Suppoted Sharepoint Templates and Limitations
Templates and apps supported for backup in Microsoft SharePoint Online
Supported site type:
Teams site
Communication site
Supported templates - Team site
List
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Document library
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Page
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Space
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
News post
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
News link
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
yes (it is page)
Plans
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Event list
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
App
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Link
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
Supported templates - Communication site
List
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Document library
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Space
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
News post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
New link
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Event list
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
App
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Supported elements on the site
List
List template
Issue tracker
Employee onboarding
Event itinerary
Asset manager
Recruitment tracker
Travel requests
Work progress tracker
Content scheduler
Gift ideas
Expense tracker
Recipe tracker
Blank
Progress tracker
Inventory list
Document library
Page
News post
Event list
Unsupported templates
Communication site template - Department
Communication site template - New employee onboarding
Unsupported elements on templates
Space
Plans
App
Link - restore
List - template - Playlist
Limitations
Sometimes, after restoring the site, it may not be set as the original home page.
Theme and site template are not backed up and restored on subsites.
Sometimes it is not possible to set the owner of the restored site.
The order of items in the lists may be different after the restore.
The menu items of the site after restore may have a different order.
Hidden list cannot be restored.
After restoring the pages on which the lists were placed, the connection between the page and the list is not restored. You need to re-add the link to the restored list in the webpart.
Attachments are stored in base64 format. This encoding causes an overhead of 33–37%. This should be taken into account when restoring emails with attachments, as large attachments may exceed the maximum message size (the estimated maximum size of the attachment that can be restored is 109 MB assuming the maximum message size is set to 150 MB).
Restoring a recurring event will only restore it as a single event. To restore all occurrences, enable
Overwrite existing filesoption.
Teams chat messages
vPlus is using Evaluation mode as the default model.
There is 500 messages limit (per month per tenant per app). If this model is not sufficient for your organization, you should enable metered APIs and services in Microsoft Graph:
Attention! Enabling metered APIs and services in Microsoft Graph, will be billed for any metered charges. This association also allows you to use Azure Cost Management + Billing to understand and manage the costs of the application.
Following are not supported
Marking messages as read or not read is not supported. Restored messages are always marked as read.
OneNote files are not supported.
OneNote tabs are not supported.
Sharepoint comments are not supported.
List comments are not supported.
Calendar Groups are not supported.
Site comments and likes are not supported.
Wiki content is not supported.
SharePoint site collection recycle bin is not supported
External SharePoint lists are not supported.
Categories in contacts are not supported.
Status Recovery Limitations
If a document/item was in
Check Outstate when the backup was created, the item's last version will not be restored to the target SharePoint and will be available for viewing only. Previous versions (if any) will be restored.If the
Declare this item as a recordaction was originally applied to a list item, the relevant status will not be preserved. Instead, the restored item status will be set in accordance with the target list/library content approval workflow.Original status
On Holdwill not be restored.Versioning settings of SharePoint lists are not preserved during restore.
Restoring Generic List and Pages Library may fail with the "No content type 'XXX' found in web YYY" error.
The
Created Byfield of restored documents is updated with the account performing restore.Some
RatingSettings of Discussion lists values are not restored.