You can back up your organization’s Office 365 Contacts to other cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc.

To set up a real-time backup of Office 365 contacts, you need to create backup sync pairsBackup sync pairs define how cloudHQ backs up data for individual users. For example, a sync pair might look something like this:

Office365 Contacts (bob@acme.com)   -> Google Drive/Backup_folder/Office365 OneDrive (bob@acme.com)
Office365 Contacts (alice@acme.com) -> Google Drive/Backup_folder/Office365 OneDrive (alice@acme.com)
Office365 Contacts (tom@acme.com)   -> Google Drive/Backup_folder/Office365 OneDrive (tom@acme.com)
Office365 Contacts (jen@acme.com)   -> Google Drive/Backup_folder/Office365 OneDrive (jen@acme.com)
...

And here are step-by-step instructions for how to achieve that:

Office 365 preparation:

  • OneDrive Business accounts have to be fully provisioned. cloudHQ will not provision Office 365 OneDrive Business accounts on your behalf. This means that each of your Office 365 users needs to log in at least once to their OneDrive Business account.
  • Your Office 365 admin needs to be added as an admin to users’ personal websites. Instructions are here: https://support.cloudhq.net/how-to-enable-admin-access-to-all-office-365-onedrive-users.
  • Please wait as it will take some time to propagate ownership changes.

Google Apps preparation:

Authorize cloudHQ to access your Google Apps domain

Authorize cloudHQ to access your Office 365 domain

Set up backup sync pairs between Office 365 Contacts and Google Apps Drive

  • Go to https://www.cloudhq.net/multi_setup_wizard?prompt_auth=true:
    Multiple Users
  • Select “Office 365” as your Organization’s cloud platform:
    Office365
  • Click the “Office 365 Contact” icon or drag the icon to the left empty box:
    Office365
    Office365
  • Select the user accounts whose contacts you want to sync. cloudHQ will get a list of users from Office 365 and ask which users you want to sync:
    Office365
  • Click the Google Drive icon or drag the icon to the right empty box to select it as your backup location:
    Google Apps
  • Select the Google Drive folder where you backup and click “Next”:
    Google Apps
  • Verify sync pairs and click “Finish”:
    Google Apps
  • Configuration will be done by cloudHQ:
    Office365
  • cloudHQ will automatically set up synchronization pairs:Google Apps
  • Synchronization will start. Here is How to Monitor Status of Sync.