Setting up Teams Site protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
To protect your Teams Site environment using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection, you need to based on your backup requirements. You can backup and restore the Teams, its private channels, and Microsoft 365 groups.
You must know the following points before adding a connector.
The files that are posted in Teams are stored in the user's OneDrive.
The file that is shared in a Teams channel is stored in a private channel or on the SharePoint site for the team.
If you back up OneDrive or SharePoint sites using SharePoint connectors and stubbing is enabled, the files are replaced by stubbed URLs in SharePoint sites. The references in these posts still point to the earlier URLs that are no longer available. To access such files, you can open the tab in the chat or channel.
To back up Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams, the Teams Site Collection connector with the option is configured.
To add a Teams site collections connector, follow the step-by-step procedure outlined on this page or watch the following video tutorial.
Each tab in the connector creation workflow includes a help icon on the left. Click this icon to open the corresponding help topic for that tab, which guides you through the setup process step by step.
Procedure:
- Access the Administration portal.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- Click Connectors on the Backup card.
- Click New backup connector.
- Click Teams Site Collections.
- On the General tab, set up the basic configuration for the connector and click Next.
- On the Configure scope tab, configure the capture scope to define which SharePoint sites or content should be protected and click Next.
See Configure capture scope for Team site collections connectors.
- On the Credentials tab, configure credentials to access the source workloads (the SharePoint data to be backed up) and click Next.
- On the Policy configuration tab, do the following as per your backup requirements:
Configure the appropriate backup policy for more granular backup needs.
Configure the Delete and Stubbing policies to free up SharePoint storage by removing unwanted items after backup.
See Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines.
See Configure Stubbing policy.
See Guidelines to configure Stubbing policy for SharePoint Online.
- On the Scheduling tab, schedule when the backup job should run.
See Schedule a backup.
- On the Email notifications tab, configure email addresses to receive notifications about backup activities.
- On the Review tab, save the settings and initiate the backup.