November 2023 SAM Update

Highlights for this Release:

We listened and learned a lot from our September release. Aside from improvements to security functions, we've put an emphasis on making sure your team gets the communications you need about updates to SAM. 

  • MFA Enhancements to remember devices

  • Passwords can be reset by users, no longer requiring SAM Leads or SAM's Support team

  • Client checklists are able to be viewed by all Users 

  • Communication updates to login screen and access to SAM Lead's 

  • We've added file types that SAM can accept, including .heic for Safari

Communication Updates 

  • For future updates, we'll add a communication about upcoming releases to the login screen. We anticipate about 1 week prior to a release that a box will display with links to more info and important dates about the release. 

  • We're going to begin communicating via email with all SAM Leads (Users with Full Admin access) that your team sets in SAM.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Enhancements 

  • Remember this device is available to be enabled by SAM Leads for your organization. 

  • Set 1, 7, or 30 days to remember devices dependent on your security policies. 

  • Two reports assist with visibility to your team's use of MFA

    • User | Security | MFA Registered Devices

    • User | Security | System-Emails Tracking

SAM Leads will need to enable Register this Device feature. See this guide for more on MFA

Password Reset Improvement

  • User's can now reset their password without support from others

  • This is a best practice for password security

See our guides to: 

Client Checklist visibility for all Users

  • Finally!! SAM now allows all users (not just Full Admins) to view checklists from the client's perspective. 

  • We received so much excited feedback on this function. We hope it helps you work better with families! ❤️

Updated File Types 

  • We've updated SAM to allow more file types to be uploaded. Here's a full list of file types that SAM accepts: 7z,bmp,csv,doc,docx,docm,dot,dotx,gif,heic,heics,heif,heifs,jpg,jpeg,jpe,mp3,odt,pdf,png,rar,raw,rtf,tif,tiff,txt,xls,xlsx,xlsm,xps,zip,heic,svg,webp,key,odp,pps,ppt,pptx,ods,xls,avi,h264,m4v,mkv,mov,mp4,wav,webm,wma,wmb,tex bmp,gif,jpg,jpeg,jpe,png,raw,tif,tiff,heic,heics,heif,heifs,svg,webp