Microsoft Entra Connect Health: Version Release History

The Microsoft Entra team regularly updates Microsoft Entra Connect Health with new features and functionality. This article lists the versions and features that have been released.

Note

Microsoft Entra Connect Health agents are updated automatically when new version is released.

Microsoft Entra Connect Health for Sync is integrated with Microsoft Entra Connect installation. Read more about Microsoft Entra Connect release history.

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May 2024

Agent Updates Microsoft Entra Connect Health (version 4.5.2487.0)

  • Updated installer to allow for specifying proxy server configuration
  • Updated installer to default to Public Cloud with the option to specify US Government cloud
  • Added support for command line installation
  • Bug fixes

January - March 2024

Agent Updates

Microsoft Entra Connect Health ADDS Agents (versions 4.5.x - 4.5.2462)

  • New version of the Microsoft Entra Connect Health ADDS agent that uses an updated architecture.
    • Updated installer package
    • Migration to MSAL authentication library
    • New pre-requisite checks
    • Improved logging

Microsoft Entra Connect Health ADFS Agents (versions 4.5.x - 4.5.2462)

  • Bug fixes
  • Additional logging

May / June 2023

Agent Updates

Microsoft Entra Connect Health ADFS Agents (versions 4.5.x)

  • New version of the Microsoft Entra Connect Health ADFS agent that uses an updated architecture.
    • Updated installer package
    • Migration to MSAL authentication library
    • New pre-requisite checks
    • Improved logging

27 March 2023

Agent Update

Microsoft Entra Connect Health AD DS and ADFS Health Agents (version 3.2.2256.26, Download Center Only)

  • We created a fix for so that the agents would be FIPS compliant
    • the change was to have the agents use ‘CloudStorageAccount.UseV1MD5 = false’ so the agent only uses only FIPS compliant cryptography, otherwise Azure blob client causes FIPs exceptions to be thrown.
  • Update of Newtonsoft.json library from 12.0.1 to 13.0.1 to resolve a component governance alert.
  • In ADFS health agent, the TestADFSDuplicateSPN test was disabled as the test was unreliable, it would generate misleading alerts when server experienced transient connectivity issues.

19 January 2023

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Microsoft Entra Connect (version 3.2.2188.23)
    • We fixed a bug where, under certain circumstances, Microsoft Entra Connect Sync errors were not getting uploaded or shown in the portal.

September 2021

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.113.0)
    • Fix to extract device information such as device compliance and managed status, device OS, and device OS version from AD FS audits in certain device based authentication scenarios.
    • Fix to populate OAuth Application info in failure cases and categorizing OAuth failures with more specific error codes
    • Fix for alerts on broken WMI calls on the customer machine. Now such calls the result/status would be set to "notRun".

May 2021

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.99.0)
    • Fix for low unique user count value in AD FS application activity report
    • Fix for sign-ins with empty or default GUID CorrelationId

March 2021

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.95.0)

    • Fix to resolve NT4 formatted username to a UPN during sign-in events.
    • Fix to identify incorrect application identifier scenarios with a dedicated error code.
    • Changes to add a new property for OAuth client identifier.
    • Fix to display correct values in the Protocol and Authentication Type fields in Microsoft Entra sign-in report for certain sign-in scenarios.
    • Fix to display IP addresses in Microsoft Entra sign-in report's IP chain field in order of the request.
    • Changes to introduce a new field to differentiate if secondary authentication was requested during a sign-in.
    • Fix for AD FS application identifier property to display in Microsoft Entra sign-in report.

April 2020

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.77.0)

    • Bug fix for “Invalid Service Principal Name (SPN) for AD FS service” alert, for which the alert was reporting incorrectly.

July 2019

Agent Update

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.59.0)

    1. Text change in TestWindowsTransport
    2. Changes for AD FS RP upload
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.56.0)

    1. Add TestWindowsTransport test and remove WsTrust endpoints checks in CheckOffice365Endpoints test
    2. Log OS and .NET information
    3. Increase RP configuration message upload size to 1MB.
    4. Bug fixes
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.1.56.0)

    1. Log OS and .NET information
    2. Bug fixes

May 2019

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.51.0)
    1. Bug fix to distinguish between multiple sign ins that share the same client-request-id.
    2. Bug fix to parse bad username/password errors on language localized servers.

