Shopping 6.1 release notes

Schedule

14 September, 2021

Users can now receive more email notifications, especially for deployments that are taking longer than usual, to better understand how their requests are proceeding. 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 on the My Software All Orders page. The icon for the My Software link also displays a count of new notifications. 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 make them most meaningful for their users. They can also customize the notification area icon and name to match that of the Shopping web page. For more details, refer to Order Tracking and Order Tracking best practices.

You can now offer 1E instructions to users in the same way as ConfigMgr, Intune, and other applications types. This option allows 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 1E instructions can do. For details on how to set up 1E instructions as Shopping applications, refer to 1E Instruction applications.
The integration also enables the Client-side activities of Order Tracking, particularly for Client-side notifications and status monitoring.
To enable the integration, refer to Getting started and 1E Platform integration.

Administrators can now allow users to show hidden files and folders on the user back up page.

Shopping now installs its web portal to use HTTPS binding by default.

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. This helps 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 in both views.
ActiveEfficiency is no longer used by Shopping.

Type	Issue ID	Summary
Fix	Q21536	WSA is killing Shopping. Too many ADO connections being created and remaining open.
Fix	Q21542	The Active Directory Integration fails when adding computers or users from a different forest.
Fix	Q21544	Javascript error when trying to access the Shopping web page from Software Center.
Fix	Q21566	Unable to search machines on the basket page when using a comma-separated list of machine names.
Fix	Q21586	Shopping security problems in a multi-forest selective authentication trust.
Fix	Q21588	Need for a persistent list or grid view and the selected category menu item to be open and highlighted on the Shopping website.
Fix	Q21614	Caching Issue discovered when using a specific Shopping Admin Account.
Fix	Q21468	Unable to add more then 103 OU's into the computer category for Shopping 6.0.
Fix	Q21466	Shopping WSA dashboard sorting not working as intended.
Fix	Q21464	Shop on behalf feature not working.
Fix	Q21462	WSA Readiness screen fails and logs the error Failed to queue download job for content:, version:0, Dest(NomadCache).
Fix	Q21110	Admin is not able to shop for an AppSet for another CM machine.