AvePoint Cloud Governance April 2025

General Availability Date for the Commercial Environment: April 13, 2025

General Availability Date for the U.S. Government Environment: April 20, 2025

What’s New in the Modern Cloud Governance Admin Center?

- The following dynamic service updates are available in **Management** > **Dynamic services**: - The **Create Private channel** service allows business users to create private channels for teams through service requests. - The **Change private channel setting** service enables business users to modify private channel names, descriptions, owners, members, and site storage via service requests. - When configuring the **Change Microsoft 365 Group settings** service, IT administrators can now allow business users to change the group classification, description, name, privacy, sensitivity label, member subscription setting, Outlook experience setting, and outside sender setting via service requests. - When configuring the **Change ownership or membership** service, IT administrators can now predefine the owners and members to be added to groups and teams whose ownership or membership is changed via this service request using the **Predefined owners and members** setting. - The following updates have been made to the **Create site collection** service: - In the **Site collection permissions** setting, IT administrators can now define who can view and edit group membership when creating or editing SharePoint groups. - In the **Site type** setting, if available site types for this service are added by retrieving custom site types from an external data source, IT administrators can now configure whether to delete the solution file after site collection creation. - The **Specify alternate CSS URL** built-in action is now supported, allowing IT administrators to specify a CSS file URL to be used by the created site collection and all sites that inherit from it. - The following updates have been made to the bulk invitation mode of the **Invite guest user** service: - IT administrators can now configure separate approval tasks for newly invited guest users for both primary and secondary contacts. - The following settings are now supported in this mode: **Company name**, **Department**, and **Job title**, enabling business users to specify the information of guest users in this service request. - When adding metadata to certain provisioning services within a dynamic service main flow, IT administrators can now choose to inherit the value of previously added metadata labeled with **Previous metadata** and add it to workspace. This prevents business users from having to configure the same metadata repeatedly in a service request. - The **Create private channel settings** and **Create** **private channel** services are now available if your organization is using the Microsoft 365 Government GCC High environment. - When configuring the scope for the **Change contact** service, IT administrators can now choose to limit the groups or teams whose contact can be changed. - When configuring the scope for the **Change metadata** service, IT administrators can now choose to limit the groups or teams whose metadata can be changed. - The following profile updates are available in **Management** > **Profiles & templates**: - When configuring the automatic import profiles for Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, or site collections in **Automatic import profiles**, the following user roles are now available in stage profiles to define the stage assignees: $Object members, $Users with the Full Control permission, $Users with the Edit permission, and $Users with the Contribute permission. - When configuring group filter conditions of people picker filter profiles in **People picker filter profiles**, the **Name does not start with** condition is now supported for the **Specific groups** condition type, allowing groups starting with a specific prefix to be filtered out for fields applied with the profile. - IT administrators can now configure notifications to inform the administrator contact if any service request encounters an error in **System settings** > **Administrator notification**. - Workspace IDs are now included in exported workspace reports. - Workspace phases are now be refined for a better user experience. - When active requests are canceled, any items created before the cancellation will now be deleted.

What’s New in the End User Portal?

The Status and Site Status filters are now supported in the Spaces report in the new MyHub experience.

Cloud Governance API Improvements

Change TypeAPI NameRouteComment
AdditionGetWorkspacesPostWorkspaces/Admin
AdditionGetDownloadFileUrLadmin/office365/downloadurl
Change TypeResource NameComment
AdditionPredefinedOwnerOrMembers
AdditionRequestSensitivityLabel
AdditionSiteAlternateCssUrl
ChangeApiRequestAdded the subRequestType property.
ChangeApiTaskAdded the following properties:- Type CommunityLink- IsSubInviteGuestRequest
ChangeApiRequestAdded the predefinedOwnerOrMembers property.
ChangeApiRequestAdded the clearSolutionGallery property.
ChangeInviteGuestGalleryAdded the subRequestIds property.
ChangeInviteGuestScopeRequestModelAdded the following properties:- isSeparateApprovalProcess - separatedApprovalProcessId
ChangeInviteMultipleGuestRequestModelAdded the following properties:- resultFileName- isGenerateReport
ChangeRequestGroupWithPermissionsAdded the following properties:- spGroupViewType- spGroupEditType- spGroupEditOptionAssignBy- spGroupViewOptionAssignBy
ChangeRequestMetadataAdded the allowBusinessUserToInputSingleValue property.
ChangeUserInfoAdded the sharePointLogonName property.
ChangeUserMembershipInfoAdded the azureUserType property.
ChangeLockedByRemoved the AutoImportEscalationRestrictedPostingPermission property.
ChangeManualImportSharedMailboxJobModelAdded the workspacesproperty.
Change TypeProperty TypeProperty NameComment
AdditionEnumSPGroupViewOptionType
AdditionEnumSubRequestType
ChangeEnumAutoImportPhaseAdded the LifecycleActionPendingApproval property value.
ChangeEnumServiceTypeAdded the RemoveOfficeTenant property value.
ChangeEnumMetadataActionTypeAdded the Replace property value.

Resolved Known Issue

Recurring meetings are now included and counted in the collaboration dedication percentage for each meeting date on the new MyHub experience dashboard.