting issue with how the Properties Panel on the Home Page Dashboard was displaying some values. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Version Count report did not work for SharePoint 2010. The report showed all item results instead of filtering by Version Counts. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where item query failed to return correct results if user selects to find Items with multiple Column Values. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where item query failed to return correct results if user selects to find Items where File Contents 'Equals' value. This is now resolved. Typically, 'Contains' should be used for File Content Queries instead of 'Equals'. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where user tries to export a 'Site Permissions report' to an existing SharePoint List, they receive error "File Cant be Exported to Custom List". This is now resolved so the report is correctly exported to an existing SharePoint List. [6.1.8.0] Content Manager: Item Query: Fixes issue where Item Query reports that are exported to SharePoint did not show the pop up link when you click to view the Report from the User Interface. We have now resolved this so when you click to view the report, you have the option to view the report within the tool as well as to view the report in SharePoint/online. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where a schedule job using Web Browser Authentication fails to run. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where selecting more than one email attachment option (multiple views) for both Site and List Permission reports failed to send. Site & List Auditing: Fixes issue where selecting more than one email attachment option (multiple views) for both Site and List Audit / Inventory reports failed to send [6.1.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where in all components if a user chooses to Export to SharePoint as MS Excel and also email reports in the same job, it failed to email the MS Excel file. This has now been resolved. Permission Manager: Resolves issue where MS Excel file that is exported for 'Check User Permissions' reports have invalid CSV structure and fail to open. This is now fixed. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where in some environments 'Check Orphaned Users' report job hangs when you attempt to use the Scheduler. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where Permission report did not email the Unique Item Permissions report for email notification. This is now fixed. Permission Manager: Fixes issue where the Site and List Reports did not correctly apply the custom View selected by user. This is now resolved in this release. [6.1.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves some issues for single site jobs jot exporting to SharePoint. Content Manager: Resolves issue where Wiki Page List View Web Part Title URL field sometimes missing '/Lists/' in URL to open the list when clicking List Title link. This is now resolved. [6.1.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where SharePoint 2010 Group Members not appearing in Home Page Dashboard Live Explorer Properties panel. [6.1.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue where in some cases, the Scheduled Job and Job History Logs appeared blank and required a refresh, this is now resolved. [6.1.3.0 (BETAS: 6.0.2.4 to 6.0.9.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: A case where a single scheduled job is sometimes shown multiple times in the scheduled job window. We have resolved this. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed bug where sometimes if you manually right click multiple scheduled jobs and choose Run Now, some of those jobs disappear from the page but are actually still running in background. The reports are created and appear for the site in the Home Page Dashboard but are not visible under 'Scheduled Jobs' window. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard was sometimes showing 01/01/0001 for Report Date if the report was never run. This is now fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Exporting to SharePoint using Web Browser Authentication was not working correctly in some environments in our last version, this has now been fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Exporting multiple views to SharePoint sometimes had issues where the Job completes but some of the MS Excel reports are not successfully saved/exported to SharePoint (for some of the 'Views'). This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where top navigation child nodes were not having the links replaced in some environments, this is now fixed. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where URL Exclusion rules are not applied before the Find & Replace rules. If you wanted to exclude a specific find & replace URL, it was not working previously and it replaced all links where a match is found. In this release we have resolved this so that the URL Exclusion Rules will be applied before the Find & Replace rule. Broken Link Manager: When selecting Only Lists or Web Page Libraries in the job, the progress bar count was incorrect. This has been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where Inclusion Query rule 'Folder Name' is used, the tool did not correctly handle spaces in folder names and did not include them correctly. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: A case where there is a link inside of a Workflow Task notification bar, which points to a list item, may have a space in the URL was not handled correctly by the tool and the URL was cut off. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Hyperlinks in Modern Pages in SharePoint Online were not being replaced correctly and sometimes the link in the SharePoint Modern page becomes hidden. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolved issue where item query was not functioning correctly for Office 365 SharePoint sites and user will receive 'Access Denied' when attempting to perform item query tasks for SharePoint Online, this is now resolved. Content Manager: Item Query: Resolved issue where 'Take Ownership and Check-In' did not always check-in all items in selection. We have resolved this issue. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolved issue where version history did not match and extra versions are created in target list. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed issue where some custom lists did not have /Lists/ in URL target. This has been resolved in this release. If you encountered this issue and copied lists, you can use this update to re-copy the list (to the same site but with a new internal list name) and it will fix the issue. Please contact us if you need assistance. Site & List Auditing: Site Activity shows 'Access Denied' in logs if you are not a Site Collection Administrator, this has now been resolved. You only need access to the Site Collection Auditing reports library in SharePoint to use this feature. [6.0.2.3] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: In some of the tool's Log Reports, the 'completed' summary was not shown, which made it confusing to know if the job completed successfully. This is now fixed to always show a 'Completed Successfully' message in Scheduled Job log files if they completed the job. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed issue where if user selects multiple sites and is using Web Browser Authentication, they receive a 'unauthorized' error message. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed issue where copying person/people picker fields, the target list item sometimes has the wrong person listed in the person field. We have fixed this issue. [6.0.2.2] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue where if a user selects to Edit a Scheduled Job, and then loads a saved job (which may contain multiple sites), the button 'Update Scheduled Job' was still displayed and was misleading, as the tool does not update all related scheduled jobs, only one instance at a time. We are working to improve this behavior. For now, we have modified the button to now display 'Schedule Job' if the user clicks 'Load' job button. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue with enabling Site Activity for multiple sites. This is now resolved where you can only enable Site Activity for one Site Collection at one time. [6.0.2.1 (BETAS: 6.0.1.4, 6.0.2.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Fixed issues with Job History not displaying Job Status correctly for certain jobs. This is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue with Site Activity not working with Microsoft Team Sites / Office 365 Group Team Sites. [6.0.1.3] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with cloud license status not immediately updating value in tool after releasing license. If a user released a license, the status / count of available licenses did not update immediately, this is now fixed to show correct value of available licenses immediately ( a refresh() is called after the license release update). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with auto-deactivate cloud license not working if One-Time Scheduled Jobs are present and not removed. This is now resolved to ignore One-Time Jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with Settings.xml disable components options. When disabling/hiding other components, the Policy Manager button was also disabled even though it was not selected to be disabled. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue with Site Activity not working with a URL path to store reports. Site & List Auditing: Resolved issue where pinning window pane did not dock windows side by side but docked them to bottom. This is now fixed so they pin and dock the same as all other windows in the toolkit. [6.0.1.2 (BETAS: 5.9.8.9 to 6.0.1.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Job History: Fixed issue where if the Job is cancelled or fails, sometimes in Job History it still showed as 'Running'. This is now resolved and shows correct status message. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs: Fixed issue where Date Time value for 'Last Run Time' showed the Created Date Time. This was confusing as the jobs sometimes do not run immediately and are queued for performance and stability reasons, and therefore the time elapsed did not match the Last Run Time and Time Job Completed. This has now been fixed so that the Last Run Time is the actual last run time. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Active Logs: Fixed issue where some logs were not sorting correctly in certain scenarios, and therefore difficult to read as they were not correctly displayed in order chronologically. This has now been fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issues with Proxy Server Authentication connections. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Cloud license 'auto-deactivation' was not working in last release, we have fixed this issue in this release so cloud licenses are auto released back to pool in time set in the Home->Settings page. The auto-deactivate supports decimals (such as 0.1 for 6 minutes the tool will release license after all jobs complete). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issues when in some cases, if scheduling multiple jobs, the user will get 'Maximum Sites Reached' but in fact there are adequate number of licenses. This has now been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: License activation pop up window is now set to top-most, this resolved issues where window was not easily visible if user clicks off the screen by accident. Broken Link Manager: Large lists (> 5000 list items) caused an error 'Value was either too large or too small for an Int32.'. This is now resolved, very large lists are now supported. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed error in Active Logs when using 'Last Modified' date rule for the report. Content Manager: Item Query: Fixed issue where very large lists (> 10000 list items) are not parsed, they did not show errors in the logs and did not return results. This is now resolved so very large lists are queried and included in reports. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed issue where large lists (> 5,000 list items) caused the tool to hang when enumerating/displaying lists to copy. This is now resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Resolved issues where user chooses to not copy and auto-create columns in target list. This was showing errors in the Job and did not copy items. This has now been fixed so the items will be copied and existing columns will be used to copy source item metadata. Permission Manager: Orphaned Users: Fixed issue with Export to MS Excel giving error when trying to export. This is now resolved. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue where Site Activity did not work when the path to store audit logs was not a library in the current site or was located in a special folder. We have updated the tool to support a URL in the library path for audit logs. It must be in the same site collection but can be in different site. ********************************************************** ** KNOWN ISSUES ** ********************************************************** SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: If you schedule 800+ jobs in the Scheduled Jobs queue, the application can slow down considerably. We recommend to schedule 300 or less jobs at a time. You can run more in parallel (such as batches of 300) if running on separate physical machine or virtual machine instances. