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Changes in Innovation Release 11.42

Backup and Restore Agents

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11.42 Salesforce You can no longer create new pseudo-clients for Salesforce in the CommCell Console. You can continue using the existing pseudo-clients to perform backup and restore operations. Deprecation Notice for Adding New Salesforce Clients in CommCell Console
11.42 SharePoint Online On April 2 2026, Microsoft will fully retire Azure ACS for all tenants. Because of this change, you must reconfigure SharePoint Online to use certificate-based authentication. We recommend upgrading to Commvault Cloud 11.40 or a more recent release. All Commvault Cloud customers must reconfigure their SharePoint Online authentication method by April 2, 2026 or SharePoint Online backups will begin to break. Create an Azure Certificate for SharePoint Online

CommCell Management

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11.42 Entities Tagging is now supported for Command Center entities, including MediaAgents, Storage (Disk, Cloud, Tape, Hyperscale), and Plans. With tags, you can efficiently organize, search, and manage these entities. Creating a Tag for an Entity

Entity Tags
11.42 Plans When you convert/promote an Air Gap Protect Infrequent Access copy to a primary copy, all other copies associated with the storage policy are automatically disabled. Once disabled, you cannot re-enable these copies. Promoting a Secondary Copy to Primary Copy
11.42 Web Console Creating schedules or sending emails from any Report page in the Web Console application is no longer supported. This change applies only to existing users of the Web Console.

Backup and Restore Agents

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11.42 Salesforce You can no longer create a new pseudo-clients for Salesforce in the CommCell Console. You can continue using the existing pseudo-clients to perform backup and restore operations. Deprecation Notice for Adding New Salesforce Clients in CommCell Console
11.42 Files A new default option, Use optimal number of restore streams is introduced to the file server Restore dialog box. The optimal number of restore streams is automatically calculated based on the restore dataset size. Users can disable this option to manually specify the number of restore streams.

Commvault Store

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11.42 Commvault Store The Commvault Store has a refreshed design and now requires a log-in to view the store. All existing functionality remains unchanged. Commvault Store

Install and Deployment

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11.42 Upgrades When you upgrade the CommServe computer to the latest platform release, a pre-upgrade check will be performed to verify that the CommServe DB (data) size is not greater than 400 GB. If the CommServe DB (data) size exceeds this limit, the upgrade will be blocked. For assistance with the CommServe upgrade in this case, contact Customer Support.
11.40 Installs You can no longer install the Commvault control plane on Windows, which includes only the CommServe server, the Web Server, and the Command Center components. Commvault strongly encourages you to transition to a Linux environment for Control plane components. The Linux platform offers significantly better performance, enhanced stability, and superior resource efficiency when running Commvault.

Security

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CommCell Management

The Commvault built-in Key Management Server (KMS) now generates a unique key for each CommCell, replacing the previously hardcoded built-in key. Keys are stored securely outside the CommServe database with machine-level protection, offering security comparable to an external KMS. It is safeguarded through the CommServe Disaster Recovery backup and automatically restored during a CommServe recovery. It is never shared externally and is fully managed without requiring any manual steps.

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Users

Commvault supports the following third-party credential vault platforms:

  • Azure Key Vault
  • BeyondTrust
  • Delinea

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Multi-Person Authorization

Multi-Person Authorization offers user-friendly operations, giving tenant users greater flexibility to select their own approver group.

Multi-Person Authorization to Minimize Insider Threat

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Custom Workflows and Reports

Security enhancements for Custom Workflows and Reports using authorization codes and the Developer Tools package.

Enhanced Security for Custom Workflows and Reports

SQL Server

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11.42 SQL Server Backup The 75% differential size rule (which initiates conversion to full backup) is turned off in 11.42 Cumulative Update 29 and later. Automatic Backup Plan Schedules and Associated Conversion Rules

Storage

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Cloud Storage

Commvault supports HTTPS only for Service Host URLs. Make sure the Cloud Storage Server and Cloud Storage Service Host Endpoints have HTTPS protocol enabled.

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Cloud Storage

Disk Library

  • On the Configuration page (Storage and Copy Levels):

    • The WORM tile has been renamed to Immutability.
    • The WORM storage lock option has been renamed to Storage lock.

  • On the Storage list page, the following new columns have been added:

    • Immutability: Displays whether Compliance lock is enabled or disabled for the corresponding cloud storage or disk library.
    • Storage Lock: Displays whether Storage lock is enabled or disabled for the corresponding cloud storage or disk library.

  • On the Storage Policy Copy configuration page, the Storage lock option indicates whether immutability is enabled or disabled at the storage level. This value is inherited from the storage configuration and cannot be modified at the copy level.

  • A new Immutable column has been added on the Jobs listing page (Copy level) and Job Details page (Retention tab) to indicate whether Compliance lock is enabled.

  • A new Immutable column, which indicates whether Compliance lock is enabled, has been added to the Jobs in Storage Policy Copies report, Storage and Compliance Lock Details report, and Data Retention report.

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Schedules and Schedule Policies

You can schedule an auxiliary copy operation for all copies within a region of a storage policy or for selected copies in that region.

You can also create schedule policies for the following operations:

  • Auxiliary copy

  • Space reclamation

  • Data verification

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Storage

You can view jobs for a storage.

Viewing Jobs for a Storage

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Air Gap Protect

Air Gap Protect supports the following archive cloud storage services:

  • Air Gap Protect Azure Archive
  • Air Gap Protect AWS Archive
  • Air Gap Protect Google Archive
  • Air Gap Protect OCI Archive

When you create Air Gap Protect storage, you can select Archive storage class and select corresponding cloud storage regions.

Virtualization

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Proxmox

For Proxmox VE 9.0, Commvault supports native snapshots for thick LVM storage when the VM disk format is QCOW2.

Backups for Proxmox VMs

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VMware and VMware Cloud Director

You can use built-in and CyberArk vault credentials to authenticate to the guest OS during guest file restores for VMware and VMware Cloud Director.
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