Release information
Shopping 6.1 release notes – last updated 11-Aug-2022
These release notes contain late-breaking information about Shopping. For the most up-to-date information, see the online release notes and known issues.
New features
This release introduces the following improvements:
Order Tracking
To allow users to better understand how their requests are proceeding, users can now receive more email notifications, especially for deployments that are taking longer than usual. Users can also check a Windows notification area icon at their convenience for Shopping notifications, or they can see and check Windows action center notifications, When viewing the Shopping website, users can see enhanced status at the My Software All Orders page. The icon for the My Software link also displays a count of new notifications. Please refer to Order Tracking User Experiences for examples
Administrators can enable notifications in a variety of formats and at a level of aggressiveness that is appropriate to their organization. Administrators can also edit the notification texts to be most meaningful for their users. And they can customize the notification area icon and name to match that of the Shopping web page. For details on how to make those changes, please refer to Managing Order Tracking. See Order Tracking Best Practices for guidance on how to best manage Order Tracking
1E Tachyon integration
You can now offer Tachyon instructions to users in the same way as ConfigMgr, Intune, and other applications types. This option is most useful to allow users to fix or reconfigure their computers for issues that users commonly understand (such as disk space or Outlook issues). However, it can also be used to quickly deploy software to users or anything else that Tachyon instructions can do. Please refer to Managing Tachyon Instruction applications for details on how to set up Tachyon instructions as Shopping applications
Tachyon integration also enables the client-side activities of Order Tracking, particularly for client-side notifications and status monitoring
To enable Tachyon integration, please refer to Preparation to ensure your environment is prepared to enable Tachyon integration and then refer to Enabling Tachyon integration to enable it
Windows Servicing Assistant improvements
Administrators can now allow users to show hidden files and folders on the user back up page.
Other
Shopping installs its web portal to use HTTPS binding by default.
Note
When upgrading, the Shopping URLs have to be updated in 1E Client and WSS Task sequences accordingly for customers that already have the 1E Client with the Shopping client deployed.
In the Shopping Web interface, when users select a category, the category remains open in the category menu and highlighted - helping the users to remember which category they were looking at
If a user selects to display Shopping items in a list view, or again in grid view, their selection persists on both views
ActiveEfficiency is no longer used by Shopping.
Release history
6.1.0.503 (14th September 2021) Web Release
Order Tracking Feature
Tachyon Instructions as Shoppable Items
Windows Servicing Assistant Improvements
Contained fixes:
Q21536 - WSA is killing Shopping. Too many ADO connections being created and remaining open
Q21542 - AD Integration Fails when adding computers or users from different forest.
Q21544 - Shopping - Javascript error when trying to access Shopping webpage from Software Center.
Q21566 - Unable to search machines on the basket page when using a comma-separated list of machine names
Q21586 - Shopping security problems in a multi-forest selective authentication trust.
Q21588 - Need for a persistent list or grid view and the selected category menu item to be open and highlighted on the Shopping website.
Q21614 - Caching Issue discovered when using a specific Shopping Admin Account.
Q21468 - Unable to add more then 103 OU's into the computer category for Shopping 6.0
Q21466 - Shopping WSA dashboard sorting not working as intended
Q21464 - Shop On behalf feature not working
Q21462 - WSA Readiness screen fails and logs error ‘Failed to queue download job for content:, version:0, Dest(NomadCache)’
Q21110 - Admin is not able to shop for an AppSet for other CM machine
6.0.0.796 (22nd June 2020) Web Release
Microsoft Intune integration
User Interface improvements
Windows Servicing Assistant improvements
Microsoft Store for Business Integration documented
Contained fixes:
Q21006 - SQL and Shopping Performance issues
Q21008 - Shopping Receiver flooding ConfigMgr with SMS_ClientNotification and Collection Refresh.
Q20829 - Shopping Receiver Threading Null Reference Exceptions and looping issues in CleanupAfterOrderCompleted.
Q20944 - ApprovalUpdate.vbs does not populate NextApproverName if approvals are done through deputy approver.
Q20890 - Deputy approver not getting set to 'Default Deputy Approver Group' while using a chain of approvers.