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Close all tabs is slow to close all tabs if more than 5. We are working on an update to make hiding tabs more instant, currently the tool is checking for 'Running Jobs' before closing each tab which causes some delays. Broken Link Manager: (Office 365, Office Online and Office Web Apps) After a Find/Replace, if the URL replaced is in MS Word and is the only content in the document or the hyperlink is the first entry in the MS Word document, when opened in Office Web Apps, or MS Word online, the link appears read-only (in web browser). The link can be edited however in MS Word client. Broken Link Manager: Using Find/Replace on ABSOLUTE links in PDF files (if using Find/Replace multiple times on the same PDF file) can remove the style applied to the URL link that is replaced. This issue only affects full 'absolute' URLs shown in PDFs, does not affect URLs that are behind text such as 'Click Here', those work fine. PDF files with absolute URL display text links that are replaced more than once with the tool may have formatting slightly different from the original PDF, such as extra spaces or overlapping of some characters. This is usually due to the different PDF formats available based on how the PDF was converted/created and what tool was used to create/convert them and sometimes it is a result from how the tool is able to do a replace. Please do proper testing as we try to resolve this. This does not occur in all PDF find replace, we found it to occur in about 1/8 times. It does NOT affect links that have friendly text such as "Click here", only hyperlinks 'typed out' in the PDF. If you find issues, then do a Find/Replace and remove .pdf from the file extensions. Reporting on PDF links does not have any issues, and replacing links in PDFs that are 'behind' friendly display text such as 'this link' work fine as well. Please contact us if you have any concerns about this issue and we can provide more details. Broken Link Manager: (MS OneNote) After link replacement, depending on text formatting (in-consistent issue), the sentence with URL that is replaced, or adjacent sentences to where URL is replaced become a smaller font than original (such as 7pt instead of 10pt). We are working on resolving this. Broken Link Manager: (MS OneNote) After link replacement, the content container is left aligned and cannot be dragged right, only up and down. However a workaround is for user to cut and paste the whole OneNote container and it resolves this. Broken Link Manager: (MS OneNote & PDF) After link replacement, if the original URL replaced is an absolute path, the new path may have portion of link not underlined to show it is part of the link. Also, only the underlined portion of URL is clickable. This does not affect links behind friendly text such as ‘Click Here’, these are not affected by this issue. Broken Link Manager: When documents could be syncing, and tool tries to access a MS Office file, they see in logs the tool could not parse file and see error “Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection”. This seems to relate to the file being synced in SharePoint online. We are still investigating cause for this. Broken Link Manager & Item Query: (Office 365 only) We have reports of users seeing 'Unauthorized' or 'Forbidden' for long running jobs. From our investigation this may be due to the credentials security token getting expired after a certain period of time and dissallowing the tool to connect anymore unless a new job is run. We are adding logic to attempt to refresh the security token (2 attempts, then it gives up) if the unauthorized or forbidden error is detected. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying web part pages or wiki pages that have calendar web parts, the calendar view is not preserved in the web part. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying Site Collection Term Store to another Site Collection which does not have existing Term Store does not show option for target to copy to Site Collection Term Store. The workaround is to select "System" in the target. This will produce an error after running the job but it will create the Term Store node in Target Site Collection to allow the copy the second time. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying from SharePoint Online to on-premise is currently not supported. We will be adding support for this in an upcoming release. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Copying SharePoint 2013 or 2016 to target of SharePoint 2010: Web Part pages and wiki pages are not fully supported when copying from newer SharePoint versions of SharePoint to older (SP2010). Content Manager: Copy Lists: 'Dialogs' List Setting 'Launch forms in a dialog' is not currently supported and the setting is not persisted in target list. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Wiki pages are not preserving author (last modified information) in the target site. Content Manager: Copy Lists: There is a known issue if 'Enforce Relationship Behavior' is set, such as 'Restrict Delete'. The list will not be copied if it has a field with this enabled. The workaround is to turn this off for the field before copying. Content Manager: Item Query: (SharePoint 2010 only) Rules using Content Type Name or Internal Name show blank reports. We will update the product to support this or show a friendly message in the logs to advise the user this is not a supported function of the tool. Permissions Manager: Orphaned User Report: (Fixed for SP 2013, still an issue in SPO) Fixes issue when running multiple site (typically if there are 20+ sites in a job) to find Orphaned users, the tool had inconsistent entries where some users reported as orphaned, were actually valid and active users. ********************************************************** ** HISTORY ** ********************************************************** ** PREVIOUS FEATURES ** ********************************************************** [8.1.6.0] No new features [8.1.5.0] No new features [8.1.4.0] No new features [8.1.3.0] No new features [8.1.2.0 (BETAS: 7.6.0.0 to 8.1.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: User Interface (UI) Updates SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New Home Page Dashboard Group Icons SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Floating Windows for all reports and jobs. This allows users to drag the report windows to another desktop for better viewing. Content Manager: NEW Copy Sites (BETA), Copy List fixes Content Manager: Item Query: Support for OR conditions in queries Site and List Auditing: NEW Item Inventory reports [7.5.9.0] No new features [7.5.8.0] No new features [7.5.7.0] No new features [7.5.6.0] No new features [7.5.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Support for floating windows is now available. You can undock a report or job 'tab' window by dragging the window to another screen for easier viewing. [7.5.4.0] No new features [7.5.3.0] No new features [7.5.2.0] No new features [7.5.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New Settings option to force Security Protocol used for all connections to SharePoint. [7.5.0.0] Content Manager: Item Query: (BETA) New 'ACTIONS' option allows user to initiate an action against the items, web pages, files that match criteria and execute automatically once job is complete (also works using Scheduled Job). Example, find all files containing in the content **PRIVATE SECURE CONTENT** and for all matches, ACTION = Run "Item Permissions report" and then export the report to SharePoint. More ACTIONS coming soon. ACTIONS will be introduced to other components as well (Such as ACTIONS for 'Check User Permissions' results if permissions matches a user or specific accounts, then change Permission Level or Remove account access). Permissions Manager: New option in Home Page Dashboard right click menu, under Manage->Security-> "Add Site Collection Administrator" and "Remove Site Collection Administrator". This will not replace a Site Collection Administrator unless you Remove that Site Collection Administrator first. If the Primary Site Collection Administrator exists, the account will be added as a Secondary Site Collection Administrator. [7.3.5.0] No new features [7.3.4.1 (BETAS: 7.2.6.0 to 7.3.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site: Now allows you to set the default 'Group' which the added sites will be grouped under. Previously, all new sites were listed under 'My Group 1' and required user to move or rename the group. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Multiple Site Drop Down Lists now are grouped by Site Collection by default to help when user has many sites listed. There is also a new search feature within drop down list to allow inline searching for a site. Wildcards (%) supported. Permissions Manager: New 'Permissions Matrix' reports to show a new view of permissions for sites at Site Collection, Site, List, and Item and Folder level in one report. Permissions Manager: New 'SharePoint Group' reports to show detailed information about SharePoint Groups and members. [7.2.5.0] No new features [7.2.4.0] No new features [7.2.3.0] No new features [7.2.2.0] No new features [7.2.1.0] No new features [7.2.0.0] No new features [7.1.9.0] No new features [7.1.8.0] No new features [7.1.7.0 (BETAS: 6.9.3.0 to 7.1.6.0)] (2019 Edition Officially Released) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New component 'landing pages' to provide easy access to many 'canned' reports and access application features. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: UI updates throughout application. Layout updates to improve user experience and maximize working areas. Permissions Manager: (Office 365) Azure Active Directory Group Membership fully supported with Read + Enumerate Permissions rights. This feature must be enabled by Office 365 Global Administrator (once for the organization here: https://www.qipoint.com/sharepoint-essentials-toolkit-consent). [5.9.8.8] Broken Link Manager: Added support for 'Link to Document' content types and when using 'Send to' Record Centers and 'Move and Leave a Link'. If you use 'Send To' locations and leave a 'Link to Document', the tool now correctly finds and can also replace links within these 'stub' aspx files. [5.9.8.7 (BETAS: 5.9.8.1 to 5.9.8.6)] No new features [5.9.8.0 (BETAS: 5.8.8.4 to 5.9.7.9)] Broken Link Manager: Added Progress bar to show how many items are remaining to be processed in a manually run job (not in the Scheduler). Broken Link Manager: Added support for "Link to Document" or "Send to" aspx linked files. Previously these were not picked up by the tool. These are now showing up in the reports if the Link to Document is broken. Content Manager: Item Query -> now will be run across multiple sites at one time in a single job. Content Manager: Item Query -> now has option to Query all items by Regular Expression. Content Manager: Item Query -> now has option to Query all items by Any Column Value (previously we only had single column value to match, now it can parse all columns for value match). Content Manager: Item Query -> now has option to Query all items by Checked Out state. Content Manager: Item Query -> now has option to Query all items by Has No Checked In Version (such as finding all files uploaded but never checked in, hidden to everyone). Content Manager: Item Query -> now has option to Query all items by Version Count (such as finding all items and files/pages with more than 20 versions). Content Manager: Item Query -> Reports can now have actions applied to the results from Item Query, currently in this version you can 'Take Ownership and Check In', and 'Delete (Recycle)' and 'Delete (Permenentyl)' Content Manager: Item Query -> Now has option from Home Page Dashboard menu to run a Item Query report directly against one or more sites, using right click menu from Home Page Dashboard. Content Manager: Bulk Upload -> Now has option from Home Page Dashboard menu to Bulk Upload directly to the site, using right click menu. Site & List Auditing: Edit List Settings, Edit Site Settings appeared to hang for systems that have more than 300 Site Audit reports created. This is now resolved to show a proper 'Please wait' window. Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions -> Now has option from Home Page Dashboard menu to Check a User's Permissions directly against one or more sites, using right click menu from Home Page Dashboard. [5.8.8.3] No new features [5.8.8.2 (BETAS: 5.8.8.0, 5.8.8.1)] Site & List Auditing: 'Site Activity' -> 'Content Viewing' now available (BETA). Site & List Auditing: 'Site Activity' -> 'Stale Items Not Viewed' (in xx days) now available (BETA). This new report works with Site Collection Auditing to check for files that have not been viewed in a certain time period. [5.8.7.4] No new features [5.8.7.3 (BETAS: 5.8.7.0, 5.8.7.1, 5.8.7.2)] No new features [5.8.6.0 (BETAS: 5.6.3.0, 5.8.5.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: License Page now shows Active/Available Licenses for Enterprise Cloud 'Use & release' license models. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Proxy Address Exclusions have been added to the toolkit to allow you to exclude URLs from using the Proxy Server setting, such as internal URLs. This functions the same way as Internet Explorer Proxy Exclusion settings. Broken Link Manager: Added new option for 'Preserve Content Approval State'. If a Find and Replace is performed and the item has Content Approval enabled on the List, enabling this option will cause the tool to Preserve the Content Approval Status of the item. For example, if the list item was in Approved state, a change normally will cause this Approved item to go back into 'Draft' state. If you enable this option, after a Find and Replace occurs, the tool will set the Approval State back to what it was originally (before the Find and Replace occurred). Broken Link Manager: Added new option for 'Preserve Version Type'. If a find and replace occurs, there was previously only 2 options to save the new 'updated' version after a find and replace, 1) Minor or 2) Major Version. We added 'Preserve Version Type in order to allow the tool to preserve the last Version state. If it was a Minor Draft, the new version will be saved as a new minor version. If it was a Major version, then the tool will perform a Find and Replace, and then save it as a new Major version to match the original. This way, if the file was in a 'Draft' state (Minor) and not ready to be published, this version will then remain in-tact after the Find Replace and not forced to be published. Broken Link Manager: Added support for Office 365 / SharePoint Online Large Lists (over 5000 items in the list). Content Manager: Bulk Upload option now includes 'Mapping' to metadata and folders. Content Manager: Item Query now has option to Query all items by Content Type. [5.6.3.0 (BETAS: 5.5.0.0, 5.4.0.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Select all Children option in menu to allow selecting all subsites under selected site (instead of having to click each one) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Cloud Licenses can be Auto-deactivated after N hours since last job completed. This is now an option in the Settings page (previously it was hidden in Settings.xml file). Leave blank for disabled. Permissions Manager: All reports now include a column labelled Email : which displays the associated account s email address, this is to help identify users, such as external user accounts who have access to content. Broken Link Manager: Add new view called Most Linked Content which has sorting and grouping applied to indicate the most linked files/pages/documents. Broken Link Manager: Now includes new Inclusion Rules for Inclusion Query . The following have been added for inclusion query rules. By "Folder Name" "Folder Path" "Item Title" "Item File Name", this will perform a CAML query in background to only fetch these matching items vs checking all items for links. This is more efficient than using URL inclusion rules when checking folder or item path. Content Manager: New Item Query criteria Content Type to find items matching content type, this will be updated in future release to allow an actionable process to attach after the item query has a match. This new Actionable process called "Action" which will apply to all Item Query rules to allow user to perform some action on the matched record(s). Site & List Auditing: Added new column Site Auditing (This feature is in BETA) to indicate if Site Auditing is turned on for the Site. Values are true or false. [5.3.0.0] No new features [5.2.0.0] Site & List Auditing: Added new columns 'Site Collection Title' 'Site Collection URL' 'Parent Web Id' to Site and List Inventory reports. These can be used to build a Site Map in Visio or Excel. Broken Link Manager: Added support for Metadata Navigation hyperlinks [5.1.0.0] No new features [5.0.