Drive Copilot Adoption and Ensure a Robust Data Foundation with AvePoint’s February Updates
The latest updates to the AvePoint Confidence Platform, launching on February 9th, are designed to accelerate Copilot adoption, strengthen data security posture, and enhance governance across platforms. This release introduces the first of our purpose-built Command Centers, consolidating data insights from across the Confidence Platform into a single, unified view while offering AI-driven recommendations for next steps. With new tools and greater flexibility, February’s updates make it easier to safeguard, analyze, and manage critical data with improved resilience and efficiency.
Key Highlights:
- Streamlined Interface: Effortlessly navigate the Confidence Platform with an enhanced, user-friendly design.
- AI Confidence Command Center: Gain comprehensive visibility into Copilot licenses, security, and data ownership, complemented by AI-driven recommendations to optimize your strategy.
- MyHub General Availability: Experience improved renewals, an upgraded service catalog, unified task management, and OneDrive security assessments, all with seamless content disposition integration.
- Unified SharePoint Analytics: tyGraph for SharePoint and tyGraph Pages are now consolidated into a single Power BI app, simplifying user property management and automating attribute mapping for efficient reporting.
- EnPower and Copilot Studio Integration: Monitor Copilot Studio adoption with insights into agent creation and enforce policies to protect them.
- Expanded Content Management: AvePoint Opus now supports Box and Google Storage, enhancing your content management and export capabilities.
- Advanced Backup Support: Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 introduces data deletion support for private and shared channels, detailed job metrics for express recovery, and a streamlined experience for self-service data recoveries. Backup and recovery capabilities now include the protection of Azure DevOps Pipeline, Azure AD B2C and Azure SQL Data Backup. New zero-trust controls for Google Workspace and advanced security features for Salesforce backups are also introduced.
See all the latest updates to AvePoint Confidence Platform or click on the links below to jump to a specific product:
- AvePoint Cloud Backup for backup and recovery
- AvePoint Cloud Governance for data governance
- AvePoint EnPower for access and workflow administration
- AvePoint Policy for policies and insights
- AvePoint Insights for policies and insights
- AvePoint Opus for information lifecycle management
- AvePoint tyGraph for adoption analytics
AvePoint Cloud Backup for backup and recovery
What's New in Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365?
We’ve rolled out powerful enhancements to improve backup visibility, data management, and security, making it easier for organizations to manage their Microsoft 365 data with flexibility and efficiency. Users can now 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 also provides enhanced job metrics, including start time, end time, and duration for express recovery points.
Our new interface and email updates now help users differentiate between benign unusual activities and potentially malicious suspicious files, enabling quicker and more effective responses.
Managing data is now more flexible with expanded deletion capabilities— users can search and delete files from private and shared channels, and folder-level deletion is supported for Teams and Group sites, and when restoring Exchange Online mailboxes, users can sort items (e.g., oldest first) for more precise recovery.
What’s new in Cloud Backup for Dynamics 365?
A powerful, new alerting feature now allows users and administrators to be notified of record changes. Configurable at both the record and organization levels, this feature triggers email alerts whenever an entity is added, deleted, or modified beyond an acceptable threshold. This proactive system ensures that administrators and designated recipients are informed immediately, allowing stakeholders to take swift action in the event of data loss or changes, rather than waiting for the changes to be noticed later.
What's New in Cloud Backup for Salesforce?
Cloud Backup for Salesforce now offers enhanced security, flexibility, and control. Security trimming for the end-user restore app ensures users can only see records they have access to, improving both security and experience. Scheduled data export allows users to automatically export audit logs, providing better control and convenience for reporting. Salesforce archiving is now more powerful with advanced filtering options and Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) support, making it easier to find specific records.
Additionally, users can restore archived records, creating a more seamless and efficient archiving process. These updates make Cloud Backup for Salesforce a more secure, efficient, and user-friendly solution for managing and protecting critical data.
What's New in Cloud Backup for Google Workspace?
With the new public API for backup monitoring, Google backup jobs can be tracked directly through our public API, giving organizations more visibility and control over their backup processes. Additionally, zero trust controls for Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) introduce secondary admin approval, adding an extra layer of security when handling sensitive data requests. These enhancements ensure a more secure, efficient, and customizable backup experience for Google Workspace users.
What's New in Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS?
Azure AD B2C now supports backup and restore for users, subscription reports, and account management settings, while a new licensing model aligned with Entra ID simplifies your management process. Additionally, Azure SQL data backup is now generally available, offering comprehensive protection for your databases.
Regional support has expanded to include New Zealand North (Auckland) and Qatar Central (Doha), increasing global coverage for your backups. VM backup reports now include VM names, and a notification profile selection feature will be added soon to streamline report management.
