What’s new in harmon.ie Classic

Version 10.6 (October, 2024)

The harmon.ie add-in for classic Outlook is now called harmon.ie Classic. As before, harmon.ie Classic has two editions – harmon.ie 365 and harmon.ie for SharePoint.

This version applies to harmon.ie 365 only.

• Simple favorite manipulation – you can now add, remove, or edit favorite locations directly from the All Locations view.
• harmon.ie now maintains favorite folders when user moves to a new computer.
• You can remove a location from the Recent group.
• A new harmon.ie installer.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #34085: Inconsistencies in harmon.ie’s ‘New’ choice menu vs. SharePoint’s.
  • #34679: Failure to register site in on-boarding when user can’t access root site.
  • #34842: Duplicate folder displayed when creating a new folder with harmon.ie 10.5.
  • #34846: Incorrect automatic user selected for site.
  • #34858: Deleting an item with harmon.ie 10.5 does not move it to SharePoint Recycle bin.
  • #34954: Wrong theme set in harmon.ie.

Version 10.5 (July, 2024)

This version applies to harmon.ie 365 only.

• Enhanced Security: modern M365 authentication and Microsoft Entra ID for heightened security.
• Long-Term Compatibility: integrate with Office 365 REST APIs, ensuring compatibility for the future.

Please note that harmon.ie 10.5 does not support registering different SharePoint Online tenants when connecting them under the same Office 365 account (user name and password).

This release does not contain UX changes.

Version 10.0.2 (March, 2024)

This version includes important fix for bug #34037: Changes in Microsoft cookie policy caused connectivity issues with harmon.ie. Symptoms of this issue may vary, from receiving prompts to reconnect upon launching harmon.ie, to seeing a server error 500 in our status bar.
To ensure uninterrupted service and a smooth experience with harmon.ie and SharePoint Online, we strongly advise upgrading to this version of harmon.ie.

Additional bug fixes:

• #31709: Hide “Open in harmon.ie” command for unsupported modern links.
• #32007: harmon.ie fails to navigate to a document set via browser url.

Version 10 (December, 2023)

This release contains minor UX changes.

• Share to Teams: Users can right click any SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive file and share it to Teams.
  In addition, when users upload an email, attachment or document to a Teams location, they are prompted to share it to Teams, eliminating the trade-off between organizing and collaborating.
• Saved in Teams category for emails: When user saves an email to a Teams location, the email will be labeled with the Teams location it was saved to.
• Show files from Chats and meetings: A new category under All Locations > Teams allows viewing all files shared and received in Teams Chats and meetings.
• Shared Teams channels () are now supported in harmon.ie, in addition to public and private channels that were already supported. Note: You cannot navigate to shared channels from another tenant.
• Improved automatic upload of emails to SharePoint – you can now schedule the sync process of emails to the M365 location.
• Government Cloud (GCC High) is now supported in harmon.ie. Read How to integrate harmon.ie with GCC high for more information.
• Opening document links in emails now matches M365 open settings.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #32701: Server-side error when navigating inside specific document libraries.
  • #32804: Icons in Branding are rendered in black.
  • #33083: Internal error when saving an S-MIME encrypted email.

Version 9.5.1 (September, 2023)

This release contains minor UX changes.

• Migrate existing Outlook folders to M365.
• Improved searching by email headers.
• Improved handling of large term sets when editing properties, including find as you type for managed metadata.
• Ergonomic and accessibility enhancements.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #26737: Wrong group order in GroupBy view
  • #27710: Non-cached emails copied to a favorite folder syncing with a SharePoint location are not uploaded
  • #27794: RTL sidebar not working properly
  • #28472: Open preview not working with WebViewe for Word and PowerPoint documents
  • #28634: Custom document set not returned in harmon.ie New button
  • #29772: MS Office selected templates in Edit Menu are not always reflected in harmon.ie New button
  • #30700: Email address of non-existing users is saved with wrong name in email header.
  • #31345: Failed to connect to M365 due to an unhandled CoreWebView2 exception (workaround for a recent bug discovered by Microsoft in their new version of Webview.)

Version 9.5.0 HotFix (April, 2023)

This release does not contain UX changes.

Important bug fixes:

• #27794: Sidebar is not displayed correctly in Right-to-Left settings.
• #27880: Connecting to On-Premises SharePoint sites with custom authentication fails.
• #28069: Error during resize in Right-to-Left settings.
• #28115: Failure to open dialogs with Defender ASR certain rules.

Version 9.5 (March, 2023)

This release does not contain UX changes.

• Automatic email header mapping and new Email view:
  When emails are saved to a Teams location, harmon.ie suggests creating an Email view in that location. If accepted, email headers (subject, to, from, etc.) are saved in corresponding email columns, and an Email view is created. This feature can be expanded to SharePoint locations in the harmon.ie Options.
  For more information, read Saving email headers in SharePoint and Teams columns.

Version 9.4.1 HotFix (March, 2023)

This release does not contain UX changes.

Important bug fixes:

• Fixed blank sidebar error in several scenarios (#26654, #27083, #26515, #26656).
• #27347: Emails are unreadable in the Show Preview window when Outlook is in dark mode.
• #27108: Replace attachments with links failure on long file names.
• #27259: Failure to switch the social server via the Options dialog.

Version 9.4.1 (February, 2023)

• Updated some of the icons to reflect changes in M365 interface and usability.
• When uploading emails to M365, you can now provision harmon.ie to set email icon of uploaded emails without setting the email category.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #26515: Blank harmon.ie sidebar in RDS and other scenarios
  • #26655: Error during on-boarding
  • #26714: Office 365 urls could not be added as harmon.ie sites
  • #26849: Unsupported charset 1255 results in blank sidebar

Version 9.4 (December, 2022)

• harmon.ie added support for dark mode themes and high contrast mode. harmon.ie matches your Office theme. Restart Outlook to update the harmon.ie theme.
  
