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August 31st, 2024

Georgi Matev
Georgi Matev
Head of Product

While August is a vacation month for many, the Alcion team has been busy and productive. Below is a summary of the great new capabilities and improvements introduced in August 2024.

Features​

Custom backup policies​

Alcion Security tier subscribers have unlimited retention for their backups. This is desirable in many cases, but Alcion customers have often requested the ability to align backup retention with a definite time period that matches company or industry specific compliance requirements. Alcion now makes this possible by allowing users to create custom policies and control the maximum age for retained backups.

Policies section in settingsPolicies section in settings

Create a custom policyCreate a custom policyAssign a custom policyAssign a custom policy

For more details, see the relevant documentation.

Group-based policy management - new user default policy precedence​

When applying default new user policies to groups, it's possible that the same user belongs to more than one group with an active policy configuration. To disambiguate which policy to apply, Alcion uses the precedence associated with each group.

The latest configured policy has the highest precedence (number 1), but the precedence can be adjusted by dragging and rearranging the groups in the Alcion UI.

Default policy precedence exampleDefault policy precedence example

For more details, see the relevant documentation.

Consolidated partner activity reports​

Based on consistent feedback from our MSP customers, Alcion now supports sending a daily consolidated partner-level report that summarizes the activity across the tenants managed by a given partner and includes additional details for each managed tenant.

Create a custom policyCreate a custom policy

For more details, see the relevant documentation.

Improvements​

  • Improved restore options to allow restoring user mailbox items to a share mailbox and vice versa.
  • Enhanced the group policy management UI to list groups with a default new resource policy first.
  • Allowed multi-select operations on SharePoint lists and pages.
  • Improved the onboarding experience for new partners.

Notable fixes​

  • Fixed an issue where the backup browse dialog reported incorrect backup sizes.
  • Fixed cases where the Quick Start was incorrectly dismissed for new tenants if a partner user had already dismissed it for a different tenant.
  • Fixed an issue where the Alcion logo wasn't shown on some partner portal pages.
  • Fixed URL escaping when performing Activity filtering.
  • Fixed duplicated filter values in Export activity actions.
  • Fixed incorrect links for the Sharepoint site resource in restore action details.