Setting up Entra ID protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
To protect your Entra ID environment using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection, you need to add and set up a Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Entra ID connector based on your backup requirements.
You must know the following before adding a connector:
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Users: It includes backing up the user-related data such as profiles, settings, permissions, and other user-specific information.
Groups: It includes backing up the structure, memberships, and settings associated with the groups.
Application Registrations: It includes backing up the configurations, settings, and information associated with applications registered within the Entra ID environment.
Enterprises Applications: It includes backing up the configurations, settings, and data associated with enterprise-level applications registered and used within the Entra ID environment.
Backup and restore of passwords and multifactor authentication are not supported due to Graph API limitations.
Restore of multifactor authentication for the permanently deleted users is not supported.
Backup and restore of Application Registrations and Enterprise Applications' secrets are not supported.
Restore of Distribution Lists or Mail-enabled security groups is not supported.
Restore of eligible assignments and assignments with expired dates is not supported due to Graph API limits.
Backup and restore of photos or logos are not supported.
Only cloud-native attributes are restored for on-premises synchronized objects.
To perform restore of an Enterprise Application, its corresponding Application Registration should be restored first.
Restore of Enterprise Application for which the corresponding Application Registration is permanently deleted is not supported.
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 and select the connector type.
Access the Administration portal.
Click Connectors on the Backup card.
Click New backup connector.
Click Microsoft Entra ID.
Do any of the following:
Play the video that guides you through the Entra ID connector creation process. After the video ends, close the page. This action directs you to the New Connector page where you can proceed to create a connector.
Click Skip if you prefer not to watch the video. This action directs you to the New Connector page where you can proceed to create a connector.
Select the Don't show this again check box to avoid seeing this page when you create subsequent Entra ID connectors.
- On the General tab, set up the basic configuration for the connector.
- On the Capture scope tab, click Next.
- On the Credentials tab, configure credentials to access the source workloads (the SharePoint data to be backed up) and click Next.
- 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.