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Improved online activation option to improve and streamline renewal activation process SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): 'Check for Updates' now built into the application under the Home Left Navigation menu Broken Link Manager: Added full support for InfoPath forms Broken Link Manager: Added option 'Preserve Content Approval State' to keep the approval status of items after a Find / Replace occurs, previously the item would go back to 'Draft' state after a Find and Replace Broken Link Manager: Added support for JS Links in web parts. If you have Display Templates specified in a List View Web Part or JS Link, they will now be reported on and replaced if Find and Replace is used [Version 3.1.0.0: 4.3.0.0] Involved SET 2016 Edition BETA testing and changes. Customers who participated in BETA testing this release may upgrade as normal to this version without having to uninstall the old BETA versions. [3.0.0.0] No new features [2.9.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Export to SharePoint: (All components) New Option to upload MS Excel or SharePoint Essentials Lite Client Report (.qpcx) to SharePoint Library. This is an alternative to Export to SharePoint List as List Items, where many items may cause a Large List and therefore break List View Thresholds. This new feature is currently only available in the Report page, not in the scheduled job, this will be added in an upcoming patch. Broken Link Manager: Historical Links Report: Provides a new graphical report to view broken links over time per site. Permissions Manager: Added 'Site Collection Administrators' report, this includes user contact information and can be used to view how many Site Collections are managed by SharePoint Administrators. [2.9.8.1] No new features [2.9.8.0] No new features [2.9.7.1] No new features [2.9.7.0] No new features [2.9.6.0, 2.9.6.1, 2.9.6.2] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard now has an "Export" link to export the home page contents as a report. You can also highlight one or more sites or click the Group Icon and press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctr+P to paste into MS Excel or compatible program as a report. [2.9.5.2] No new features [2.9.5.1] No new features [2.9.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Added feature for users to "Remember Credentials" (strong encryption) Broken Link Manager: New option to "Scan List Form Pages". Previously this option was always on. However, this option had caused 'User not found' in some environments. This is now an option in the "Scan Links (tab) -> Options" page. This option is turned off by default. If turned on, the tool will attempt to scan all forms in SharePoint Lists and Libraries under '/Forms' folder. Such as AllItems.aspx, NewForm.aspx etc. Broken Link Manager: (Enterprise versions only) New option to set "File Size Limit (MB)" in scan jobs. We found that very large files impacted performance considerably and now provide the option to set a threshold on file sizes being scanned. Default is 20MB. This only applies to Enterprise Version when scanning File Contents in Attachments or Document Libraries. Files that are greater than the "File Size" specified in the options page will not be scanned for Broken Links and will show in Logs as "Skipped 'File Size Limit reached'" (metadata will still be scanned). [2.9.4.1] No new features [2.9.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: View historical logs from Home Page Dashboard. [2.9.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: View historical reports from Home Page Dashboard. [2.9.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New SharePoint Essentials Lite Client (free) tool for clients to install (ClickOnce application). This allows end users who do not have the full SharePoint Essentials Toolkit installed to open the reports using same grid view as in the toolkit and sort, group, filter and then export to MS Excel. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New Authentication Type added called "Web Browser Authentication" to support custom ADFS login prompts and Azure AD Office 365 tenants. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: "Interval Logging" (affects Scheduled Jobs only) option has been added to set the number of minutes to write to CSV log file for each report ( behind the scenes ). This is useful for debugging or see what is happening in scheduled jobs where it normally wrote every 15 minutes (in last version), some versions it did not write until report was complete. This feature can be found in the Settings page. Permission Manager: Permission levels now are links in the report (when viewed using the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit) that shows the permission level details for the object. Permission Manager: New feature to include nested permissions in an audit "Show Nested Permissions". This option provides details about all nested users within SharePoint and AD Groups. If this option is off, the Permission reports will show only exactly what is in the site / list/ item permissions pages and not the nested users under each security object Content Manager: Copy Lists feature now supports selecting a source list folder to copy from and a target list folder to copy to. Previously it only copied complete lists. Content Manager: Copy Lists now supports large lists (greater than 10,000 items). It will fetch 500 at a time to copy and display detailed logging. Content Manager: Copy Lists now has option to select source and destination folder within a list or library. Content Manager: Copy Lists now has option to change the Target List Template used. [2.9.1.0] No new features [2.8.0.0, includes 2.7.0.0 updates] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled and Manual jobs now write to log file (csv) every 15 minutes so user can review activity, useful for long running jobs to ensure not hung and review report progress. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All reports now have ability to Export to CSV AND Export to MS Excel. Previously only "Export to MS Excel" and "Export to SharePoint List" was available. This will help with cases where the host machine does not have MS Office installed. NOTE: MS Excel export is required to maintain sorting and grouping in the report. Content Manager: Now includes new feature "Bulk File Upload" to bulk upload files and folders to SharePoint Document Libraries. Permission Manager: New feature to optionally include "Granular Permissions" in reports. Previously without this option the Site, List and Unique Item Level reports showed all security objects (SharePoint Groups, AD Users and AD Groups) granted direct access to SharePoint artifacts, this option now shows the nested AD Users and AD Groups within these parent security objects. For example, if an AD Group "QIPoint\Domain Users" has been granted direct access "Contribute" to library "Shared Documents", with this option turned off (previous behavior) only showed the object "QIPoint\Domain Users" in the report for "Shared Documents", now the report will show all nested users within "QIPoint\Domain Users" in the reports. [2.6.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard now has 'Copy' option to allow copying site Columns, Content Types and Lists using right click Copy->Paste functionality. This is part of the Content Manager (Beta) component. Broken Link Manager: Now supports scanning text URL links in PDF files. If there are links that were created using 3rd party PDF export tools, sometimes the links within the PDF document are not created as 'Adobe URLs hyperlinks' (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7cb7.w.html) and were not picked up by the Adobe API or our tool. This is now fixed so that links converted from other formats such as MS Word will be found and reported on. This option is in the Link Options page and is set to ON by default. You may notice slightly longer scans if you have a significant number of PDF files being scanned. Broken Link Manager: Added option to treat all Link URLs within document contents in document libraries (not web page libraries) as absolute, the option is labelled "Handle Document URL links as Absolute URLs". If you find that all or majority of links within files such as MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, etc... use absolute URLs, then you can enable this option in the "Scan Links Options". This is set to No/Off by default. If you set this to on / 'Yes', all URLs within document contents (in document libraries and list item attachments) will be treated as full absolute URLs. If you set this to off / 'No', the tool will automatically try to determine if a link is absolute or should be treated as relative. Broken Link Manager: Now has the ability to "Save Job" (similar to the existing functionality in Site Auditing and Permission Manager) where the user can save a job (as a 'template') and re-use settings for a later job by selecting the 'template' from the 'Job' drop down Permission Manager: Check Orphaned Users (Beta): This is a new feature that is part of the Permissions Manager component that checks a Site for AD users or AD Groups that are disabled or deleted in Active Directory (AD). [2.6.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Added ability to Export to SharePoint list after a report is run. Previously this was only executed right after a job, however if a job already completed but the export failed or was not selected, the scan had to be re-run. Now the user can manually trigger the Export to SharePoint List from an existing report. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Active Logs in all reports are now minimized by default until the report scan job runs. This provides more space to review the options pages. Permission Manager: Added ability to set multiple permission levels against multiple users/groups. Previously you could only set a single permission level for selected users/group objects. For example, when bulk editing permissions, you can now set QIPOINT\bsmith to Approve;Contribute at once if you needed to give multiple permission levels. Permission Manager: Added options to "Add Permission Level" and "Remove Permission Level". Previously we only had "Change Permission Level". Content Manager: Copy Lists has option to Retain List Item ID from source. Content Manager: Internal Field names are now retained from source list/site columns. Content Manager: Added right click menu to grid view to allow user to "Open List" to easily review items/files before/after copying. Broken Link Manager: Added List URL to report. [2.6.7.0] Permission Manager: Check User Permission now supports 'Resolving' the user inputted. The resolved user will appear in drop down. Currently this only supports AD user and group accounts. However the tool will scan AD accounts and SharePoint accounts, SharePoint Group names currently do not resolve currently. This will be fixed in an upcoming patch. [2.6.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Sites option now includes support for Use Proxy Server. Site & List Auditing: Edit List /Site Settings now shows preview of changes in detail. Permission Manager: Edit Permissions now shows preview of changes in detail. [2.6.5.0 & 2.6.4.0] Site & List Auditing: Edit Lists now supports deleting/clearing a certain number of versions of files for one or more lists. A user can now specify that in 1 or more lists, they can keep the top 5 most recent versions, the others will be recycled. Normally, in SharePoint OOTB, changing the version history size of a list does not purge any versions, so this was a manual step. We now added the option for you to clean up older versions in lists. Content Manager: Migration of content now has option to retain Item IDs. Content Manager: Copying list items now has option to auto check in a major or minor version in target list. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Previously we added the ability to bulk import sites to the Home Page Dashboard, this version now supports creating multiple scheduled jobs from one screen by multi selecting sites from the Home Page Dashboard. Broken Link Manager: Now supports scanning multiple document file types in Page Libraries. Previously only aspx file extensions were fully supported in Page Libraries. The user can now specify specific file types that can be scanned in Page Libraries if non aspx pages are addded to these types of libraries. [2.6.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Bulk Import sites into Home Page Dashboard using MS Excel file. There is now an 'Import' link button on the 'Add Site' pop up window. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All scan jobs no longer have "Group Name", this is now managed through the Home Page Dashboard. Content Manager (BETA): A new component has been added to the toolkit. This component is used to copy lists from one farm, site or site collection to another using a wizard. Site & List Auditing: Change Logs have been added to this component. Permission Manager: Change Logs have been added to this component. [2.6.2.0] No new features [2.6.1.0] No new features [2.6.0.0] Broken Link Manager: You can now Enable or Disable scanning of linked CSS and JavaScript files that are linked to web pages. Previously it was always ON. By default this is now off. (Go to Broken Link Manager tab (Scan Links) and click Options button) Permission Manager: Check User Permissions (Edit): (Beta) Now supports Editing a user's permissions in bulk. Run a 'Check User Permission' report, select and object in the report you want to update, such as 'Change Permission Level' and click Apply. [2.5.9.0] no new features [2.5.7.0 & 2.5.8.0] Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Now supports replacing plain text links within MS Word and Excel files. (Go to Broken Link Manager tab (Scan Links) and click Options button) Permission Manager: Check User Permissions: Now supports nested AD Groups in checking of a users permissions. Now will show a user's AD Group membership in the report if the user has access via an AD Group membership Site Auditing: Export to SharePoint (Beta) function. Users can now choose to export/send reports to a SharePoint list. It will still create CSV and UI reports. [2.5.6.0] Broken Link Manager: Export to SharePoint (Beta) function. Users can now choose to export/send reports to a SharePoint list. It will still create CSV and UI reports. ********************************************************** ** PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS ** ********************************************************** [5.9.8.8] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improved Job Scheduler performance and stability Permissions Manager: Check User Permissions: Updated User Interface and allows 'Run Now' to build a single report across sites and subsites for single account group or user. [5.9.8.7 (BETAS: 5.9.8.1 to 5.9.8.6)] Broken Link Manager: Added field validation for Query Inclusion rules. [5.9.8.0 (BETAS: 5.8.8.4 to 5.9.7.9)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs window now defaults to One-Time as we found from customers that this is the most common scenario. TIP: You do not need to adjust the time if you want to run immediately, just click Save and the tool will know if the job had not yet run. