Release Notes v4.6.1

What's New in v4.6.1

With 4.6 widely deployed and stable across the customer base, it’s time to take stock to process the feedback received as well as responding to a few customer requests for refinements and to “unblock blocks”.

This patch release squashes bugs, fixes user experience irritations and brings us up to date on some recent fixes from Cisco in the CMS Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) is a premises-based video, audio, and web communication which also works with third parties. platform. We have also introduced two minor features; turning off the [full] Metro Previously known as CM App. Cross-platform (for web/desktop), all-in-one End user application, suitable for any Cisco Meeting Server customer. It includes a call client, as well as self-service tools to schedule and manage calls on CMS infrastructure. launch button in the Metro for Outlook Add-in Also Add in, Add In and Add-In A very generic software industry term that many different applications use, from Microsoft Outlook to Cisco Jabber. VQ produce an Outlook Add-ins for for use with Microsoft's email client. Outlook Add-ins are web applications that run in Outlook's internal browser with very limited access to Outlook via an API. Due to this the third party (us, Zoom, Cisco etc.) have to integrate our back-end with Outlook’s back-end, Exchange. The VQ Outlook Add-in can be run either standalone, with very limited functionality, or via our back-end integration to M365 Exchange Online to give functionality similar to the Outlook Plug-in. and branding of the Conference Manager login pages.

For a full list of changes, new functionality and bugs, please see the changes and fixes lists.

To upgrade, please mail support@vqcomms.com. We’ll then give you access to health-checks and, if all looks ok, the upgrade files. Customers often ask, “why don’t you just give us access to the upgrade files?”. The answer is that when we did that, customers could sometimes get themselves into a terrible mess. This way, we get very high upgrade success rates and a lot less stress on both sides.

CMS versions

Support for CMS v3.0 to v3.11.

Update Paths

As before (3.x->4.x and 4.4.1->4.6.x), for other combinations please contact VQ support.

New features in v4.6.1

• Disable Open Metro button from Metro for Outlook - By default Metro for Outlook Add-in displays an Open Metro button at the bottom of the Metro for Outlook panel. Clicking this button will open Metro Desktop. We have now added the ability to remove this button if you do not require this feature. If this feature is of interest to you, please contact VQ Support.

• UI Branding - Offers the ability to apply your company's branding to the login dialogs. The names of the web applications, the labels on the browser tabs, the background images, logos can all be changed, and the addition of subtitle text under the application name and up to two hyperlinks to legal text hosted on an external location is also offered. See UI Branding Home page for more information.

Changes in v4.6.1

• Changed DMA Device Management and Automation (DMA) is an alternative to TMS A Cisco solution to manage and monitor video conferencing equipment. It provides software updates, administration, and meeting booking and reporting. Entered end-of-life in August 2023.. Deployed ‘on premises’ as part of a Cisco Meeting Server and Cisco videoconferencing devices eco-system. Complete set of OBTP (One Button To Push), Directory Service, Device Configuration, Device Monitoring. DMA is licensed on a per Video Endpoint device basis. Data sources to only be connected to a locational address book.

Fixes in v4.6.1

• Configuring SMTP with Exchange 2019 returns error during a cryptographic operation.

• Fixed an issue where an "Unexpected authentication error" intermittently occurred when logging in.

• Fixed a broken table on the Spaces dashboard by removing the id fields which is no longer supported.

• Fixed an intermittent "Unhandled Promise Rejection" error when logging in to Metro Desktop.

• Fixed an issue where Metro for Outlook Add-in failed to display in Outlook O365.

• Fixed an issue where Metro desktop new call window logs failed to be included in the main log file.

• Fixed an issue where, when using Outlook Plug-in Plug-in (technically known as COM Add-ins) are a legacy approach to Outlook integration. The application ‘embeds’ itself into the Outlook program giving it control over Outlook and visibility of everything Outlook does. See also Add-in. to create Spaces, if the subject line exceeds 201 characters (or 100 characters for recurring meetings), the Space would not be created and the error message displayed was not clear. Though the limitation still remains, the Error message has been improved.

• Fixed an issue where error messages delivered from Metro for MacOS displayed HTML tags.

• Fixed an issue where updating the SSO configuration would not save all changes to the database The Call Bridge reads from and writes to the database storing the space information, for example, the members of spaces, and recent activity within a space. In a scalable and resilientscalable and resilient deployment, the database can be detached from the Call Bridge and run as a separate component. It can be on the held on the same server as the Call Bridge or on a different server. Multiple instances of the database can be clustered together to provide resiliency in the deployment..

• Fixed an issue where creating an LDAP The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a directory service protocol that runs on a layer above the TCP/IP stack. It provides a mechanism used to connect to, search, and modify Internet directories. The most common use of LDAP is to provide a central place for authentication where usernames and passwords are stored. Different applications and services then use LDAP to validate users with a plugin. See also Active Directory (AD) Data source would be applied to the Tenant Dependent on the size of the organization this could be separate departments or the set up of how individuals connect on to calls. Customised the usage of individual groups within the business. For example, isolate groups Top-secret > Secret > Classified. of the current User regardless of which Tenant was the selected recipient of the LDAP Data source.

• Fixed an issue where valid certificates would erroneously be flagged as invalid when uploading to CM-Admin CM-Admin is VQ's web-based administration interface for the configuration of a VQ Conference Manager instance..

• Fixed an issue where visiting System > Audit Records and clicking on any entries from the Audit Records list, the following page would display no data.

• Fixed an issue where, if "Terms and Conditions" were enabled, Manual Mode failed to work, and the User was returned to a login page.

• Fixed an issue where validation was not applied to FQDN entry fields in the GUI, so entering invalid characters such as underscore (_) would prevent the Begin Installation button from becoming active, but no explanation was delivered to the User.

• Fixed an issue where a validation error would display with incorrect wording.

• Fixed an issue where, when editing a Device Templates record, you had to select a Template Module before you could save the Device Template.

• Fixed an issue where moving a participant Individuals who take part within a call. see also End User between calls would result in the participant being created a second time in the original call.

• Fixed an issue where a Call can end prematurely if the last participant is moved to another call.

• Fixed an issue where a DMA error message was incorrect when using the UK English Locale.

• Fixed an issue where an image uploaded to File Server was displayed too big.

• Fixed an issue where if a user was placed on a list to be removed from the database, it was possible for a NullReferenceException error to be produced after the deletion had been successfully completed.

• Fixed an issue with the Jabber Add-in where if the SIP The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol that enables the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by defining the messages sent between Endpoints and managing the actual elements of a Call. domain has been configured at the Tenant level, the User got a "SIP Domain is undefined" error message when they attempted to call the Space.

• Fixed an issue where temporary (external) Endpoints were being created with the User ID of the owner of the meeting being applied.

Known Issues in v4.6.1

• Setting reporting for Elastic Security to Enabled, fails to automatically produce reports for sharing. This is an issue with Elastic and has been request for a fix has been raised. Once a fix has been delivered, we will update VQ Conference Manager.

  Until then we offer the following workaround.

  1. Open a terminal as root
  2. Enter the following then press Enter.
     

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     kubectl scale deployment elastic-kb --replicas=0 && kubectl scale deployment elastic-kb --replicas=1

  The Export button will now be displayed.

  Elastic will be unavailable during the restart.

• When using Outlook Plug-in to create Spaces, the subject line of the meeting is used as the name of the Space. If this subject line exceeds 201 characters for single meetings, or 100 characters for recurring meetings, then the Space will not create correctly and an error message will be displayed.