Our 16.0 release improves integration with customer cloud environments. Now, your cloud intranet users can conveniently log in using single sign-on from Entra ID, Okta and Duo. All employee information required for that can be pulled from Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory). 

On top of that, the look and feel of the login screen itself has been improved for a more user-friendly, simpler, and overall, more readable experience on a variety of devices.

Along with pulling the employee details from the cloud, you can now automatically create calendar items on the intranet from events in a company’s shared calendar. These items will show up in your calendar widgets and the Events Calendar application as well. 

Please note these key points below that will allow for a seamless update to Version 16.0:

1. You must have Azure for all the features to sync with cloud user data (e.g. pulling intranet user info, and calendar items).
2. It is a one-way synchronization from your Office 365 calendar (through Microsoft Graph) to the Events Calendar application within the intranet (cloud environment). 
3. At this moment the calendar sync update is working with Microsoft Office Calendars only. Google Calendar sync is not currently supported.

 

What has improved?

Employee Synchronization

• Improved user interface for Active Directory synchronization
• Automatically import employee details from Entra ID using Microsoft Graph

Active Directory Synchronization > Connections

Before 16.0

1. Removed object count to speed up page load

After 16.0

1. Labels for the type of synchronization: LDAP for on-premise domain controllers, GRAPH for Azure Active Directory (Entra ID)
2. New icons for sync, edit and delete

Active Directory Synchronization > Connections > Edit Connection

 

 

1. Tabbed steps to edit your connection more easily.
2. Clickable icons for details on each field in the connection 
3. More options for synchronization intervals, so that you can synchronize less frequently if you want. Now 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day or 2 days are available.

Active Directory Synchronization > Connections > Add Targets

1. Option to specify which field will be used as the unique identifier for the single sign-on login 

Calendar Sync

Automatically import calendar items from Microsoft Outlook through Microsoft Graph synchronization:  configure the Events Calendar to pull event information from the Outlook calendar. 

Prerequisites and Considerations

It is not recommended to sync your personal calendar it is recommended to sync a designated user's shared calendar.

Each calendar that you want to sync to your Intranet must have an associated user created for the purpose of housing the calendar. The reason for this, is because we can only sync a user's "Default" calendar. Not a "Group" calendar.

So we must create user's for the calendars we want to have synced to our Intranet.

For example: If you want to have a marketing calendar, you would create a user in Microsoft Entra ID and call it for example "MarketingCalendarUser". Then you can log in as this user and create events. You can share this user's calendar to other people in your organization who will want to have the ability to share events to this calendar.

 

Events Calendar > App Admin > Content > Sync Events From Office365 Calendar

 

 

New advanced calendar view and configuration screens added to the Application Feed Widget

 

 

 

Calendar view redesigned to be more familiar for Microsoft Outlook users to display your events on your homepages: 

1) Outlook calendar (not Intranet):   2) Monthly view in Application Feed widget for Events Calendar application:   

Configuration screens for Application Feed widget: both single-day and multi-day events are available & Select how many days in advance to synchronize 

 

Login

With Form, SSO and Windows authentication on. Anonymous allowed.

With Form and SSO on. Anonymous allowed.

Only Form on. Anonymous not allowed.

 

1. All actions are by standard buttons for ease of use 
2. Clearer options for form login, single-sign-on and Windows authentication
3. The form will automatically hide options not selected (Windows auth, SSO or Anonymous access)