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Release Notes - Microsoft Active Directory

August 01, 2026

ENHANCEMENT

Minimize Downtime with Fully Automated Active Directory Forest Recovery


📝NOTE: The availability of this feature may be limited based on the license type, region, and other criteria. To enable this feature, contact support.


Recover an entire Active Directory (AD) environment with minimal manual interaction through a fully automated orchestration setup. In a disaster scenario, this enhancement upgrades previous guided, runbook-based steps into a zero-touch, orchestrated workflow. This eliminates the need for extensive manual intervention, accelerating return-to-operation timelines and significantly reducing costly downtime compared to traditional recovery methods.

With this feature, administrators can:

  • Automate complex workflows: Execute end-to-end AD forest recovery automatically without stepping through manual blueprints.

  • Accelerate recovery timelines: Speed up the return-to-operation process during a disaster scenario when every second counts.

  • Reduce human error: Minimize manual intervention during high-stress disaster recovery events.

This enhancement significantly improves operational efficiency, disaster recovery performance, and business continuity timelines.

Customer Action Required: Ensure that you have upgraded the Microsoft Active Directory agent to the latest version - 2.0.0. Click here to upgrade.

July 25, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

July 11, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

June 27, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

June 13, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

May 30, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

May 17, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.


​May 02, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

April 18, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

April 04, 2026

This release has minor bug fixes.

Known Issue

Issue

Description

INS-253301

The Druva Active Directory agent may fail to connect to the Druva Cloud after a Forest Recovery onto a new device. This occurs because the configuration file requires an update following the recovery process.

Workaround: To resolve this issue, do the following:

  1. Locate the configuration file at C:\ProgramData\Druva\ActiveDirectory.

  2. Rename or delete this configuration file.

  3. Restart the Druva-ActiveDirectory Service via the services management console - Windows Services Manager (services.msc).

March 17, 2026

NEW FEATURE

Protect Microsoft Active Directory with Druva

Experience a unified identity protection suite that secures both on-premises Active Directory and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) from a single platform. This new capability ensures that administrators have access to clean, immutable backups to restore from if an on-premises environment is compromised, helping to prevent identity-based lateral movement by attackers.

With this feature, administrators can:

  • Secure the entire identity perimeter by covering both on-premises Active Directory and Entra ID within a single interface.

  • Restore individual objects, attributes, or containers—such as accidentally deleted users or altered Group Policies—without taking the entire domain controller offline.

  • Utilize guided workflows to recover an entire Active Directory Forest following catastrophic events like ransomware attacks or site failures.

  • Significantly improve the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) during major service disruptions.

This update enhances overall compliance and disaster recovery performance by providing a robust, immutable backup solution for hybrid identity infrastructures.

Customer Action Required: To enable this feature, administrators must have an Enterprise license for Microsoft Active Directory and should contact the support or sales team to activate data protection for their account.

To begin using Druva's comprehensive solution for Microsoft Active Directory, refer to the following documentation:

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