Overview

With the increasing adoption of Teams for easy collaboration, safeguarding this critical data from corruption, compromise, or loss is essential. Druva Cloud is the perfect solution for safeguarding your Teams data. It ensures the integrity of data by protecting it from ransomware and providing hassle-free backup and recovery.

Benefits

Druva Cloud administrator can avail the following benefits while protecting the Microsoft Teams data:

Recover the Teams data and avoid any business disruptions caused by data loss in case of accidental deletion or ransomware attack.
Auto-configuration and retention settings that help reduce time and efforts to protect Group data.
One-time configuration to secure, manage, track, monitor, and get notified of compliance risks of group data in your organization.

Data Protected for Teams

The data protection includes the following components:

Type	Description
Teams	Team Unique ID Name of the Team Creation date time and stamp Permissions assigned to all Team members Permissions assigned to all guests Count of Team Members Count of external guests Count of Team Channels All Teams Settings
Teams Site Collection	Site Collection details Data and metadata parameters for a site collection
Teams content	Data in Team Standard channels: Files OneNote Files - One Note files are backed up as a folder (with the name of the OneNote file) under Files. Conversations in channel Channel Email address(Alias) - All the mails sent and received in a channel with all attachments and properties (including user details) provided by the Microsoft APIs. All messages sent and received with their attachments with other properties (including user details) provided by Microsoft APIs. Default tabs Data in Team Private channels: Conversations in channel Channel Email address(Alias)- All the mails sent and received in a channel with all attachments and properties (including user details) provided by the Microsoft APIs. All messages sent and received with their attachments with other properties (including user details) provided by Microsoft APIs. ❗ Important Due to Microsoft API limitations, there is no mapping for Private Channels within Teams and the SharePoint site. Consequently, Files within the Private Channels cannot be backed up and restored in Teams. You can restore Files within the Private Channels from the corresponding associated SharePoint site. Data in Team Shared channels: Conversations in channel Channel Email address(Alias)-All the mails sent and received in a channel with all attachments and properties (including user details) provided by the Microsoft APIs. All messages sent and received with their attachments with other properties (including user details) provided by Microsoft APIs. Files Default tabs ❗ Important Insync backs up data from Shared Channels only when the Team hosting those channels is backed up. Shared channels from other teams are not included in the backup.
Archived Teams	Backup and download support.

Data excluded from backups for Teams

Exclusion of Teams Meeting Recordings (Configurable)

SharePoint backups will exclude all files from the default folder path of Teams Meeting Recordings (TMR) to ensure optimized backup speed. or more information, see Exclusion of Teams Meeting Recordings from backups.

Supported tasks for Teams

The following table displays the various tasks that you can perform for Teams by using Druva Cloud:

Backup	✅
Restore	✅
Download	✅
Federated Search	❌
Legal hold	❌
Scan the data for compliance risks	❌

📝 Note

Due to a Microsoft API limitation, the restore of Conversations data is not supported.

Required roles and permissions for access to Teams

For more information about the required permissions to access and protect Teams data, see Microsoft 365 App Permissions for Druva App.

Configure Druva to protect Teams data

Get Started with SharePoint Online Data Protection

Microsoft 365 Permissions for Druva App

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Preparing the environment to configure backup and restore for Microsoft Teams