Product updates

What’s new

Rencore Governance ships continuously, about 10 times a day. Follow new governance for Digital Workplace, AI & Agents, and Apps, Automation and BI as it lands, newest first.

Rencore Governance release highlights in motion: the inventory lists Microsoft 365 object types, Planner newly added, and Claude and ChatGPT in preview, while release cards arrive for a new feature, an improvement and a fix; the view then switches to the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams, where two Teams App updates arrive beside a guest review.

27th December 2023

Improvements

4
  • Inventory

    Related objects in subgrids

    The Related objects tab on an object’s details page shows related objects in two subgrids, Primary and Other. It loads faster and is easier to read.

  • Scanning

    Scan status at a glance

    The job status sidebar shows when a job has finished its scan phase.

  • Scanning

    Leaner scan processing

    Scans calculate only the relations between objects that they need.

  • Settings

    Turn off event tracking

    Stop usage metric collection with the Disable event tracking option in the workspace general settings.

21st December 2023

Features

2
  • Automation

    Switch actions on or off

    Each automation action has an on/off switch, so you can pause a single step without removing it.

  • General

    Unsaved changes warning

    Builders warn you before you leave with unsaved changes. This covers access reviews, automations, dashboard tiles, segments, policies, provisioning templates, and reports.

Improvements

3
  • Settings

    Audit trail for on and off

    The audit log records when policies, automations, and provisioning templates are turned on or off, and by whom.

  • Automation

    Automation runs catch up

    Automations triggered by policy violations rerun stopped or failed runs during the next scan.

  • Provisioning

    Clearer provisioning settings

    Channel and app settings in the provisioning template builder have clearer names and descriptions.

Fixes

1
  • AutomationStopped automation runs show their updated status.

29th November 2023

Features

2
  • Automation

    Change site collection quotas

    Increase or decrease the storage quota of a SharePoint site collection with an automation action, also available as a built-in action.

  • Provisioning

    Filter provisioning requests

    Filter provisioning requests by Open, Failed, or All. Select a state in the statistics box to apply its filter.

Improvements

1
  • Reviews

    Reviewer email notice

    The access review builder explains that owners assigned as reviewers receive emails.

Fixes

2
  • SettingsLicensed user exports list license combinations in alphabetical order.
  • InventoryThe Is archived property of a team updates after an automation archives it.

16th November 2023

Features

2
  • Automation

    Delete and restore users

    Two new automation actions delete Microsoft 365 users and restore deleted users.

  • Reports

    Show all items in reports

    Reports offer a Show all items result, which lists the full result set.

Fixes

1
  • PoliciesPolicy exports carry the column headers shown in the policy.

2nd November 2023

Features

2
  • Provisioning

    Provisioning data in the property bag

    Each team and SharePoint site created through provisioning records its request in the site property bag, under RencoreProvisioningData. It holds the request ID, the requester, the request date, the approvers, and the approval date.

  • InventoryAutomation

    Nest groups with built-in actions

    Two new built-in actions add a security group to another group or remove it from one.

Improvements

1
  • ProvisioningTeams App

    Approve from the email

    Approval emails include an Approve/Decline button that opens the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams.

Fixes

3
  • PoliciesPolicy trend lines include unchanged items in their counts.
  • SettingsDates and times follow your time zone setting.
  • AutomationAn automation’s trigger can switch to On schedule.

19th October 2023

Features

2
  • InventoryReports

    Hub sites for site collections

    Site collections have a new related object, SharePoint hub site, with the hub site’s display name. Build reports that group or filter site collections by hub site.

  • Automation

    Search when testing actions

    Search for a specific object when you test an automation action.

Fixes

3
  • SettingsInventoryVirtual environments show the members of each group.
  • SettingsCustom SMTP settings accept usernames without a domain.
  • PoliciesPolicies that use the Equals operator on Device ownership return the matching devices.

5th October 2023

Features

1
  • AutomationProvisioning

    Conditions in provisioning automations

    Automations created from provisioning offer the Condition action, so a provisioning flow can run actions only when your conditions are met.

Improvements

1
  • Automation

    Fresh action icons

    The automation builder shows new icons for its actions, so the right action is easier to spot.

Fixes

2
  • InventoryOneDrive file sharing shows the expiration date set on each link.
  • ProvisioningThe owner and member pickers in Teams provisioning filter users as you type.

