OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business is a SaaS application that is bundled in your Microsoft 365 subscription service. It is an intelligent files app for Microsoft 365 connecting you to all your files so you can share and work together from anywhere while protecting your work. It enables you to easily store, access, and discover your individual and shared work files in Microsoft 365. Using the policy-based data protection solution from Cohesity DataProtect as a Service, you can protect OneDrive for Business data on Microsoft 365.

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Considerations

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

  • From the recovery workflow, you cannot download an empty folder.

  • Backup and restore of OneNote files in OneDrive are not supported.

  • Restoring shared permissions for files in the Preservation Hold Library (PHL) drive is not supported.

    This is a Private Preview feature. Private Preview was termed as Early Access in the earlier releases. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  • PHL data can only be recovered using full OneDrive recovery. Granular level recovery is not supported for the PHL data.

    This is a Private Preview feature. Private Preview was termed as Early Access in the earlier releases. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  • Data from PHL is not searchable.

    This is a Private Preview feature. Private Preview was termed as Early Access in the earlier releases. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  • OneDrive protection is supported only for users present on Azure AD or Hybrid setup with users present on Azure AD and not for users on the on-premises Active Directory.

  • 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.

  • Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service is supported for OneDrive.

    This is a Private Preview feature. Private Preview was termed as Early Access in the earlier releases. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  • OneDrive does not support item permissions from applications and devices.