April 2019

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.46.0)
    1. Fix Check Duplicate SPN alert process for ADFS

March 2019

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.1.41.0)

    1. .NET version collection
    2. Improvement of performance counter collection when missing certain categories
    3. Bug fix on preventing spawning of multiple Monitoring Agent instances
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.41.0)

    1. Integrate and upgrade of AD FS test scripts using ADFSToolBox
    2. Implement .NET version collection
    3. Improvement of performance counter collection when missing certain categories
    4. Bug fix on preventing spawning of multiple Monitoring Agent instances

November 2018

New GA features:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health for Sync - Diagnose and remediate duplicated attribute sync errors from the portal

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.1.24.0)

    1. Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol version 1.2 compliance and enforcement
    2. Reduce Global Catalog alert noise
    3. Health agent registration bug fixes
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.1.24.0)

    1. Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol version 1.2 compliance and enforcement
    2. Support of Test-ADFSRequestToken for localized operating system
    3. Solved diagnostic agent EventHandler locking issue
    4. Health agent registration bug fixes

August 2018

June 2018

New preview features:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health for Sync - Diagnose and remediate duplicated attribute sync errors from the portal

Agent Update:

May 2018

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.0.244.0)

    1. Agent privacy improvement
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.0.244.0)

    1. Agent Diagnostics Service and related PowerShell module improvements
    2. Agent privacy improvement
    3. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Sync (version 3.0.164.0) released with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.819.0

    1. Agent privacy improvement
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements

March 2018

New preview features:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health for AD FS - Risky IP report and alert.

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.0.176.0)
    1. Agent availability improvements
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.0.176.0)
    1. Agent availability improvements
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Sync (version 3.0.129.0) released with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.750.0
    1. Agent availability improvements
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements

December 2017

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.0.145.0)
    1. Agent availability improvements
    2. Added new agent troubleshooting commands
    3. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.0.145.0)
    1. Added new agent troubleshooting commands
    2. Agent availability improvements
    3. Bug fixes and general improvements

October 2017

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Sync (version 3.0.129.0) released with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.649.0

    Fixed a version compatibility issue between Microsoft Entra Connect and Microsoft Entra Connect Health Agent for Sync. This issue affects customers who are performing Microsoft Entra Connect in-place upgrade to version 1.1.647.0, but currently has Health Agent version 3.0.127.0. After the upgrade, the Health Agent can no longer send health data about Microsoft Entra Connect Synchronization Service to Microsoft Entra Health Service. With this fix, Health Agent version 3.0.129.0 is installed during Microsoft Entra Connect in-place upgrade. Health Agent version 3.0.129.0 does not have compatibility issue with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.649.0.

July 2017

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.0.68.0)
    1. Bug fixes and general improvements
    2. Sovereign cloud support
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.0.68.0)
    1. Bug fixes and general improvements
    2. Sovereign cloud support
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Sync (version 3.0.68.0) released with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.614.0
    1. Support for Microsoft Azure Government Cloud and Microsoft Cloud Germany

April 2017

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 3.0.12.0)
    1. Bug fixes and general improvements
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 3.0.12.0)
    1. Performance counters upload improvements
    2. Bug fixes and general improvements

October 2016

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 2.6.408.0)
  • Improvements in detecting client IP addresses in authentication requests
  • Bug Fixes related to Alerts
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD DS (version 2.6.408.0)
  • Bug fixes related to Alerts.
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for Sync (version 2.6.353.0) released with Microsoft Entra Connect version 1.1.281.0
  • Provide the required data for the Synchronization Error Reports
  • Bug fixes related to Alerts

New preview features:

  • Synchronization Error Reports for Microsoft Entra Connect

New features:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health for AD FS - IP address field is available in the report about top 50 users with bad username/password.

July 2016

New preview features:

January 2016

Agent Update:

  • Microsoft Entra Connect Health agent for AD FS (version 2.6.91.1512)

New features:

November 2015

New features:

New preview features:

Fixed issues:

  • Bug fixes for errors seen during agent registrations.

September 2015

New features:

  • Wrong Username password report for AD FS
  • Support to configure Unauthenticated HTTP Proxy
  • Support to configure agent on Server core
  • Improvements to Alerts for AD FS
  • Improvements in Microsoft Entra Connect Health Agent for AD FS for connectivity and data upload.

Fixed issues:

  • Bug fixes in Usage Insights for AD FS Error types.

June 2015

Initial release of Microsoft Entra Connect Health for AD FS and AD FS Proxy.

New features:

  • Alerts for monitoring AD FS and AD FS Proxy servers with email notifications.
  • Easy access to AD FS topology and patterns in AD FS Performance Counters.
  • Trend in successful token requests on AD FS servers grouped by Applications, Authentication Methods, Request Network Location, and so on.
  • Trends in failed request on AD FS servers grouped by Applications, Error Types, and so on.
  • Simpler Agent Deployment using Microsoft Entra Global Administrator credentials.

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