5.6.0.432 (29th Nov 2019) Web Release
Data object purging: Remove old records in Shopping and ConfigMgr
Receiver to work without administrative privileges on client machines
Multi-threading of workflow integration and Receiver order processing
Ease of upgrades by backing up modified files
Improved status for failed orders by retrying them
Shopping client module in 1E Client 5.0
Contained fixes:
Q20622 - Tachyon/Shopping Module causing error 'Failed to parse machine id from json string when MAC address is blank'
Q20574 - Tachyon service error while clicking the 'Done' button of acknowledge screen of the WSA wizard
Q20518 - WSA ServiceNow Changes in Shopping for fetching alternate urls and Firefox support settings
Problem 186298 - ConfigMgr db access group not being granted permission to site database SQL function 'fnGetSiteNumber'
Problem 183659 - Shopping Receiver MSI fails to install when SCCM database is on SQL server using custom Port
Q20488 - Disabled Applications are still visible and available to Request
Q20472 - Application is marked failed and failure emails is being sent even when the request is being rejected
Q20436 - Support for ServiceNow integration with WSA in Shopping
5.5.200.18 (05th April 2019) Web Release
Applications page in Windows Servicing Assistant includes all installed, normalized applications
Allow conditional download of Windows 10 upgrade packages with Windows Servicing Assistant
Check Windows 10 version in Windows Servicing Assistant readiness checks before upgrading
Perform In-place Upgrade compatibility check in Windows Servicing Assistant readiness checks
Improve hash-check efficiency in Windows Servicing Assistant
Allow Windows Servicing Assistant to exclude user state migration
Shopping client module in 1E Client 4.1 (renamed from Tachyon Agent)
Contained fixes:
Q20294 - WSA failing with Shopping API timeout
Q20360 - Shopping Central Error trying to insert null ResourceGuid while doing Active Efficiency machine sync
Q20358 - Shopping LDAP lookup fails on non-escaped forward slash character
Q20356 - Shopping is trying to process orders with Null OrderIds and failing
Q20354 - Failed to run Workflow VB Scripts if user comments contain double quotes
5.5.100.39 (20th November 2018) Web release
TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support
Localisation/customisation support for WSA Wizard
ICS and Email customisation for legacy OSD
WSA enhancements – Wifi support for Wipe and Load Destructive deployments, deleting orphaned WSA orders, customizing the WSA Wizard
Shopping client module in Tachyon Agent 3.3 (then 4.0)
Contained fixes:
Q20046 - Cancelled order's machine was not removed from WSA collection
Q20044 - Use new In-place Upgrade AppMigration API for WSA In-place Upgrades
Q20042 - Change the way Machine Info is retrieved
Q20032 - Unable to License Shopping
Q20030 - Request to change logging in ShoppingCentral.log due to excessive rollover
Q20028 - Setting Show Admin Tab = 'FALSE' breaks 'Shop on Behalf'
Q20026 - Searching for Machine in Shopping timing out
Q20024 - Shopping AD Integration Delivery Status is not being updated
Q20050 - PolicyDownload checks fails due to a Bad Order existing in the Shopping DB (machine missing in CM)
Q20048 - Policy Download check can get stuck for 30 mins and fail
Q20070 - Shopping Receiver resource not found for WSA Order
Q20125 - Shopping Sending installation failure Email for Non ConfigMgr Apps
Q20013 - Shopping reports do not scale for large Shopping databases
5.5.0.397 (25th April 2018) Web release
Windows Servicing Assistant (WSA) Report
Windows Servicing Assistant (WSA) Deployment Application
Shopping Receiver changes
Shopping Agent replaced by the Shopping client module in Tachyon Agent 3.2
Contained fixes:
Q13468 - Shopping reports do not scale for large Shopping databases
Q13466 - Shopping report date picker is transparent
Q13464 - Shopping splash screen displays more than once on login
Q13377 - Shopping Orders stuck in tb_processing
Q13375 - Auto-rejected approval fails to launch Workflow Integration with error
Q13363 - Shopping and AE Sync are causing duplicate devices in Shopping
Q13361 - User accounts are Not removed from AD group on Application Uninstallation
Q13359 - Disable ReinstallApps setting on OSD app causes date picker to be disabled
Q13251 - Shopping Receiver processes orders that should have expired for applications that are disabled
Q13162 - Display of Shopping landing page delayed when OSD deployment exists
Q13160 - Creating OSD Mapping Rules - unable to get catalog versions for some apps to populatedropdownlist
Q13158 - Shopping Admin - New OSD Wizard doesn't pull back the correct list of collection
Q13119 - Tiles are not formatted correctly in list view with order status
Q13117 - Unable to request banner items
Q13115 - Shopping Sync with ActiveEfficiency does not change CM SiteCodes in Shopping for machines
Q13113 - Timestamps of Application ratings/reviews in Shopping, show only in UK timezone.
Q13103 - Computer Categories bypassing approvals
5.4.0.105 (23rd March 2017) Web release
Application Migration – leverage our Windows 10 Solution to migrate applications during a Windows 10 OS deployment
Functionality to disable reinstall application in the OSD wizard
Functionality to hide text in banner for better aesthetics in the Shopping Web if banner image already has a strapline
Contained fixes:
Q12987 - Reshopping failures are not updating tb_orderHistory
Q12979 - Shopping Receiver is lacking accuracy in determining AppModel Order status
Q12969 - OS Filtering issue with AppModel Applications
Q12967 - Shopping Search results are showing approvals required when it should not
Q12965 - Shopping is not fully processing items from tb_processing, they get stuck
Q12908 - Delivery Windows not saving
Q12908 - Display Category in list view
Q12908 - OS Filtering Taking too long (40 hours) making OS filtering useless
Q12983 - Security Vulnerability - Insecure Direct Object References
Q12991 - Security Vulnerability - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Problem 73422 - Shopping Receiver fails to post using method /order/UpdateAdvertStatus
Problem 72883 - Shopping and AppClarity Integration stuck in a loop
Problem 75733 - Shopping App Mapping with AC 5.2 is not working due to Unknown values from AC 5.2
Problem 56287 - Shopping not retaining the setting to always expand the comments
Problem 77514 - Timings of Application ratings/reviews in Shopping shows only in UK timezone