written by: Krzysztof Widła, on
On February 9, the latest update to the AvePoint Confidence product platform was unveiled as originally planned. The changes focus on accelerating and improving the adoption of Copilot technology, strengthening native security and improving the management layer across products.
The update includes the first dedicated Command Center, which consolidates data from across the Confidence platform into a single, integrated view. With AI-based recommendations, users receive guidance on next steps. New tools and greater flexibility enable more effective security, analysis and management of critical data, increasing resilience and operational efficiency.
AvePoint has made significant enhancements that increase backup visibility, improve data management and enhance security. This enables organizations to manage Microsoft 365 data even more efficiently and flexibly.
New is the ability to configure Google Cloud Storage as a Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) option with built-in validations to ensure secure and accurate data storage.
Cloud Backup Express now offers more detailed job metrics, including start time, end time and duration information for Express Recovery Points.
A refreshed interface and updated email notifications help users quickly distinguish between harmless unusual activity and potentially malicious suspicious files, enabling a faster and more effective response.
With enhanced removal capabilities, AvePoint offers even more flexibility in data management. Users can now search for and delete files from both private and shared channels, as well as delete entire folders in teams and group sites.
When restoring Exchange Online mailboxes, an option to sort items (e.g., “oldest first”) is available for more precise and efficient recovery.
A new advanced alert feature allows users and administrators to monitor changes to records in real time. Configurable both at the record level and across the organization, it sends email alerts when any entity is added, deleted or modified beyond a set acceptance threshold. This allows administrators and designated recipients to respond immediately to data loss or unexpected changes, eliminating the risk of delays in detecting problems.
Notification rules
Cloud Backup for Salesforce introduces greater security, flexibility and control. New application access restrictions ensure that end users see only those records for which they have permission, enhancing security and user experience.
A data export scheduler feature enables automatic export of audit logs for easier control and reporting. Improved Salesforce backup offers filtering options and support for Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL), which speeds up searches for specific records.
In addition, the ability to restore archived records ensures a smoother and more efficient archiving process. All these enhancements make Cloud Backup for Salesforce an even more secure, efficient and user-friendly tool for managing and protecting critical data.
A new public API for backup monitoring enables organizations to track Google backup jobs directly through the public API, increasing visibility and control over backup processes.
The introduced zero-trust control for Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) adds an additional layer of security through secondary administrator approval, which is especially important when processing sensitive data.
These innovations make Cloud Backup for Google Workspace a more secure, efficient and customized solution.
Azure AD B2C gains support for backing up and restoring users, generating subscription reports and managing account settings.
A new Entra ID-compliant licensing model simplifies the process of managing access and permissions.
In addition, a backup feature for Azure SQL is now fully available, which offers comprehensive database protection, providing organizations with complete security for data stored in the cloud.
In the latest release, AvePoint introduces support for Azure DevOps Pipeline, integrating Azure Repos Git Pipeline components to better align the platform with development team workflows.
Improved backup of Azure virtual machines (VMs) is another major change. With the new approach, the need for full backups every three months has been eliminated. Now weekly retention automatically combines incremental copies, making the process more efficient and cost-effective.
AvePoint is expanding its global reach, adding support for the New Zealand North (Auckland) and Qatar Central (Doha) regions. As a result, organizations in these areas can count on full data protection with AvePoint backups.
Virtual machine (VM) backup reports now include detailed information, including VM names, making it easier to manage data and control backup processes.
A notification profile will also soon be introduced to improve report management, allowing administrators to respond more quickly to changes in the backup environment.
Support for Azure DevOps Pipeline
A new version of MyHub is now generally available, offering improved content management, governance and better security insights. Users can now:
Administrators have the option to enable the new interface in Cloud Governance settings, allowing for a smooth transition and testing of the features before full deployment.
The latest MyHub updates introduce advanced governance options:
Ability to define library settings yourself
Importing custom user properties as metadata or workflow conditions in Cloud Governance allows administrators to create more flexible and precise rules and processes. The new metadata type strengthens organizational context reporting, providing deeper insights into managed objects and improving data management.
Integration with AvePoint Opus now enables archiving of entire site collections, allowing for:
In addition, Power BI Workspace updates introduce new features such as:
Synchronization of responsible users with Power BI Workspace guarantees active control of role membership, which translates into greater oversight and security.
AvePoint introduces integration with Copilot Studio, offering organizations even more control over agent management. With advanced features such as:
administrators can closely monitor the Copilot Studio deployment process and the effectiveness of the management policies in place. Dashboards and powerful agent management tools will also soon be available to further improve management and process automation.
Manage agents created in Copilot Studio
EnPower is introducing automatic notifications for workspace owners, who can now receive alerts whenever a guest account is added to their space.
Automation of workspace renewal processes triggered by metadata changes provides full control over governance. Even if a metadata value is changed outside the AvePoint Cloud Governance system, the renewal process will be initiated automatically. This allows organizations to keep their workspaces up to date at all times, even when there is an external impact on the data.
EnPower’s new flexible workflows enable automation at an even higher level. Processes can now be triggered based on:
Whether you manage SharePoint sites, Power BI workspaces, Teams, or Microsoft 365 Groups, EnPower significantly simplifies management with intelligent automation. The new features allow organizations to optimize processes and minimize manual administrative activities, making the work environment more efficient and secure.
AvePoint introduces new automation templates and policies that proactively identify and resolve ownerless workspaces. This enables organizations to:
Automated oversight mechanisms make asset management simpler and more efficient, and organizations can maintain order and transparency across the ecosystem.
AvePoint Insights introduces advanced controls and risk management mechanisms that allow organizations to:
Administrators can now quickly view details about at-risk users and take immediate action to minimize risk.
Enable notifications for at-risk users
New integration with Cloud Governance supports primary and secondary contacts, which streamlines data management, improves oversight of managed objects, and provides clear assignment of responsibility.
The addition of Entra ID activity feed retention allows activity logs to be kept for up to 10 years (compared to the 90 days offered by Microsoft). This enables organizations to:
Opus introduces innovative features that transform content management:
Automatically force classification for all files stored in SharePoint Online
tyGraph for SharePoint and tyGraph Pages are now integrated into a single Power BI application, enabling:
By consolidating key data such as searches, clicks, time spent on site, file activity, user properties, all in a single Power BI model, AvePoint delivers:
AvePoint tyGraph SharePoint Analytics Power BI Report
If you want to adopt Copilot even better for your organization, now is the perfect time. A free Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Report is available for a trial period. AvePoint invites you to participate in the benchmarking to:
AvePoint is taking SharePoint intranets to the next level with its new Intranet Benchmarking Report. It is designed to optimize outreach, engagement and overall effectiveness. It allows you to evaluate successes and focuses on areas with the highest ROI.
Communications managers can now identify the most important discussions that provide the most value to their audiences, and with Community Insights gain better insight into community needs and select content more effectively.
In addition, modernized user property management enables easy integration of external data sources, while a new workflow automates user attribute mapping, creating new user properties, streamlining reporting and saving hours of manual data management.
Import user properties
If you would like to get more information on this topic, please contact me: Krzysztof Widla, Senior Consultant Digital Worksplace, kwidla@it-dev.pl
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