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at Cohesity. In this video, we'll take a look at how you can use Cohesity Essentials to protect and recover an Office 365 workload. Cohesity Essentials provide enterprise-grade ransomware resilience without the enterprise overhead. Let's get started. Imagine that I'm an IT manager overseeing Microsoft 365 systems. Our company has a group of employees who rely on Microsoft 365 every day for email, file storage, and team coordination. Our leadership has made it a priority to strengthen our ransomware resilience. Cohesity Essentials helps you protect against ransomware and other cyber threats. It also helps achieve three key goals, fast recovery, large-scale recovery, and confident recovery for Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint sites, and Teams. There are many ways to achieve this, and for a mid-sized organization with a lean IT team that wants an easy-to-use, Cohesity-managed SaaS solution to back up their M365 workloads, we have two options. Cohesity Essentials CCS M365 Base, which backs up data to Microsoft Backup Storage on the backend, and Cohesity-managed CCS M365 Core, which backs up to a Cohesity-managed cluster on the backend. In this demo, we'll go through these two options to see how we can maximize our ransomware resiliency by using a combination of both solutions. In the Registration Wizard, we can set up fast recovery for protection against ransomware or to recover deleted or corrupted data across Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. This protects us if an account is compromised and data gets wiped. First, we select CCS M365 Core to get the full benefits of the Cohesity platform, including dedupe, compression, and the ability to set up an air-gap cyber vault. I'll choose a Cohesity Cloud Region in Azure to store backup data. Note that you also have the ability to store data on AWS and the Google Cloud Platform. Next, we decide on ransomware resilience. For additional redundancy, we avoid relying on the same tenant that could be attacked. We pick a different region, giving us a safe recovery point even if the attacker deletes or purchases data. Next, we pick what to protect. Attacks can hit Mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Our goal is to get our minimal viable company back online fast. In this example, I've selected all options. On a side note, CCS M365 Core offers threat scanning for Exchange, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive datasets. This allows organizations to proactively scan for threats in addition to rapid recovery. And we'll also create another backup copy using M365 CCS Base. I'll enter the M365 credentials to enable Microsoft Backup Storage on the backend. Since we've already registered, I'll skip and get to a registered source to start our backups. Now I'll select one of our registered sources. You'll see two tabs. First, CCS M365 Base quickly restores lost data, including emails, OneDrive folders, and SharePoint libraries. It offers fast backups and instant bulk recovery using a high-speed native API so that you can recover your critical data almost immediately and keep your business running. Second, CCS M365 Core serves as our long-term backup. It maintains an air-gaffed, unchangeable copy for long-term retention, enabling restoration even if all tenant data and recycle bins are wiped. By combining both solutions, we have unmatched ransomware resiliency thanks to fast recovery with CCS M365 Base, while CCS Microsoft 365 Core provides long-term air-gaffed protection. Now let's talk about preventing problems before they happen. Bruce Banner's OneDrive contains important project files, so we're protecting it now to avoid issues like compromised accounts, accidental deletion, or ransomware. This way we can restore files quickly and keep the business running smoothly. Before we finish, I'll do a quick check for future issues. I'm verifying the protection is set to Microsoft 365 Backup Storage. That way, if Bruce ever loses files by accident or through a compromised account, we can restore them quickly. After confirming the destination, I'll click on Protect. Now review the activity log to show Bruce's protection job running. While Bruce's OneDrive is being protected, our scenario shifts from preparation to real-life operations. My help desk just flagged another user who can't access critical files. To respond quickly, I'll select the employee's OneDrive, choose the appropriate recovery point, and click Recover to restore his files and get him back to work. You can also configure self-service for your end users, giving the employee the ability to directly recover their OneDrive. Now we can see the recovery job running. This is where the waiting stops and the restore actually starts. CCS M365 Base is actively putting the OneDrive content back so he can get unblocked and keep working. Reporting is also important in my role because quick analysis of information helps me to be more efficient in my role. Also, resilience means that you can answer tough questions after an audit or an incident, such as who is protected, how much is protected, are we on track as the business grows. This report shows how many OneDrive accounts and SharePoint sites are being protected. It also shows your total usage and your peak monthly usage. It helps you check your coverage and capacity before the next incident. You can download the report or have it sent to your email. This completes the demonstration. We took a look at how you can use Cohesity Essentials to protect and recover an Office 365 workload and how my role in IT operations is simplified through the process. Thanks for watching.
