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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection 2.x.x Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2025-04-22

Product(s): Veritas Alta SaaS Protection (1.0)

Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
1. About Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
2. Features of Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
3. Architecture of Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
4. Operational workflow
5. Extra Data Backup (EDB)
API permissions
1. API permissions for Microsoft 365 workloads
2. API permissions for Gmail and Google Drive
3. System and API permissions for Salesforce
4. API permissions for Entra ID
5. App permissions of Web App
Administrator portal (Web UI)
1. About the Administration portal
2. Configure the Administration portal
3. View upgrade history
Manage users and roles
1. Role-based access control
2. Permissions tab
What is a connector?
1. What is a connector?
2. Supported SaaS workloads and backup capabilities
3. Workflow to protect data using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
4. Know your subscription details
5. About transient errors
6. Overview of adding connectors
7. Configure General settings
8. Configure Capture scope
9. Configure User filter
10. Configure Group filter
11. Configure Folder filter
12. Configure credentials
  1. Assign Microsoft 365 apps registration
  2. Microsoft 365 apps registration status
  3. Manually approve Microsoft 365 apps registration
  4. Approve Microsoft 365 apps using the App Consent Grant utility
  5. Microsoft 365 apps recovery
13. Configure Custom backup policy and guidelines
14. Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines
15. Configure Stubbing policy
16. Guidelines to configure Stubbing policy for SharePoint Online
17. Schedule a backup
18. Configure email addresses to get notifications
19. Review configuration and edit/save/initiate backup
20. Connectors page
21. Connector status
22. Edit connector configuration
23. Delete connectors
Pre-requisites for Microsoft 365 connectors
1. Pre-requisites for Microsoft 365 connectors
Protect Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
1. Considerations for adding SharePoint/Teams Sites/OneDrive connectors for Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
Protect Exchange Online data
1. Add Exchange Online connectors
2. Configure capture scope for Exchange connectors
Protect SharePoint sites and data
1. Add SharePoint connectors
2. Supported and unsupported SharePoint Settings and Types for backup and restore
3. Supported Sites and List templates for backup and restore
4. Supported SharePoint permission objects for backup and restore
5. Configuring capture scope for SharePoint connectors
6. End-user SharePoint data access in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
7. Run the Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment
8. Limitations of SharePoint connector
Protect Teams sites
1. Add Teams site collections connectors
2. Configure capture scope for Team site collections connectors
3. Limitations of Teams site collections connector
Protect OneDrive data
1. Add OneDrive connectors
2. Configure capture scope for OneDrive connectors
Protect Teams chats
1. Add Teams chat connectors
2. Configure capture scope for Teams chat connectors
3. Limitations of Teams chat connector
Protect GoogleDrive data
1. Prerequisites to add Google Drive connectors
2. Add Google Drive connectors
3. Configure capture scope for Google Drive connectors
4. Limitations of Google Drive connector
Protect Gmail data
1. Prerequisites to add Gmail connectors
2. Add Gmail connectors
3. Configure capture scope for Gmail connectors
Protect Audit logs
1. Add Audit log connectors
2. Audit log connector limitations
Protect Salesforce data and metada
1. About Salesforce protection
2. Key considerations and prerequisites for adding Salesforce connectors
3. Add Salesforce connectors
4. Limitations of Salesforce connectors
5. Salesforce Objects not supported for backup
Protect Entra ID objects
1. Add Entra ID (Azure AD) connectors
2. Limitations for Entra ID connector
Protect Box data
1. Prerequisites for Box connectors configuration
2. Add Box connectors
3. Configure capture scope for Box connector
4. Limitations of Box connector
Protect Slack data
1. Add Slack connectors
Protect Email/Message data
1. Prerequisite for Email/message connector
2. Add Email/Messages file
Configure Retention policies
1. About WORM policies
2. Ingestion WORM policies page
3. Add/edit Ingestion WORM retention policies and guidelines
4. Add/edit At-Rest WORM retention policies
5. Add/edit Deletion policies
6. View deletion history
7. How to edit the policy evaluation interval?
8. How to add a Location filter?
9. How to add a filter?
Perform backups
1. Perform on-demand/ad-hoc backup
2. Backup dashboard
3. Video tutorial for connector troubleshooting
4. View backup events
  1. About Event suppression
  2. Create event suppression rules
5. Viewing backup tasks details
View and share backed-up data
1. Browse backed-up data
2. Share data
3. Remove data sharing
Analytics
1. About analytics
2. Gain insights into storage utilization
3. Gain insights into storage utilization for Entra ID and Salesforce connectors
4. Gain insights into blocked activities, most active users, and more
5. Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) on legal hold
6. Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) saved in different Enhanced cases
7. Gain insights into data volume (size and count) under different policies
8. Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags
9. Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags behaviors
10. Gain insights into storage savings after deduplication and compression
11. Gain insights into data ingestion trends
Perform restores using Administration portal
1. About restore
2. Prerequisites for restore
3. Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
4. Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
  1. Restore of OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Group, and Microsoft Teams sites
  2. Limitations of SharePoint sites and data restore
5. Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
  1. Limitations of Teams chat data restore
6. Restore O365 audit logs
7. Restore Box data
  1. Limitations of Box data restore
8. Restore Google Drive data
  1. About the overwrite restore behavior for Box/Google Drive data
9. Restore Gmail data
10. About Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore and Sandbox seeding
11. About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
12. Restore Slack data
13. Restore data to File server
14. Set default restore point
15. Configure Restore all, Restore all versions, Point-in-time, and Specific range restore options
16. Configure email addresses for notifications
17. Downloading an item
Restore dashboard
1. About Restore dashboard
2. Restore job statuses
3. How to cancel a restore job?
4. View the restore events
Install services and utilities
1. About services and utilities
2. Pre-requisites to download and install services and utilities
3. Downloading services and utilities
4. Where to install the services and utilities
5. Installing or upgrading services and utilities
6. Configuring service accounts for services and utilities
7. About the Apps Consent Grant Utility
Discovery
1. About eDiscovery/searches
2. Add search templates
3. Add Discovery cases
4. Perform ad hoc search and add data to Discovery cases
5. View data in Discovery cases
6. Edit Discovery cases
7. DeleteDiscovery cases
8. Assign Discovery cases to users
Configure Tagging polices
1. About the Tagging policy
2. Add Tags
3. Add/edit Tagging policies
4. Adding regular expressions
  1. RegEx and query examples for PII detection
Configure Tiering policy
1. About the Tiering policy
2. Add/edit Tiering policies
Auditing
1. Auditing
Manage Stors (Storages)
1. Viewing Stors (Storages)
2. Requesting a new Stor
3. General tab
4. Version control settings
5. Metadata tab
6. Statistical policies tab
7. Location-Mapping tab
8. Backup tab
9. Custodian Groups tab
10. Advanced tab
11. Analytics tab

