Restricting User Discovery and Backup to a Domain

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If your tenants reside on multiple domains, you can restrict autodiscovery and backup of users to a specific domain or domains.

You can restrict autodiscovery and backup as shown in the following table:

Number of domains

Domains to restrict autodiscovery and backup to

Domains to enter

One domain

One domain

Leave the Domains setting empty.

You do not need to perform the procedure.

Multiple domains

Include all of them

Leave the Domains setting empty.

You do not need to perform the procedure.

Multiple domains

Include only one

Enter the domain that you want to restrict autodiscovery and backup to.

Multiple domains

Include more than one but not all

Leave the Domains setting empty.

You do not need to perform the procedure.

Instead, create an AD group per domain (static or dynamic). Populate the AD group according to the domain, and then add each AD group as content.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Office 365.

    The Office 365 apps page appears.

  2. In the Name column, click the app to restrict autodiscovery and backup for.

    The app page appears.

  3. On the Configuration tab, In the General section, for Domain, click Add.

  4. Enter the domain or domains, and then click the add button .