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Archived Release Notes 2 - MSP

Provides updates on historical MSP Releases

Updated over 8 months ago

December 29, 2022

This release has minor bug fixes.

December 19, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

Enhanced Hybrid Workloads alerts

With the improved alert experience, MSP Administrators will receive alerts only if they specifically subscribe to them. This improvement applies to all new administrators and Hybrid Workloads tenants.

By default, Hybrid Workloads alerts will be disabled for all new administrators and provisioned tenants. Administrators can subscribe to intended alerts by accessing individual tenants.

Note: Existing Administrators will continue to receive alerts for existing tenants unless they modify their alert subscriptions by accessing the tenant settings.

Customer action required: None

FIXED ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-5475

Fixed the compliance issue to generate new non-compliance alerts and reflect updated data for compliance reports.

December 01, 2022

NEW FEATURE

The following features are now available -

  • Endpoint Data Protection

  • Migrate discrete Endpoint customers for centralized management

  • MSP - V2 APIs

Endpoint Data Protection

Good things come in threes! In addition to Hybrid Workloads and Microsoft 365, now you can also offer Endpoints data protection to your customers.

  • Endpoints data protection is available only with Elite and Enterprise Editions.

  • Endpoint data protection is not available by default. If you wish to subscribe and offer Endpoint data protection to your customers, contact your Druva account representative.

While majority of user data still resides on their devices, with remote work and BYOD, it is crucial for organizations to protect their users’ data. Administrators can ensure that in the incidences like data corruption or theft, the information is easily retrievable with minimal loss on production. Additionally, with rising security incidents and cybersecurity threats, it is no debate that the data on user devices needs to be protected.

Druva recognizes this need, and to further strengthen the portfolio, we are making Endpoints data protection available for MSPs. MSPs can offer it to their customers and enable them secure data on their user devices. Additionally, Endpoint data protection comes with Sensitive Data Governance & Legal Hold capabilities that enables administrators to identify compliance breaches associated with end-user data in their organization. For more information, see Protecting Endpoints with Druva.

Here is a glimpse -

Endpoints data protection can be added similarly as any other product to a customer account via the Service Plans page.

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Migrate discrete Endpoint customers for centralized management

You can now migrate your Endpoint customers managed externally as discrete tenants to the MSC console. After migration, you can leverage the MSC console to manage all the customers centrally, and monitor the utilization of quota and consumption units.

Migration process is driven using the new MSC Migration console. During each stage of the migration, you are notified by email with the required action.

Action required: Contact Support to plan and initiate the migration of your customers.

MSP Version 2 APIs

With the addition of Endpoint data protection, Druva has enhanced its APIs to enable the automation of tasks related to Endpoints in addition to Hybrid Workloads & Microsoft 365.


The following APIs are available for MSP administrators to view information, manage or automate their tasks in the MSC Portal -

  • Admins

  • Service Plans

  • Customers

  • Tenants

  • Tasks

  • Reports

For more information, see Developer Portal.

KNOWN ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-5475

Compliance monitoring features are not available due to which -

  • New non-compliance alerts are not generated.

  • Compliance report does not show updated data.

November 18, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

New Microsoft 365 Jobs page

Now, getting to know the status about the Jobs - backup and restore activities triggered for Microsoft 365 apps in your customer environments is a breeze!

The information on the Jobs page can be helpful to see the status about the jobs and take any remediate action, if required.

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MSP Administrators can view the following information for -

  • Last Backups - View customer-wise record of all the last backup activities occurred for all the configured Microsoft 365 apps.

  • Restores - View customer-wise record of restores performed over the past 60 days period for all Microsoft 365 apps.

  • Live Activities - Track the live activities in progress for triggered backup and restore jobs. You can also pause and resume the activities.

Here is a sneak peek!

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To know more, see Monitor Jobs.

Deprecation

MSP Version 1 APIs

Druva has deprecated the Version 1 (V1) of MSP APIs.

If you are still consuming V1 APIs and have existing integrations, raise a case with Support.

October 15, 2022

Continuing our efforts to improve administrator experience, Druva has upgraded the Managed Services Center (MSC) Portal with refreshing UI & Workflow updates.

Enhancements

Efficiently Manage Customers

Create a New Customer without associating a product or tenant

Now, create a customer for record and save it. Associate a product or tenant later when you finalize the service plan and want to start actual data protection.

Additionally, when you hide the Customer Name from Druva you must now provide an alternate name in the Account Name field that will help Druva identify customer internally.

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Delete a Customer instantly

If you have a customer which does not have any product or tenant associated, you can delete it immediately.

Better way to view & manage Customer Information

Refreshed Customer Details page to view & manage Customer information

Add and manage products all from a single page!

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All new way to access the Customer Tenant Console

Reducing a step further, access the Tenant Console by just clicking the

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icon beside the Customer Name.

