Microsoft Groups

Microsoft 365 groups are used for collaboration between users, both inside and outside your company. With each Microsoft 365 group, members get a group email and shared workspace for conversations, files, calendar events, and a planner.

This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature for your tenant.

Using the policy-based data protection solution from Cohesity DataProtect as a Service, you can back up and recover Unified Groups data in Microsoft 365.

This topic covers the following:

Considerations

Review and understand the following considerations before you protect your Microsoft 365 Groups data:

  • Restoring system document libraries is not supported. You can restore only the non-system document libraries on a Group site.

  • The entities protected for Groups include the SharePoint sites associated with the Group.

  • Mail-enabled security groups, security groups, and distribution lists are not supported.

  • Granular recovery of Group sites is not supported when Site Tagging is enabled.

  • Backup of Groups (Public and Private) with no owners is supported when at least one Exchange Online licensed member is available in the Group.

    If no owners/members are available in the Group, you can contact your Cohesity account team to configure a service account (with an Exchange Online license). This service account will be added as a member of the Group before backup/recovery and removed after the backup/recovery is completed.

    This is a Private Preview feature. Cohesity recommends you use this feature only in non-production environments. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  • File/folder permissions with no role will not be recovered since Microsoft does not allow adding such permissions via Graph APIs. For example, no role will be assigned when a Restricted View permission is added to a user from Advanced Setting.

  • Backup and recovery of subsites within Group sites are not supported.

  • During the recovery process:

    • The original sharing link is not restored. Instead, a new sharing link with similar settings is created.

    • Passwords associated with sharing links, if set, are not restored.