AvePoint Elements February Release: Smarter Governance, Streamlined Administration, and Flexible Protection

The February release of AvePoint Elements introduces targeted updates that help IT teams and managed service providers (MSPs) strengthen governance, simplify day-to-day administration, and optimize licensing across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. From flexible Classroom backup licensing to unified Teams and Exchange management, this release gives organizations clearer visibility and greater control at scale.

Pooled Licensing for Google Classroom Backup

Cloud Backup for Google Classroom now supports pooled licensing for both license assignment rights (LAR) customers and managed service provider (MSP) customers. Instead of managing licenses at the individual classroom level, organizations can now draw from a shared capacity model across all protected classrooms.

This shared-capacity model simplifies license management, eliminates rigid per-classroom constraints, and makes it significantly easier to scale protection as usage grows. As environments expand or contract, protection can adapt without the administrative overhead of constantly reassigning individual licenses.

Unified Teams Management in User Management

Administration of Microsoft Teams is now fully integrated into User Management, providing administrators with a single, centralized location to manage users and their collaboration environments. From this unified experience, administrators can create new Teams, review Team details and metadata, manage channels and settings, and use search, filters, and bulk actions to streamline large-scale administration.

By centralizing Microsoft Teams management within User Management, AvePoint Elements helps organizations maintain organized, compliant collaboration spaces even across the largest and most complex tenants.

Streamlined Organization Management

AvePoint Elements now includes a dedicated Organizations panel within Tenant Settings, accessible directly from User Management. This centralized view simplifies the administration of multi-organization and hierarchical environments by bringing structural management into a single interface.

From this panel, administrators can create and edit organizations, configure display names and system names, define availability modes, review child organizations and hierarchies, manage associated content types, and view audit logs and organizational details. Together, these improvements reduce administrative complexity while improving visibility across complex tenant environments.

Hybrid Exchange Management Enhancements

The latest Elements update expands support for hybrid Microsoft Exchange environments by allowing administrators to create and update key Exchange objects directly within AvePoint Elements. Supported objects include mail-enabled security groups, distribution groups, functional roles, and contacts.

For hybrid deployments, AvePoint Elements provisions and updates these objects in local Active Directory and on-premises Microsoft Exchange using Exchange Management Shell. Editing hybrid Exchange mailboxes is also supported. In cloud-only tenants, administrators automatically see a streamlined experience that surfaces only the controls relevant to their environment, reducing complexity and helping prevent misconfiguration.

Expanded macOS App Support for Intune

Managing macOS devices through Microsoft Intune is now more flexible with expanded application support in AvePoint Elements. Administrators can deploy and manage a wide range of macOS app types directly through the platform, including disk image (DMG) installers, package (PKG) installers, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Defender Advanced Threat Protection), Microsoft 365 Apps, as well as web clips and web links.

Applications can be added, edited, and updated through a streamlined workflow, making it easier to standardize macOS application management and maintain consistency across the environment.

Auto Scale Licensing to Reduce Overspend

New Auto Scale Licensing capabilities help partners reduce overspending by automatically aligning subscription quantities with marketplace availability. Through the new Auto Decrease functionality, administrators and partners can configure automatic license reductions per plan, define priority order for plan decreases, set schedules and subscription scopes, and review real-time refund actions.

In addition, partners gain full visibility into refund and adjustment history and can reset quantities when needed. These capabilities provide transparent, controlled license optimization across all managed tenants.

Extended Portal Access Role

Enhancements to the Portal Access role simplify access delegation and improve scalability for partners managing multiple customers and tenants. With this update, users can be created without functional role dependencies, roles can sync seamlessly from the managed service provider level to individual tenants, and permissions can be applied consistently across tenants, customers, and customer groups.

This streamlined access model makes role assignment more intuitive while maintaining the control required for large, distributed partner environments.

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