Thursday 9 May 2019

Cloudwork V30 & V31 Release Notes

Welcome to Term 2 of the 2019 school year.

The Studentnet development team has been hard at work releasing two new releases for Cloudwork so far this year being V30 and V31. Our continued aim is to increase your degree of control of your network via new features and user experience improvements in the dashboard. Please find below a brief description of newly available improvements in our V30 and V31 releases.

V30 New Features
  • Deleted User Action has been added to email sync profiles. You can now delete or suspend users that existed in the previous CSV file this profile processed, but is not in this one
  • Added Compromised Password protection settings. It is now possible to prevent users from choosing new passwords that are known to be compromised.

    One of the most common sources of compromised accounts these days is password re-use across different services. The "Have I Been Pwned" project is an enormous aggregation of data collected from data breaches of all stripes. The database currently stands at 551,509,767 real passwords that have been exposed via data breaches, and Cloudwork can now take advantage of this data to help protect our users.

    When a user changes their password through CloudworkID or "I forgot my password", or an administrator changes it for a user through the Cloudwork Dashboard, the compromised passwords check will take the new password and compare it to a list of known compromised passwords, and return an error message informing the user that they have chosen an insecure password. This feature can be turned on or off via the Cloudwork Dashboard, and can be configured to use a threshold, and only reject passwords that show up in the compromised data more often than the configured threshold.
V31 New Features
  • Admin Roles can now be assigned to Groups in addition to being able to assign to individual accounts
  • Bulk Welcome Messages can now be sent to many users(groups, org units, email addresses matching a pattern etc) from the Cloudwork Dashboard
  • CloudworkID settings can now be customised per Org Unit. This includes:
    * CloudworkID Look and Feel settings can be configured per Org Unit
    * CloudworkID enabled features can be configured per Org Unit
  • Compromised Passwords settings can be configured per Org Unit
  • Password Reset email templates can now be customised per Org Unit
  • When uploading a User CSV file, an Org Unit can now be targetted for these uploaded users
User Experience Improvements
  • Reports are now more flexibly filtered when searching by users or events
  • Provisioning Reports can now be filtered by Sync Profile
  • Search form added to SSO Services view
  • Message Templates can now be deleted
  • From address can now be changed in SMS Templates
  • Various bug fixes:
    * Fixed a bug that prevented administrators from uploading new logos and background images
    * Fixed a bug where administrators could enable "send welcome messages" without selecting a message template
If you wish to access any of these new features, your Cloudwork instance will need to be updated to V31. We will be commencing individual instance upgrades starting in May, 2019. To schedule a time for your school's instance upgrade please submit a support ticket or email your request to support@studentnet.id.

Looking forward to working with you through 2019 - Thank you

The Studentnet Team
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Tuesday 15 January 2019

Studentnet Cloudwork V29 Release Notes

The Cloudwork team welcomes you all to a New Year. We're sure that you are all preparing for your new 2019 enrolling year.
Our team has been hard at work introducing many new features and user experience improvements in the dashboard. Please find below a brief description of newly available improvements in our latest release - Version 29.
V29 New Features
  • Added a notification system to the dashboard screen enabling Studentnet to easily deliver important update information to Cloudwork Administrators
  • Contents of Password Reset SMS messages can now be controlled via Message Templates
  • "Require password change at next login" feature exposed on Password Change screen in admin
  • SMS-based Multi factor Authentication can now be enabled for a user from the Cloudwork Dashboard
  • Support SSL connections in Email Sync Profiles, meaning Email Sync Profiles can now connect to a wider range of in boxes
  • New configuration option in Email Sync Profiles enabling users to be placed into a specific Org Unit
  • Extra details are now available on the IdP Details page, allowing administrators to easily discover certificate fingerprints
User Experience Improvements
  • The "Download" button in Reports now handles the report generation asynchronously, allowing much larger reports to be successfully  generated
  • Cloudwork Dashboard will now show a red error message if a group sync is attempted with a bad LDAP search filter
  • Relaxed form processing rules for SSO Services that don't have signing certificates or logout URLs
  • Removed `required` tags from some form fields, to make editing SSO Services easier
  • Help page now links to the Wiki
  • Sidebar menu will stay in its current state between page transitions
  • The Login Theme form has been broken down into smaller, more easily managed forms
  • Various bug fixes
If you wish to access any of these new features, your Cloudwork instance will need to be updated to V29. We will be commencing individual instance upgrades starting in February, 2019. To schedule a time for your school's instance upgrade please submit a support ticket or email your request to support@studentnet.id.
Looking forward to working with you again in 2019 - Thank you