This article provides information about release details on Microsoft 365 and Data Governance.

We’re excited to announce support for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage (MBS). Druva support for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage offers protection of critical Microsoft 365 data for apps like Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive, all with effortless management through the Druva Data Security Cloud.

Key Benefits

Customer action required:

To know more about this offering, contact Support. For more information, see the documentation.

This release has minor bug fixes.

The Whitelist feature now supports Regular Expression (regex) in addition to the standard Keyword type.

This enhancement allows administrators to create more flexible and accurate whitelisting rules, reducing false positives.

Now, when adding keywords to your Whitelist, you can choose between the existing Keyword type and the new Regular Expression type.

For more information, see Adding Keywords to Whitelist.

An updated v2.0.8 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor security enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.8 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see:

You now get an enhanced error logging system to monitor Exchange Online backup activities. This enhancement consolidates previously scattered error logs, streamlining the process of identifying and resolving issues for specific users and operations.

Key improvements:

For more information, see Microsoft 365 Errors.

This release has minor bug fixes.

We are excited to announce the introduction of three new Microsoft 365 reports on the Druva Cloud Platform Console. This enhanced version offers improved data interpretation, expanded capabilities, and a user-friendly design.

These reports are accessible via APIs, making it easier to manage and analyze your data from SharePoint Online, Groups, and Teams.

The following Microsoft 365 reports are available with this release:

For more details, visit the About Reports page.
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Leverage the following APIs to access detailed insights into your Microsoft 365 apps:

For more details, visit the API reference page.

The Teams listing page now loads 100 sites at a time based on your selected sorting and filters. To view additional sites, simply scroll to load the next 100. This enhancement improves performance and enables you to quickly locate and access the team you need, especially when managing a large number of sites.

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The delete, enable, and disable operations apply only to the Teams loaded on the page.

User-level downloads for SaaS applications in the User Portal can now be globally restricted. This feature covers all formats, including Archive and MDS. When enabled, the download option will be disabled for users, thereby enhancing data security and ensuring compliance.

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This feature requires both Endpoint license and either Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace license. Customers with only an Endpoint license cannot access this functionality. For more information, see Download data using the inSync Web.

To enable this feature, please contact support.

An updated v2.0.7 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.7 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see:

​Administrator Management with AD/LDAP
The Administrator management using AD/LDAP is now generally available (GA).
With this functionality, the integration with AD/LDAP Connectors and AD Accounts is centralized to manage Druva administrators efficiently by the DCP administrators.
The Administrator management feature uses your existing Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration and simplifies managing Druva administrators within the Druva Cloud Platform (DCP).

Benefits:

What's New?

Action Required: Upgrade all existing AD/LDAP Connectors to the new version. This upgrade is necessary to grant the required permissions to inSync & DCP administrators to modify mappings and configurations.

❗ Important
Existing AD mappings created for user management will continue to function. However, to allow inSync & DCP Administrators to modify mappings and related configurations, DCP Administrators must upgrade all existing AD/LDAP connectors.

For more information, see:

Our enhanced Microsoft Groups backup and restore capabilities now enable you to perform both - full and granular recovery of Group Mailbox data.

This comprehensive solution safeguards your critical Microsoft Group data. You can now easily restore selective or all records of lost or deleted Group Mailbox emails, conversations, and attachments, minimizing disruptions and ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

Group Mailbox backup will be enabled for all customers who have Groups configured for backup within the next 90 days. If you wish to enable Group Mailbox backup sooner, please contact Support.

For more information, see Restore Groups data.

This enhancement significantly reduces the increase in storage consumption due to versioning during the restore process.

This enhancement is automatically applied to all SharePoint site restore operations, except for in-place restores involving an existing Document Library. For more information, see Restore SharePoint Online data.

The Auto Delete preserved user Setting now allows you to retain preserved user accounts for up to 20 years (7305 days) before they are automatically deleted. Previously, the maximum retention period was 3 years (1095 days).

