2019.4 Service Update

Alerts for Devices Owners

On the Alerts tab of the Backup Profile Detail page, we've added notification options that allow you to include whether device owners as notification recipients in case of connection or backup failures.

In either the Connection Alerts or the Backup Alerts section of the Alerts tab, simply select the Send alerts to Administrators and the device owner check box to include the owner in notifications:

Device Approval Interface Improvements

We've streamlined the device approval process on the Deployments page. When you select Approve Device from the context menu, the system will prompt you to either assign an existing user to the device or create a new user in this new popup:

In addition to a variety of minor enhancements and stability improvements, the following issues are resolved in this release:

Restore Emails Not Restricted To End Users

When a restore is initiated by an end user, the success or failure email should only go to the user who initiated the restore. The notification emails to administrators that are sent when an administrator initiates the restore should not be sent in this scenario, but they were still being sent. This has been corrected.

Some Emails Sent from @autotask.net

All automated emails will now come from @fileprotection.datto.com.