• Added a new All Locations icon () that takes you back to the All Locations view.
• Improved creating new documents. You can now create documents of all the types that can be created in the specific SharePoint document library. This feature applies to SharePoint 365 only.
• Added support for operations on Document-ID links (Open in harmon.ie, ad-hoc share, go to location).
• Important bug fixes:
  • #22759: Drag and drop disabled in Favorites menu to avoid confusion
  • #22784: Fix issue with sidebar during Outlook resizing
  • #22890: Fix issues with Recents being empty
  • #23695: Fixed connectivity issues
  • #24122: Reorder the tree view to move Recents above SharePoint, for easier access to recent items
  • #24504: Aligned currency icon with SharePoint settings
  • #25286: Updated UI callouts to match Windows 11
  • #25523: Fix navigation issue in renamed Teams channels

Version 9.3.5 (October, 2022)

• Improved harmon.ie favorites: You can now organize your favorite locations in folders.

This release contains minor UX changes in the favorites list.

Version 9.3.4 (August, 2022)

This release includes important bug fixes:

• #19116: harmon.ie sidebar should stay closed or minimized after sending email
• #22264: harmon.ie doesn’t honor locations for email saving the second time in the same session
• #22568: Text in harmon.ie properties halfway translated to German
• #23213: Missing error description in harmon.ie logs
• #23807: Group identifier not always in bold font
• #23870: Error during upload of email, when attempting to update SMTP fields

This release contains minor changes in the minimized view of the sidebar.

Version 9.3.3 (July, 2022)

harmon.ie 9.3.3 is a critical update for new users on-boarding harmon.ie. The new release does not affect organizations using central provisioning with pre-configured SharePoint sites.

This release includes a security hot fix to solve vulnerabilities related to the discontinued support of TLS1.0/TLS 1.1 by Microsoft.

This release does not contain UX changes.

Version 9.3.2 (March, 2022)

harmon.ie 9.3.2 is a critical update that must be rolled out to your users immediately. Until you upgrade to this version, your users will experience severe connectivity issues, caused by Microsoft’s deprecation of Internet Explorer.

This release does not contain UX changes.

Important bug fixes:

• Authentication windows may open with blank screens with no way to enter credentials
• The Share content dialog boxes do not function properly
• Document and email preview command generates an “unsupported browser” error

Version 9.3.1 HotFix (March, 2022)

This release does not contain UX changes.

• Fixed connectivity issues.

Version 9.3.1 (March, 2022)

This release does not contain UX changes.

• Support saving S/MIME encrypted emails to SharePoint in an encrypted or decrypted form.
• Retention label enhancement – allow admins to hide the retention label field for specific site collections.
• JAWS narration accessibility improvements.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #21797: harmon.ie Options dialog is not closed with the Esc key
  • #21798: The name of the creator / modifier is truncated

Version 9.3 (February, 2022)

This release contains minor UX changes.

• Removed harmon.ie’s dependency on IE services. Microsoft is dropping the Internet Explorer (IE) browser in favor of Microsoft Edge. To continue working with harmon.ie, you must upgrade to version 9.3.
• Support saving S/MIME encrypted emails to SharePoint, in decrypted form.
• Improved the Edit Properties dialog:
  • Added the ability to set retention labels from the Edit Properties dialog.
  • The Filter icon () now shows only properties that require your attention, that is, required properties that are empty.
  • When uploading documents to SharePoint, the Edit Properties window opens and shows only properties that require your attention.
• Support saving emails in non-cached mode.
• Performance and stability improvements.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #19368: Cookies are not renewed after a few days
  • #21238: Search in harmon.ie returns different results than in browser

Version 9.2 (November, 2021)

• Added accessibility support, including:
  • WCAG 2.1 keyboard support
  • Job Access with Speech (JAWS) Narration support
  • Accessible icon colors
  • Added more accelerators and keyboard options

  For more information, read Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts in harmon.ie.

• Simplified the harmon.ie sidebar, to make it easier to interact with.
• Important bug fixes:
  • #20125: Url in a linked list is not read properly
  • #20397: Error retrieving data in the “Shared With Me” location
  • #20736: Failure to edit columns of type Link, when containing non-encoded Urls

Version 9.1 (August, 2021)

• Added a new migration tool that simplifies the move from SharePoint on-premises to Microsoft 365, by automatically updating harmon.ie with the new URLs.
• Support Teams public and private channels.
• Share Microsoft 365 folders and document sets.
• Changed the list of requested permissions for harmon.ie 365. If upgrading from a harmon.ie version prior to 9.0, admin consent should be regiven when downloading harmon.ie.
• Important bug fix: #18713: Category is mistakenly added to a selected email when uploading a document to harmon.ie.

Version 9.0 (June, 2021)

• Simple discovery and configuration of new SharePoint sites and Teams
• New harmon.ie tree-view to easily navigate your SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations
• New Recent location shows documents you’ve recently accessed from across Microsoft 365 apps, and recent SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations you accessed in harmon.ie
• New view of emails and documents Shared With Me
• New Discover capabilities to add your most important Teams and SharePoint sites to the harmon.ie sidebar
• Share emails and documents using the Microsoft 365 new flexible Share capabilities
• Search emails and documents by custom managed metadata. This is a premium feature. Contact sales@harmon.ie for more information.
• Sort and filter search results by Microsoft 365 app (SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive)
• Set and display record status (i.e. the lock icon) on documents

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