Release Notes

Current release, June 25, 2024

NEW Shared mailbox licensing— for free!

Spanning Backup now provides a cost-effective way to protect the data in your shared mailboxes:

  • For every standard user license purchased, you get one shared mailbox license for free. Spanning backs up all new and existing data for each licensed shared mailbox. Backups run automatically each day.
  • For every archived user license purchased, you get one shared mailbox archived license for free. An archived license enables you to retain a shared mailbox's existing Spanning data but stop running new backups. Apply an archived license to a shared mailbox (rather than deactivating its license) to prevent its Spanning data from being deleted.

The shared mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 tenant display on the new Shared Mailboxes page, where you can view and license these mailboxes.

Were you already protecting shared mailboxes with Spanning Backup? No problem. We've migrated these mailboxes to the Shared Mailboxes page and applied the free shared mailbox licenses.

To get started with shared mailbox protection, see Protecting Shared Mailboxes.

Users page enhancements

We've made these enhancements to the Users page:

  • Added these tiles to the top of the page: Shared Mailboxes (standard license count), Shared Mailboxes (archived license count), and Users (the number of members and shared mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 tenant).

  • Added these new tags: Shared Mailbox and No Microsoft License.

  • Updated the users list to include only users that have both a Spanning license and a Microsoft 365 license. (Users with existing Spanning backups that do NOT have a Microsoft 365 license still display on the page.)

  • Updated the users list to exclude Microsoft 365 guest accounts, so that they no longer display in Spanning Backup.

For details, see Viewing Users.

Export enhancement

On the Activity page, the Export link used to download restored items now remains active for 24 hours after initiating the download.