Release Notes – empower® Slides 9.3

Convert Slides: The size of the new master is now applied in all cases. Layout mapping has been improved to correctly match layouts in even more cases.

We have revised the icons in the layout tools so that they are now also easily recognizable with the office designs “colorful” and “dark gray”.

We fixed an issue where slides with SlideZoom saved to the library with empower^® 9.0 or an older version could not be retrieved.

We fixed an issue where presentations that contained layouts without names could not be uploaded to the library.

We fixed an issue where the “Go To” function did not scroll the selected item in the library to the visible display area.

We fixed an issue that caused the selection of items to be discarded when scrolling in the Library window.

We fixed an issue that caused a fallback layout to be applied to the title slide when converting slides in certain constellations, even though a matching title layout exists in the new master.

We have added a message that provides more concrete help for problem solving when the “Convert Slides” function uses a master in which at least one layout does not have a unique name.

Support for Conditional Access: Support for user login to empower^® via Azure Active Directory with the conditional access feature enabled. This ensures that only client devices that are authenticated by Azure Active Directory can connect to empower^®.

SharePoint Integration: presentation/slide libraries in SharePoint can now be integrated directly into the empower^® Library to search within PowerPoint presentations, preview results, open presentations directly, or insert individual slides from those presentations without leaving PowerPoint/empower^®.

Layout Tools: Layout tools let you lay out slides perfectly in a snap.

We fixed an issue that prevented the user interface from being displayed in French on some systems.

We fixed an issue that caused the search in the sidebar (Quick Access Pane) not to work.

We fixed an issue that caused an error when copying files during installation in certain environments.

We fixed an issue where, with certain arrangements of placeholders in the master, a logo stored there would be in the background or obscured when inserting images.

Industry-standard authentication management: As part of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle, the user login component Identity Server 6 has been updated to the latest version so that empower^® continues to meet the highest possible IT security standards. In the same course, the login workflow has been updated to the latest version.

Sync Queueing: The backend now has a mechanism to cooperatively prioritize and schedule synchronization requests from clients to reduce load and blocking when many clients try to synchronize data from the backend (e.g. after an update).

Permission management: Permission management in the Web Library has been revised and now also supports the management of inherited permissions.

We fixed an issue that caused the Web Library to stop working correctly when opening a presentation from the recycle bin.

We fixed an issue that caused the authentication validity period to be too short.

We fixed an issue that caused the creation and deletion of folders to take a disproportionately long time when the folder structure in the library was very large.

We fixed an issue where an incomplete update installation that could not be rolled back could not switch to configuration mode the next time the installer was launched.

We fixed an issue that caused a large number of error messages to be erroneously output in search service log files in certain constellations.

We closed a potential security vulnerability that could allow content to be uploaded to folders without permission.

We closed a potential security vulnerability in the way paths are stored in the Windows Registry.

SharePoint Integration: We fixed an issue where folders with a very large number of subfolders were not retrieving or displaying the names of those folders correctly.

SharePoint Integration: We fixed an issue where TextContents were not retrieved successfully for a very large number of folders.

Terminal Server Support: We introduce a special mode for running empower^® in terminal server environments (e.g. Citrix, etc.). In this mode, communication, caching and (local) data storage strategies are optimized for terminal server environments and roaming profiles.

Permission management: Permission management in the Web Library has been revised and now also supports the management of inherited permissions.