 Time here from Orange Systems and Unify has released version 7.023 of the unified network controller Now the upgrade from five to six was rough because well It was easy to tell there was a new update kind of frequently to fix a lot of little bugs when they made a major version change The good news is from version 6.055 the version we were on to the 7023 which its final release There was actually if you're wondering why it starts at 7023 instead of 7.0 They go through the seven series with a few release candidates prior then 7023 is when he decided it was stable enough to release so it went through some testing there were bugs They were fixed and for us the upgrades have gone really well We updated our controller our primary one that we managed with a lot of our clients We have a lot of client controller stuff dating things like that too. That's a little bit separate But it went quite well. We only have a single unified dream machine Not deployed at a client. So we updated that we don't recommend unified dream machines or deploy them actively at clients We manage we do have people who contract us who we consult with who use them So we are familiar with the dream machines and that's the only thing I really seen going through the forum post that where people had some problems or some dream machine Scenarios and some of the situations seem to have some trouble updating but overall the experience has been pretty good I would say this is a relatively smooth update because our use case is not usually using You know fire outing as in we don't use the US cheese and we aren't using dream machines or dream machine pros or dream machine Se's any of the dream machine line We just use the switches and access points and then we have different firewalls I'm bringing this up to give a lot of context to my review for those you that may be looking for solutions through some of The problems. Hey head over to the ubiquity forums There's a lot of engagement and yes, the ubiquity team has been replying and helping people look for some of these issues Now we're gonna go through full review here of the new features in the software at least the highlights of it I'll leave the list so because we can't go over every little detail I'm gonna post a couple questions here though because there's a couple things they mentioned that I can't find and I'm hoping You the audience maybe has found it because I didn't see it mentioned in the forums We'll get to that later and Yeah, let's get started with it But first if you'd like to learn more about me and my company ever to lorton systems calm if you like to hire short project such as Consulting on unify There's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel other wages affiliate links down below to get you Deals and discounts on products and services. We talk about on this channel now We'll start right here and I will be leave this link down below This is the release page and as you've seen we have the 702. Oh 2 1 2 2 and then release of 702 3 what I don't like is the release and change notes are kind of aggregated between these different releases and I'll leave a link to this reddit post where I consolidated all that information into a single post that way That's not kind of scattered between fixes and releases across the 7.0 version of where we're at now Improve user interface settings. These are some of the things and why it's popular for people to put videos out on YouTube such as me and cross talk solutions and Hostify talking about it all of us on here and Cody from actel com I'm sure I forgot a few people to talk about these but they say improvements in user interface, but they don't exactly show you What they are don't worry I'll show you the ones we found so far notice and a problem I found with the pause button and you're probably thinking why is there a pause button in a network software? Good question That's we'll get to that improved dashboard user interface updated log 4j cve 2021 45105 because there's one more iteration that they had to update the way the log 4j leverage now. This is not Meaning there's a vulnerability in 605 5 because of the way they haven't implemented it It's not vulnerable, but there was still a updated version of log 4j that was addressed by putting it into here So that's what that means for those of you wondering it doesn't mean 605 5 has some flaw update now We'll go into full panic just to clear that up limits for retention settings, you know if I Disconnect notifications. This was something I'll have people that's for us. It was broken for a little while I believe we're just missing remember which one we I don't really use the feature I don't have my notifications going through unifying there, but nonetheless, that's there now This is the one that I can't find add Multifar multi-factor authentication support now they added support or they added the feature sounds like they added support because when I look At the users, I don't see it and this was one of those Little pieces of contention of where is it at? I've asked a couple of people that know unifying none of us seem to know where this is So we're thinking they added support now I know you can get it when you're using your unified controller tied to the Unify account, but I'm not doing that We actually have this set up our controller specifically set up without tying it to a Unify account because it's our controller We don't have the web interface publicly exposed It's locked down internally and only accessible from a VPN for my office And we don't have the intention to add our Ubiquity online accounts to it So I'm not really sure if that's what's required of it But when you add new users, it still doesn't have an option or even if you added an existing user The option to add second factor authentication, but I'm not as worried because it's behind a VPN now Allow sorting of the uptime for clients is nice We'll go over the interface in a moment allow a max of 255 networks on UDM pro UXG pro and UDM SC This is a weird one, but allow forgetting devices in the adoption failed state This is kind of a weird bug that would pop up. We're just kind