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Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-08-01

Product(s): Veritas Alta SaaS Protection (1.0)

Adding Teams site collections connectors

Define a backup and a storage strategy before adding a connector for your Teams site collections. Decide on what type of data you want to backup. For example, if you want to back up all SharePoint site collections or only specific ones. Determine if you want to exclude any items from the backup, which versions to include, and whether to back up permission settings, columns, and content types. Also, you must have a strategy for implementing the policy to delete the original content from the SharePoint Online.

You must register apps in the Entra ID (Azure AD) associated with your M365 subscription and Veritas Alta SaaS Protection. This registration process provides the credentials, client ID, and client secret to authenticate and authorize your apps. The two modes for registering the apps are described in the following table.

Table:

Modes for registering the apps	Description	Reference links
Manual app registration	When you add a connector using this mode, you need to manually register apps in the Azure AD portal and provide the client ID and secret.	How to configure Azure AD applications
M365 app registration	When you add a connector using this mode, you need to use the apps that are registered for your tenant by Veritas. You only need to grant the required API permissions to the registered apps.	See Granting admin consent manually. or See Granting multiple admin consents using the App Consent Grant utility.

For any further information, contact Veritas Support.

To add a Teams site collections connector for site and data

Access the Administration portal.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
Click Administration.
On the left, click Connectors.
Click + New Connector.
Click Teams Site Collections.
Do the following to configure the general settings for the connector:
- In the Connector name field, enter a name for a connector.
  The Type field displays the connector type.
- The Stor drop-down list shows the designated storage for storing the backed-up data. If you want to change the Stor, you must contact Veritas Support.
- The Machine field displays the Connector service to host this connector. If required, you can select the appropriate one from the list. Contact Veritas Support for this change.
- Optionally, enable the Enable email notification option if you want to receive notifications when the predefined error count threshold is exceeded during the backup process. Enabling this option adds an additional tab, Email notification, to the job creation workflow.
- Click Next.
Configure the capture scope.
Configure the credentials:
- If you want to use the Manual mode.
  See Configuring credentials using the Manual mode.
- If no or less number of apps are displayed on the page when you use the M365 App Registration mode.
  See Assigning apps to connector.
- If the status of the assigned app is displayed as Inactive.
  See Granting admin consent manually.
  See Granting multiple admin consents using the App Consent Grant utility.
Configure the backup, delete, and stub policies.
See Configuring Custom backup policy .

See Points to consider when configuring Delete policy for SharePoint environments .
(Optional) Do the following to configure the next backup schedule:
- Click + Add task.
- On the Add task page, do the following:
  - Enter the time to start the backup in the Local start time field.
  - Enter the time duration in hours in the Duration in hours field. The backup stops if it exceeds the allotted time.
    In such a case, on the next backup, the remaining items from the previous backup, as well as the new items, are backed up.
  - Set the recurrence option for the backup schedule Recurrence section.
  - Click Add.
Click Next.
(Optional) If you have enabled the Enable email notification options option while configuring the general settings to receive notifications, do the following:
- Click Enable this feature > enter the email address.
- Select the Send an email when error count exceeds check box > enter the number.
- Click Next.
Do any of the following:
- Click the corresponding Edit option to edit the configuration.
- Click Save & Backup to save the connector and initiate the backup.
  After the backup starts, you can go to the Connectors page to view the progress of the backup. The status of the connector must be displayed as Running.
- Click Save to save the connector. You can go to the Connectors page to view the status of the connector. The status must be Created.
  If the assigned apps are not active, the status is displayed as Pending app activation, and you cannot run backups using this connector. You are required to grant the admin consent for the assigned apps.
  See Granting admin consent manually.
  See Granting multiple admin consents using the App Consent Grant utility.