This release introduces support for Azure DevOps Pipeline, with the latest phase integrating Azure Repos Git Pipeline components for better alignment with your development workflows. Finally, enhanced Azure VM backup brings both performance and cost improvements, eliminating the need for full backups every 3 months. Now, weekly retention merges incremental backups for a more efficient and cost-effective process.
AvePoint Cloud Governance for data governance
What's New in AvePoint Cloud Governance and My Hub?
The new MyHub experience is now generally available, delivering enhanced content management, governance, and security insights. Users can efficiently manage OneDrive content, review deletion requests, and take action on high-risk data within their workspaces. Administrators can enable the new experience in Cloud Governance settings, allowing a smooth transition and feature validation before full deployment.
The latest dynamic services updates enhance control and flexibility. Administrators can restrict or allow external domains for secure collaboration, customize library settings with ease, and streamline site provisioning with built-in actions for feature activation, record management, and metadata configuration.
Import of custom user properties for use as metadata or workflow conditions within Cloud Governance allows administrators to leverage custom metadata to enhance the flexibility and specificity of governance rules and workflows. This new metadata type further enhances organizational context reporting, providing deeper insights into managed objects.
For improved content lifecycle management, AvePoint Opus integration now supports site collection archiving, optimizing storage while maintaining easy access to critical data. Power BI Workspace management updates also introduce stronger governance controls, including escalation options to remove or replace users in roles, restore access, and audit activities. Users can now ensure active role membership by syncing responsible users to Power BI workspaces, providing greater oversight and control.
AvePoint EnPower for access and workflow administration
What's New in AvePoint EnPower?
EnPower now integrates with Copilot Studio, giving organizations greater control over agent management with advanced discovery, access controls, and reporting. Gain insights into early adoption and enforce policies to protect your agents, with enhanced management, workflows, dashboards, and governance features coming soon.
Configurable guest user alerts now automatically notify workspace owners when guest users are added, keeping them informed. Metadata-triggered renewals streamline governance by launching renewal processes when workspace metadata changes outside of Cloud Governance, ensuring accurate and up-to-date reporting.
Additionally, flexible workflows further enhance automation, allowing processes to trigger based on user properties, membership types, roles, or AvePoint product configurations. Whether managing SharePoint sites, Power BI workspaces, Teams, or Microsoft 365 Groups, EnPower simplifies governance with intelligent automation.
AvePoint Policies for policies and insights
What's New AvePoint Policies for Microsoft 365?
New policy templates and rules proactively detect and address ownerless workspaces, preventing gaps in accountability and reducing compliance risks. With these automated policies, organizations can maintain seamless governance and enforce structured management across their Microsoft 365 environment.
AvePoint Insights for policies and insights
What's New in AvePoint Insights for Microsoft 365?
AvePoint Insights now delivers stronger risk management and governance controls, empowering organizations to stay ahead of potential threats and improve accountability. New custom alerts for risky users enable proactive security measures by notifying designated recipients when new threats are detected. Administrators can preview risky user details and take immediate action to mitigate potential risks.
Cloud Governance integration now supports primary and secondary contacts, improving data management and accountability in Insights. This update ensures clear ownership and streamlined governance for managed objects. Additionally, the Entra ID activity feed retention add-on allows organizations to store activity logs beyond the default 90-day limit, with options ranging from 1 to 10 years – or indefinitely – for greater visibility and compliance.
AvePoint Opus for information lifecycle management
What's New in AvePoint Opus?
Opus is transforming information lifecycle management with powerful new capabilities. Maestro AI, the intelligence layer of Opus, now scans and classifies .msg email files, improving accuracy and efficiency. With expanded support for French localization and seamless integration with Box and Google Cloud storage, managing content across platforms has never been easier.
Opus now also automatically enforces document classification in SharePoint, ensuring files moved between libraries retain the correct classification, reducing inconsistencies.
For physical records management, importing template suites is now faster, and refined field positioning in templates allows seamless customization without disrupting existing layouts.
AvePoint tyGraph for adoption analytics
What's new in AvePoint tyGraph?
tyGraph for SharePoint and tyGraph Pages are now seamlessly integrated in a single Power BI app that connects to the Confidence Platform. Manage users, access settings, and view the new tyGraph SharePoint Analytics Power BI Report—your all-in-one source for SharePoint analytics. With searches, clicks, time on page, file activity, and user properties consolidated in one Power BI model, you’ll gain a comprehensive view of your SharePoint data.
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Communications managers can now identify the top discussions that delivered the most value to your audience through Community Insights, offering better visibility into what resonates with your community.
Plus, revamped user property management enables easy integration of external data sources, while a new user property workflow automates the mapping of user attributes to create new user properties, streamlining reporting and saving countless hours of manual data management.
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Esther is AvePoint's Director of Technical Writing.