of get stuck there And so now they can actually allow you to forget that Kind of failed adoption of a device that and failed adoption I believe was more frequently caused when you had a device that was several firmware versions behind you try to adopt it A new controller without updating the firmware It may get kind of caught up in a loop and then you would reset the device But it would still keep trying to adopt it within the unify controller I always update the firmware to the latest version prior to adoption That's just a general practice we do and that seems to avoid the issue and probably why I have not run into it Very often, but we have run into it when we do our consulting and helping people with unify That seems to be the cause of it, but now they have the ability to get rid of it and There's a few other ones in here This one in particular impen implement layer 3 switch DHCP relay support Now I might do a video on this because they're slowly improving it. We'll show you how they change this They have the ability to do some layer 3 functionality and a couple of their switches But it's very limited and not really I don't think the implementation is great So my recommendation when people say I need layer 3 and a switch is not to use unify That's just not one of their features like it's an add-in they kind of have it that checks the box But the actual implementation of it's not great They've now added something that's a lot of people might like is DHCP relaying for the ability to do that And which might help the situation some depending on your configuration But it's just not as advanced as some of the more expensive switches So this is one of those they're coming along with a feature But it's just to me not as well implemented I'm not sure why and it's a limited number of switches at all that support this layer 3 inner land vlan And static route adding that you can do to a switch Not even all their switches is only like I think two models or three models right now There's not many of them now because the question comes up and is come up the last few times I've done this I've not shown the unify controller software on our unify demo dream machine that we have in the office So I fell I'd start there because they did do a lot of feature changes to the dream machine Now I'm not saying I hate the dream machine I have a video and maybe I'll do another one for 2022 to add the more models They've made to talk about whether or not the dream machine is the right product for you The reason I say that is it comes down to features A lot of people buy it with hopes it will do more than it can do Now if it has the feature sets you want and does the things you want It's a good device for you if it does not do those things such as And even though this is on the new unified dream machine and it made updates the way the VPN works The right away the thing I'd like to point out is that the VPN server supports L2P And the only way you can do any type of VPN server with open VPN is when you're doing A custom like site to site VPN And it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me why they wouldn't have open VPN With the user VPN being able as part of what's in here It just one of those weird things that unify has chose to kind of omit Now I've heard rumors that maybe one day there'll be WireGuard in here We're not there right now. So here we are with this and has L2TP Which is inadequate for a lot of people and of course those of you that are looking for More advanced policy routing privacy VPNs and everything else Yeah, this is not where you're going to find integration for those in there FYI and this is probably the most biggest confusing points that people have Just assuming a modern regional price router like this would have those features As some of the other competitors in the market space do But let's talk about things that it does do And this is interesting the traffic management Now I only have one puzzle with this I did some testing and we set up a block They did a nice way of doing this so we can look at apps app groups domain name IP address internet local network We want to block or allow something specific You can say an app you can type in something here like you know Facebook Instagram And then you can say selected device all devices a network or a single computer Now we'll cancel this here and look at the one we have set up already Now here we've blocked Facebook Tumblr Twitch and YouTube Specifically for our Win 10 lab system It's actually the only computer on here And I wanted to test this blocking feature to see if it worked And we'll go here and we see a little pause button next to it They actually added these little pause buttons in a lot of places We'll talk more about them as we go through But you can stop the pause it or unpause it and it blocks those sites Really simple to do that's it click the pause and we can allow it Or you can set schedules to this you have a scheduling option I think this is pretty cool with the one exception And that's this right here Facebook seems to be unblockable in Chrome But things like YouTube are so I've got YouTube blocks So if we try to go to YouTube Oops try and click on it from even a search link It's going to fail it's going to spin we can click on it It just even the sublinks and music and other sections of YouTube It just doesn't work but Facebook seems to be unblockable Except this is one I said well let's try a different browser And yes I have turned the DNS over HTTPS on and off But Microsoft Edge for whatever reason does block Facebook when the block is turned on It's only Chrome that doesn't So I didn't test everything in there but it was kind of a curiosity I know a lot of people ask you know how well does the blocking work But it blocks it in Edge and it doesn't block it here It's also unusual to me because if we open up the command line And we're going to just go ahead and ping book.com Whoops we got to spell Facebook right And when we ping Facebook we get Facebook's IP address So it's not just DNS sync holding it But I thought I'd mention it that it seems to be able to block these things