This update provides greater flexibility for managing preserved user data, while still ensuring automated deletion after the specified timeframe elapses.

For more information, see Auto-delete preserved users.

Smart Backup utilizes an advanced site change detection algorithm to selectively back up SharePoint Online sites. This ensures that only sites with changes are backed up, while unmodified sites are skipped.

To ensure your data stays up to date, Smart Backup requires you to set a mandatory backup interval, to reconcile data across all sites. You can choose a frequency that works best for your needs, ranging from 2 days to quarterly (90 days). The default setting is set to a weekly backup (7 days).

Key Benefits

For more information, see Smart Backup for SharePoint

Centralized reporting with the enhanced framework for Non-Compliant Files and Defensible Delete for Email reports is now available on the Druva Cloud Platform Console. The newer reports version allows easier data comparison, better interpretation, and better usability.

📝 Note: Existing reports will remain available under the Data Governance > Reports page.

Benefits:

The newer reporting interface provides the following benefits:

For more information, see

Added a new "Mapping" column to the Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace User Provisioning report. This column displays the highest priority mapping used for importing each user.

For more information, see User Provisioning Report for Microsoft 365.

This update enhances PST file handling through resumable zip downloads, reduced disk usage, faster downloads, and better overall performance.

For more information, see Download Exchange Online data

The Auto delete preserved user setting now allows you to retain preserved user accounts for up to 3 years (1095 days) before they are automatically deleted. Previously, the maximum retention period was 1 year (366 days).

This update provides greater flexibility for managing preserved user data, while still ensuring automated deletion after the specified timeframe elapses.

For more information, see Auto-delete preserved users.

We've enhanced our Exchange Online backup solution to eliminate failures caused by user domain, username, or UPN changes.

With this release, user attributes such as email addresses, domains, and User Principal Names (UPNs) are now automatically updated following Identity Provider (IDP) synchronizations. Authentication leverages the updated user attributes, maintaining a valid sync token at all times to ensure seamless access.

The best part? No more raising support tickets for domain, username or UPN updates! Our backup process adapts seamlessly, saving you time and effort. Just sit back and enjoy uninterrupted protection for your critical Exchange data.

For more information, see Sync users.

Centralized reporting with the enhanced framework for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace reports is now available on the Druva Cloud Platform Console. The newer version of reports provides better data interpretation, expanded abilities, and a user-friendly design.

Benefits

The newer reporting interface provides the following benefits:

The following Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace reports are available with this release:

For more information see About reports.

Centralized reporting with the enhanced framework for Global Custodian and eDiscovery Download Jobs reports is now available on the Druva Cloud Platform Console. The newer reports version allows easier data comparison, better interpretation, and better usability.

📝 Note: Existing reports will remain available under the Data Governance > Reports page.

Benefits:

The newer reporting interface provides the following benefits:

For more information, see

Druva now supports backup and restore capabilities for Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. Shared Channels allow flexible cross-organisation collaboration by enabling controlled sharing of a Teams channel across Azure Active Directory tenants. With this release, you gain enhanced control over your Microsoft Teams Shared Channel data.

No action is required.

Shared Channels that have already been discovered and backed up will be automatically updated to the correct configuration (linked to the appropriate team, renamed as Shared Channel, etc.) during the next Auto-Discovery, Manual Discovery, Scheduled Backup, or Manual Backup operation, whichever is performed first.

Introducing our new restore APIs, offering seamless functionality to list SharePoint sites, Exchange Online users, OneDrive accounts, and restore points. Effortlessly initiate restores for SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Exchange Online, ensuring a smooth and efficient data recovery process.

The following is a list of APIs, along with a brief description:

For more information, see the Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

We have now enhanced the file violations list APIs to provide additional details for better insights and management of non-compliant files.

Here is the list of newly added parameters:

For more information, see Get File Violations.

We have now migrated Archived Non-Compliant and Defensible Delete For Files reports to our centralized reporting platform.

Now, as per your requirements, you can quickly get report data.

