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Release Notes 7.2

Updated

Version: ShareGate Desktop 7.2

Date: 6 February 2017

What's New?

Improvements to the interface and user experience.

  • All Tasks
    • You can now filter specific task types, which makes finding Migration Reports, Pre-Checks, Inventory Reports, and so on a breeze!
  • License Activation
    • You will enjoy a more intuitive flow, and better screen tips to help you out as you go.
  • Connection
    • We improved the look of the first-time connection screen, added better screen tips to help you out as you go, and made sure the option to connect to all site collections is clear.
  • Migration
    • You can now select a target for your migration using list view, just like you are used to in the Explorer!

One more level to help you manage better!

  • Drill-down to the document level in the Explorer list view.

Connection-loss won't mean confusion.

  • ShareGate Desktop detects the loss of a connection to your farm, and will notify you as well as indicate the connection loss in the explorer and Quick Actions panel.
  • If a connection to an environment is lost, ShareGate Desktop will pause any running tasks on that environment.
  • You will no longer continue to see the notification that your environment is offline once it has in fact been reconnected.

Visibility on broken inheritance.

  • ShareGate Desktop lets you know from the Explorer list view if an item has broken inheritance.

Fixes

Management

  • You can select and remove members from a SharePoint group using Quick Actions.
  • You will no longer see an error message if you try to refresh a deleted web application.
  • Group Owners are loaded asynchronously when using the Add member view in Quick Actions.
  • Running multiple transformations at the same time will not change the details section of a report for another transformation.
  • You won't be prevented from adding a security group as a Site Collection Administrator when launching the operation through the Explorer.
  • There was an issue with searching for a user ID when the field contained an email instead of a numeric ID.
  • We fixed an issue that occured when running reports on a Onedrive for Business when targeting a Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
  • There was a performance issue on the Permissions Matrix Report that occurred when applying filters on users, or expanding all groups with a large number of entries.
  • We fixed an issue that would occur when exporting a Permissions Matrix Report from All Tasks.
  • We fixed an issue that would occur with date filtering in report lists if the application was opened for more than a day.
  • Some systems were seeing an encoding error in the Explorer.

Migration

  • We support the modern web parts People and Image.
  • We better manage the migration of URLs in modern web parts.
  • We improved how we manage migrations of fields with no set mapping.
  • Members and Owners can be copied between two Microsoft 365 Groups.
  • Connections to a Microsoft 365 root Site Collection will no longer be redirected to the Central Administration.
  • ShareGate Desktop will respect your default migration speed settings when performing a duplicate site collection.
  • We fixed an issue that would cause data to go missing for some columns in Copy Content.
  • You can see a user display name in the tooltip when creating user mappings.
  • ShareGate Desktop will not ignore permission levels mapping when merging two site collections.
  • Content type web part pages will copy correctly to and from Site Page libraries in Microsoft 365.
  • Fixed a problem with sorting columns in SharePoint 2003.
  • Mappings are now properly taken into account when performing a pre-check analysis.
  • We formed a clearer error message for unsupported update of list settings.
  • We fixed an issue for list workflows in SharePoint 2007 that contain an apostrophe.
  • We fixed an issue that would cause the action and destination path to be missing from the migration report when migrating with Insane Mode to Microsoft 365.
  • Workflows for SharePoint 2007 will no longer see their name or description contain an encoded character in utf8 format.
  • We fixed an issue that would occur when migrating the navigation settings for a site that contains subsites in a SharePoint 2016 source environment.

Nintex

  • We now support migrating the Set item permissions, Query User Profile, and Build String actions from On-Premises to Microsoft 365 environments.
  • We fixed an issue that would occur when boolean values in Nintex forms were not lowercase.
  • We fixed an issue with Nintex provisioning in Microsoft 365.

General

  • The EULA has been updated. 
  • We fixed an error with ShareGate Desktop licensing that would occur when launching several operations in different PowerShell windows at the same time.

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