Setting up Teams chat protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
To protect users data in your Teams chat environment using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection, you need to add and set up a Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Teams chat connector based on your backup requirements. However, you must consider the following points before adding a connector.
You can set up an individual connector for each backup requirement, like one-on-one chats, group chats, and channel conversations. Alternatively, you can configure a single connector that covers all your backup requirements.
Chat conversations: All and specific users' chat conversations that occur within the Teams chat environment, including one-on-one chats and group chats.
Media files: Media files that are shared within Teams chat, such as images, videos, and audio files.
Emojis, GIFs, and Stickers: Links, emojis, GIFs, stickers, or other visual element.
Chat history: Chat history for each user.
Teams calendar
The images embedded in chat messages.
Praise and reactions (such as thumbs up, and so on).
The important tag for important messages is missing when backed up or restored.
Loop component.
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Restore of reactions on the chats is not supported.
Restore of users' one-on-one chat is not supported.
Downloading the one-on-one chats using the Administration portal or Export Utility lets you access the one-on-one chats. The chats are downloaded in HTML format.
The Type column in the Export Jobs tab of the Export Service is displayed as for the Teams chat when restore is done using the Export service.
Replies to the deleted, edited, or reacted messages do not show which message the reply is associated with.
Example: A reply to an edited message does not specify which message it was in response to.
Scheduled meetings are not restored correctly.
All user chat backup
An option to back up one-on-one and group chat data for all users.
Selective user's chat backup
An option to back up one-on-one and group chat data for specific users.
Backup of all chats in Teams channels
An option to back up all chats in Teams channels.
Limit backup scope based on time range
An option to limit the backup to a specific number of days.
- 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 chat.
To make the setup process easier and more intuitive, each tab in the connector creation workflow includes a help icon (?) at the left. You can click this icon to open the respective help topic for that tab, which can guide you through the setup step by step.
- On the General tab, set up the basic configuration for the connector and click Next.
- On the Capture scope tab, configure the capture scope and click Next.
- On the Credentials tab, do any of the following to configure credentials:
To use Microsoft Graph Modern/OAuth, do the following:
To use the 365 App registration mode, do the following:
Click Manual.
Enter the Tenant ID, Client ID, and Client Secret.
These details are generated while adding an application to your Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection tenant.
These details are generated when you create an application registration in your M365 tenant.
For more information on registering an app for the Teams chat connector using Export API, follow the link:
Registering Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application for Teams Chat Connectors using Export API
When using the 365 App registration mode, refer to the following topics:
If no or less number of apps are displayed on the page when you use the M365 App Registration mode.
If the status of the assigned app is displayed as Inactive.
See Approve Microsoft 365 apps using the App Consent Grant utility.
- 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.