#What’s New in this Release?

Insider Release Date: March 27, 2026

General Availability Date for the Commercial Environment: April 12, 2026

General Availability Date for the U.S. Government Environment: April 19, 2026

The following features are in preview in the AvePoint Policies for Microsoft 365 insider environment, and they will be available in the commercial and U.S. Government environments on the general availability dates.

• Policies for Microsoft 365 is now supported in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) data center.

• A new auto-fix action is now available for the Scanned Orphaned Users rule, allowing you to assign the primary contact or a specific user as the primary site admin if the orphaned user currently holds that role, ensuring that the orphaned user can be removed as expected.

• The Site Collection Administrator Enforcement rule now provides the flexibility to enforce the primary contact or the secondary contact as the primary site admin.

• The dashboard has been enhanced, displaying the total number of violations versus the fixed violations and the number of manual fixes versus automatic fixes. Results can be filtered by time period and object type for detailed insights.

• Dynamic object name reference is now supported in violation report details to automatically display workspace-specific identifiers like site names in email notifications, helping users instantly identify the affected object.

• For the following sharing links related rules, the Include both the Microsoft Entra groups and their members checkbox has been added. When enabled, Policies for Microsoft 365 will evaluate all individual members within the specified Microsoft Entra groups, including those in nested groups.

  • Restrict Sharing Links

  • Restrict Sharing links with Edit Permission

  • Sharing Link Expiration Enforcement

• You can now set independent scan intervals for the following rules:

  • Privacy Restriction

  • User/Group Restriction

  • Owner Number Restriction

• The Ownership Restriction rule for Groups and Teams now includes an additional auto-fix action to demote the out-of-policy users to members.

• The Private Channel Ownership Enforcement rule has been enhanced to ensure proper functionality, even if the designated user account is not a member of the parent team.

  This feature requires an additional application permission TeamMember.ReadWrite.All.

  • If your organization has configured an app profile for the service app, navigate to AvePoint Online Services > Management > App management to re-authorize the app profile.
  • If your organization has configured an app profile for the custom Azure app, navigate to the Microsoft Entra admin center to add permission to the app.

The following updates have been made to this user guide for this release:

• Updated Dashboard.

• Updated App Profile Authentication.

• Updated Rules that Require Lower Frequency for Policy Schedule.

For additional technical information on the new functionality and known issues in this release, see the Release Notes.