BackupAssist 365 Community
BackupAssist 365 Community Builds
Regularly updated, early access to the latest features.
What is a community build?
A community build is a pre-release build that has passed through internal testing, and is ready for our community to try. We encourage our community to try the software in a variety of environments, to identify potential issues in the field.
Mainstream release
Community build: Fix for incorrect email reporting (due to SQL database error)
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
Recently, Office 365 changed the behaviour of one of its APIs, triggering a problem in BackupAssist 365.
You may see one or more of these problems:
- daily report emails alternate between 0 backups run and X backups run, where X > 1
- error message “failed to save the task result in the database”
Not everyone will experience this issue. It seems to be specific to certain tenants, and specific machines / operating systems. This build should fix the issue.
Community build: Select users to back up by Group
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
It can be more convenient to select which Groups to back up (mailboxes & OneDrive for Business) instead of by individual user. This build allows you to do that.
In environments where there are many users, it can be more convenient to select user accounts to back up by group.
- updates to group membership automatically propagate to the backup configuration
- each time the backup runs, BackupAssist will query the selected groups and back up the appropriate user accounts
- this works for both Mailboxes and OneDrive for Business storage
Previous Community Builds
Past community builds have been incorporated into the mainstream release and are available on the BackupAssist 365 Downloads page.
| Functionality | Version release | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| OneDrive for Business Restore - allow you to restore to a different user's account | v1.9.6 | 1 November 2021 |
| Multi-site SharePoint backups in a single backup job | v1.9.5 | 1 October 2021 |
| Support for backing up SharePoint Subsites | v1.9.1.1 | 30 June 2021 |
| New Graphical User Interface (GUI) | v1.9.1 | 31 May 2021 |
| Mailbox restore via CLI | v1.9.0.5 | 17 May 2021 |
| Mailbox backups: prevent infinite retries if Exchange returns an invalid XML response. | v1.9.0.0 | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Mailbox backups: preserve folder structure for deleted items in the "Historical Items" folder | v1.8.2 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Back up files from Dropbox and SFTP (provided as beta functionality) | v1.8.2 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| OneDrive for Business - automatic rights granting | v1.8.1 | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Faster reconnection after network problems | v1.8.0 | 10 Sep 2020 |
| Network share support - back up to a network share | v1.7.1 | 27 Sep 2020 |
| Exchange Server TLS 1.2 support - use TLS 1.2 to connect to Exchange Servers - necessary where TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been disabled. This also enables connection to Exchange 2019. | v1.7.1 | 10 Aug 2020 |
| SharePoint / OneDrive for Business login reauthentication fix | v1.7.1 | 10 Aug 2020 |
