Protect Microsoft 365 OneDrives

Once you have registered your Microsoft 365 domain as a source, you're ready to use Cohesity DataProtect as a Service to protect the user OneDrives in your domain.

To protect your Microsoft 365 OneDrives:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, under Sources, find the Microsoft 365 source and click on it.

  2. Click the OneDrive tab.

  3. Select the individual OneDrives you wish to protect or:

    • Click Users > Select All Child Objects to protect all the OneDrives in this source.

    • Click Users > Auto Protect This to protect all the OneDrives plus any future additional OneDrives on that source.

    • Click the Security Groups icon and select the security group to protect the OneDrives of the users in the security group. For more information, see Security Groups.

      Security groups based user import also supports nested security groups.

      For example, if a security group (AA) includes members (X and Y) and security groups (BB and CC), the import process includes the members (X and Y) and the members of security groups (BB and CC).

      Cohesity supports only users and not devices in Security Groups.
      This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  4. Click the Protect icon above the list.

  5. Choose a policy to specify backup frequency and retention. If you don't have a policy, you can easily create one.

  6. Under Settings, edit the Start Time if necessary.

  7. Under Additional Settings, you can enable Indexing and other additional settings.

    Indexing is enabled by default.

  8. Click Protect.

The backups start immediately after you protect the objects, regardless of the time you set for the protection run.

Next > When the first protection run completes, you will be ready to recover your protected OneDrives when and if you need to.

Additional Settings

Advance Settings Description
Start Time

Available only if the selected policy is set to Backup Daily. Indicates what time the protection run should start. Enter the Start Time and select AM or PM. The default time zone is the browser's time zone. You can change the time zone of the protection run by selecting a different time zone here.
SLA

The service-level agreement (SLA) defines how long the administrator expects a protection run to take. Enter:

  • Full. The number of minutes you expect a full protection run, which captures all the blocks in an object, to take.

  • Incremental. The number of minutes you expect an incremental protection run, which captures only the changed blocks in an object, to take.
Cancel Runs at Quiet Time Start

(Available only if the selected policy has at least one Quiet Time)

When enabled, all the protection runs that are currently executing will cancel when the Quiet Time period starts. By default, this setting is disabled, meaning that after a protection run starts, it continues to execute even when a Quiet Time period starts. However, new protection runs will not start during a Quiet Time.
Indexing

By default, indexing is enabled.

Indexing is mandatory to search for files or folders in a OneDrive.
Exclusions

Click Add to add custom folders that you want to exclude from the backup.