Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration solution provided by Microsoft that is bundled with the Microsoft 365 service. For more information, see Microsoft documentation. Using the policy-based data protection solution from Cohesity DataProtect as a Service, you can backup and recover Teams data in Microsoft 365.

This topic covers the following:

Considerations

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

  • Granular recovery of files and folders is supported.

  • Backup and recovery of channel tabs are not supported.

  • Backup and recovery of subsites of Teams site is not supported.

  • If folders such as Feeds, Sync Issues, Legacy Archive Journals, Outbound, Managed Folders, Files, Yammer Root, Clutter, MeContact, and Archive, are not already present, the folders are skipped during recovery.

  • Recovering the following Teams data from the Teams backup is not supported:

    • Channel names and descriptions

    • System Document Libraries

  • Backup and download of the following is not supported:

    • Self-message (messages sent to self)

    • Saved or pinned Posts property in the conversation

    • Meeting recordings metadata

    • Shared Channels

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

  • Backup of Teams with no owners is supported when at least one Exchange Online licensed member is available in the Teams.

    If no owners/members are available in the Teams, 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 Teams before backup/recovery and removed after the backup/recovery is completed.

    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.

  • 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.