23rd September 2023

Highlight

Provision SharePoint sites through templates, requests, and approvals

Provisioning now covers SharePoint alongside Microsoft Teams. Admins create SharePoint provisioning templates and pick the SharePoint site template each new site starts from. Employees request a SharePoint site on the same page they use to request a team, and the site is created from the template.

  • SharePoint as a new provisioning type
  • SharePoint site templates set the base of each new site
  • Sites and teams requested on one page

Features

1
  • Settings

    Demo mode

    Turn on Demo mode under Features on the Appearance page to hide banners while you present Rencore Governance.

Improvements

3
  • Automation

    Placeholder validation in automations

    The automation builder flags a placeholder when an action uses it before the action that provides its value.

  • Reports

    SharePoint storage in reports

    Reports present SharePoint storage usage more clearly.

  • Teams AppReports

    Snappier workspace lists and reports

    The workspace list in the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams loads faster, and custom reports are created faster.

Fixes

2
  • PoliciesYou can adjust column widths in policies.
  • InventoryMonthly costs accept decimal values.

15th September 2023

Features

2
  • Reviews

    File sharing in access reviews

    Access reviews for SharePoint and OneDrive include file sharing information, so reviewers see shared files next to other access.

  • Teams AppSettings

    Rencore app manifest download

    Download the manifest of the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams from the environment settings, where you can also turn the app on.

Improvements

4
  • Dashboards

    Dashboard edit mode

    Select Edit dashboard to change tiles and layout, then save or discard your changes.

  • Consent

    Restore consent

    The Manage consent page has a Restore consent button for apps with application permissions. It restores the consent state when permissions are still granted.

  • General

    Email and ID in user pickers

    User and group pickers show the email and ID of each result.

  • Settings

    Quicker virtual environments

    Creating and updating virtual environments is faster.

Fixes

4
  • ConsentThe consent status updates as soon as you grant consent.
  • ConsentPower Platform consent accepts admin roles that a user holds through a group.
  • InventorySecurity groups list their owners and members as related objects.
  • ScanningOneDrive scans collect file sharing links.

25th August 2023

Highlight

Shape new teams with your own PnP provisioning templates

Provisioning templates can apply a custom PnP template when they create a team. Upload your PnP templates, including .pnp files, to Rencore Governance and select one in the provisioning template builder. The same choice is available in the automation action that provisions a team.

  • Upload PnP templates, including .pnp files
  • Select a PnP template in each provisioning template
  • Use the same PnP templates in automation actions

Improvements

1
  • Reviews

    Data collected state

    Access reviews without approval move to the new Data collected state once their data is in.

14th August 2023

Highlight

Find Microsoft Loop components in OneDrive and the people who create them

Rencore Governance adds ready-made Microsoft Loop content for OneDrive. A segment lists Loop components among OneDrive files, and a report shows their use by department. A policy finds the users who create Loop components. An automation template informs those users about the technical implications.

  • Loop components segment for OneDrive files
  • Report of Loop components used by department
  • Policy for users who create Loop components
  • Automation template that informs those users about the technical implications

Features

2
  • Provisioning

    Custom emails for approvals

    Provisioning templates can use your custom email templates for approval emails.

  • Inventory

    Private channel sites for teams

    The Teams private channel site collections relation links a team to the site collections of its private channels. Use it, for example, to filter inactive teams by their private channel sites.

Improvements

4
  • Scanning

    Scan scope in job details

    Job details list the inventories and properties that a scan updated.

  • PoliciesReports

    Suspended flows in builders

    Filter Power Automate flows by the Suspended state in builders.

  • Settings

    Workspace logo for environments

    Environment branding can apply the custom logo of your workspace automatically.

  • Settings

    Guided SMTP setup

    Custom SMTP configuration shows more validation details while you set it up.

Fixes

3
  • ScanningScans identify SharePoint folders with unique permissions.
  • AutomationThe Remove document sharing action also removes shares created by accounts that have since been deleted.
  • ReportsReport Builder calculates sums for columns with empty header values.

28th July 2023

Features

1
  • Automation

    Remove users from site collections

    Automations can remove a user’s permissions in a SharePoint site collection.

Improvements

4
  • Inventory

    Member type for users

    Tell internal members, external members, internal guests, and external guests apart with the Member type property. Users invited from another tenant as members count as external.

