List of On-Demand Features

IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft™ 365 has several features to be delivered or enabled on your demand.

You can contact the IBM Software Support team if you are interested in the following features:

• IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 new experience removed several backup settings that are not popular in use. For details, refer to On-Demand Backup Settings. If you want to use these settings, contact IBM Software Support.
• To avoid any accidental deletion of your backup data, you can contact IBM Software Support to disable the GDPR-related features (the Data Subject Access Requests function and the Manually Delete Backup Data function) for your tenant.
• By default, successful granular level items will not be included in the job report, except for top-level objects. If you want to view the successful items in the job report, contact IBM Software Support for assistance.
• If you would like to filter the folders to protect the OneDrive service or Exchange Online service or filter the folders or lists/libraries within the site collections of the SharePoint Online service, Project Online services, Microsoft 365 Groups services, or Teams service, you can contact the IBM Software Support team for assistance. Note that if your subscription to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 is based on the protected data size, the total consumed data size in your subscription will not be affected by the filter policy. IBM will not exclude the size of the filtered items from the total consumed data size.
• If you want to exclude specific file types from backup by filtering file extensions (such as, to exclude the MP4 files from backup), you can contact IBM Storage Protect for Cloud support for assistance. This feature works for the backup of SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive, Project Online sites, and the sites of Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, and Viva Engage communities. The files, including the documents in the list attachment with the designated file extension, will be excluded from the backup. Note that this filter is not applicable to system files.
• If you would like to exclude the workflow history list as well as the list items from your backup for better backup job efficiency, contact the IBM Software Support team for assistance.
• For BYOS customers, if you would like to use a separate storage location for each service type, contact the IBM Software Support team for assistance.
• The Export Encryption Key feature is by default not available to users who are using default storage hosted by IBM Storage Protect for Cloud. You can contact the IBM Software Support if needed. For details on exporting encryption keys, refer to Configure Security Settings.
• By default, the HSM restore method using Migration API is enabled to improve the speed of large-scale recoveries. The High-Speed Migration (HSM) restore method supports SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Project Online, Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, and Viva Engage in both app profile authentication and service account authentication, and HSM restore jobs can support restoring content larger than 15 GB. For details, refer to HSM Restore Method. If you want to disable the HSM restore method, contact IBM Software Support.
• By default, the restore job will restore the Planner task’s attachment link to the target. If you want to restore the latest files in the attachment of the Planner tasks, contact the IBM Software Support team for assistance.
• Remove Unprotected Data – If you are a BYOS customer and are looking to save storage space by removing unprotected data, contact the IBM Software Support team to enable this feature for your environment. For additional details, refer to Remove Unprotected Data.
• The Storage Consumption report displays the backup data size in storage, its growth, and trends to help administrators to monitor and manage the storage consumption. By default, this report is not available. If you want to enable this report, contact the IBM Software Support team. For details, refer to View Storage Consumption Report.
• The hidden lists in SharePoint sites (including SharePoint Online sites, Teams team sites, Group team sites, Viva Engage community sites, and Project Online sites) are now excluded from the backup scope for better performance. If you want to include the hidden lists in your backup, contact IBM Software Support for assistance.
• The hidden folders in the mailboxes (including Exchange Online mailboxes, Group mailboxes, and Teams group mailboxes) will be excluded from the backup for better performance. If you want to include the hidden folders in your backup, contact IBM Software Support for assistance.
• To enable the Preview function, contact IBM Software Support . This function is restricted to the members of Administrators or designated security groups that have the Preview action permission.
• IBM Storage Protect for Cloud now offers enhanced search limits for both Restore and Backup data e-discovery, allowing you to view a greater number of search results. To increase your search limit, please contact IBM Software Support .