Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services. This service provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.
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Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup
Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.
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When this will happen
Preview: We will begin rolling out early January 2024 (previously early December) and expect to complete by mid-February 2024 (previously mid-January).
How this will affect your organization
Global admins can backup and restore content across the defined services (SPO/ODB/EXO). To protect content for any defined service, they need to create a backup policy for that service and add the relevant sites/accounts/mailboxes that they want to protect to that policy.
SPO Admins can backup and restore content for both SPO and ODB but not EXO. Similarly, EXO admins can backup and restore content only for EXO but not SPO and ODB.
What you need to do to prepare
If you wish to use Backup, you can start by identifying the sites/accounts/mailboxes in your tenant, that you want to protect. Once you enable M365 backup, it will be available under M365 Admin Center > Settings section.
Learn more about enabling and using M365 Backup.
Message ID: MC694388
Preview Available: January 2024
Rollout Start: April 2024
Added to roadmap: 11/22/2023
Created: 2023-11-30
Updated: 2024-01-03
Release Phase: General Availability, Preview
Product: Exchange, Microsoft 365 admin center, OneDrive, SharePoint
Platform: Online, Web, World tenant
Status: In development
Change type: Admin impact, New feature, Updated message
Tags: Admin impact, Exchange, Exchange Online, General Availability, In development, Microsoft 365, New feature, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Preview, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, Updated message, Web, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)