Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection 2.x.x Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- API permissions
- Administrator portal (Web UI)
- Manage users and roles
- What is a connector?
- Configure credentials
- Pre-requisites for Microsoft 365 connectors
- Protect Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
- Protect Exchange Online data
- Protect SharePoint sites and data
- Protect Teams sites
- Protect OneDrive data
- Protect Teams chats
- Protect GoogleDrive data
- Protect Gmail data
- Protect Audit logs
- Protect Salesforce data and metada
- Protect Entra ID objects
- Protect Box data
- Protect Slack data
- Protect Email/Message data
- Configure Retention policies
- Perform backups
- View and share backed-up data
- Analytics
- Perform restores using Administration portal
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- About Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore and Sandbox seeding
- About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
- Restore dashboard
- Install services and utilities
- About the Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Discovery
- Configure Tagging polices
- Configure Tiering policy
- Auditing
- Manage Stors (Storages)
Add SharePoint (SPO) connectors
Before you begin to add a SharePoint connector, consider the following points:
Perform the prerequisites.
Understand the backup capability of the SharePoint Online connector.
See Supported and unsupported SharePoint Settings and Types for backup and restore.
See Supported Sites and List templates for backup and restore.
See Supported SharePoint permission objects for backup and restore.
The SharePoint connector can only back up the site collections that are not associated with Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams (except Communication sites).
Using the SharePoint connector, you can back up all or specific SharePoint sites based on your backup requirements. You need to create separate connectors for these requirements.
To back up Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams, use the Teams Site Collection connector with the
option.For Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenants, See Considerations for adding SharePoint/Teams Sites/OneDrive connectors for Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant.
Understand the limitations of the SharePoint connector.
Understand the limitations of SharePoint sites and data restore.
To add a SharePoint Online connector, follow the step-by-step procedure outlined on this page or watch the following video tutorial:
Each tab in the connector creation workflow includes a help icon (?) on the left. Click this icon to open the corresponding help topic for that tab, which guides you through the setup process step by step.
Procedure:
- Access the Administration portal and select the connector type.
Access the Administration portal.
Click Connectors on the Backup card.
Click New backup connector.
Click SharePoint.
- Configure the general settings.
On the General tab, set up the general configuration for the connector and click Next.
- Configure the capture scope.
On the Configure scope tab, configure the capture scope to define which SharePoint sites or content should be protected and click Next.
- Configure credentials.
On the Credentials tab, configure credentials to access the source workloads (the SharePoint data to be backed up) and click Next.
- Configure policies.
On the Policy configuration tab, do the following as per your backup requirements:
Configure the appropriate backup policy for more granular backup needs.
Configure the Delete and Stubbing policies to free up SharePoint storage by removing unwanted items after backup.
See Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines.
See Configure Stubbing policy.
See Guidelines to configure Stubbing policy for SharePoint Online.
- Configure backup schedule.
On the Scheduling tab, schedule when the backup job should run.
See Schedule a backup.
- Configure email address.
On the Email notifications tab, configure email addresses to receive notifications about backup activities.
- Save configuration.
On the Review tab, save the settings and initiate the backup.