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Stability improvements to the Scheduled Jobs page. NOTE: If you ahve over 500 scheduled jobs, please clear them to help improve performance, we are working on improving handling of a larger number of scheduled jobs. Currently 3-500 scheduled jobs at one time can be handled, greater than that may have performance degredation. Site & List Auditing: Export to SharePoint: Improved exporting to a 'central' SharePoint List as List Items for multiple sites. The UPDATE command has been improved to clear all related records before the job so that only 'updated' records will be in the SharePoint List for the report, not affecting other records that are from other sites. Broken Link Manager: Improved support for Quick Launch links. We added better handling for ensuring invalid URLs are not added to Quick Launch links during Find & Replace, which will corrupt them. Broken Link Manager: Improved support for more web part properties including Title URL, JS Link in some types of web parts previously were not picked up, we have greater support for URLs in various web part properties sections. Broken Link Manager: Export to SharePoint as MS Excel now automatically creates 3 new columns to show the number of Broken Links and number of Links replced for each MS Excel file. This way, if there are 0 broken links found, there is no need to open the Excel report! Permissions Manager: Non Site Collection Administrators can now run the Permission Reports and view nested permissions. This was a previous limitation of the tool but now users who are not Site Collection Administrators can view reports with memberships within SharePoint groups and also memberships (nested permissions) within AD Groups in the reports. [5.8.8.3] No new enhancements [5.8.8.2 (BETAS: 5.8.8.0, 5.8.8.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs 'Clean up all Scheduled Jobs' now tries to auto-restart the QiPoint Essentials Service if the service stops Site & List Auditing: Edit Lists now supports 'Set Hidden' and 'Delete List (Recycle)' for helping with clean up [5.8.7.4] No new enhancements [5.8.7.3 (BETAS: 5.8.7.0, 5.8.7.1, 5.8.7.2)] No new enhancements [5.8.7.0 (BETAS: 5.6.3.0 to 5.8.6.9)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance and application stability improvements. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: UI (User Interface) improvements. Broken Link Manager: Added support for PPS and PPSX files. Permissions Manager: Added column "Item URL" to the report. Content Manager: Bulk Upload and Copy Lists significant improvements to performance. [5.6.3.0 (BETAS: 5.5.0.0, 5.4.0.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: License Activation supports Proxy Setting separate from Job Proxy (SharePoint Connections), we will be adding Bypass Proxy options in next release similar to Internet Explorer Proxy options SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: License Activation supports Volume License Activation. License Keys can be preset into deployment package to auto activate client endpoints. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Label for License Status now will display Deactivated when user deactivates the license or it auto-deactivates. This only applies to cloud concurrent/floating license models. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Scheduled Jobs can now be multi-selected and Run Now will run all selected instead of just first job. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Export to SharePoint now has option to apply a View to the Excel report that is uploaded to SharePoint. [5.3.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Home Page Dashboard now has 'Select all Children' option in right click menu. This will select the current selected site and all of its subsites under it, without having to expand and manually select them. [5.2.0.0] No new enhancements [5.1.0.0] No new enhancements [5.0.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Minor UI (User Interface) updates SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Improved application load time SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Drag and Drop of windows disabled to prevent accidental moving of report windows SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Option to change Settings.xml to hide recurring scheduled jobs options for users. This is used for concurrent licenses where a license needs to be released/reused. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Active Logs cleaned up in multiple components to remove unnecessary entries Permission Manager: Clicking Job link in Scheduled Jobs or Job History windows will no longer open all Permission reports, it will only open the Site Permission report by default. To open other reports, right click and choose 'View Permission Reports' Site & List Auditing: Site Info, List Info, Site Details and List Details are now labelled 'Site Inventory' and 'List Inventory' reports Site & List Auditing: Added label improvements Site and List Size Report graphs and charts Broken Link Manager: Added to Link URL Exclusions default "http://Microsoft/Office/Server*" [Version 3.1.0.0: 4.3.0.0] Involved SET 2016 Edition BETA testing and changes. Customers who participated in BETA testing this release may upgrade as normal to this version without having to uninstall the old BETA versions. [3.0.0.0] No new enhancements [2.9.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Large number of sites in Home Page Dashboard (2000+) has been improved for speed and stability. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard allows multi-selecting Site Sites to change Group. Previously you only could change a Site Collection Group one at a time. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs enhancements and stability improvements. Broken Link Manager: MS Excel formulas/calculated values are now scanned for links (such as a cell with a link to another workbook in SharePoint or file share). Broken Link Manager: Historical Reports for reviewing Broken Links (by site) over time has now been added. Content Manager: 'Copy Lists': Improved UI (user interface) and logging (beta). Content Manager: 'Copy Lists': Added ability to Filter Items by Date and Version (beta). [2.9.8.1] No new enhancements [2.9.8.0] No new enhancements [2.9.7.1] No new enhancements [2.9.7.0] No new enhancements [2.9.6.0, 2.9.6.1, 2.9.6.2] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Exiting the program now has extra step to "Clean up resources". This is done automatically when the program exits, you will see a new message advising user that it is exiting and "Cleaning up resources". This does not afffect scheduled jobs, those will run as normal in background threads. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: "Add Site" now does not reset URL textbox, so user can more quickly add another site which may have a similar URL. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: Resolved issue with some jobs not completing if more than 50 scheduled jobs were set to run at once. This has now been fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: Stability improvements when viewing scheduled jobs. There were some issues with viewing logs and reports from scheduled jobs page, this has now been fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance improvements to Home Page Dashboard, it is now loading in multiple threads so that it renders faster. This was an issue when more than 100 sites were on Home Page Dashboard. Broken Link Manager: Links Report: "Refresh" link added to report page to refetch report data. Broken Link Manager: Links Report: New options to control labels that are displayed in this graphical report. Site & List Auditing: Site Size Reports: "Refresh" link added to report page to refetch report data. Site & List Auditing: Reports now show group item counts, when grouping is used. Permissions Manager: Reports now show group item counts, when grouping is used. [2.9.5.2] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: Allow deletion of multiple Scheduled Jobs at once by multi-selecting SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: Allow user to Stop a running Scheduled Job instead of having to delete the job [2.9.5.1] No new enhancements [2.9.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Updated Reporting Engine (improvement from v2.9.3.0 update) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Logic to improve performance and memory footprint [2.9.4.1] No new enhancements [2.9.4.0] No new enhancements [2.9.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All reports now use .qpcx format. This is a smaller file format that allows faster loading and building of reports. These reports are compatible with the SharePoint Essentials Lite Client. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improved logging mechanism improves performance for all report jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All reports (viewed within the tool) now show record count and a date time stamp of report in footer. SharePoint Essentials Lite Client: Now shows row count when grouping is used. SharePoint Essentials Lite Client: Uses new .qpcx format to load reports faster and more efficiently. [2.9.2.0] Broken Link Manager: Now supports scanning form pages within lists and libraries, such as "AllItems.aspx" and "DisplayForm.aspx". Content Manager: Improved caching to reduce memory footprint of jobs. [2.9.1.0] Permissions Manager: Improved performance of "Granular Permissions" option. This feature now caches security objects to improve security audits/reporting. [2.8.0.0, includes 2.7.0.0 updates] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Report logs now using tab delimited values. Corrected issues where logs had underscores in some detailed descriptions. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Email notification label updated to include format description, example "Time Elapsed (hh:mm:ss): 01:26:29". SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs now have option to "Save View". Users can now group and sort scheduled jobs and save the view. Broken Link Manager: New option "Debug Mode" in Scan Options page to allow more details in the HTTP Response Code from server to assist with troubleshooting link validations. Broken Link Manager: Performance enhancements to reduce memory footprint in jobs. The tool has improved caching and more efficient retrieval of list items. [2.6.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard Site Summary section is now 20% width of window vs 50% so that more site details can be seen without scrolling. The view can now be "Saved" by clicking Save View, this will save positioning for the Home Page Dashboard as well. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Updated Active Logs so that they are hidden by default and expand once a report or job is being run. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Changed Log time format to be 12HR instead of 24HR in all log files. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improved positioning of tooltips. Broken Link Manager: Export to SharePoint has a new checkbox option to 'Append Site Title' to SharePoint List name, new logic has been added to check if the Site Title was previously appended so it will only append once. Previously users had to uncheck this option after it appended once otherwise was appending Site Title multiple times. Broken Link Manager: Exclusion Rules: When using a List exclusion, the List was being enumerating 'behind the scenese' and then finally 'excluded/skipped'. This was taking extra time where they actually should have been excluded first before attempting to check the number of list items/files. The program now first checks if it should be excluded and ignores grabbing the items until it passes exclusion and inclusion rules. Permission Manager: Check User Permissions now will 'Suggest' AD users, AD groups and SharePoint groups in a drop down when selecting a user or group to check permissions. [2.6.8.0] SharePoint Essentials: If a report has no records to show, and if the user clicks to "Open Report" the report will now show "No records found" in the report (GUI interface only, not CSV or SharePoint list exports). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Multiple controls updated to improve docking and user experience. Previously some controls were not optimally placed to allow proper visibility of all data/controls. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Change Logs for Permission Manager and Site Auditing modifications now shows the time of modifications (not just date). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Some improvements made to tooltips. Previously some tooltips were showing above the wrong control on mouse over, tooltips with large amount of text now updated to be multiline to show more accurately above the related controls. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Validation of Site URL has been added for Scan Site URLs and Export to SharePoint Site URL prior to executing job. Broken Link Manager: If there are no broken links reported and 'Only Show Broken Links" is selected in the report, and Export to SharePoint List is selected, it now updates the Last Modified date of the List to notify user(s) that the scan job was run but no broken links were found. Previously the Last Modified Date of the list remained the same since no Broken Links were added, now the Last Modified Date is updated once a scan job is run regardless of the outcome. Broken Link Manager: Now shows "Require Versioning" option and value in the logs. Site & List Auditing: Edit List /Site Settings preview of changes provides more details. Such as link to list/item/permission that is to be updated. Permission Manager: Edit Permissions preview of changes provides more details. Such as link to list/item/permission that is to be updated. Permission Manager: Inclusion and Exclusion rules now added for Check User Permissions jobs. Content Manager: Previously when copying Site Columns, if there were existing site columns with the same name, they were skipped but did not show log message. Now, there is a warning message that the Site Column already exists. [2.6.