Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive
As the volume of Practice's data grows, protecting it throughout its lifecycle and ensuring better availability while managing costs becomes more important. Say, “hello”👋to Microsoft 365 Backup
and Microsoft 365 Archive.
Microsoft 365 Backup
The rise in ransomware encryption attacks and security breaches means organisations prioritise cybersecurity to safeguard themselves from losing data and sensitive information. Organisations need to have a system to help them meet regulatory requirements.
Microsoft 365 Backup provides recovery of your OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online data at unprecedented speeds for large volumes of data with a restore service level agreement (SLA) -- while keeping it all within the Microsoft 365 security boundary.
Backup all or select SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange mailboxes in your tenant.
Restore files, sites, and mailbox items in your tenant in parallel to a prior point in time in a granular manner or at a massive scale.
Search or filter content in your backups using key metadata such as item or site names, owners, or event types within specific restore point date ranges.
You will be able to access Microsoft 365 Backup directly in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.
Get peace of mind that your content is securely and efficiently backed up and restorable in hours rather than months. Microsoft 365 Backup will be available in public preview in Q4 of this year.
Microsoft 365 Archive
We're seeing many organisations' content growing at an exponential rate. This intensity is driven by collaboration and clients importing massive transactional data to use Microsoft's advanced content AI services and integrated security, compliance, search, and collaboration.
Some content becomes inactive and less valuable for collaboration but remains essential for business records and compliance. Your extra storage costs may increase once you fully consume your included Microsoft 365 storage as content grows. We know you need a more cost-effective solution to securely and compliantly store long-term data within Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 Archive gives you a cold data storage tier that enables you to keep inactive or ageing data within SharePoint at a cost-effective price point matching the value of that data's lifecycle stage. Because the content is archived “in place”, it retains Microsoft 365's valuable security, compliance, search, and rich metadata. With Microsoft 365 Archive, you can:
Select and archive or reactivate full sites in place without needing to migrate your data outside of Microsoft. File-level archiving will be coming in the second half of 2024.
Maintain full admin-level search, eDiscovery, access policy, sensitivity label, DLP (Data Loss Prevention), retention policy, access control settings, and other security and compliance functionality.
Gain additional de-cluttering experiences and site lifecycle control capabilities.
The initial release of Microsoft 365 Archive will provide site-level archiving; file-level archiving will be available next year with powerful retention policy workflow integrations.
