When utilizing Microsoft 365, the platform does preserve your email--to an extent, but it doesn’t actually back up your data.

Microsoft 365 operates on a shared responsibility model, meaning the service will partner with you in the following scenarios:

Datacenter security – both physical and network-based
Data storage, replication and redundancy
Uptime guarantees and privacy controls their core tenets (“if we can’t protect the people, we don’t deserve their trust”) of the Microsoft security approach
Protection from major events affecting their data centers such as hardware or software failures, natural disasters, power outages, Operating System errors, etc.
But, when it comes to email data, accidental or malicious deletion of data is the responsibility of the enterprise. And, instead of a true Microsoft 365 backup service, the software offers only archiving features.

Exchange and IMAP servers automatically archive your email, keeping items available for a certain amount of time. There are two ways you can backup your email: automatically and manually.


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