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. Cohesity recommends you use this feature only in non-production environments. 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.

  • Data from PHL is not searchable.

  • 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. Cohesity recommends you use this feature only in non-production environments. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

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

  • 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.

  • The exact sharing link is not recovered; instead, a new sharing link with the similar settings are added.

  • Passwords, if set, are not recovered for sharing links.

  • The Can't download permission recovery is not supported.

  • When recovering to an alternate separate entity, the root permissions of the OneDrive are automatically inherited.

  • For granular recovery of an item, only the permissions for the required item is set, and not its parents.

  • The progress bar may show 100% even when the recovery of permissions is not complete yet.

  • Permissions for all files and folders are recovered at the first level.

  • Backup and recovery of files having encryption is not supported.

  • Items with failure in permissions backup are not indexed (and will not be displayed in the search result).

  • Permissions are not recovered during alternate domain recovery.

  • The current run backs up only the current file versions.

  • Recovery always creates a new version. The actual creation time and owner details of the file are not recovered. The current time is displayed as the creation/ modification time and the SharePoint app is displayed as the owner/ modifier.