Microsoft protects the platform. Your data is your responsibility.
Overview
Independent backup for Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and Azure workloads, with granular point-in-time restore of a single mailbox item, file, channel or virtual machine — outside the Microsoft tenant.
Outcomes
Recover any item, any point in time
Shared-responsibility gap closed
Fast self-service restores
At a glance
Backup, email security and posture management across Microsoft 365.
In depth
Microsoft guarantees the availability of the service, not the recoverability of your content. Retention and litigation hold are not backup: once a retention window passes, or a licence is removed, or an attacker with admin rights purges data, Microsoft cannot bring it back. That gap is yours to close.
Exchange Online mailboxes and archives, OneDrive, SharePoint sites and lists, Teams chats, channels and files, Entra ID objects and Azure virtual machines and workloads — backed up multiple times daily into encrypted storage held outside the Microsoft tenant.
Recover a single email, calendar item, OneDrive file, SharePoint list, Teams channel or an entire user, from any recovery point, into the original location or a different one. Search across backups means finding the item is quick even when the user cannot remember where it lived.
Departed staff data is retained after the licence is released, long-term and legal-hold retention tiers meet UK regulatory requirements, and every restore is logged for audit.
FAQs
No. Microsoft protects the platform's availability. Recovering your content beyond short native retention is your responsibility.
Yes — channel messages, private chats, files and the underlying SharePoint and OneDrive content.
Yes, Azure virtual machines and workloads are protected under the same platform and console.
Their mailbox and OneDrive stay recoverable under your retention policy even after the licence is reassigned.
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