With this, you can:

For more information, see

An updated v2.0.6 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.6 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see:

This release introduces Administrator Management functionality using your existing Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration. This simplifies managing Druva administrators within the Druva Cloud Platform (DCP).

❗ Important

The availability of this feature may be limited based on the license type, region, and other criteria. To access this feature, contact your Druva Account Manager or Druva Support.

Upgrade all existing AD/LDAP Connectors to the new version. This upgrade is necessary to grant the required permissions to inSync & DCP administrators for modifying mappings and configurations.

❗ Important

Existing AD mappings created for user management will continue to function. However, to allow inSync & DCP Administrators to modify mappings and related configurations, DCP Administrators must upgrade all existing AD/LDAP connectors.

For more information, see

With Enterprise Key Management, you can use keys generated from your AWS Key Management Service (KMS) account to encrypt and decrypt the data backed up by Druva inSync. This new feature adds an extra layer of encryption beyond Druva's default backup encryption, giving you more control over your data security.
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For more information, see Enterprise Key Management for Druva Cloud Protection

Enterprise Key Management is available on request. To enable this feature for your account, contact Support.
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We're excited to introduce support for the deployment of Auxiliary Apps, a powerful new feature designed to protect backup SLAs from M365 API throttling by automatically and proactively installing Auxiliary Apps.

Auxiliary Apps are supported for the following Microsoft 365 apps - SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange Online, and Public Folders.

Enable the Auxiliary apps setting in the Druva Cloud Microsoft 365 console. For more information, see the documentation.

📝 Note

The availability of this feature may be limited based on the license type, region, and other criteria. To access this feature, contact your Druva Account Manager or Druva Support.

With this release, you have even more control over your Microsoft Planner data! You can now perform both full and granular restores of Planner data as part of a Group restore process.

For more information, see Restore Groups data.

While you experience the speed and power of Druva’s 100% SaaS Cloud-first data protection platform, we are committed to ensuring that your entire journey with us is as seamless as possible. So, here’s introducing the Druva help center; a self-serve-first help experience that offers quick access to assistance whenever you need it. The new help center functions as the primary repository for all information, delivering a significantly more personalized and contextual experience when accessed through the product console.

Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s changed:

We have ensured that the transition to help.druva.com is seamless for you. We recommend that you update your bookmarks, and ensure you're using the latest version of client software to access this help experience for the Client.

Go ahead and explore the enhanced experience or learn more.

An updated v2.0.5 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.5 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see

We have enhanced the error messages for SharePoint Online (SPO). This improvement makes it easier to diagnose issues, understand root causes, and resolve problems quickly on your own.

Here is a glimpse:

This release has minor bug fixes

AD/LDAP Connector v6.2 is now available for Cloud, which includes minor security fixes.

Customer action required: Upgrade to AD/LDAP connector v6.2.

Download the latest AD/LDAP connector here.

In addition to the existing Microsoft 365 apps, we have extended support for Planner, a task-tracking app used for collaboration in Microsoft 365. If the Planner data is accidentally deleted or lost due to ransomware attacks, it is permanently deleted. Moreover, if a group is deleted, the associated Plans will also be deleted. To avoid this data loss, we are offering a comprehensive solution to protect Microsoft 365 data, ensuring that all data is recoverable. You can now securely backup, restore, and manage Planner data, allowing teams to focus on their work without worrying about data loss.

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We have now enhanced the users’ search capabilities for legal administrators. Legal administrators can now search and view data of users other than legal hold users using the Federated Search > File Search and Email Search options.

❗ Important

To get a view of these newly added options for users' search, the custom role must have a combination of Legal Hold Management rights > View Legal Hold and Data Governance > Access Federated Search plus any one or all of the following rights - User Management, Deployment Management, Profile Management, Backup and restore management, Data Governance, Alerts and Reports Management, CloudCache Management.

For more information, see

For release notes of previous cloud updates, see Archived Release Notes - SaaS Apps.
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