Gain insights into data volume (size and count) under different policies

The Policies tab provides statistics on the volume of the data under different policies.

The following features are common across the charts on this tab:

Item size and Item count options: Each chart includes an option to switch views between size-based and item count-based details.
Zoom in and out: You can interact with line and bar charts by clicking within the chart and using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
Details on hover: You can hover over any pie chart to view statistics as percentages and verify the timestamp for the last update.

To get the details, select the required option from the Stor dropdown list. You can either select the All content option to view details for all Stors or select specific Stors to view details related only to those Stors. Next select the required policy from the Policies dropdown list.

The following details are displayed for the selected policy:

Table:

Sections/charts	Description
Policy name	Displays the name of the policy selected policy.
Item versions	Displays the count of items under the selected policy.
Total size	Displays the total size of the data under the selected policy.
Storage tiering chart	A pie chart that represents the breakdown of data volume across storage tiers (Cool, Cold, Archive, and Hot) for the data under the selected policy.
Policy coverage by tags chart	A pie chart represents the data volume for each Tag under the selected policy.
Policy coverage by content type chart	A pie chart represents storage consumption by content type (such as images, documents, and emails) for the data under the selected policy.
Distribution chart	By default, Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection organizes data into buckets for efficient data management. The buckets are created based on the item's size, last accessed timestamp, and last modified timestamp. :: Size bucket: A size bucket is created to categorize data into size ranges, such as, Less than 1 KiB 1 KiB - 10 KiB 10 KiB - 100 KiB Up to greater than 100 GiB This categorization helps monitor storage consumption by bucket. For example, you can view how much storage is occupied by items within the 1 KiB - 10-KiB range compared to those smaller than 1 KiB. To analyze data by size, click the Size option and you can switch between the Item size and Item count option based on your requirement. :: Last accessed and last modified buckets: Data is grouped by the year it was last accessed or modified. This allows tracking of storage consumption per year based on last accessed or modified timestamp. ------------------------------------------------------------- Manage Aggregation Buckets Templates Use the following procedures to view, edit, add, and load Aggregation Buckets. ::To view these Aggregation Buckets Templates, do the following: Open the Administration portal. Navigate to Administration. On the left, click General. Select the Aggregation Buckets Template tab. Click View Aggregation Buckets Templates. Click a template to see its predefined values. ::To edit Aggregation Buckets Templates, do the following: Open the Administration portal. Navigate to Administration. On the left, click Storage. Click the Stor of which Aggregation Buckets Templates you want to edit. Click the Metadata tab. Click the edit icon of the field of which values you want to edit. For example, Size. Click the bucket name that you want to change. Modify the values and click Update. ::To add a new bucket, do the following: Open the Administration portal. Navigate to Administration. On the left, click Storage. Click the Stor for which you want to add a new Aggregation Bucket Template. Click the Metadata tab. Click + Add Buckets. On the Aggregation buckets page, enter a label for the bucket, specify the values/range, and click Add. The added bucket is now listed. Click Save. Click More > Save as template. On the Save as template page, enter details and click Save. The new bucket is saved in the template. You can navigate to the General settings and view the templates. The buckets you create and customize are replaced with the standard default templates upon a tenant upgrade. After the upgrade, only the default templates are visible. To restore your custom templates, you need to manually load them. ::To add load a custom template after tenant upgrade, do the following: Open the Administration portal. Navigate to Administration. On the left, click Storage. Click the Stor. Click the Metadata tab. Click More > Load template. From the Load template page, select the template and click Load template. Click Save. You can navigate to the General settings and view the templates.