#AvePoint Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 October 2025

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: October 12, 2025

Release Date for the US Government Environment: October 19, 2025

#General Updates

• You can now prioritize which containers and objects get backed up first. This gives you more control over your backup process, ensuring that your most critical data is always protected without delay.

• Power BI restore is now available. You can restore Power BI workspace permissions, reports, and datasets. This feature supports both in-place and out-of-place restoration, with conflict handling and BYOS options.

• AvePoint Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 now supports a new data center, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), expanding regional coverage and compliance options.

• AvePoint Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 now supports custom apps with delegated permissions, including Power Platform and Viva Engage scenarios, across all service types.

• File and email preview capabilities:

  • The Preview function must be enabled by AvePoint support and is restricted to the members of Administrators or designated security groups that have the Preview action permission.

  • Users can preview Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files backed up from Teams, Groups, SharePoint, and OneDrive before restoring them in Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365. Files with sensitive labels, archived data, or size over 10 MB cannot be previewed.

  • Users can preview email messages from Exchange Online, Teams, and Group mailboxes before restoring them. Rich metadata is displayed, and all preview actions are audited.

  • Within the file previewer, authorized users can download, print, or generate secure share links (with password and expiration options) for files from Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Groups, and Teams—even during ongoing backup jobs. All actions are fully audited.

• SharePoint site, OneDrive, and Group sites can now be restored directly to Microsoft Teams channel sites as destinations, to expand restore flexibility for Teams-centric organizations.

• Teams based on the education-specific templates can now be restored with correct metadata and channels, preserving the original structure.

• Support for exporting mailbox data from Microsoft Teams is now available. This allows you to export data at the Group mailbox level, as well as from individual mailbox folders and items. Note that exporting Group mailbox data is only available in the Search mode.

#ReCenter for Microsoft 365

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

• 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.

• Users can now preview Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files backed up from Teams, Groups, and SharePoint before restoring them. Security trimming ensures only authorized users can preview files. Files with sensitive labels, archived data, or size over 10MB cannot be previewed.

• Backup data for shared mailbox items can now be previewed in ReCenter, improving usability for Exchange Online scenarios.