Earlier

Now

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Customize Table columns for an Intuitive User Experience

You can customize the table layout and choose to display the required information.

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Option to export information

New Export to CSV option on Customer & Service Plans details page, that enables you to download details of specific or all customers & service plans.

You can then ingest this information for further processing.

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For more information, see Managed Services Center documentation.

July 23, 2022

This release has minor bug fixes.

FIXED ISSUES

Issue

Description

DCP-9783

Cannot migrate the Hybrid Workloads (Phoenix) and Microsoft 365 customers to the Managed Services Center portal.

June 30, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

Added New Alerts and Audit Trails for deletion

We have introduced:

  • New alerts to keep the administrators updated about the status of deletion and cancelation for a tenant and customer.

  • New audit trail events related to deletion for auditing purposes.

Refer following information to know more about new alerts

The new alerts are as follows:

  • Delete Initiated - Tenant: Generated when you mark the product for deletion.

  • Delete Initiated - Customer: Generated when you delete all the products associated with the customer account.

  • Deletion - Customer: Generated when all the products associated with the customer account, its storage, and data are permanently deleted.

  • Deletion - Tenant: Generated when the product, its storage, and data are permanently deleted.

  • Undeleted - Tenant: Generated if you have canceled the deletion of a product within the suspension period (before 30 days or 24 hours based on the option selected while deleting the product).

  • Undeleted - Customer: Generated if you have canceled the deletion of all products associated with the customer account within the suspension period (before 30 days or 24 hours based on the option selected while deleting the product).

You can view these alerts on the Managed Services Center (MSC) portal under >Alerts section. Administrators can take corrective actions in case of accidental or malicious deletion with the help of these alerts.

Customer action required: To receive email notifications for these alerts, subscribe to the alert.

Refer following information to know more about new audit trails

The new audit trail events are as follows:

Delete initiated (product) - Generated when you mark the product for deletion.

Undelete (Product) - Generated if you have canceled the deletion of a product within the suspension period.

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Customer action required: None.

KNOWN ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-3869

The Delete Initiated - Customer and Undeleted- Customer alerts are not being generated.

June 2, 2022

NEW FEATURE

Define compliance settings for tenants​​​​​

MSP administrators can now closely monitor if their tenants comply with the compliance limits defined in the service plan. MSP administrators can now define compliance limits for Workloads, Backup Frequency, and Retention limits when creating a service plan. Druva periodically checks all configured workloads for the tenants and sends non-compliance alerts in case of any violations during configuration.

For more information, see Compliance settings for service plan.

May 19, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

Migrate Hybrid Workloads (Phoenix) customers to the MSC Console

You can now migrate your Hybrid Workloads (Phoenix) customers to the MSC console, which are managed externally as discrete tenants. For Microsoft 365 customers, this feature is already available.

For more information, see Migrate customers to the MSC Console.

May 05, 2022

NEW FEATURE

New Reports API​​​​​

You can now generate and view the following MSP reports using the Reports API.

For more information, see Reports API on the Druva developer portal.

April 07, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

MSP license expiry date is decoupled with the tenant license expiry date

You can now set a license expiry date higher than the MSP license expiry date for a tenant. You can configure the tenant license expiry date from the MSC portal.

For more information, see, Provisioning a new tenant.

March 24, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

Access multiple tenant consoles concurrently ​​​​​

You now have an option to download the extensions that allow you to access more than one tenant's consoles simultaneously.

You can download the extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers either from the Customers page or Go to Settings > Download.

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For more information, see Access Tenant Console.

Increase in quota for sandbox tenant type​​​​​

We have now increased the default quota to 1000 for new and existing sandbox tenant types.

For existing customers, if the assigned quota is set as 5, it will be automatically changed to 1000 with this enhancement.

FIXED ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-3063

Fixed the issue wherein administrators are unable to subscribe to alerts.

March 10, 2022

NEW FEATURE

Relax idle session timeout duration

For security reasons, by default, the administrators are automatically logged out of their sessions on the Druva product consoles if there is no activity for 30 minutes.

However, if you want to avoid undesired inactive session terminations and facilitate administrators with the required operational ease, you now have an option to extend the idle session duration up to 6 hours.

For more information, see, Configure Idle Session Timeout.

KNOWN ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-3063

Administrators are unable to subscribe to alerts.

February 24, 2022

ENHANCEMENT

Capability to edit Sandbox tenant details

You can now enable and add products and edit details for Sandbox tenants per your organization's requirements.

Customer action required: If a new product gets added after the provisioning of the MSP instance, you have to edit the sandbox tenant to add this new product. For example, the sandbox tenant had only the Hybrid Workload added while provisioning the MSP instance. Microsoft 365 gets added after that. You have to edit the sandbox tenant to add Microsoft 365.

For more information, see, Manage Customers.

