March 22, 2025
Feature
Introducing Druva Support for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage
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.
Enhanced Microsoft Groups Functionality: Support for Group Mailboxes
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.
Customer Action
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.
SharePoint Online - Optimized storage consumption during site restore operations
This enhancement significantly reduces the increase in storage consumption due to versioning during the restore process.
Customer Action
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.
ENHANCEMENT
Enhanced Restore Options for Calendar
Our enhanced backup and restore capabilities enable you to recover full and granular Microsoft Exchange Online data. You can easily restore selective events or entire calendars, ensuring minimal disruptions to your business operations.
For more information, see Restore Exchange Online data.
Monitor Exchange Online Activities with Enhanced Error Logs
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:
Enhanced error classification: New error codes are implemented to deliver more accurate information and targeted resolutions.
Unified error reporting: Logs now aggregate all errors encountered during the device activity, summarized at the end of reports.
Streamlined troubleshooting: Consolidated logs, refined error codes, and timestamped error occurrences significantly expedite issue diagnosis and resolution.
For more information, see Microsoft 365 Errors.
Seamless access to the Teams Listing
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.
📝 Note
The delete, enable, and disable operations apply only to the Teams loaded on the page.
Data Governance
New filter type added to API for Legal Hold Policy
When using the List Legal Hold Policies v4 API, you can now also search for a Legal Hold policy by specifying the legalHoldTypeIds filter. For more information, see Legal Hold APIs v4.
Enhanced Whitelist capability: Regular Expression support
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.
Enhanced Data Security: User-Level Download Controls
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.
📝Note:
This feature requires both Endpoints 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.
January 11, 2025
Feature
Data Governance: eDiscovery Download client v2.0.9 update for Cloud
An updated v2.0.9 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor enhancements.
Customer Action Required: If the eDiscovery Download Client is disconnected, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.9 from the Downloads page.
For more information, see:
October 19, 2024
Feature
Introducing Smart Backup – the intelligent way to backup your SharePoint Online data
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
Mitigate API throttling issues.
Improve service level agreement (SLA) compliance for SharePoint sites undergoing content changes.
Customer Action
Default Enablement: The Smart Backup feature is enabled by default for all customers, therefore no action is required.
Opt-Out Option: If you prefer not to have this feature enabled, or if you have any questions, please contact our Support team.
Update Mandatory Backup Interval (optional): If necessary, adjust the backup interval to a duration between 2 and 90 days.
For more information, see Smart Backup for SharePoint
Enterprise Key Management for Microsoft 365
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.
Key benefits:
Use your AWS KMS-generated keys to protect Druva inSync backups
You have ownership of the encryption and decryption key, enabling your full control to revoke it anytime.
Druva will not store the key and the key will be requested when needed.
For more information, see Enterprise Key Management for Druva Cloud Protection
Customer action required
Enterprise Key Management is available on request. To enable this feature for your account, contact Support.
Protect Microsoft Teams Shared Channel
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.
What's New
Shared Channels will now be backed up and restored as Shared Channels instead of standard channels.
Both full and granular restores of Shared Channel data are supported.
Benefits
Enhanced Data Recovery: Recover lost or deleted Shared Channel data comprehensively, ensuring business continuity.
Granular Control: Choose to restore specific Shared Channel elements or the entire Shared Channel, saving time and effort.
Customer Action: None.
📝 Note:
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 Restore APIs
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:
List All SharePoint Site Collections: Retrieve the list of SharePoint site collections.
List All SharePoint Site Restore Points: Retrieve the list of restore points for protected SharePoint sites.
Restore a SharePoint Site: Performs a restore of a SharePoint site to a new or existing site.
List users based on query filters: Retrieve a filtered list of users based on query filters.
List All Protected Cloud Apps: Retrieve the list of all protected SaaS Apps.
List All OneDrive/Exchange Online Restore points: Retrieve the list of OneDrive/Exchange Online restore points.
Restore a OneDrive Account or Exchange Online Mailbox: Performs a restore for a OneDrive account or an Exchange Online mailbox to a new or existing account.
For more information, see the Developer Portal.
Customer action required: None.