Introduction to Druva inSync for Public folder

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The availability of this feature may be limited based on the license type, region, and other criteria. To access this feature, contact your Druva Account Manager or Druva Support.

Overview

Is your organization migrating the on-premise Public folder to Cloud along with Microsoft 365 migration?

Is Public folder the primary tool for collaboration within your organization used to share or archive content across a group?

Are you an admin responsible for managing Microsoft Public folders within your organization?

Is your organization concerned about protecting the Public folder data and helping its users to restore or recover their data in case of loss due to an error, malicious activities, or accidental deletion?

If your answer is Yes for most of the above questions, then, Druva inSync for Public folder is “THE” solution for you. From Public folder metadata to Mails and Post items, Contacts, Calendars, Journal items, and much more – inSync has got you covered.

Before we delve deeper into the inSync data protection solution for Public folder data, you need to gather some information about the following:

Microsoft documentation
Data types of Public folders protected by inSync
Supported Office 365 Editions
Required roles and permissions for access to Public folders

Data types of Public folders protected by Druva inSync

Let's take a look at the Public folders data that can be protected using inSync:

Metadata
- Public folder setting
  1. Enable
  2. Disable
- Folder Permission
  1. User
  2. Group
- General
  1. Name
  2. Path
  3. Total items
  4. Size
  5. Public folder mailbox
  6. Modified
- Statistics
  1. Associated items
  2. Deleted items
  3. Total size of associated items (MB)
  4. Total size of deleted items (MB)
  5. Owner count
  6. Contact count
Mail and Post items
- Mail
  1. Content
  2. Sender
  3. Recipient (Including CC)
  4. Attachment
  5. Sent time
  6. Category
  7. Read/Unread
  8. Importance
  9. Inserted pictures or tables
  10. Signature
  11. Forward
  12. Reply
Contact items
- Contact
  1. Name (Full Name; First Name; Middle Name; Last Name)
  2. E-mail (Display as)
  3. Phone
  4. IM
  5. Work
  6. Address
  7. Notes
  8. Other
  9. Picture
  10. Private
  11. Category
Note items
- Note
  1. Content
  2. Category
Task items
- Task request
  1. Content
  2. Attachment
  3. Inserted pictures or tables
  4. From
  5. Assign to
  6. Details
  7. Recurrence
  8. Category
  9. Follow up
  10. Importance
  11. Private
  12. Status
  13. Complete
  14. Start date
  15. Due date
  16. Remember
Journal items
- Journal Entry
  1. Type
  2. Subject
  3. Start time
  4. Duration
  5. Contact
  6. Category
  7. Content
Calendar items
- Appointment
  1. Event
  2. Location
  3. Attendees
  4. Start time
  5. End time
  6. Duration
  7. Reminder
  8. Show as
  9. Repeat
  10. Mark as Complete
  11. Meeting
  12. Attachment
  13. Inserted Pictures
  14. Category
  15. Font, art word, special character, and display languages
- Meeting
  1. Event
  2. Location
  3. Attendees
  4. Start time
  5. End time
  6. Duration
  7. Reminder
  8. Show as
  9. Repeat
  10. Mark as
  11. Online meeting
  12. Attachment
  13. Inserted pictures
  14. Category
  15. Font, art word, special character, and display languages

Supported Office 365 Editions

Druva inSync supports the following Microsoft Office 365 editions:

Enterprise
- E1
- E3
Education
- E5

Required roles and permissions for access to Public folders

inSync requires the following permissions to access and protect Public folders data:

Reviewer
Owner

To get more information on how to provide reviewer and owner permissions to all Public folders, see Microsoft documentation.

Druva inSync administrator with one of the following roles can configure Druva inSync to protect Office 365 data:

Druva Cloud administrator
inSync Cloud administrator
Any inSync administrator with role and privileges to manage Cloud Apps

Use cases

As a Druva inSync Cloud administrator,

You can protect your Public folders' data using a single pane of glass.
You can discover all Public folders, Mails and Posts, Contact, Calendar within the Public folders and protect them.

Supported inSync tasks for Public folders

The following table displays the various tasks that you can perform for Public folders using inSync:

Backup of data	Download of data by inSync Cloud admin

Let’s assume, you are an admin of ABC organization and want to protect the Public folder ABC data (Mails and Posts, Contacts, Calendars, and so on) for the users within your organization.

Wondering what and how to do it?

It's just a few steps post which you can just relax. inSync will keep protecting your data.

Tasks	Details
Step 1: Set-up inSync to protect Public folders	Configure inSync to protect Public folders
Step 2: Set-up a backup frequency to create backup snapshots or restore points with Public folders metadata and its data	Backup Public folders data

That’s it! Now, inSync takes care of protecting your Public folders' data.

Assume that you have inadvertently deleted some important data from Public folder A that you have already backed up using inSync. You now have an option to download the deleted data from the backed up snapshots available within inSync. Isn’t it cool?

You can read more about how to download your data at:

Download Public folders data

The next question that may come to your mind is: How do I monitor backup and download activities/tasks that I have performed using inSync. We have a solution to this too! For more details, see Monitor Public folders

In this article, we touched upon the essence of this feature and sought to give you a glance into how it works. Read on to get more insight and information about protecting your Public folders' data.

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