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Trial versions are now 60 days SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: SMTP Account password is now encrypted. Previously the SMTP User Email password was stored in plain text in the settings.xml file. Permission Manager: Nested AD Groups now shows each AD Group that the user is granted access from. Previously it only showed the top AD Group that had given the user access, and only nested AD Groups within SharePoint Groups. Now it shows (recursively) nested AD Group within AD Group memberships and within SharePoint Groups. Permission Manager: Improved active logging to include more details. These are also stored in Change Logs when permissions are modified in bulk using the tool. Broken Link Manager: "Last Modified Date" and "Author" added to reports which indicate relative information to the SharePoint item/file for that record. [2.6.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Default theme is now blue, the original orange theme is now called 'Metropolitan'. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Email reports are now using a 'friendly' name and is not showing GUID of sites. Permission Manager: Edit Permissions now allows user to right click and select 'Open List Permissions' to view permissions before and after editing. Permission Manager: Edit Permissions now will prevent a user from trying to modify Inherited objects as these object types cannot be modified, the user must modify the parent object to change the permission of an object with inherited permissions, or change the object to unique permissions. [2.6.5.0 & 2.6.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home page dashboard logic improvements to prevent overwriting of group headers during a scan. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 'Total Sites' now shows 0 if there are no sites under it, previously it was showing '-'. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: GUI reports such as 'Site Size Report' are now auto-scaled to fit the page. Broken Link Manager: Significant improvements to performance, "Unreachable hosts" are now cached so the same host that is unreachable (even if different URL) is not tried twice, they are cached and remembered (per 'live' scan job). Improved code logic for large scan jobs, improved code (collection lookups/URL lookups) when testing if a URL has already been scanned. Broken Link Manager: Logging has been improved so that if "Show Detailed Logging' is not selected, the detailed logs are no longer written to the UI or log file. This will improve performance and reduce scan time. Broken Link Manager: "Include System Lists" is now an option. Previously all System/Hidden lists were scanned for broken links, now it is an option and is off by default. Site & List Auditing: A new column "Total List Size (MB)" has been added which shows the total list size in MB. Previously we had 2 separate columns List Size (that did not include versioning) and List Size (Version size only). Now we have a column that is sum of those two columns values. [2.6.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit (Scheduler): Logging has been improved to catch critical exceptions and write to application directory if the scheduler service crashes. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: A new column called 'Contact Email' has been added to the Home Page Dashboard to store the default email recipient that will recieve report emails for the job. Broken Link Manager: */ScriptResx.ashx* has been added to the default URL Exclusions list. SharePoint Permission Manager: In the Permission report, 'Hide Limited Access' is checked ON by default. SharePoint Permission Manager: Performance improvements and more efficient use of memory for Check User Permissions. [2.6.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: 'Add Site' functionality improved to show sites being add asynchronously. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home page dashboard has 'Search' box above sites to allow quick search of sites or lists. Broken Link Manager: It is now an option within the 'Link Options' page to include 'linked' CSS and JavaScript files in scans. It is set default to Off (not included in scans). [2.6.1.0] No new enhancements [2.6.0.0] SharePoint Essentials: Home page dashboard now shows 'Total Sites' and 'Total Lists'. These include the current site and all sites/lists beneath them. 'Sites' and 'Lists' (count) columns are still present, which reports sites and lists directly beneath them. Permission Manager: List Permissions Report: Now provides option to 'Include Hidden Lists' in the List Permission Report. Previously all hidden list permissions were reported, now, this is an option. [2.5.9.0] SharePoint Essentials: Now supports exporting reports directly to SharePoint Permission Manager: Improved support for nested AD Group lookups. Reports will show membership via SharePoint Groups, AD Groups, direct access and nested AD Groups within SharePoint Groups or within other AD Groups [2.5.7.0 & 2.5.8.0] Licensing: Improved licensing mechanism, provides better status of site collections licensed [2.5.6.0] User Interface: User can choose between Hierarchical or a flat view on the home page dashboard User Interface: User can now choose how many levels (sites) deep to be displayed on home page dashboard SMTP Email: Now supports multiple SMTP server authentication types Automatic Updates: Changed automatic updates to manual. The user is now required to click 'Check for Updates' in order to check for a newer version. ********************************************************** ** PREVIOUS BUG FIXES ** ********************************************************** [8.1.6.0] No new enhancements [8.1.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site now will automatically collect Site Collection size and number of subsites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Live Explorer will now automatically update Site Collection size and number of subsites in the Home Page Dashboard. [8.1.4.0] No new enhancements [8.1.3.0] No new enhancements [8.1.2.0 (BETAS: 7.6.0.0 to 8.1.1.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance improvements for Tab switching and Jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: New Home Page Dashboard Icons to identify site templates used. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site is now an option when right clicking a group from the Home Page Dashboard to more easily add a new site to that group. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: The tool (on startup) will automatically attempt to start the 'SharePoint Essentials Service' if it is stopped to help ensure Cloud Licenses get auto deactivated and scheduled jobs can run. Broken Link Manager: 'Only Fix Links' is renamed to 'Skip Link Validation' - this will allow users to run jobs to get an inventory of links or only fix links, and skips checking if links are actually broken. This option significantly improves job time. Broken Link Manager: 'Enforce Preserve Author Full Control Check' option added to Link->Options page to allow user to has Full Control from Web Application/Farm/Tenant level to bypass the validation check and continue with jobs when 'Preserve Author' option is enabled. Broken Link Manager: 'Scan MS Excel Cells' option to allow user to not parse every cell that contains a link. This option can be set to 'No' to let user control if they only want 'External links' in formulas to be parsed (by using 'Scan MS Excel Formulas' option). Content Manager: Item Query: Now shows Metadata Sizes used by items in the report (SharePoint Online only). List Item Attachments sizes are now shown in the reports for items with attachments. Permissions Manager: (BETA) SharePoint Group reports now allow users to bulk change a Group Owner and bulk add or remove SharePoint Group members to multiple SharePoint Groups. This also supports copying and pasting from MS Outlook email address fields. Site and List Auditing: NEW Item Inventory report shows Metadata Sizes used by items in the report (SharePoint Online only). List Item Attachments sizes are now shown in the reports for items with attachments. [7.5.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home page icons show red dot for (non-root) sites with unique permissions. Content Manager: Bulk Upload now has option to 'Show Preview of Documents' so that the tool performs better for large lists. Un-check the preview option to load only the 'source list' folders. [7.5.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: A new Settings option called "Suppress Scheduler Path Check". This option is set to Yes by default. Yes = Tool will not show prompt to user if the Report Path is a network share and the Windows Service 'QiPoint Essentials Service' does not have access to the path to write/create reports. No = Tool will validate the Windows Service account to ensure it has read and write permissions at the path defined in Home->Settings->Report Path. If the Windows Service 'QiPoint Essentials Service' does not have adequate permissions, a pop up message is shown to user when they attempt to add sites to the Home Page Dashboard. [7.5.7.0] No new enhancements [7.5.6.0] No new enhancements [7.5.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Support for pinning and unpinning the Live Explorer panel has been added. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: ConfigPath.txt customization (for changing product data directories), now supports variable '%username%' in custom locations. %username% will translate to the user id in format domain-username. If the directory does not exist, the tool will attempt to create the directory. [7.5.4.0] No new enhancements [7.5.3.0] No new enhancements [7.5.2.0] No new enhancements [7.5.1.0] No new enhancements [7.5.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance improvements when running multi-site jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Online license activation (including for Enterprise Cloud licenses), now use HTTP again, and not HTTPS. The HTTPS requirement caused some issues in clients where an SSL certificate could not be found from the application to connect to the license server. To get more information about license information that is transmitted please visit our support center General Support -> Privacy Broken Link Manager: Added support to read page responses from _layouts/15/Doc.aspx, _layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx, _layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx types of links to determine if the web service has located the items. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Now supports copying a non-OneDrive document library to a OneDrive or My Site document library with List Template ID 700. Permissions Manager: Permissions Matrix report: Added new View for "By User and Permission Level" with group count to show number of users with the specified permission levels. [7.3.5.0] No new enhancements [7.3.4.1 (BETAS: 7.2.6.0 to 7.3.4.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance improvements when user has over 3000 subsites listed in Home Page Dashboard, some drop down controls loaded slowly. We improved performance for those cases. Broken Link Manager: Improved support for MS Excel 'External Links' such as those found in Excel under 'Formulas->Defined Names/Name Manager' Content Manager: Item Query: Now shows new column 'Checked Out To' to display if file is checked out and to whom. Permissions Manager: Improved 'Sharing Link' reports view now shows detailed information about Shared Links such as 'Expiry Date', 'Sharing Link Kind/Type', 'Has External Guest Invitees' (this does not include external users, guest access differs from external users), 'User who has been given link', etc. Permissions Manager: 'SharePoint Group Owners' are now identified in reports. Previously the reports showed group members but not the SharePoint Group Owner. [7.2.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard now updates values in real-time when a site is selected, such as Last Modified, Number of subsites, Number of Lists, Inherited Permissions. In some cases you need to click the Refresh button for values to be retrieved and populated in the dashboard. 'Refetch Sites' will automatically fetch these values in real-time. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Add Site now retrieves more information about each site. Click Refetch Sites or run a report to update this information, such as Last Modified, Number of subsites, Number of Lists, Inherited Permissions. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard now shows an icon (with red mark) to help you quickly identify sites with unique permissions (not including root Site Collection sites as these all have unique permissions). This is updated in real time when you click on the site in the Home Page Dashboard. Click 'Refetch Sites' to refresh all site data in real time. [7.2.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard: Modifying the Site Title by right clicking the Site and choosing 'Modify' will now also update the SharePoint site title. Previously it only updated the toolkit for organizational purposes. It will now also update the site's SharePoint Site Title. [7.2.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard and panels allow user to press Ctrl+A to copy the Home Page Dashboard or Live Explorer Lists, SharePoint Groups and Site Administrators to clipboard, where they can then paste into an email or Excel spreadsheet. [7.2.2.0] Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Permissions Changes: Updated event details to friendly descriptions. More updates coming soon. [7.2.1.0] No new enhancements [7.2.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard Live Explorer panel updated UI to show different List row background colors based on count. [7.1.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard sites now show URL as tooltip so user can hide the Site URL column to save space and click Options->Save view to hide the Site URL column if wanted by default. [7.1.8.0] Content Manager: Bulk Upload: Add UI improvements. [7.1.7.0 (BETAS: 6.9.3.0 to 7.1.6.0)] (2019 Edition Officially Released) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Graphical reports now appear in properties panel for the selected site. