Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Exchange Online

SharePoint Online

Teams sites

Teams chats

Google Drive

Gmail

Mailboxes of users, groups, and Teams mailboxes.

Public Folders

Archive mailboxes

Shared mailboxes

Contacts and calendars

Tasks and notes

Mailbox Rules

Junk Email and Deleted Items: Junk email and deleted items folders to restore accidentally deleted or wrongly categorized emails.

Soft deleted mailboxes (can be configured using the Connector service).

Recoverable items folder

Public folders

Archived mailboxes

An option to back up archived mailboxes, ensuring that all user data, including archived content, is backed up.

Groups created using the Role assigned and Dynamic users options.

Microsoft 365 Group and Teams mailboxes.

Flexible backup options

Back up all user mailboxes or selectively back up specific mailboxes (granular backup) based on backup requirements.

Rolling Mailbox Scope to distribute the backup load across jobs.

Important: With the 2.32.1 release, this option will not be available for new connectors. For existing connectors, this option will appear as read-only.

Alphabetical Mailbox Scope to back up mailboxes based on alphabetical name ranges.

Important: With the 2.32.1 release, this option will not be available for new connectors. For existing connectors, this option will appear as read-only.

Domain-based mailbox backup

Back up of mailboxes belonging to specific email domains.

Documents

List items

Versions

Site pages

Site collections

Sub-site settings

Site and sub-site columns

Site and sub-site content types

List settings

List columns

List content types

Permission objects such as groups

Role definitions

Role assignments

See Supported and unsupported SharePoint Settings and Types for backup and restore.

See Supported Sites and List templates for backup and restore.dd

See Supported Sites and List templates for backup and restore.

Custom backup policy

Define specific data types, versions, permissions, columns, and content types to back up.

Delete policy

Define a Delete policy to manage storage by removing unnecessary items from the source SharePoint Online environment while retaining backups in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection.

See Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines.

Stubbing policy

Define a Stubbing policy to replace original items with stubs (shortcuts) in the SharePoint Online environment, which helps reduce storage usage while maintaining access to data.

Files and Documents: All files and documents stored in the user's OneDrive account, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, videos, and any other file types.

Folders and Folder Structures: Folder hierarchy and structure.

Shared Files and Folders: Shared files or folders.

Version History: Version history of files.

Metadata and File Properties: Metadata associated with files, such as file names, creation dates, modification dates, and other custom properties.

Permissions and Sharing Settings: Permissions and sharing settings applied to files and folders, including user access rights, and permissions inheritance.

Chat conversations: All chat conversations that occur within the Teams chat environment, including one-on-one chats and group chats.

Media files: Media files that are shared within Teams chat, such as images, videos, and audio files.

Emojis, GIFs, and Stickers: Links, emojis, GIFs, stickers, or other visual element.

Chat history: Chat history for each user.

Configuration options:

The following configuration options are available for customizing backup:

Files and documents: All files and documents that are stored in Google Drive, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, videos, and any other file types.

User drives and Shared drives: Drives dedicated to each user and common shared Drives.

Version history: Version history of files.

Deleted files: Deleted files.

Metadata and file properties: Metadata and properties, such as owner information, last modified date, and custom metadata fields associated with Google Drive.

An option to back up all or specific users' Google Drive data.

An option to include or exclude deleted items in the backup.

An option to include or exclude the permissions on the items.

An option to back up Shared drives.

Emails: All emails in the Gmail account, including inbox messages, sent items, drafts, and archived emails.

Attachments: Attachments associated with emails.

Labels and Folders: Labels and folders.

Deleted Emails: Deleted emails.

Configuration options:

The following configuration options are available for customizing backup:

Users

It includes backing up the user-related data such as profiles, settings, permissions, and other user-specific information.

Groups

It includes backing up the structure, memberships, and settings associated with the groups.

Application Registrations

It includes backing up the configurations, settings, and information associated with applications registered within the Entra ID environment.

Enterprises Applications

It includes backing up the configurations, settings, and data associated with enterprise-level applications registered and used within the Entra ID environment.

Files and folders

Version history

The version history of files, including all previous revisions and versions that have been trashed.

Access control

Set the Access Control List (ACL) for backed-up content to the user whose account the content belongs to. Similar to O365 mailboxes and OneDrive for Business, existing ACLs are ignored, and a specific user's ACL is applied.

Metadata

All tags applied to files.

Notes

Notes for collaborative note-taking. The raw Boxnote file is backed up and can be restored properly.

Deletion policy

Delete file versions and files that match the deletion policy. If the last version of a file is deleted, the file is removed. An option to purge deleted content (bypassing the Box trash) is available.

Restore of folders and files back to Box