Hello again from the team at Symprex!

📣 Folders for Signature, Campaign and Disclaimer templates

The team are excited to release the Folders functionality to help with the organisation and management of templates in Signature 365.

When you create a folder structure, this will apply to Signature, Campaign, and Disclaimer templates, displaying it consistently across all template types. You can create templates in folders and drag existing ones into folders and subfolders for easier management.

Your existing configuration will not be affected by this change, and the look and functionality of the portal will not change until a new folder is created.

You can read more about these changes in the article below:

Using folders in Signature 365

Hello again from the team at Symprex.

Our teams have been working hard to prepare for Microsoft's launch of a new method for Outlook add-in authentication called nested app authentication (NAA). NAA replaces the current authentication method, which Microsoft now refers to as "legacy tokens".

The preferred solution to this change is to upgrade the add-in to version 3.0. This will ensure that you are using the latest version of the add-in, and are able to take advantage of the newest updates and features.

As part of this process you will be asked to grant admin consent to two new permissions ("Maintain access to data you have given it access to" and "Sign in and read user profile"). This does not grant Signature 365 any additional access to data but is required for NAA to work.

Updating the Signature 365 modern add-in

If you are unable to perform the upgrade at this time, please see the following article for additional options:

Nested app authentication (NAA) and deprecation of Exchange legacy tokens

Hello all!

We're excited to introduce a fresh update to Signature 365 with major improvements to enhance your experience.

🔥 Signature, Campaigns, and Disclaimers Overhaul

You can now quickly see which campaigns and disclaimers are targeting specific groups or users, see when a campaign is scheduled or expired and have quick access to View, Edit or Copy right from the menu associated with each item.

🛠 Other Enhancements

As usual, we have been hard at work on the smaller improvements too

• Improvement Migration to .NET 8: We've upgraded to .NET 8, ensuring improved performance, stronger security, and enhanced reliability.
• Improvement Aptos and Aptos Display: These new fonts have been added to the visual editor, integrating with Microsoft's new default Office font.
• Improvement Quickly Remove Custom User Fields: It's now easier to remove custom field values from any user with just a few clicks.
• Improvement User Activity Insights: See when users were last active directly in their profiles for better management and tracking.
• Improvement Remove User-Specific Signature Overrides: Quickly delete signature overrides for individual users, streamlining signature management.
• Improvement More details in the Active User CSV export: You can now see the details of client types a user has accessed, making tracking adoption across Outlook platforms and server-side injection easier.
• Bug fix Alt Attribute Fix for Campaign Images: We've fixed an issue where "alt" attributes weren't added to campaign tracking images, reducing the risk of spam detection issues.

Hello all,

Signature 365 implemented a change freeze for the second half of September due to annual leave and other changes.

The development team have been busy working on several smaller features due to be released w/c 7th October:

• Support for the Aptos and Aptos Display fonts
• User information includes last active times and data sources for users
• Active user export now includes last connection times for all device sources
• "Remove all" button added for edited user attributes

Microsoft have also updated Outlook Mobile to support the onrecipientchanged event, meaning that your signatures will regenerate if the recipient is updated for internal/external recipients. Version 4.2425.0 or later is required to support this functionality.

The development team are also in the final steps of what will be the initial release for the folders functionality for Signatures, Campaigns, and Disclaimers. We are also in the final steps of a localization piece which will allow all users, including those using the add-in, to select the language they wish to use.

Initially, this step will provide the Danish and German languages to our customers, but this will be expanded to include additional languages, such as Spanish, French, etc etc. We will potentially be able to provide support in a language is requested by a customer moving forwards.

Hello again from the Signature 365 team.

Our August updates have focused on enhancing the product back-end and improving the portal's usability.

Our development team is currently implementing the initial phase of the folder structure feature. This will allow customers to organize signatures, campaigns, and disclaimers into a folder-based system, simplifying the management process for those with numerous templates.

The second step in this process involves implementing a permissions model that allows for the definition of access rights within the folder structure. This ensures that users can only access the contents of folders to which they have been explicitly granted permission.

Our scheduled June update window was delayed to allow our development team to resolve performance issues with signature generation affecting our EU customers.

Signature generation performance

Intermittent performance issues with signature generation were observed within our EU region as a result of an influx of new customers. Our teams worked to identify the root cause of these issues and released several improvements to the signature generation process.

These changes have directly led to greatly improved performance and reliability in all Signature 365 regions, along with improvements to signature generation logging.

Outlook signature caching

As a result of the changes to signature generation, we have also introduced several changes in how the signatures are cached within Outlook itself. These changes provide increased performance, improved resilience to connectivity issues, and reduced bandwidth required for signature data updates.

Display source for user field values in Portal

Edited or additional source data will now be displayed within the user details screen in the portal - the user below has data imported from on-premise SQL and AD sources.

Fields with updated information (AD, SQL or user-edited) will now be listed with the source used for signature generation

Signature 365 received the first major update of the year in April. This included several bug fixes and minor enhancements but most of the development work focused on adding a Role Based Access Control feature to allow fine-tuned control of permissions.

Role-Based Access Control Changes

We have introduced a new feature allowing the creation and assignment of custom roles. These granular permissions are introduced alongside the existing Administrator and Editor roles and will allow you to restrict access to all components of the Signature 365 portal – granting read or manage permissions as required.

You can learn more about this change at the link below:

Role-Based Access Control

Search improvements

The search functionality within Signature 365 has been significantly improved from a performance standpoint, returning results much faster for customers with large (>5000) users. As our number of customers grows this will ensure that the speed and responsiveness of the search is maintained. 

In testing, for a customer with 150000 users, search time has reduced from around 4 minutes (assuming no timeouts were encountered) to around 3 to 4 seconds. This improvement will also reduce instances where the search function loops and cannot recover.

Versioning and Drafts 

This feature has been implemented for signature, campaign and disclaimer templates, allowing live templates to be edited and saved to draft without immediately publishing the changes to the live solution.

You can find more information on this at:

Template revisions and draft mode

Outlook Mobile Add-in

Signature 365 is the first signature management solution globally to launch this much-requested feature, which is live for all customers using Outlook for iOS and Android devices. The feature is automatically enabled for all tenants and auto-inserts the user’s default signature into all new emails, removing any stored signatures from Outlook.

The only additional step is to ensure version 1.8 or later of the add-in is deployed to your users. You can find more information on this exciting new feature at: 

Using the Signature 365 Outlook mobile add-in

As you can see from the 2 features above, our development team have been hard at work in the new year, the following changes are upcoming in the next few months:

• Add-in SSO – allowing better use of the Send on Behalf feature
• Template Folders and permissions
• Rule-based access control for users