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: All Report Views in drop down controls are all listed alphabetically. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Performance improvements throughout all report jobs. Content Manager: Copy Lists: The value for source list 'CanBeDeleted' is no longer carried over to target site. If you need to set this in target list, you must use PowerShell to set this. We disabled this feature because if there was a need to remove the target library, it could not be done easily since it took the 'CanBeDeleted=false' from source list. This happened for some lists which were created using a feature. Content Manager: Item Query: Options now organized by groupings, such as 'Popular', 'Document', Columns', etc. New queries were also added such as 'Find JavaScript' and 'Find Web Part' Site & List Auditing: User Activity: SHAREPOINT\System and SharePoint App events no longer filtered by default. You may filter them from the report and save the default view if desired. Site & List Auditing: User Activity: Content Changes report has been updated for all events to show a more friendly description of the event that occurred. [5.9.8.8] Site & List Auditing: Site Inventory reports size of subsites was not being displayed in some environments. This is now fixed so that Site Inventory reports show sub site size (SharePoint Libraries size used). Site & List Auditing: Export to SharePoint was missing Site Title column, it only had Site URL column. This is now resolved so the export correctly creates the Site Title value from the report into the SharePoint report. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed some issues when copying SharePoint Pages and the URL for the Site Title has special characters, this is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Inclusion Query did not work correctly using File Name in some environments, it always returned zero results. This is now fixed. [5.9.8.7 (BETAS: 5.9.8.1 to 5.9.8.6)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issues with Home Page Dashboard sites losing structure (not nested and instead show up flat in Home Page Dashboard). If you have any issues with this (in this release), please contact us at support@qipoint.com SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved some issues for various components with Export to SharePoint as List Items and choosing UPDATE. This now has been fixed to correctly clear all old report data in the SharePoint List which relates to that Site (by Site URL). In this way, if you schedule multiple sites to build reports into the same SharePoint List in a schedule, the old list report data will be correctly cleared for only that site, so it is 'updated'. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed some issues with copying of lists where the web part URL does not get correctly converted to the target site url. This is now resolved so that URLs are correctly converted after copying a list. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixed some issues where list columns were not re-created in target list. Site & List Auditing: Site Activity: Fixed issues with List Title showing the Item URL, this is now resolved to show List Title. [5.9.8.0 (BETAS: 5.8.8.4 to 5.9.7.9)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issues where the Scheduled Jobs window sometimes goes blank in some situations and always needed to be refreshed. This is now fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issues where Adding a Site (using the Add Site button) where the user does not have permission to other subsites, and the import failed. This is now resolved so the user can one or more subsites without requiring access to all of them. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue where after a Site import (Add Site), duplicate sites were listed in the drop-down list for selecting a site to run a job for. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved License issues with machines that were missing Visual Studio 2010 C++ Redistributable packages. This caused machines to not show a count for Site Collection Licenses and not be able to activate correctly and hang on the license page. This is now fixed in this release. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where UNC network share paths were not detected or replaced for Publishing HTML type fields, such as Publishing HTML Body or Publishing Hyperlink fields. They are now fixed and fully supported. Broken Link Manager: Fixed behavior of timeout setting so that the tool properly waits for specified time in the Broken Link Manager Options page. Previously the timeout was always reached after 1 minute. Content Manager: Resolved issues with Bulk Upload not checking in files correctly after the upload. Content Manager: Resolved issues with Bulk Upload not setting 'Title' field value automatically in certain scenarios. Content Manager: Fixed issue with Item Query results, when right clicking 'Open List Item' on a query result record, user got a page not found error for some list items, this is now fixed. Permissions Manager: Edit Permissions -> for systems that have more than 300 Permissions reports created, the tool would take a long time to open the Edit Permissions page, and it appeared like it was hung as there was no 'Please wait' window. This is now resolved to show a proper 'Please wait' window. [5.8.8.3] Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where some URLs which end with [1].jpg or similar had an issue resolving where they are reported broken but are not. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where Publishing HTML URL fields were not getting replaced by the tool. Links in these fields were only getting reported on but not replaced (using Find and Replace option). This is now fixed. [5.8.8.2 (BETAS: 5.8.8.0, 5.8.8.1)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard did not show recent reports under the Site when right clicking. This is now resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs 'Clean up all Scheduled Jobs' now tries to auto-restart the QiPoint Essentials Service if the service stops. Broken Link Manager: "BrokenLinkSettings.xml" was stored in the wrong folder in the My Documents\QiPoint\Reports directory. Broken Link Manager: 'Timeout Setting' in 'Options' was not allowing the tool to 'wait' longer than 1 minute even though the setting was set to longer, this how now been fixed. [5.8.7.4] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit Scheduler: Resolves issue where after bulk deleting Jobs, you cannot view reports or logs (from Scheduled Jobs window) until closing and re-opening the Scheduled Jobs window. This did not affect the Home Page Dashboard. This has been resolved in this release. [5.8.7.3 (BETAS: 5.8.7.0, 5.8.7.1, 5.8.7.2)] Site & List Auditing: (Affected Office 365/SharePoint Online only) Resolves issue where the job does not run unless user account has Site Collection Administrator rights. This was caused by the addition of the new column 'Recycle Bin' to show Site Recycle bin sizes, if the account does not have Site Collection Admin permissions, this field value will not be displayed. Permissions Manager: (Affected Office 365/SharePoint Online only) Resolves issue where the job does not run unless user account has Site Collection Administrator rights. This has now been resolved. [5.8.7.0 (BETAS: 5.8.6.4: 5.8.6.9)] Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Find & Replace does not work in Published pages when the option 'Preserve Version Type' is enabled. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where list item count is incorrect in Active Logs. It had been including 'folders' in the item total count but the items scanned was not including folders, which caused confusion. This has now been fixed so that both counts include folders as being processed, such as 100/100 Library Items processed for broken links. [5.8.6.3 (BETAS: 5.6.3.0, 5.8.5.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with 'Refetch Sites' not working for SharePoint Online. This is now fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved some UI issues with lower resolution monitors where some controls had unecessary scrollbars present. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Publishing HTML Fields such as Publishing HTML Link fields and Note fields were not parsed correctly and links within them not detected. This has now been fixed and tested with Find and Replace as well. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where a URL within a MS Office document that contains '_LAYOUTS' directory, was previously skipped and not included in jobs even if this was not set as a URL Exclusion. This is now fixed so that these paths are not skiped unless explicitly specified in URL Exclusion Rules. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue with items declared as records skipped from jobs in certain SharePoint builds. This is now resolved. Items declared as a record are included in the reports. If a Find and Replace is to occur for a record, the tool will only allow a Find and Replace if the record allows editing of the item. Content Manager: Fixes several issues relating to performance. Permissions Manager: Resolved issues relating to "Hide Limited Access". This has now been fixed. Permissions Manager: Resolved issue with large AD Groups being parsed (but not displayed in report) even if 'Show Nested Groups (AD Groups)' was unchecked. This caused a significant performance issue in some environments where large AD Groups were present. This has now been fixed. [5.6.3.0 (BETAS: 5.5.0.0, 5.4.0.0)] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved performance issues with previous release 5.3.0.0. Application load and clicking Home and License tab performed poorly in some environments SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue with Forms Authentication sometimes not connecting (in some environments) when using Default SharePoint Authentication , this is now resolved SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue with Home page tab and License page performing slowly. This has now been resolved. Site & List Auditing: Resolved some issues with reports not showing Site URL under bar graph. If you face this issue please increase the report width in the tool. Content Manager: Copying web pages from one SharePoint Site to another now copies correctly and does not show web parts in incorrect order. Broken Link Manager: Added support for Office 365 / SharePoint Online Large Lists (over 5000 items in the list). [5.3.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Fixes issue with large number of scheduled jobs (over 100 at the same time) could in some cases cause some jobs to run in trial mode, this is now fixed. [5.2.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Fixes issue with scheduler not showing AM/PM for German regional format. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue with merged reports not exporting to MS Excel in some environments. [5.1.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Fixes issue with Job History menu showing all report options but it should only show options for the report generated. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Fixes issue with upgrading license error from version 4.5.6.0 [5.0.0.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Fixes issue with extra spacing in Active Logs areas on High Res monitors SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Resolves issue where 'Clear All Scheduled Jobs' did not work for Local Users (non-local admins). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components): Resolves issue where 'Export to SharePoint List' feature fails to work if the List Name has a hyphen '-' in the title Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where some Quick Launch / Current Navigation and Top Navigation / Global Navigation links not detected. This is now fixed and Find Replace also working for navigation links. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue where some links within Script Editor web parts not detected. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolves issue with MS Excel Formula URL with spaces not detected correctly and often reported as broken links due to the space in formula URL. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with copying Site Pages where web parts not in correct order after copying. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue with copying to certain Libraries that were created by Features, they did not copy and gave different errors, this has now been resolved. Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue when copying to or from 'PublishingImages' the user gets 'The specified user could not be found.' Content Manager: Copy Lists: Fixes issue where List Item and folder permissions did not copy correctly to target and the object had extra security objects inherited. This is now fixed. Content Manager: Copy Term Store: If no credentials are supplied, user will see error 'Object not set to an instance of an object error'. This has now been resolved. Content Manager: Item Query (BETA) Fixed several issues with text searches in files and items. Permission Manager: Fixes bug where in some environments, 'Everyone' and 'NT Authority\Authenticated Users' group members not picked up when 'Show Nested Permissions (AD Groups)' was selected. [Version 3.1.0.0: 4.3.0.0] Involved SET 2016 Edition BETA testing and changes. Customers who participated in BETA testing this release may upgrade as normal to this version without having to uninstall the old BETA versions. [3.0.0.0] Content Manager: Fixed issue in Bulk Upload not able to drag and drop files correctly. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where Historical Links report not opening. [2.9.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Reports were sometimes not showing up in the Home Page Dashboard after a job is run but the report shows up correctly in the Scheduled Jobs section. This has now been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Renaming the group in the Home Page Dashboard for a Site with the same name as another site sometimes caused the site to not be listed in our tool. This has now been fixed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Large log files took a long time to load from within the tool. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace: Resolved issue where a SharePoint List with "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited?" set to Yes caused an error "The file must be checked out before modifiying" in some SharePoint environments. