Through November Manage Protect Managing Director Andrew Johnson and Backup365 CTO Paul Colby presented in a series of webinars to discuss Backup365 with Manage Protect partners. During the well-attended online sessions, Paul and Andrew shared some of the latest features which are about to be released, as well as discussed plans and ideas for 2021. Especially interesting was the chance to explore Backup365’s new portal and take a deep dive…
G-Suite customers BEWARE! Effective from the 13th October 2020, Google tells us every item in a user’s Trash folder will be permanently deleted after just thirty days (that 30 day mark is coming up quite soon). Previously, files were only permanently deleted after a user manually emptied their Trash folders with these ‘deleted’ being maintained indefinitely. This change matches the policies of other G Suite products and services, such as…
Towards the end of August, Backup365 introduced some changes to the way we authorise our service to your Office 365 tenant. To date we have used a global impersonation account to access and backup mailboxes. As of last month, we have upgraded all new services to using OAuth or Modern authentication to provide token based app authentication for access to mailboxes with the purpose of backup. We have made this…
The Backup365 development team have been hard at work creating the next wave of UI improvements. Earlier this week we rolled out an update to converge, our single-pane-of-glass provisioning and management portal to allow our partners to self-provision Backup365 for SharePoint and OneDrive. Here is how it currently looks in converge.mp: Onboarding and reporting configuration can be found within the ‘Services’ tab as shown above. Select the service you would…
The Backup365 recently enlisted a group of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Computer Science and IT students to assist with building the Backup365 Outlook Add-in, and the collaboration was an absolute success. It was a great opportunity for the Backup365 team to meet and mentor the next generation of software developers, as well as for the RMIT students to work building cloud-based modern Office365 tools within a professional development…
– Seeking partners for early access to new Backup365 features. After our initial launch of Backup365, the key feedback from partners was that they were looking for a simple “tick box” solution for backing up all of the cloud services they were moving their customers to. You asked for something “simple to provision”, “easy to scale and invoice”, with the quality of “local support” that you were used to. We…