Changes to MSP admin requirements for access to all features on the MSC portal

Now, you can access all features on the MSC portal only if you have at least two MSP administrators created. If there is only one MSP administrator in the MSC portal, a notification requests you create a second administrator.

Customer action required: None.

For more information, see Create and Manage administrators.

FIXED ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-3016

Fixed the issue wherein the products did not delete within a stipulated time.

February 10, 2022

There are no new features and enhancements in this release.

KNOWN ISSUES

Issue

Description

MSP-2015

For existing customers, administrators cannot edit the service plan with a backup frequency set to Daily with zero as the minimum and maximum value (Default) as the Save button remains disabled.

Workaround: You must change the default values to edit and save the service plan.

January 27, 2022

NEW FEATURE

Introducing third-party APIs for Druva MSP

Druva MSP APIs empower Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to streamline and integrate Druva MSC workflows into their pre-existing workflows and tools.

With APIs, you can integrate, automate, and orchestrate customer management workflows that otherwise require execution manually via logging into the MSC portal.

Customer action required: None

ENHANCEMENT

View the count of alerts generated for Hybrid Workloads

You can now view the number of alerts generated for Hybrid Workloads on the Customer Health tab for the following alert types:

This capability is helpful for auditing purposes and helps take corrective actions for business continuity.

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Customer action required: None.

For more information, see, Manage Customers.

Option to customize Customer listing page

You can now add and remove columns on the Customer listing page. The custom table column option allows you to display the required columns and view only the necessary details per your business requirements.

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Customer action required: None.

For more information, see Customize Table Columns on the Customer listing page.

January 15, 2022

New features

Migrate your Microsoft 365 customers to the MSC console for centralized management

You can now migrate your Microsoft 365 customers managed externally as discrete tenants to the MSC console. After migration, you can leverage the MSC console, manage all the customers centrally, and monitor the utilization of quota and consumption units.

You can execute the migration from the new MSC Migration console. During each stage of the migration, you are notified by email with the required action.

Action required: Contact Druva support to plan the migration of your customers.

For more information, see Migrate Microsoft 365 customers to the MSC Console.

Known Issue

Issue

Description

MSP-2728

The Learn more link within the email sent for successful customer migration is not working as expected.

December 30, 2021

New features

Automatic deletion of the product from Managed Services Center (MSC) portal

Do you wish to delete a customer along with the products associated with them? If yes, you can now do this from the MSC portal.

On the MSC portal, when you select Customers > Delete to perform a delete action for a customer, the product associated with that customer gets removed automatically.

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For more information, see Delete a Customer account.

Action required: Contact Support to enable the Delete product for customer and Delete product for customer now features.

Filter your customer list with the new Tenant Admin parameter

You can narrow down your customer listing based on the tenant admin associated with the customer. On the Customers listing page, click the filter icon and select the tenant admin from the dropdown to get a display and view of specific tenant administrators.

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Action required: None

For more information, see the Filter Customers list.

Known Issue

Issue

Description

MSP-2227

When an administrator tries to accept terms and conditions for a newly added tenant in a scenario wherein there was already one tenant initially that was not activated (did not accept terms and conditions) and in a suspended or deleted state, license expired error is displayed.

Workaround: To resolve this issue, do the following:

  1. Unsuspend or undelete the first tenant that is not activated.

  2. Add the new tenant and activate the new tenant - Accept terms and conditions.

  3. Suspend or delete the first tenant again.

December 16, 2021

New Feature

Consolidated reports for Microsoft 365 and Hybrid Workloads to understand product usage and consumption

The reports now include information about Microsoft 365 Druva service as well; wherein, you get a consolidated view of Hybrid workloads and Microsoft 365.

You can monitor product consumption and usage of the subscribed Druva services to gain actionable insights and make billing-related decisions and manage customer accounts.

The following reports are updated:

Subscribe, email, or download the required report sections in a PDF or CSV format. See, Managing Reports.

December 02, 2021

This release includes minor bug fixes and enhancements pertaining to Alerts and Reports.

November 18, 2021

New Feature

Introducing Microsoft 365 data protection and Governance services via Managed Service Center portal

We are excited to bring in the Microsoft 365 data protection and Governance feature for our Managed Service Partners (MSP) to help them adapt their portfolio of services to better align with the market demands and their customer’s changing technology and Cloud footprint.

With this capability, Managed Service Partners (MSP) can now provide holistic data protection and Governance offering to their customers who use the Microsoft 365 (M365) suite.

This capability is available in addition to the currently available Hybrid Workloads data protection.

Customer action required: Contact your Druva account representative to enable this new offering.

Note: Due to this new capability, the following features for both Hybrid Workloads and Microsoft 365 will currently not be available and will be available in the upcoming release:

  • Compliance Alerts

  • Reporting will display stale data.