  • Inventory

    User email domain

    Users have a new User email domain property, taken from their email address.

  • Scanning

    Parallel first scans

    The first scan of a service in an environment uses parallel scanning, even when the workspace has it turned off.

  • Settings

    Owner change emails

    Workspace owners get an email when another user becomes an owner of their workspace.

21st July 2023

Features

1
  • ProvisioningTeams App

    Choose who sees a template

    Decide whether everybody, only its creator, or members of specific Entra ID groups can see a provisioning template. Employees in the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams see only the templates meant for them.

Improvements

4
  • ReportsInventory

    Invalid reports and segments flagged

    Reports and segments that contain invalid data carry a clear marker on their overview and details pages. The builder shows which properties need attention.

  • Automation

    In Progress automation state

    The automation state Started is now called In Progress, which makes clear that the automation is still running.

  • General

    Home button in breadcrumbs

    The breadcrumb starts with a home button that opens your homepage. That is Dashboards by default, or the section you set as your homepage.

  • Inventory

    Readable SharePoint relations

    SharePoint sites, lists and libraries, and folders show their parent site collection, site, and list by display name.

Fixes

2
  • InventorySharePoint site collections list their current owners after each scan.
  • InventoryEnterprise applications show their last sign-in date.

30th June 2023

Highlight

Let employees request new teams in Microsoft Teams, with templates and approvals

Provisioning is now available in Rencore Governance. Admins build provisioning templates that define how a new team is set up and who approves it. Employees request a workspace from the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams, and approvers decide there. Once approved, the team is created from the template.

  • Templates define the approver, owners, and members of new teams
  • Requests and approvals happen in the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams
  • Approved teams are created from the template

Features

1
  • Settings

    Tenant segmentation

    Split an environment into virtual environments that hold a filtered part of your tenant data.

Improvements

1
  • Provisioning

    Provisioning demo data

    Demo environments include sample provisioning templates and requests.

29th June 2023

Highlight

Let owners review who has access to their teams and SharePoint content

Access reviews are now available in Rencore Governance. Owners confirm who has access to their teams and SharePoint content, and remove access they do not need. They complete their reviews in the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams.

  • Owners confirm who has access to their teams and SharePoint content
  • Remove access that owners do not need
  • Complete reviews in the Rencore app in Microsoft Teams

20th June 2023

Improvements

3
  • Inventory

    Group data location

    Groups have a new Preferred data location property.

  • Inventory

    Password settings for users

    Two new user properties, Disable password expiration and Disable strong password, show whose passwords never expire or skip strong password rules.

  • Inventory

    Device ownership

    Devices have a new Device ownership property.

Fixes

1
  • InventoryPrivate channels and Power Apps show their owners.

2nd June 2023

Highlight

See where Everyone and Everyone except external users are used in SharePoint

A new SharePoint object, Special SharePoint groups, identifies special groups such as Everyone and Everyone except external users. For each group, you see where it is being used in SharePoint.

  • Identify the special groups Everyone and Everyone except external users
  • See where each group is used in SharePoint

Features

1
  • Automation

    Change a team's title

    Automations can rename a team by changing its title.

Improvements

3
  • Inventory

    More user and group properties

    Users have new Custom attributes (extension attributes 1 to 15) and On-premises distinguished name properties. Groups gain a Mail nickname property.

  • Inventory

    Latest sign-in of any kind

    The User last sign-in property uses the latest interactive or non-interactive sign-in.

  • Inventory

    Viva Engage property descriptions

    Properties of Viva Engage objects come with descriptions.

Fixes

3
  • AutomationAutomation placeholders include related objects for team members, application owners, and flow creators.
  • InventoryInventory exports apply your filters.
  • AutomationAutomation actions keep special characters, such as quotation marks, as you type them.

19th May 2023

Features

3
  • DashboardsPolicies

    Policy results on dashboards

    Build dashboard tiles that show policy data, including as a bar chart. These tiles replace the charts on the policy overview page.

  • Inventory

    Your own license prices

    Overwrite the values in the License costs column with the prices you pay.

  • Inventory

    Risky sign-ins object

    The Risky Entra ID sign-ins object lists sign-ins flagged as risky.

Improvements

3
  • ScanningConsent

    Teams apps from the store

    Teams app scans find apps in the Teams store and apps installed for your organization, beyond those installed in a team. This change required reconsent for the Rencore Governance consent apps.

