{"id":99208,"date":"2025-08-05T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/?p=99208"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:20:41","slug":"prepare-for-new-app-role-security-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/release-notes\/prepare-for-new-app-role-security-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"4 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until now, users with the \u201cContent administrator\u201d role could set a primary administrator account in MetaShare settings. For improved security, we\u2019ve added a new app role called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/setup\/assign-application-roles\/#security-administrator\">\u201cSecurity administrator\u201d<\/a>. Only users with this role are able to access the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/settings\/security-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Security settings<\/a>\u00a0page and manage \u201cSite Collection Administrator\u201d and \u201cSecondary Site Collection Administrator group\u201d settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-091105a5 gb-headline-text\">A release focusing on improving security settings, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New, separate <a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/settings\/security-settings\/\">Security settings<\/a> page.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/setup\/assign-application-roles\/#security-administrator\">Security administrator<\/a> application role is now needed to update Security settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New setting: Secondary site collection administrator group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fix: Passed due date tasks should no longer be shown to visitors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The new setting will make it possible to automatically assign a selected security group as the site collection administrator for all new workspaces. This feature will make it easier for help desk or admin users to access all MetaShare workspaces when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do I need to do to use the feature?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MetaShare Online<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/setup\/assign-application-roles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assign the Security administrator application role<\/a>\u00a0in the Azure portal\/Entra admin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Self hosted and Server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Self hosted MetaShare online and MetaShare Server clients will find instructions in the Update-Azure.md or Update-OnPremises.md file included in the next release package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, users with the \u201cContent administrator\u201d role could set a primary administrator account in MetaShare settings. For improved security, we\u2019ve added a new app role called\u00a0\u201cSecurity administrator\u201d. Only users with this role are able &#8230; <a title=\"4 August 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/release-notes\/prepare-for-new-app-role-security-administrator\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4 August 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release-notes","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99208"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99481,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99208\/revisions\/99481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}