  • Suspend customers

  • Delete customers

Enhancements

Flexibility to set backup frequency and retention limits

Lower (Min) and Upper (Max) compliance limits options are now added to the Backup Frequency and Retention limit section on the Edit/Add Service Plan page.

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With this enhancement, you can now provide Lower (min) and Upper (max) limits for Backup Frequency (Daily or Weekly) and Retention (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly) while adding or updating a service plan. Based on the Lower (min) and Upper (max) limits provided, you will receive alerts if the backup frequency or retention period does not adhere to the set limits and thus helps you monitor and optimize data backup.

For example, if you have provided 5 times (Daily/Weekly) as the Lower (min) and 10 times (Daily/Weekly) as Upper (max) limit for Backup Frequency, you will receive an alert if the backup frequency is less than 5 times (Daily/Weekly) and also when it is more than 10 times (Daily/Weekly).

For more information, see Create a new Service Plan.

Note: Compliance Alerts are currently disabled and will be available in the upcoming release.

UI improvements

With our goal to simplify the Managed Service Center (MSC) portal UI, we have made the following enhancements:

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September 23, 2021

Enhancements

The following enhancements have been released with today's cloud push.

Manage your customer accounts

We have enhanced the Managed Services Center portal to enable you to perform the following actions:

Enhanced Jobs Details page

The Jobs Details page has been enhanced to list all Disaster Recovery jobs. You can also backup, restore, cancel or pause a DR Job.

Multi-factor authentication

We have enhanced security by supporting multi-factor authentication for the Delete action through customer acknowledgments and sending an OTP via email. It is enabled for fail-safe administrators.

Fixed Issues

Issue

Description

PHN-36156

Cloud Platform Console intermittently displays error messages when accessed from the MSC portal. Due to this issue, the information populated in the Data Protection Summary and Service Utilization panels on Cloud Platform Console was not visible.

This issue has been fixed in this release.

Known Issues

Issue

Description

PHN-49446

DR Jobs will be shown only for the Default Organization of customers. DR Jobs for organizations created using Hybrid Workloads Management Console won't be visible.

Workaround: Contact Support.

July 15, 2021

Fixed Issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release:

Issue

Description

MSP-1112

The Read-Only MSP Administrators could not access all MSP Events. This issue is now fixed.

June 22, 2021

Managed Services Center portal is now generally available!

Druva launches a brand new Managed Services Center (MSC) portal for Druva service providers to meet their data protection needs. By partnering up with Druva, service providers can now leverage Druva SaaS offerings and deliver best-in-class data protection solutions to their customers.

The rich user interface of the Managed Services Center (MSC) portal enriches MSP Administrators to intuitively perform the following tasks:

For more information, see Managed Services Center.

Customer action required: Contact the Druva Sales team to get started.

Known Issues

  • Delete initiated (product) - Generated when you mark the product for deletion.

  • Undelete (Product) - Generated if you have canceled the deletion of a product within the suspension period.

  • Backup sets report

  • Tenant consumption report

  • Tenant Quota report

  • Global Usage report

  • Integration with Druva MSP APIs

  • Getting Started with Druva MSP APIs

  • Critical

  • Warning

  • Info

  • Global Usage Report

  • Tenant Consumption Report

  • Tenant Quota Report

  • You can map Microsoft 365 for the customers to the tailor-made service plans (all editions), and subscribe to them to avail and use this feature. For more information, see:

    • Create a new Service Plan

    • View, edit, and delete a Service Plan

  • Provision tenants for Druva Microsoft 365 Data Protection and Governance services, and manage the quota, storage details, number of users, and different statistical metrics to monitor customer health. For more information, see Provisioning a new tenant.

  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) dashboard is now renamed to Customer Health dashboard.

  • Credit Quota is now renamed to Quota.

  • Sorting of Customer listing in Service Plans details page is now according to Name and Quota.

  • Comments option is now added under the Contact details on the Customers page. Managed Service Providers (MSP) can use this feature for mentioning the contact's designation, team, or any other relevant details.

  • You can now schedule to delete a customer account.

    • An account can be deleted after 30 days. The customer account is set in a suspended state until the deletion process is initiated.

    • An account can be deleted after 24 hours. The customer account is set in a suspended state until the deletion process is initiated.

  • You can now suspend a customer account.

  • Quickly create service plans based on the business needs and manage customers

  • Manage report and report subscriptions

  • Track credit and storage consumption

  • Facilitate role-based administration to effectively manage customers and service plans.

  • Manage events and alerts, and their subscriptions

  • Get insights into job activities for your configured workloads

  • The Compliance Settings fields available on the Add Service Plan page are optional. However, the Cloud Push released on June 22, 2021, requires you to select the Workloads options while adding a service plan.

  • The Credit Quota field available on the Add Customer page is optional. However, the Cloud Push released on June 22, 2021, requires you to specify the credit quota while creating a customer.

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