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Our Cloud services are being updated in stages. If you do not see the updates mentioned here yet, they will be available in your region soon. To know more, see Druva Cloud Upgrade Process.

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

If you are an inSync GovCloud customer, see inSync GovCloud Updates.

Enhanced reports for Archived Non-Compliant and Defensible Delete For Files

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

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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Key benefits:

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.
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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.

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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.

What's New?

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

Enhanced and Intuitive error message for self-serve success

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.

Benefits:

Here is a glimpse:

This release has minor bug fixes

Introducing AD/LDAP Connector v6.2

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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Customer action required:

Federated Search | RBAC enhancement for legal administrators

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.

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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.

Customer action required:

For more information, see

Data Governance: eDiscovery Download client v2.0.4 update for Cloud

An updated v2.0.4 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.4 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see

This release has minor bug fixes.

This release has minor bug fixes.

You can now backup and restore Managed Metadata and Enterprise Keyword columns which are part of SharePoint Online Document Libraries and List. Furthermore, the restore of deleted site-level terms in the term store is also supported.

Action Required: We use Graph APIs to back up SharePoint Online data. To switch to the Graph APIs, you must reconfigure the Microsoft 365 app that you are using and approve the requested permissions.

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.

Additionally, to ensure point-in-time consistency between apps in a Microsoft Group, we are introducing a unified backup of Groups. The unified backup includes all critical pieces of Microsoft Groups, like Group Metadata, Planner, and Group site, together so that correlated data that is spread across the Groups ecosystem is available for restoration in one place.

Action required: Reconfigure the app to get the updated permissions.

📝 Note

If you want to start protecting your Microsoft Planner data, contact Druva support. Planner support will be available for all customers very soon! Stay tuned for the latest updates!

We have added a new AWS data storage location for the UAE region to add more flexibility to data storage requirements, especially for Druva customers across the UAE region.
Don't miss to check out a green icon for the UAE region on the Druva Cloud status page.

Here is a glimpse -

This release has minor bug fixes.

An updated v2.0.3 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with support for ARM binary for Mac M1 to work on both x86_64 and arm64 architectures.

You can now download and install the new ARM binary on M1 Macs without relying on Rosetta for the conversion of binary to be Mac compliant.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.3 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see"

Targeted Download is an API-based method for remote data retrieval, designed to gather data linked to specific users under a Legal-Hold policy. This approach allows legal administrators to employ their scripting skills and create customized automated workflows, using languages like Python or PowerShell, to selectively gather the necessary metadata or actual data. By eliminating irrelevant and duplicate data, this process reduces eDiscovery costs effectively. To learn more, see Using Target Download API.

The inSync Settings page is now renamed to Endpoint and SaaS Apps settings with the following enhancements:

Here is a glimpse

We've simplified data protection for Microsoft 365 by introducing a single configuration for all Microsoft 365 Groups applications. Now, you can easily set up a backup for all resources in one place, ensuring comprehensive protection.

Action Required: Review the updated backup and retention settings, as they have been modified based on specific parameters. For more details, refer to the Groups and Teams documentation.

Here is a glimpse

In addition, the following UI enhancements are now available:

To offer you a seamless and effortless experience in protecting your Microsoft 365 data, we have extended the simplified onboarding process to Groups, Teams, SharePoint, and Public folder apps by reducing and simplifying the configuration steps. With the new configuration wizard, you can now quickly configure your first backup right after discovery with just a few clicks.

For more information, see the Onboarding Guide.

This release has minor bug fixes.

Now you can protect Content Types at the Site and Global level in SharePoint. This enhancement ensures that data consistency is not lost when an item or document is recovered.

With this enhancement, you can now safeguard your composed but unsent emails from accidental or malicious deletions. It ensures that the emails in the Drafts folder are securely backed up, enabling seamless recovery whenever needed.

You can also search for backed-up emails from the draft folder using the Federated Search page's user name, created date, and subject filters. For more information, see How to search backed-up emails.

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These features are available only with Microsoft Graph APIs.

An updated v2.0.2 for eDiscovery Download Client is now available with minor security enhancements.

Customer Action Required: Upgrade to eDiscovery Download Client v2.0.2 from the Downloads page.

For more information, see"

Druva has started migrating to Microsoft Graph APIs v1.0 to back up data for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Microsoft also plans to deprecate the Outlook REST API for Exchange Online in 2023.

If you are using Druva to protect your Microsoft 365 data, you need to switch to the new APIs to:

To switch to the new Graph APIs, you must reconfigure the apps and approve the requested permissions.

Action Required: Reconfigure all the apps that you are using and approve the permissions. If you have configured any auxiliary apps for SharePoint Online, you must reconfigure all of them. If you have already reconfigured the apps based on the previous notification about migration to Graph APIs, you can skip this step.

The Profiles user interface is now refreshed to make the experience seamless and easy.
Here are the key enhancements:

Profile Listing Page

Create and Update Profile

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For more information, see Create and Manage Profiles for SaaS Apps.

Now, you can restore or download the entire mailbox in a single click in addition to restoring or downloading each mailbox item individually. We have also added the capability to download the entire mailbox in Archive format. After you trigger the download, the mailbox is downloaded in OS-friendly archive format.

Here is a glimpse of the update -

For more information, see Restore Exchange Online data.

Druva logs all administrators' actions in the Admin Audit Trail for Delete and Quarantine. Now, we extend this capability to actions taken by administrators from Federated Search for the following:

This helps administrators keep track of the status of the action, such as successful or failed, and assists Infosec and Data Compliance administrators during audits and data investigations.

Here is a glimpse of the update -

For more information, see,

Customer action required: None.

Sensitive Data Governance (SDG): Introducing listing APIs

You can now use the following list APIs to create your own custom reports for file and email violations.

For more information, see the Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

We observed an incorrect allocation of free Preserved Users and Shared Mailbox license count against active user licenses.

Action required: Procure additional Preserved User and Shared Mailbox licenses if total (free + purchased) licenses are already or nearly consumed by raising a case with Support.

You now have the option to configure a retention period of up to 360 months for backed-up Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace data and meet regulatory requirements for data compliance.

For more information, see Configure the Backup Retention Policy.

Customer action required: None.

You can now use the following search Get APIs to automatically search and view details for the required files and emails using the SHA1 checksum value:

Customer action required: None.

For more information, see Developer portal.

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