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This thread contains Extranet Collaboration Manager release notes

Feature: Added Site Permissions Delegation Provider

When the Site Permissions Delegation Provider is selected on the Delegation Settings page a Delegated Administrator can manage Windows and Forms-Based-Authentication accounts that are members of the same SharePoint Groups the Delegated Administrators is a member of. This Delegation Provider is typically chosen when you would like to make a Windows account a Delegated Administrator of a site.

Feature: Add User page returns to the Manage Users page with the current group selected

When the Finish button on the Add User page is pressed the user will be directed to the Manage Users page. If the new user was added to a SharePoint Group, the group will be select.

Feature: Registration Approval Process

Define a list of approvers to review invited and/or anonymous registrations. When a user registers the account will remain unapproved until reviewed by an approver. One or more approvers will be notified of the pending registration. After reviewing the account the approver can approve or deny the request. The registering user will then be notified of the approval status.

Feature: Pre-Approved Domain Names

A list of pre-approved domain names can be defined. When a user registered for access to the site the account will automatically be approved if the registering domain names exists int the pre-approved domain name list.

Feature: Account Verification

When a anonymous user registers for site access a message will be sent to the user's e-mail address asking the user to verify the account. The user can access the site only after verification.

Feature: User Automation Job to Enforce Password Expiration and Account Activity Expiration

ExCM now contains a list of STSADM commands which can be use to create and manage user automation operations such as password expiration and account activity expiration. The job will notify users of pending expirations via e-mail. If a corrective action is not taken the account will be locked out. The age of the lockout and the notification window are customizable using STSADM. You can also customize the notification messages for each event.

Feature: Approved Domain Names

A list of pre-approved domain names has been changed to a list of approved domain names. If the e-mail address of the user is not contained in the list of approved domain names the user will not be allowed to register.

Feature: Web.config Approved Domain Names

Configure globally approved domain names for all sites in the web.config file.

Feature: Limit E-mail to Approved Domain Names During Profile Update

If the site is configured to use approved domain names the e-mail address used during a profile update must belong to one of the approved domain names to succeed.

Symptom: New registration approval email not sent to all Account Approvers

Aproval emails where only sent to the first user listed as an Account Approver. All users with a valid email address in their SharePoint profile will now recieve the alert and be able to Approve or Deny the registration.

Prerequisite: .NET 3.5

ExCM version 1.0.8346.3 requires the .NET version 3.5 or higher.

Feature: User Defined Invitation Expiration Length

The expiration length of an invitation can now be set by an administrator. Possibly values include 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year.

Feature: E-mail Address as Username

Administrators can configure a site to use the e-mail address as the user name. This option is applied to the registration, add user and manage profile pages.

Feature: Invitation Zone Targeting

Administrators can specify the SharePoint zone used during an invitation. This feature is especially useful in a dual zone authentication environment where you want all invitation requests to send the user to the Extranet zone (even if the invitation is sent by an internal user).

Feature: New E-mail Messages and Improved E-mail Tokenization

Each e-mail message now supports over 160 standard e-mail tokens (see help documentation for full list). Each token now includes an HTML encoded version to allow better e-mail client support. The addition of the new tokens provides a very flexible e-mail message system. Standard token groups include...

• ExtranetUrls
• ExtranetUser (Only when user is present)
• ExtranetUser.Profile (Only when user profile is present)
• Site
• SiteCollection
• User (Current SharePoint User)
• WebApplication
• Zone.Current
• Zone.Default
• Zone.Invitation

New e-mail messages have been provided to include the new tokens. The new messages include a better HTML format, Invitation URL support, Extranet User Profile attributes. The goal was to allow an administrator to setup the user profile attributes and invitation zone and not have to worry about modifying the e-mail messages.

Feature: Password Information Message

Administrators can provide a password information message which provides insight to the required password complexity during user registration, password reset and add user pages.

Feature: View Users in Role

Site Collection Administrators can new view all extranet accounts that are members of a selected role.

Feature: Password Reset Support for User with Identical E-mail Addresses

When a user attempts to reset the password for their account and one or more accounts are using the same e-mail address, the user is presented with a list of matching accounts and is asked to select the matching account. After the correct account is selected the user can continue to reset their password.

Feature: Removed Delegation and Mail Provider Configuration

The Delegation Provider and Mail Provider configuration options have been deprecated. These options were deprecated to simplify the interface and eliminate confusion. Implementation of this feature will be altered to provide greater functionality in a future release.

Feature: Improved Installation Experience

The ExCM installation experience has been improved. Improvements include an improved interface which is easier to follow. The SPSolutions.SharePoint.Delegation.wsp and the SPSolutions.SharePoint.Delegation.Templates.Membership.wsp solutions have been merged together to provide an easier installation experience. As a result the Membership Delegation Templates feature has been merged with the Delegation Web Components feature.

The Site Provisioning Assistant installation has been separated from the Extranet Collaboration Manager during the Enterprise Edition installation. The Site Provisioning Assistant Application is still bundled together in this package.

Installation of a trial license is no longer required to evaluate the product. The application creates a 30-day trial license when first accessed.