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace: Resolved issue where some UNC (file share) paths were not being replaced if the UNC path was under a display link, such as 'Click here to access the files' and 'here' had a UNC path under it. This has now been fixed. [2.9.8.1] Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue for SharePoint 2010 not reporting on and not replacing some links in certain SharePoint 2010 builds. [2.9.8.0] Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where URLs/links within "Summary Links Web Part" not replaced correctly in some environments. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where URLs/links found in tooltips not replaced correctly in SharePoint 2010 environments. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where URLs/links found in web pages could have duplicate span tags added. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where URLs/links found in PDFs sometimes had font style removed such as font color or underline. This has now been resolved. [2.9.7.1] Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where some UNC paths not replaced correctly in PDF files. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where MS Word 97 files with a "Table of Contents" section had extra character after a replace in some MS Word 97 files. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where some PDF files showed old URL string at end of replaced text. This has now been fixed. [2.9.7.0] Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where a trailing slash in find replace URL old value caused the tool to miss some URL replacements. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where some UNC paths not replaced correctly in MS Office files. Broken Link Manager: Enterprise Version only. Find Replace issue fixed where 1) the option is turned on 'Search MS Office files for text based links' and 2) the file has a 'Table of Contents, in some environments, after a find/replace a special character was appended to last bookmark. This has now been resolved. [2.9.6.0, 2.9.6.1, 2.9.6.2] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved hanging issue in Home Page Dashboard when large number of sites (>100) are listed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: When scheduling multiple jobs at one time (more than 20), this update resolves issue with some jobs hanging. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler: Fixed issue where some report data was missing in Home Page Dashboard after scheduled job was run (occurred when more than 20 or 30 jobs run at same time). SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue where site scanned is appended to end of site list and not in correct sort order. This has now been resolved so after refreshing the Home Page Dashboard, the site that was recently scanned is not appended to the end but is in the correct URL sort position (alphabetically). SharePoint Essentials Lite Client: QPCX reports not opening directly from MS Outlook emails, this has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixes Find Replace issue where 2 versions of a file are created when the item is checked-in. Now only one version is created after Find/Replace. Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue where some URL links in pages with multiple web parts are not reported (missing) from reports. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issues with Find Replace not replacing URLs correctly. Issues related to missing HREF Display Text in links caused issues with logic. Another issue is where URL in web page had formatting applied within text such as below: "http://oldserver/sites/folder1documents/anotherfile4.xls". This made it difficult for the program to match the links. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issues with Find Replace not replacing some UNC paths correctly in web pages. [2.9.5.2] Broken Link Manager: Reports not generating correctly for SharePoint 2010 in some environments. This has now been resolved Broken Link Manager: Export to Excel (from report page) not opening MS Excel report. This has now been resolved [2.9.5.1] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduled Jobs did not show correct 'Last Run Time' if multiple jobs for the same site were executed SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduled Jobs did not export to SharePoint list correctly, the list was being created but not the items. This has now been resolved SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduled Jobs did not show up on the Home Page Dashboard if multiple jobs were run for the same site SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduled Jobs that had multiple jobs for the same site executed at different times always opened the most current job, not the older reports or logs. It now opens the correct job (even if older) relating to the 'scheduled job'. Broken Link Manager: Find Replace issue with replacing MS Word links, it was appending # to the replaced URL, and causing issues with MS Word Page Bookmarks, this has now been resolved [2.9.5.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduler: Resolved issues with Scheduled job Logs not being created, loading or hanging (when viewing large log files) SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduler: Resolved issues with Scheduled jobs failing immediately in some environments SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Scheduler: Fixed problem where Scheduled jobs CSV report not showing correct format for Dater Time stamp SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Home Page Dashboard: Resolved issue adding a site that has same Site GUID (but different URL). Some sites were not adding correctly to Home Page Dashboard if they were Extended Web Applications or from a backup restore (example PROD to QA). This has now been resolved SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: (All components) Home Page Dashboard: Fixed issue where users could not sort by Last Modified or Permissions columns in Home Page Dashboard SharePoint Essentials Lite Client: Text values in report rows were not previously selectable, they are now selectable and the user can copy paste values from report row cells Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where account performing scan gets locked out using Windows Authentication (Integrated) Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue with UNC paths not showing correctly in report Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue with 'User not found' in some environments Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where links with non-English characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Russian that are present in a URL caused the link to be shown as not found in the report, but actually exist. This is now resolved [2.9.4.1] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue where logging is stuck at 12:59PM in certain region codes in manual jobs. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Some Home Page Dashboard labels not centered correctly in Site Details section. This has now been resolved so labels are correctly aligned. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Licensing problem with some clients always showed 'Failed to activate' due to null value for a license attribute, and therefore required manual activation, this has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue in TRIAL version, where Find/Replace skipping items from getting replaced but did not show message in logs that they were skipped. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where in some circumstances, the application would crash and show 'Out of memory' when it tries to reach URLs within some PDF files. We have added code to timeout for these links. This issue is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where 'Absolute URL Tested' field value was blank if the Link URL is malformed. It now shows the malformed URL in the 'Absolute URL Tested' field. Content Manager: Resolved issue in copying lists where user gets 'error object is used in different context' for some items during copying process. This is now fixed. Content Manager: Logs showed special characters in front of certain items. This has now been corrected. [2.9.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduler buttons updated to indicate when modifying existing schedule. Previously when updating existing schedule the label was 'Schedule Job', this has been updated to 'Update Scheduled Job' when the job already exists. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue caused by the change to new report format which did not handle some special characters correctly and displayed a blank report. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue caused by the change to new report format, where Chinese, Russian, Japanese and other non-English languages characters not handled correctly in URL, they always showed URL as 'Not Found'. This has now been resolved. [2.9.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolves issue with building large reports. Previously very large reports were hanging or taking a very long time to load. This has now been addressed. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue when holding shift and selecting multiple sites while collapsed in Home Page Dashboard to build bulk reports. Previously these showed up incorrectly in the Scheduled Jobs page, this has now been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Professional version incorrectly showed label for List and Document Library extensions (for scanning file content), this has been fixed so it is no longer visible as it does not apply to this version. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue with Site Audit report jobs not running for Site Owners who do not have Site Collection Administrator permissions. This is now resolved so users with specific read permission levels can run these reports. See documentation for details on permissions required. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Improved logging fixes issues with very large jobs hanging or becoming unresponsive. SharePoint Essentials Lite Client: Problem opening reports in some environments. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue with blank HTTP Status Codes when a URL is malformed. This now shows with correct HTTP Status Code. [2.9.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue where some sites were not appearing in the Home Page Dashboard. This is now fixed. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue with finding broken links within Summary Links, Code Snippet and Search web parts Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where URLs that were malformed threw errors in log and were not included in report, such as a URL that has spaces or does not comply with URL standard format "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" (see https://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/ for more info). This has now been fixed so that these URLs show up as 404 not found in the reports. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where some reports gave "User cannot be found" if the 'Author' of a file was not found. The 'Author' property was added to the report to provide assistance in finding the person/group responsible for the SharePoint file/item. If the user was not found, previously it showed an error, this has now been corrected to ignore the error if the Author is not found and display blank. Site & List Auditing: Resolved issue with editing Version property of lists, the version number was not reset to 0 when set to false, causing the report to incorrectly report version as false but still had Major and Minor version number with a value in the reports. This has now been resolved. [2.9.1.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue with some Jobs not running correctly (failing immediately) due to incorrect assembly referenced in code, this is now resolved. [2.8.0.0, includes 2.7.0.0 updates] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Canceling jobs sometimes did not abort/cancel the thread/job correctly and lead to memory leak and the application hanging or using too much memory. This is now resolved so the tool correctly cancels job and all related job threads. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Scheduled Jobs did not sort date column correctly. This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue with Office 365 Federated tenants getting error "The communication object System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted State". This is now resolved. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue with PDF file links getting cut off. Broken Link Manager: MS Word ".docm" file bookmarks were being reported in the Broken Link report. This is now resolved so that bookmarks are not captured in the report, they are ignored. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where HTTP Status Code for "Unable to connect to the remote server" was blank. This is now resolved and correctly shows "Unable to connect to the remote server" in HTTP Status Code and HTTP Status Description fields in the report. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where Last Modified Date was not being preserved for a List Item when the List Item Attachment had a URL that gets replaced. This is now resolved so the Last Modified date time stamp is preserved in List Item Attachment Find/Replace jobs. Content Manager: Resolved some cases where tool was giving error copying files to target libraries "Conflict error". This is now fixed. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue with some users (in 'Suggestions') not being detected correctly in "Check User Permissions" component. Permission Manager: Fixed issue where Limited Access was not being reported even though "Show Limited Access" option is selected for the report. [2.6.9.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue where the shortcut icons would get reset and lost. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where Preserve Author was not working correctly when find/replace is executed on list item attachment file contents. Some items were not preserving the last modified by (author) and date last modified metadata. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue in PDF files where some links where not detected in Annotations. This is now fixed so these links are picked up in the report and in Find/Replace. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where some links were giving errors when being scanned "Cannot cast object of type...". These links are now being scanned correctly. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where non-English characters (such as Chinese characters) were not being displayed or scanned correctly for non-english character URLs. These characters appeared as mojibake in the reports. