Configure Onedrive/SharePoint folder and Common folder as Protected folder on Admin Dashboard.

What are protected folders?

Protected folders are locations within the organization where protected content can be consumed. A file will not be consumable when outside of a designated protected folder. Examples include endpoint common user folders, on-prem network drives, and cloud-based document-sharing services. 

Users can add Onedrive/SharePoint folder as a Protected folder under specific user roles. Anchor will automatically assign that folder as a Protected folder for all the users that are added to the user role.

Step 1:

Configure Protected folder for One Drive:   The admin can manually add all the paths as Protected folder under the user role.

add short-path as “OneDrive - <OrgId>\<Subfolder>”.

Example: To protect the documents folders on the Onedrive account of organization DAtAnchorInc, the admin would add “OneDrive - DAtAnchorInc\Documents”. Note: there is a space around ‘-’.

On the agent, the path is resolved to “C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive - DAtAnchorInc\<folder1>” or “C:\OneDrive-DAtAnchorInc\<folder1>” or wherever the user created their OneDrive parent folder.

Configure Protected folder for  SharePoint:

 The admin can manually add all the paths as Protected folder under the user role.

​ add short-path “SharePoint-<OrgId\ShareFolder\Subfolder>”.

Example: To protect the Share1\Documents folders on the Sharepoint account of Organization DAtAnchorInc, the admin would add “SharePoint-DAtAnchorInc\Share1\Documents\”. Note: there is no spaces around ‘-’ for SharePoint. 

Step 2:  Admin Right-click and Anchor folder from their workstation:  The admin needs to Right-click on the OneDrive/SharePoint folder and  select  

"Anchor> Anchor My Data>Add Protection and Anchor My Files". The admin only needs to do this for one time when adding a folder as a Protected folder.

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