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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

About services and utilities

Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection requires a few services and utilities. The services or utilities may be installed on-premises, or in the cloud on a supported Windows operation system. A Windows computer can host multiple services.

To know more about the supported Windows Operating systems.

Table:

Services and Utilities

Description

Connector service

Used for managing connectors.

Export service

Used for managing bulk data restore.

Retrieval service

Used for restoring data with seamless and link-based stubs.

Export utility

Used for restoring granular or bulk data and recovery of Discovery cases.

Slack administration utility

Used to backup and restore data in Slack.

Apps Consent Grant utility

Used to approve Microsoft 365 apps in bulk.

See About the Apps Consent Grant Utility.

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