With the exception of Facebook and Chrome So it works it's pretty cool Now back over to looking at the dashboard in here And the main dashboard we have all the traffic stats And then we can go here like the traffic inspector they have now Like all this looks pretty nice But one of the complaints I've had And it looks nice and this is what gets people excited Is we have this entire nice looking dashboard Where we can say oh look HTTP traffic And we can dive in to this except that's as far as it goes There's very little granular data in here It kind of gives you very generalized data It doesn't give you good time slicing So you can see which applications by which client were used when I mean there's kind of ways to pivot through it by doing this Like here's some identified traffic up and down for this particular device So we've done some Microsoft Office traffic 423 megs Was probably just down the updates But I can't click on these I can't tell you from what time period this was for So this is still a feature that's kind of there To get you some ideas But doesn't really tell you all the details You need to make intelligent decision Like how much data did it use Over what time period is a feature they really should have Time slicing in here But nonetheless that is all working Now there's not much topology in here As I said is our unified demo machine So let's go over to our network And talk about some of the more large scale features That we see in here They still do this which bustles me We have the network version 7023 Then it says Linux 9804758 That's my Chrome version So it says Linux It is running on a Linux server But it's actually pulling this information out of my browser So Linux 9804758 is my browser That it sees when it's here So I think that's strange that it does that still But it's nice to see things like most active clients And we can see just kind of at a glance on this dashboard And they've just done a lot This is all the new UI by the way To make this dashboard a lot more useful Being able to sort by Wi-Fi experience By IP addresses Connection, they made it very fluid I actually am starting to like the new dashboard They also have right here Because you can adjust filter for different things Change the columns around Do we want to show the MAC addresses The interfaces The Wi-Fi band Uptime channel TX rate Just nice And then filtering Do we want to filter for something specific in here Or just let them all in here Showing all devices And I like that they have these right here So if we want to know where this device is wired to We can click on it Okay, this is at lab rack 10G There's the model There's the insights for the rack Get right to the settings Mouse over and all But this is one thing I wish they had In the new UI was the ability Like you do in the old UI to pop these out So you can move them around When you want to have two switches next to each other But I don't think it's too big of a deal It's personal preference I liked when they had it I don't know why they didn't include it here Because if you open up different switches You don't get to stack them like you did before So you can make easy comparison between two switches But nonetheless it does work And here it is Now other things they've done in the new UIs Made the Wi-Fi insights look really nice This is something I'm going to say Just did a nice job on It's cleaned it up a lot And once again you can click on it And you can go right to the device That it's connected to See the number of clients, performance It seems to work quite well Now traffic stats I don't have in here That we'd have to go back over to the Unified Dream Machine Because we're not using any of the routing But like I said The traffic stats are still lacking time slices In the same way So they're of limited value as I said But back over to here The devices Everything's nice clean on the interface here For how it's displayed It's probably moving over on a screen If you're wondering why I just don't have this lit over I got it zoomed in to make it easier For people to see this But yeah Up time can be sorted usage down And same thing You get the options here Display options, columns Pick and choose what you want to have inside of here Now we're gonna go over here to settings And this is where things get a little weird Because they've added a pause button The problem with the pause button In my opinion is It's not pause now But I just click it And it immediately pauses that network Now in the circumstance that we're using it Right here on Wi-Fi If we pause a Wi-Fi network It will pause And then it just goes and reconfigures That Wi-Fi essentially not to broadcast anymore But if we go over here to networks And I do something like Look at the IoT insecure network port tap Pwnage network I can pause it That actually didn't do anything at all And the other problem is The only confirmation we got that it was paused Is a little slide out window over here That says you've resumed or unpaused it So you can pause and stop these networks And if you're not using Wi-Fi routing It doesn't pause that network in any meaningful way It pauses it But it doesn't matter Because it's all as you can see VLAN only And it won't let you pause the main LAN But where this can be confusing is Where people set things up And maybe not realize they click the pause button Because there's no warning coming up when you do this And this could create possibly a little bit of confusion Along there without having a confirmation I already seen a request in the Unify forums Asking for a confirmation to be added So that when you hit this pause button It would do a confirm And be very implicitly understanding That you have paused or unpaused something on there Of note, you can still switch back to the old interface And this doesn't exist So if you pause it in a new interface So you'll break something And you can't see it from the old interface Just an FYI on that Now internet not populated for ours Neither is VPN Because well, we're not using any Unify routing Firewall and security Nothing really I'm going to talk about there This is the same thing You get