  • Inventory

    Power Platform creators

    Power Platform and flow environments have new Created by and Last modified by relations.

  • Dashboards

    Tile builder icons

    The tile builder shows its visualization options as icons.

Fixes

1
  • AutomationConsentAction consent dialogs in the automation builder list the app permissions.

27th April 2023

Features

1
  • Automation

    Recycle site collections

    Send a SharePoint site collection to the recycle bin with an automation action.

Improvements

3
  • Scanning

    Scans within rate limits

    Scans pace their requests to Microsoft rate limits, which reduces throttling.

  • Scanning

    Incremental scans do more

    Incremental scans now keep connected services up to date for longer between full scans. Full scans run every 30 days instead of every 7.

  • Inventory

    Enterprise application sign-ins

    See when users last signed in to each enterprise application in its Last sign-in property.

Fixes

2
  • ReportsSearch on the report details page covers the full result list.
  • AutomationThe automation builder flags invalid placeholders.

5th April 2023

Improvements

2
  • Automation

    Cleaner automation emails

    The logo in automation emails is a plain image without a link to Rencore Governance.

  • Policies

    Scan timing in the tooltip

    The scan tooltip on policies shows when data was last updated and when the next scan is planned.

Fixes

1
  • InventoryPrivate channels in Microsoft Teams list their external users.

30th March 2023

Highlight

Send Rencore Governance emails from your own SMTP server or Microsoft 365 mailbox

Rencore Governance can now send its emails through a mail service you choose. In the mail settings, connect your own SMTP server or a Microsoft 365 mailbox. Automation and system emails then go out through your own mail infrastructure.

  • Connect an SMTP server of your choice
  • Send from a Microsoft 365 mailbox instead
  • Use it for automation emails alone, or for automation and system emails

17th March 2023

Improvements

2
  • Automation

    Power Platform placeholders

    Automations for Power Apps and flows offer new placeholders for related users: Created by, Modified by, and Last published by.

  • Scanning

    Speedier SharePoint and OneDrive scans

    SharePoint and OneDrive scans run faster, including their final phase.

Fixes

1
  • PoliciesPolicy updates run right after you save them.

9th March 2023

Features

1
  • Automation

    Restore site collections

    Automations can bring a SharePoint site collection back from the recycle bin.

Improvements

3
  • Inventory

    On-premises group identifier

    Groups have a new On-premises security identifier property. It helps you tell groups synced from on premises apart from cloud groups.

  • Automation

    More Exchange placeholders

    The automation builder offers more placeholders for Exchange objects, including the user of a mailbox.

  • Reports

    Large data sets in Report Builder

    Report Builder loads large data sets faster.

Fixes

1
  • PoliciesPolicies that use the Is less than condition return the matching objects.

24th February 2023

Improvements

1
  • General

    Richer demo data

    The demo environment shows more use cases for OneDrive and Exchange mailboxes.

Fixes

4
  • PoliciesReportsThe policy and report builder previews support the One of and None of conditions.
  • ScanningScans include SharePoint redirect sites.
  • InventorySharePoint site collection relations show their display names.
  • AutomationAutomation emails carry your custom logo.

27th January 2023

Improvements

2
  • Scanning

    Faster file sharing scans

    Incremental file sharing scans in SharePoint and OneDrive skip items that have not changed since the last scan, so they finish sooner.

  • Settings

    Currency per environment

    Choose the currency when you create an environment, and change it later in the environment settings.

Fixes

1
  • ScanningPower Automate scans include flows whose triggers use specific parameters.

17th January 2023

Features

2
  • PoliciesReports

    Custom categories

    Group policies, reports, and automations under categories you define. A custom category then appears in the list for other items too.

  • Settings

    Settings per environment

    Set permissions and appearance for each environment on its own settings page, separate from the workspace settings.

Improvements

2
  • Inventory

    Mailboxes include shared mailboxes

    The User mailboxes object is now called Mailboxes and includes shared mailboxes. Two new segments, User mailboxes and Shared mailboxes, keep them apart.

  • Scanning

    Daily license assignment scans

    License assignments are scanned daily by default.

Fixes

1
  • InventorySegment filters, for example by country or region, return the matching objects.

You’ve reached the start of 2023.

Earlier releases are on the 2022 page.