Microsoft 365 Backup became Generally Available (GA) in July 2024. If you are not familiar with M365 Backup, it is a solution designed to ensure your organization's data is always protected and easily recoverable. Some of the key features are:
- Comprehensive Coverage: It backs up all or selected SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange mailboxes.
- Fast Backup and Restore: It offers fast backup and restore times, ensuring your data can be recovered quickly in case of accidental or malicious deletion.
- Granular Restore Options: You can restore entire SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, or specific Exchange mailbox items.
- Business Continuity: It provides peace of mind by ensuring business continuity through reliable data protection and recovery.
Past obtaining this feature for business continuity, many customer leverage this solution as part of their security strategy to protect against cyber and ransomware attacks.
One of the appealing features of M365 Backup is that you avoid slow import and export processes. M365 Backup is very quick offering 10 minute recovery points and recovery times on the order of hours.
In November 2024, a few new features
- PowerShell Control: Perform operations through automation and reoccurring activities.
- Backup Admin Role: Specific to this feature to limit access to the feature.
- Dynamic Rule Based Backups: Previously, you can create backup policies based on distribution lists and security groups which were point in time based on when the snapshot was made. With Dynamic backups, policies are applied to memberships as they change.
- Granular file level restore: This allows file level browsing the backups and restore files directly in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This enables you to do smaller restores. Note, Exchange Online already supports restoring granular items.
- Enhanced version controls: Adopt the new enhanced version controls of SharePoint and OneDrive to optimize version lifecycle management.
References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/backup/backup-overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/backup/backup-faq
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