🔥Direct OneDrive Acquisitions — FEC can now target OneDrive (for personal Microsoft accounts) and OneDrive + SharePoint for M365 accounts and acquire OneDrive items. The OneDrive data set can be narrowed down using In-place Search.

🔥Drive Explorer — Drive Explorer now supports interrogating contents of OneDrive and SharePoint.

✔️Improved support for Gmail labels whose names contain invalid characters for file system output.

✔️The partition table format for VHDX containers has been changed from Master Boot Record (MBR) to GUID Partition Table (GPT).

✔️FEC now remembers the last used PST split size.

✔️A more descriptive error message is now provided when an unsupported FEC project version is opened.

✔️Numerous other performance and user experience improvements.

🔥Added support for batch acquisitions via Microsoft Graph API.

✔️Added support for the new simplified mail exchanger (MX) record for Google Workspace.

✔️Unified Query Builder switched to using the contains operator for participant Graph API In-place Searches using the filter query parameter.

✔️Added help documentation to concurrent access protection messages.

✔️Various other performance and user interface improvements.

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🔥App-only Authentication — Added a new authentication method for Exchange Web Services (EWS) and Microsoft Graph API M365 acquisitions. This new workflow replaces Impersonation for EWS, which is in the process of being retired for M365, and opens up enterprise-level acquisition possibilities for Graph API.

✔️Other minor performance and user interface improvements.

✔️Fixed an issue where having both Drive Attachment and Direct Drive acquisition enabled within the same acquisition project could cause unnecessary output duplication.

✔️Further improvements to the handling of Google Drive folder shortcuts during Direct Drive acquisitions.

✔️Improved progress reporting for Drive acquisitions.

✔️Better handling of Google Drive folder shortcuts during Direct Drive acquisitions.

✔️Minor improvements to Drive acquisition performance.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.

✔️Fixed an issue that could prevent batch acquisition projects from being launched in some scenarios.

✔️Drive Explorer now saves selection between sessions.

✔️It is now possible to append to Drive Explorer selection.

✔️"Owners" Drive metadata field is now presented in a more user-friendly manner.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.

This is a maintenance release with the following improvement:

✔️Drive Explorer cache is now invalidated if the list of selected Google Drives is changed on FEC's tree view.

🔥Drive Explorer — It is now possible to interrogate Google Drives directly, see their contents in a grid view, search and filter them, export metadata, and cherry-pick specific items to acquire.

✔️Added Folder Path and Owners fields to Direct Drive and Drive Attachment logs.

✔️Added support for scenarios where the authenticated account has access to a large number of shared Drives.

✔️Added throttling mitigation to shared Drive list acquisition.

✔️Various other performance and user interface improvements.

🔥Major improvements to Gmail API throttling mitigation.

✔️Added protection to prevent multiple computers from operating on the same FEC project simultaneously.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.