it when you're inside of here System Firewall and security Because this is one of the Unify routing systems But I didn't see anything in here That was groundbreaking or changing Or anything like that Now down to the system This is where the last few features are in here So we'll go over to the system And this is where you'll switch back now You see there was a separate user interface And you enable or disable the new interface Now you click on enable And deactivate to switch between the interfaces If you want to go back to this interface Which still works This is perfectly fine The topology map is the older one That you have in here The devices and the functionality is much the same It's not really anything changed here It's the one you're used to But I don't really think the need anymore To go between the networks and set things up Is what it used to be in here Because now the features that are here And we're going to actually go back to user interface And we're going to go back to new user interface Apply changes It actually switches back and forth Way smoother too That's something of note Then we'll go over here And we'll look at wi-fi And we'll go back over here It seems like pretty much all the features are here Including the ability to do the wi-fi scheduling I feel like that was missing in the sixth series In the new UI But it seems to be here So I don't know that there's any reason To jump back and forth between the new and old UI Now one last thing I'm going to mention Is improved wi-fi man signal mapper Latency between roaming between access points Well wi-fi man The app that you can load on your Apple or Android phone Got a big update And it has a cool feature here Euro can make a map with it And their augmented reality tools on there This is really neat actually I was just wandering around my house I was able to go through and kind of make a heat map And it uses the augmented reality To try to understand where you're moving within the room And generate a heat map So you can find some of the dead spots Map them out, look at it And then maybe reconfigure your wi-fi Or move things around to You get the most optimal or add more wi-fi To get a more optimal wi-fi experience I thought it was partly unusual that it was in here But it does have an integration with unify Because it can talk to something like the dream machine To give you more information But if you don't have a dream machine You don't have one of the routing devices You can still use it Because well that's how I use it here at my house To wander around and get this done Now as I said in the beginning This overall this update has gone well I like seeing the new features that unify has added to it I still would love to see them add some better VPN features So their routing equipment And maybe some better WAN load balancing Policy routing options And some more advanced features It's just software Because someone may already have pointed out in the comments Before getting this far in the video That didn't you know, Tom? You can get into the back end of these systems And start modifying the convict files And make these features happen Yes, I am aware I am also aware that when you do updates Frequently those well changes you've made To the back end of the system may not survive Firmware updates and updates from unify So they're not always the best idea to do Because well it's fun It's a fun project It's just not something I can deploy to clients It's not something that's stable It requires tweaking But it also proves a point That these devices are capable of these extra features It's just a matter of getting ubiquity To write the software to allow the device to do it So I think people should keep plugging away at it Because maybe if they see enough community action On something like that The people at Ubiquity goes you know We should just code that in there It would be really helpful for people And make our popular products even more popular So I don't know And maybe get me to recommend them But like I said the shortcomings they have Are my big challenge If you just need routing And you just want really simple application blocking Like I mentioned Of those two functionalities For the Unified Dream Machine As we pointed out Seem to work pretty well With the exception of Chrome Getting around the Facebook block magically But it blocks all the other sites I've blocked and tested I didn't exhaustively test everything in that list But so far it seems to work with the Facebook exception But don't worry You just tell people to use the Edge browser Or actually don't tell anyone to use Edge browser Sorry about that Someone's gonna flame me in the comments for it I prefer Chrome or Firefox Actually I didn't have Firefox loader on Or to see if it blocked it in Firefox I don't know If there's enough requests Maybe some quick demo video I'll do on that But I don't know if I'm really curious enough As it's not something we actively deploy And it could easily be fixed Or it could be some extra thing added by Unify Through some update Or through some feed update That just makes that problem go away It's kind of a weird one for sure All right And thanks Everything I mentioned will be linked down below And thank you for making it All the way to the end of this video If you've enjoyed the content Please give us a thumbs up If you would like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon If you'd like to hire a short project Head over to laurancesystems.com And click the hires button right at the top To help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for YouTube And a Patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated For deals, discounts, and offers Check out our affiliate links In the description of all of our videos Including a link to our shirt store Where we have a wide variety of shirts that we sell And designs come out well randomly So check back frequently And finally our forums Forums.laurancesystems.com Is where you can have a more in-depth discussion About this video and other tech topics Covered on this channel Thanks again for watching And look forward to hearing from you