ID Server
These release notes provide information on new features, fixed issues, known issues, and limitations.
New features
- FIDO — Credential provider for Windows sign-in
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Introduces a new FIDO credential provider that allows users to sign in to Windows desktops using a FIDO authenticator, enabling secure, passwordless access.
- Security key certificate support
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Provides self-service certificate enrollment to Yubikeys through the User Portal for issuing and revoking certificates. The Admin Portal allows enrollment on-behalf of users.
- System status API endpoint
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Introduces a dedicated API endpoint for system status details, enabling external monitoring and health checks. Details depend on final configuration.
- Disable and remove endpoint — Flexible user payload
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Updates the API endpoint for disabling and removing users to accept requests that do not contain a full user object, allowing operations based solely on user ID when appropriate.
- Support for base32 secrets in CSV import
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Extends CSV import to support base32-encoded secrets in addition to existing base64 and hex formats, improving interoperability with more token suppliers.
- Discoverable credentials
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Support for discoverable credentials, enabling username-less logins.
Improvements
- Admin Portal — FIDO search by serial number
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Extends the Admin Portal search functionality to include FIDO tokens when searching by serial number.
- SQL Express 2022 support
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Updates ID Server to support SQL Express 2022 as a database option.
- ADFS provider — Configurable challenge/reject message
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Allows administrators to configure the challenge or reject message used by the ADFS provider, improving end-user communication during sign-in failures.
- Optimized user attribute reading from user storage
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Optimizes how user attributes are read from user storage (typically LDAP attributes such as (
memberOf). Attributes are no longer re-fetched for each function, reducing unnecessary round-trips and improving performance. - Web API — Entra ID POST/DELETE with empty user attribute
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Improves handling of Entra ID POST/DELETE operations in the Web API when the configured user attribute is empty by using the incoming username as the Entra ID username.
- User Portal — Entra ID standalone FIDO registration
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Allows users to register FIDO authenticators for Entra ID directly in the User Portal, supporting standalone Entra ID FIDO registration scenarios.
Defects solved
- NTLM AD password negotiation
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Fixes an index exception that occurred when a client sent an
Authorization: Negotiateheader and the ID Server NTLM backend responded withWWW-Authenticate: NTLM. The NTLM negotiation flow now handles this scenario correctly. - Default hardware token setting in User Portal
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Changes the default User Portal setting for hardware tokens from HOTP to TOTP by setting
USE_TIME_BASED_SECURITY_TOKENStotrue. - AP web.config target framework
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Adds the missing
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.8"/>configuration in APweb.config, ensuring TLS 1.2 can be used correctly byHttpClient. - Null pointer on non-existent user in user storage
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Resolves a null pointer exception that occurred when a search returned an existing PSID user record that no longer existed in the underlying user storage.
- ActiveSync device authorization timeout
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Fixes an issue where a new ActiveSync device with a pending authorization timeout was incorrectly denied with "no device".
- User Portal fix to handle special characters
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Replace library functions to correctly handle special characters.
- Admin Portal token serial number error
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Corrects an issue in the Admin Portal where accessing the serial number could cause an error.
- FIDO origin check with port
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Fixes FIDO origin checks for websites that use non-default ports, preventing legitimate requests from being rejected.
Download and install
Obtain the software from https://support.pointsharp.com, click the link to the Download Center to find the Access Management 9.0 release and downloads.
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Upgrade from previous versions by following the Upgrading from previous versions instructions.
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Install the latest release by following the installation instructions.