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue in Find/Replace (manual and using bulk import with MS Excel spreadsheet) where if the URL has a '+', the URL was being split. This is now fixed. Broken Link Manager: Telephone numbers were previously being treated as broken as the tool was not handling these URL types. These URL types starting with 'tel:' are now treated as valid links. The phone number and format are not tested for validity. Broken Link Manager: In some instances where the 'text URL' had a period '.' at the end caused the report to show File Not Found however the URL was valid without the '.' period. This has now been resolved to ignore the '.' period at the end of text based links (such as those that do not have tooltip when you mouse over and cannot click. This also happened in some PDF files that were converted using 3rd party conversion tools. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue in Find / Replace for Office 365 where some links were not being replaced correctly and had appended .com (or equivalent extension) appended at the end of replace string. This was not a common occurance (asd it related to some specific environments) but has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: Scheduled Jobs: Export to SharePoint: Append Site Title had an issue where if the job is scheduled and is set to append the Site Title, it would append every time the job was run and the only solution was to disable the append. This has now been fixed to add the 'option' to Append Site Title, if enabled, this will only append the Site Title to the end of the report (example: "My Scan Job 1: IT") only if it was not already appended. The tool now checks if the List Title ends with "" before trying to append. Broken Link Manager: Some links were reported in logs with error "There is problem while getting uri absolute path. Details: Invalid URI: The Authority/Host could not be parsed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". This has now been fixed so the URLs are scanned correctly. Broken Link Manager: Now supports Find / Replace of non-aspx files (such as PDF) within Web Page Libraries. Site Auditing: Edit List Permissions had anissue where the option to 'Set Inherited Permissions' did not make any changes. This is now fixed so it will set the List/Library to inherit permissions or make unique depending on the option selected. Content Manager: Now supports copying Site Pages that have web parts in the page. Previously the web parts in the page were not being copied correctly. [2.6.8.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue when modifying a scheduled job, the Next Run Time was showing a past run date and time, this is now fixed to show correct Next Run Time. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue with bulk creating jobs by multi-selecting site from Home Page Dashboard. Password was not being saved correctly in some instances. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Broken Link scanning was showing errors when parsing some links "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". This related to how the links were parsed, this is now fixed. Broken Link Manager: Logging showed Find/Replace matches incorrectly for some urls, this has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: URLs that were UNC paths to files showed "File:" in the URL. This has been corrected to show the actual URL in the document without adding the "File:" Content Manager: Fixed error "The property or field 'Url' has not been initialized." in Office 365 sub site List migrations. This error has been fixed to correctly copy List in Office 365 sub site lists. Broken Link Manager: Fixed error/exception which crashed the tool if scanning a site where the Site Collection quota was reached. Policy Manager: Fixed issue where Policy Manager report not sorting "Last Modified" column correctly. [2.6.7.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed bug that crashed application in licensing page that updates the component visibility. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue when using Search in home page dashboard, right clicking the matched site did not allow user to 'Create Report' or 'View Report'. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue in some environments where the log time was displaying the same date and time for all entries in the log. This has now been corrected. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue within NOTE fields, where, in sub sites, the link was being duplicated and parsed incorrectly. This has now been resolved. Policy Manager: Policy Email showed a FAIL in some cases but actually the Audit should have been a PASS. This has now been resolved. Site & List Auditing: Resolved issue with Delete Versions not deleting versions of files in some lists, now Delete Versions will clean out all versions except the top 'N' number specfiied by the user. Site & List Auditing: Resolved issue with List Content Type report not showing all content types correctly in some environments. This has been resolved. Permission Manager: Edit Permissions feature did not work in all SharePoint 2010 environments, this has now been resolved. Edit Site, List, User, Item permissions now works for Office 365, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010. Permission Manager: Resolve user has been removed while we work on improving user/group queries, this will be added back at a later date. You need to use the full Account login name or SharePoint Group Name to create reports vs. partial names and Resolve button. [2.6.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with Windows 8 and Windows 10 machines right click context menu opening on left instead of right side. It is now correctly opening on right hand side unless there is not enough space, then it will open the menu on left side of mouse cursor. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue when multi selecting sites and holding shift selects group headers and prevents user from bulk creating jobs, this has now been resolved so that group headers are ignored. Permission Manager: 'Check User Permissions': Fixed issue where if user does not have access to one of the sites to be checked, the report failed to generate. Now this is resolved and will continue to build report but show 'Access Denied' in the active logs (for the site the user does not have access to). Broken Link Manager: When scanning 'Plain text in MS Office files', previously the tool searched for text matching www to build URL, now it will search for 'www.' to avoid treating some words with www as a URL and incorrectly reporting them as broken links. [2.6.5.0 & 2.6.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Resolved issue where critical exception logs were trying to write to application directory and giving Access Denied exception, therefore crashing application. This has now been resolved by moving critical exception logs to My Documents folder and Scheduled Jobs folder for scheduled jobs. Permission Manager: Fixed issue where 'Check User Permissions' report fails to generate if one or more of the sites being accesses/tested does not have appropriate access. Now, it the account used does not have access to test a user's permission, it will show the error in logs but the report will still continue to get generated. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue where right clicking 'Open List Content Type' did not do anything. Now it is resolved and opens the appropriate list content type page in the user's default web browser. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where 'Only Show Broken Links" checkbox always gets deseleted when the page is refreshed/focused. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where Summary Links web parts were not being scanned. Broken Link Manager: Added logic to help resolve some reported issues where user account is locked after a scan job. This appears to be relating to incorrect permissions or password entered for a scan. The scan uses credentials to access multiple sources so may lock an account if incorrect credentials such as password is used. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue when parsing some pages where "Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was thrown.". Content Manager: Fixed Copy List issue where using a List View to filter the List Items to be copied was not working correctly, this is now resolved. Policy Manager: Fixed issue where policy reports included sites that did not have a related report generated yet. In order for the policy report to run, a Broken Link, Site or List Audit, or Permissions report must have been created for the site. [2.6.4.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Site Collection licensing issue where a managed path is not recognized correctly and the Site Collection URL is incorrectly added to lciensed sites. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Home Page Dashboard "Items" count for root site is now correct and showing only items count at that site level and does not include other sites below it. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit (Scheduler): Fixed issue where scheduled job emails not attaching reports if a manual report is never run & opened. Broken Link Manager: Resolved error when scanning Page library files that were not aspx pages. The error the user would have seen was "Error scanning webparts for page 'http://.pdf'. Details: Invalid URL argument." [2.6.3.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Issues when viewing a report and multi-selecting records/rows have been resolved. SharePoint Essentials Toolkit (Scheduler): Fixed an issue with scheduled jobs crashing when email alert is used for automatically sending reports. Broken Link Manager: Resolved issue where logs displayed error parsing certain web pages 'Sorry, there was a problem retrieving link 'javascript:; for page 'http://fabrikam/SitePages/test.aspx'. Details: Index was outside the bounds of the array.'. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where reports will show '404 not found' or '401 unauthorized' error when scanning links to a different web application that the user is supposed to have access to. This was caused by authentication redirects using security tokens, this has now been fixed and may show 'Redirect' as status code, this is a valid code and not a broken link. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where SharePoint Sites using Forms Authentication show 404 File Not Found in some environments when performing a scan. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue where FTP links were reported as 0K, they are now displaying as OK when they are valid. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue with List and Site Content Types being duplicated in some reports. Site & List Auditing: Fixed issue when editing multiple Office 365 lists, only the first list was getting updated. Site & List Auditing: Resolved issue in logs that did not display list editing action correctly. [2.6.2.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixed issue with renaming Logical Groups and Site Collection groups. Previously renaming groups incorrectly changed the group name of other sites, this has now been resolved to change groups correctly. Broken Link Manager: Fields of 'Copy Source' did not correctly get replaced or detected, this has now been resolved. Permission Manager: Fixed issue where Custom Permission level could not be set for objects. Now you can enter the custom permission to assign to objects. Site Auditing: Fixed issue with hiding limited access on reports. Checking 'Hide Limited Access' still showed limited access on reports. This has now been resolved. [2.6.1.0] Broken Link Manager: Find\ReplaceResolved issue where links replaced HRED Display Text and URL were set to lowercase. This is now fixed and does not change case entered by user in Find\Replace Site Auditing: Fixed issue where Total Lists show 0 for lists on home page dashboard. This now shows '-'. Permission Manager: Resolved issue where even if 'Hide Limited Access' was unchecked, it still did not show 'Limited Access' objects in the report. Thisi s now fixed. [2.6.0.0] SharePoint Essentials: Home page dashboard incorrectly reported list count in the summary window, this has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Fixed issue with 'Copy Source' fields were not parsed correctly as they were not being URL encoded. 'Copy Source' fields were incorrectly reported as broken links when they had spaces in the URL. This has now been fixed. Broken Link Manager: Find\Replace: Find\Replace failed when the URL to replace had special characters. This has now been resolved. Broken Link Manager: When searching within file contents, you may encounter 'Unknown format' error and the document is not scanned. This has now been resolved. Policy Manager: Fixed issue with Policies not showing correct status. Previously, it incorrectly reported the number of objects in the policy that passed, this has now been fixed to count the policy objects that passed and failed accurately. [2.5.9.0] Scheduler: Resolves issue where scheduler does not run if products are expired and the SharePoint Essentials Suite license is activated. Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixes issue where HREF display text is not getting the 'old value' replaced Broken Link Manager: Fixes Note and Link URL fields not getting replaced correctly in some environments [2.5.7.0 & 2.5.8.0] Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixed issues with replacing URLs where Content Approval is enabled and Preserve Author is selected. Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixed issue where replace URLs incorrectly reported as replaced but had error/exception replacing Broken Link Manager: Find/Replace: Fixed Versioning Required issue where the find/replace still did not replace URLs in lists that did not have versioning set although the option Require Versioning was not selected Policy Manager: Fixed issue with policies not working correctly with multiple policy rules set. Now will show rule is failed if any policies fail in the job vs one of the policy criterias fail in the job Scheduler: Fixed issue where scheduler fails to run after certain period of time due to licensing bug Permission Manager: Fixed issue where editing permissions does not open the List permissions window [2.5.6.0] SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes issue reporting some SharePoint 2010 versions/builds as 'Unknown' in the SharePoint Version column of a report SharePoint Essentials Toolkit: Fixes incorrect Annual Subscription expiration message, it did not show the full date of expiration only month and year, now shows day month and year Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with reporting unauthorized on links that the user has access to which relate to links to web sites that have mixed authentication modes Broken Link Manager: Fixes issue with Find Replace for lists with 'Require Check out' to false/unchecked and pages that are checked out already Site Auditing: Fixes issue with SharePoint 2010 list last modified date incorrect in certain time zones