#AvePoint Opus October 2025

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: October 12, 2025

Release Date for the U.S. Government Environment: October 19, 2025

#General Updates

• You can now assign review tasks to members of a designated SharePoint group when configuring reviewers of an approval process.

#What’s New in Discovery and Analysis?

• The Discovery and analysis module now provides insights into the data stored within preservation hold libraries, enabling you to delete or move the data to an archival storage.

• Additional information has been added to the discovery and analysis simulation report, providing deeper insights into data management and optimization.

#What’s New in Content Sources?

• Opus now supports Teams & Groups as a new content source, enhancing information lifecycle management and storage optimization. It centralizes the management of both Teams and Groups collaboration data and the data of the connected SharePoint site collections.

  Note the following:

  • For service app (modern mode) users, you must re-authorize the app profile via AvePoint Online Services > Management > App management to enable the functionalities of this new content source.

  • For custom Azure app users: No additional permissions are needed. However, functionalities of the Storage Optimization module will be unavailable for this new content source.

  • If you want to fully utilize Teams & Groups, you must create a custom Azure app with delegated permissions and configure an app profile for it.

• For the SharePoint Online and Teams & Groups content sources, you now have the option to inherit parent classification for unclassified documents when configuring container level term settings, ensuring unclassified documents follow its parent classification.

• For the Physical Records content source, you can now fully customize barcode templates, allowing you to select specific data fields, font sizes, and precise label dimensions.

• For the SharePoint On-Premises content source, the related records functionality is now fully available. Please note that the related records management functionality is exclusively available for SharePoint On-Premises Subscription Edition.

#What’s New in Restore Center?

• You can now select all search results on the Restore center page to perform the restore operation in bulk for the archived content in SharePoint Online and OneDrive.

• The URL field for the advanced search under the eDiscovery tab of the Restore center page is no longer required.

#What’s New in Reporting?

• The Restored data and Archived sites reports are now available for the Google Drive content source.

#What’s New in the ReCenter Portal?

• ReCenter has been deployed to the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) data center.

• The stub restore page for ReCenter is now fully optimized for mobile devices. Users can restore files efficiently from any smartphone or tablet, with touch-friendly controls and clear, legible layouts.

• Flexible terminology mapping in ReCenter: Terminology mapping now supports replacing all terms that match or contain the specified source term (case-sensitive), making customizations more comprehensive.

• The ReCenter portal now displays three additional columns for archived SharePoint, Teams, and Groups items: Modified date, Archived date, and File size. Additionally, two additional columns are displayed in the exported CSV file: File name and Modified by.