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:

  • Granular recovery of Group messages and other contents is not supported.

  • 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.