Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03
Release Notes

Table of Contents

1. Summary
2. New Features
2.1. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03
2.2. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.02
2.3. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.01
2.4. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.00
2.5. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.06.00
2.6. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.05.00
3. Addressed Issues
3.1. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03
3.2. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.02
3.3. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.01
3.4. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.00
3.5. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.06.00
3.6. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.05.00
4. Compatibility
5. Getting Help

Chapter 1: Summary

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Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03 is the latest version of our domain controller agent. The Clavister Identity Awareness Agent is required for using the User Identity Awareness (UIA) functionality in Clavister cOS Core.

Please refer to the New Features and Addressed Issues chapters for a highlight of what is new in this release.

Chapter 2: New Features

The following sections detail new features and enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03. For a complete list and description of all the features in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03, refer to the latest cOS Core Admin Guide.

2.1. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03

No new features were introduced in the 1.07.03 release.

    2.2. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.02

    • Windows Server 2019
      The Identity Awareness Agent now officially supports running under Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

    2.3. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.01

    No new features were introduced in the 1.07.01 release.

    2.4. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.00

    • The setting "Allow source IPs/networks" has been updated
      "Allow source IPs/networks" in the Identity Awareness Agent Settings previously required at least one value in the list. The save option was disabled without any obvious reason if all values were removed. All networks are now used as default fallback if the list is empty. The description for this setting has been changed to "Restrict source IPs/networks to" to better reflect what the setting does.
    • User caching has been updated
      Caching of users is no longer done using a local database. Instead the cache is kept in memory.
    • Windows Server 2003 no longer supported
      Support for Microsoft Windows 2003 has been removed.
    • Updated .NET Framework requirements
      The Identity Awareness Agent now requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 to be installed.
    • Support for new event ID has been added
      The Identity Awareness Agent now also listens for event ID 4624, "An account was successfully logged on", which is used by Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
    • Improved program logging
      The output of logged events during run time has been improved. More events are logged and the use of log levels has been improved. Logs are now logged in NLog format.
    • Support for use of wildcards in excluded users list
      It is now possible to use the wildcard characters in the excluded users list. Two kind of wildcards characters are supported:
      ? (any character, one and only one)
      * (any characters, zero or more)

    2.5. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.06.00

    • Global Catalog query
      IDA now supports querying of Active Directory Global Catalog which enables the cross-domain searching of the universal user groups in the multi-domain Active Directory installations.

    2.6. New Features and Enhancements in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.05.00

    • Support for filtering of client IP addresses
      IDA now supports filtering of client IP addresses when logging in to the Active Directory.

    Chapter 3: Addressed Issues

    The following sections detail the addressed issues in the Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03 release.

    3.1. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03

    • IDA-281: Under heavy load, the agent could sometimes fail to perform AD lookup for group memberships properly.

    3.2. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.02

    • IDA-274: A log message was sent too often and caused some annoyance in some installations.
    • IDA-275: The Identity Awareness Agent parsed one type of response from cOS Core incorrectly, which caused a warning message to trigger.

    3.3. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.01

    • IDA-273: The Identity Awareness Agent threw an error when the ANONYMOUS LOGON event was triggered. The Agent now ignores this event.

    3.4. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.00

    • IDA-225: The Identity Awareness Agent crashed if it had no permission to the AD Server. Instead of crashing, the Agent now logs if permissions are missing.
    • IDA-262: cOS Core could sometimes lose contact with the Identity Awareness Agent, and for long periods being unable to reconnect.

    3.5. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.06.00

    • IDA-195: Remote Desktop IP Virtualization feature was reporting the host IP address to the Firewall instead of a Remote Desktop session IP address if Remote Desktop services was running on a server which was not an Active Domain server.
    • IDA-214: IDA service was unexpectedly terminated in a case when an IPv6 address could not be converted to IPv4

    3.6. Addressed Issues in Clavister Identity Awareness Agent 1.05.00

    • IDA-146: An unexpected exception was thrown and logged in the Windows Event Log every time the IDA service was stopped.

    Chapter 4: Compatibility

    The following section outlines the direct compatibility considerations as of Identity Awareness Agent 1.07.03.

    The following Operating Systems are supported by the Clavister Identity Awareness Agent.

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

    Chapter 5: Getting Help

    Technical Assistance via Web
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