Email Signature Manager V8 Release Notes

Email Signature Manager 8.5.1

Released March 31, 2021.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Improved conditional statement parser to handle when long conditional statements are broken by white space due to reformatting of the HTML.
• Improved rule matching for HTML rules for mobile device signatures.

Email Signature Manager 8.5.0

Released September 18, 2020.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Removed Basic Authentication option for Office 365 now requiring Modern Authentication.
• Minor enhancements to Modern Authentication for Office 365.

Email Signature Manager 8.4.4

Released June 9, 2020.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Performance improvement in service processing users for signature generation on Office 365.

Email Signature Manager 8.4.3

Released February 20, 2020.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Improved HTML rule injection to ignore white space new lines in email HTML when matching rules.
• Minor generic code and installer enhancements.

Email Signature Manager 8.4.2

Released February 6, 2020.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where combined group deployments affect users that are not members of the group.
• Fixed problem parsing SPF records.

Email Signature Manager 8.4.1

Released September 24, 2019.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed mobile device rules containing HTML not always triggering email relay to injection service.
• Fixed problem sometimes incorrectly reporting SPF record not configured in Office 365 integration.
• Performance improvements in Exchange Transport Agent when injecting signatures into large emails.
• Changed default behaviour to add X-AnchorMailbox header on all Exchange Web Services requests.

Email Signature Manager 8.4.0

Released July 9, 2019.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added option to write default Outlook signatures to files on disk or share.
• Improved integration with Signature Injection Service for Office 365.
• Improved performance in environments with multiple domains.
• Fixed default reply/forward OWA signature not being updated.
• Fixed image size not being updated in HTML signatures when image contains file:// prefix.
• Fixed Transport Agent not injecting signature despite rule match if the rule text also exists in the message content without matching other conditions such as new lines before and after.

Email Signature Manager 8.3.1

Released April 3, 2019.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed Outlook image scaling issues when using Windows text sizes larger than 100%.
  Supported in agent version 3.1.0 and later.

Email Signature Manager 8.3.0

Released January 21, 2019.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added support for Windows Server 2019.
• Added support for Exchange Server 2019.
• Added support for Office 2019.
• Improved compatibility with encrypted and signed emails in Outlook.
  Supported in agent version 3.0.2 and later.
• Manager only installations can now see service status and perform update actions.
• Fixed bug resulting in signature settings always updated in mailbox even when not changed.
• Fixed bug that could result in signature settings being missing from the user deployment table.
• Fixed client access service not always sending valid response when no user signature settings exist.
• Fixed option to deploy signatures from all group memberships not applying to send-on-behalf signatures.

Email Signature Manager 8.2.0

Released November 14, 2018.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added support for modern authentication for the Office 365 impersonation account.
• Added new option to deploy all Outlook signatures from all group memberships option.
• Added support for new logical "and" and "or" operators in conditional statements.
• Fixed not always loading all group members bug introduced in version 8.1.0.
• Other minor enhancements.

Email Signature Manager 8.1.1

Released October 17, 2018.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed Office 365 Accepted Domains configuration may be looked up on local rather than public DNS server.

Email Signature Manager 8.1.0

Released October 5, 2018.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added functionality to manage Office 365 configuration for the Signature Injection Service.
• Added support for new regions (UK, EU, US, CA, AU) in Signature Injection Service for Office 365.
• Added support for DKIM signing in Signature Injection Service for Office 365 when enabled in Office 365.
• Added function to export Status Monitor data to Excel.
• Added Oracle database support for custom data sources.
• Added new template functions to search and replace in merge fields.
• Added support for mobile device HTML source replacement rules to support Outlook for Android signature.
• Added option to suppress system tray authentication error messages in agent.
• Added option to only update Outlook and OWA signatures if changed allowing users to make their own changes.
• Added option to control if signatures are installed as read-only per group/user to override global option.
• Added functions to manage Email Signature Manager Service Connection Points in Active Directory.
• Fixed potential specified server version is invalid error in mixed Exchange version environments.
• Fixed rare ExchangeImpersonation SOAP header must not exist for this type of OAuth token error.
• Fixed Office 365 integration not configurable when environment is Exchange without Impersonation Account.
• Improved performance when loading Active Directory information during signature updating.
• Improved support for Windows 125% and 150% font sizes.
• Built for .NET Framework 4.5.
• Improved support for TLS 1.2.
• Other minor enhancements.

Email Signature Manager 8.0.2

Released December 20, 2017.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added support for TLS 1.2.
• Other minor enhancements.

Email Signature Manager 8.0.1

Released December 11, 2017.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed issue with extension attributes not working in rules.
• Fixed issue where changes to mobile device signature settings would not trigger deployment changes pending.
• Minor amendments to user's guide.
• Other minor enhancements.

Email Signature Manager 8.0.0

Released December 4, 2017.

New features, enhancements and bug fixes:

• Updated user interface to match latest Office theme.
• Integrate with new Signature Injection Service for Office 365 for mobile devices.
• Deploy signatures using rules matching on Active Directory attributes.
• Deploy signatures by organizational unit (OU).
• Deploy disclaimers to specific groups or all users.
• Deploy campaigns to specific groups or all users.
• Use access control to configure permissions for users managing the system.
• Option to schedule disclaimers in the same way as campaigns can be scheduled.
• Allows control of removal of other signatures per group/user to override global option.
• Supports Office 365, Exchange Server and Hosted Exchange Server.
• Supports latest Windows 10, Office 2016 and Exchange 2016.
• And more.