Change log
v2.1.1032 16th November 2024
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the installer would not run if the machine did not have internet access.
v2.1.1029 18th October 2024
v2.1 of Access Manager moves from .NET 6 to .NET 8, to ensure extended support with the .NET Lifecycle. Please check the .NET compatibility matrix here, as some platforms such as RHEL7 are no longer supported.
Access Manager Service
[CHANGE] .NET 8 ASP.NET and Desktop runtimes are now required to install the Access Manager Service
Access Manager Agent
[CHANGE] .NET 8 is now used for the Linux agents. Due to .NET compatibility issues, arm32 builds are no longer supported.
[CHANGE] .NET 8 is now used for the macOS agents.
[CHANGE] The arm64 build of the Windows agent now uses .NET Framework 4.8.1, rather than .NET Core, as the framework version is built into the operating system.
v2.0.9540 2nd August 2024
Access Manager Service
[FEATURE] Adds support for excluding forests and domains from being rendered in the UI via the Get-AmsServiceConfig and Set-AmsServiceConfig cmdlets. This is useful for cases where some domains may not be reachable from the AMS server, and cause the UI to hang when navigating and saving.
v2.0.9538 12th July 2024
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the installer could not upgrade instances uses an encrypted connection string
[FIX] Fixes an issue with the installer not correctly detecting .NET desktop runtime installation
[SECURITY] Addressed issue in System.Text.Json CVE-2024-30105
Access Manager Agent
[FIX] Fixes an issue where chpasswd may fail on linux by increasing the default timeout for commands running on unix-based hosts to 15 seconds
[FIX] Fixes an issue with macOS uninstall script not working
v2.0.9530 7th July 2024
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where a password rollback event does not correctly re-promote the current password
[FIX] Fixes a handle leak when making calls to a domain controller
Access Manager Agent
[FEATURE] Adds support for Ubuntu 24.04
v2.0.9519 27rd February 2024
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the wrong DC may be used to perform a JIT operations against a computer if the JIT operation is first performed when the computer is off
v2.0.9514 23rd January 2024
Access Manager Service
[SECURITY] Addressed issue in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient CVE-2024-0056
v2.0.9456 3rd December 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Updates the Graph API endpoint used to retrieve Windows LAPS passwords from Azure AD
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the app upgrade check may hang, causing the UI to be unable to start
[FIX] Improves logging when the service is unable to read critical attributes about users from the directory due to missing permissions
[FIX] Fixes an issue where a JIT removal job does not get removed when a JIT request fails, preventing subsequent JIT access requests for the same user and computer to fail
Access Manager Agent
[FEATURE] Adds support for Debian 12 (Bookworm)
[FEATURE] Adds support for Fedora 38
[FEATURE] Adds support for Fedora 39
v2.0.9430 20th June 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where an error message appears after clicking on the help link in the Azure AD tenant information screen
[UPDATE] Updates installer .NET package prerequisites to 6.0.18
Access Manager Agent
[UPDATE] Updates macOS and Linux agents with latest .NET dependencies
[FIX] Updates logic to prevent the Access Manager Agent from starting when Windows LAPS is in use
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the agent is unable to change the local admin password when the 'Server' service is disabled
v2.0.9427 11th June 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue when exporting permissions that would result in target names being exported as SIDs instead of friendly names
[FIX] Fixes an issue where a recently re-imaged machine with the Access Manager agent may not change its password until the next scheduled check in time
v2.0.9424 6th June 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the web UI reports that an Azure AD device does not have a LAPS password
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the installer was unable to validate an Azure SQL connection string
v2.0.2422 9th May 2023
Access Manager Service
[FEATURE] Adds support for reading Windows LAPS passwords from Azure AD
v2.0.2420 14th April 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue decrypting Windows LAPS passwords
v2.0.2419 11th Apr 2023
Access Manager Service
[FEATURE] Allows community edition to access encrypted Windows LAPS passwords
v2.0.9417 27th Feb 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where agents behind a reverse proxy may not be able to change their local admin passwords. Note both the agent and server must be running at least v2.0.9417
Access Manager Agent
[FIX] Fixes an issue where agents behind a reverse proxy may not be able to change their local admin passwords. Note both the agent and server must be running at least v2.0.9417
[FIX] Fixes an issue where Windows agents do not start if the
Serverservice is disabled.
v2.0.9412 18th Feb 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the JIT group creation service would not create groups where multiple rules were configured pointing to the same source OU
v2.0.9411 9th Feb 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where searching for a computer in a different forest by its DNS name would not work
[FIX] Fixes an issue where an error message would be shown in the UI when there was no certificate configuration deployed to Active Directory
v2.0.9410 1st Feb 2023
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the effective access calculator would show 'access denied' for LAPS history when an enterprise license was not present
[FIX] Fixes an issue where changes to the JIT group creation settings do not trigger a restart required message
[FIX] Fixes an issue where upgrading from v1.1 to v2.0 may fail
[FIX] Fixes an issue where you cannot JIT into a group that contains a slash character
[FIX] Fixes an issue where AMS-managed device password history was not purged according to policy settings
[FEATURE] Adds support for using certificate authentication when Access Manager is behind a load balancer
[FEATURE] Adds additional UI helpers for common agent and API misconfigurations
[FEATURE] Adds the ability to target a JIT role operation against a specific site or a specific DC
Access Manager Agent
[FEATURE] Improves logging for agent-side issues such as server name misconfigurations, registration modes not being enabled, and API not being enabled
v2.0.9399 8th December 2022
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the SQL express installer does not execute when upgrading from v1.x and using the manual download option
v2.0.9395 4th December 2022
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where API authentication fails if the server and client are configured with host names differing by case
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the installer would continue the installation if the SQL Express installer failed, leading to an incomplete installation
[FIX] Fixes an issue where saving the config without a TLS certificate results in an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error
[FIX] Enables installer logging by default. Installer will create an MSIxxx.log file in %localappdata%\temp
[FIX] Fixes an issue where smart-card authentication would not work after upgrading from v1 to v2
[FIX] Fixes an issue where permissions for AMS admins group were missing from the registry
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the JIT group targeting algorithm may not select the correct DC, resulting in delays accessing servers after a successful JIT operation
[FEATURE] Modifies the silent installer for Windows to not require command line parameters to configure it for AD mode, allowing for a simpler deployment via group policy
[FEATURE] Updates PowerShell diagnostic cmdlet to include logs as well as config
[FEATURE] Adds the ability to generate a diagnostic log package from the 'Help' page in the config app
[FEATURE] The roles list is now free-text searchable
Access Manager Agent
[FIX] Fixes an issue where API authentication fails if the server and client are configured with host names differing by case
[FIX] Allows silent installation of Windows agent to default to AD mode without requiring MSI transforms or parameters
v2.0.9376 18th November 2022
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the service incorrectly goes into recovery mode when the November 2022 Windows updates are applied to a DC and the known issue regarding RC4 is in play. Now the service will instead just terminate with a message that domain connectivity is not available.
v2.0.9375 15th November 2022
Access Manager Service
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the service installer may fail on a non-English language Windows system
[FIX] Fixes an issue where the New-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule and Set-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule report an error
v2.0.9373 10th November 2022
Access Manager Service
[SECURITY FIX] Updates the SQL client libraries to resolve CVE 2022-41064
v2.0.9371 7th November 2022
Initial release of v2. Review the what's new in v2 article to learn about the major changes since Access Manager v1
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