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.

  • 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.

  • Sensitivity and Retention labels backup are not supported.

  • Microsoft 365 items with only special characters will not be listed in granular search. The item name must contain at least one alphanumeric character to be listed in the search result.

  • All the OneDrive and SharePoint limitations are applicable to Groups.