Office 365 data is critical to your business operations. Emails, OneDrive & Teams data can be lost forever due to accidental deletion, ransomware attacks, or employee exits. Native Microsoft Office 365 data retention is limited and does not guarantee full recovery. Acronis Microsoft Office 365 Backup provides automated, encrypted cloud-to-cloud protection hosted in a UAE data center, ensuring compliance and security for your Office 365 data. Instantly restore deleted emails, ransomware-encrypted files, or former employee data in minutes-without downtime or complexity.
Microsoft 365 is powerful for collaboration, but data loss happens dailyoften silently, and often permanently. Below are real, practical scenarios businesses experience across SMBs, enterprises, and regulated industries.
Mailbox deleted permanently with no backup available
OneDrive & SharePoint files encrypted instantly
Emails deleted and retention period expired
Microsoft Teams data wiped by mistake permanently
🗑️ Permanent Data Loss
Once data is deleted after the retention period, it is gone forever and cannot be recovered.
🔄 No Point-in-Time Recovery
Microsoft Office 365 Data cannot restore your data to an exact previous date or time.
🛑 Ransomware Affects All Data
A single ransomware attack can encrypt emails, OneDrive, and Teams data simultaneously.
👤 User Deletion Equals Data Loss
When a user is deleted, their mailbox and OneDrive data are permanently removed.
⚠️ Compliance & Legal Risk
Missing or deleted data can lead to audit failures, legal penalties, and compliance violations.
Microsoft 365 powers modern collaboration, but it was never built to be a complete Office 365 Data backup solution. Many businesses assume cloud-stored data is automatically safe-until a deleted email, ransomware attack, or employee exit wipes out critical emails, OneDrive files, Teams chats, or shared mailboxes. Manual exports and occasional backups only increase the risk. They rely on human effort, lack automation, miss version history, and don’t scale as data grows. One missed step can mean permanent data loss. And when incidents happen, fast, precise recovery is everything-because a backup is only valuable if you can restore the exact data you need, instantly.
That’s why a dedicated Microsoft 365 backup isn’t optional-it’s essential.
• No automation – backups depend on people remembering to run them
• Prone to human error – files get missed, overwritten, or skipped
• No version history – cannot restore earlier, clean versions
• Time-consuming exports – manual downloads waste IT time
• Impossible to scale – fails as users and data grow
• Inconsistent backups – schedules are often skipped or delayed
Yes, restore individual emails without affecting the rest of the mailbox.
Yes, recover a single user’s mailbox or OneDrive instantly.
Yes, full point-in-time recovery is available.
Yes, all Microsoft 365 workloads are fully recoverable.
Yes, fast recovery minimizes downtime and business impact.
Automated Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for Emails, OneDrive & Microsoft Teams – powered by Acronis.
Fully automated Microsoft 365 backups protect your emails, files, and Teams data continuously without human error, downtime, or operational overhead.
Microsoft’s Responsibility
Microsoft Global Infrastructure
Uptime of the Microsoft 365 Cloud service
Microsoft 365 data replication
(DC to DC geredundanta)
Recycle bin
Limited, short term data lass recovery Ino point in time recovery!
Infrastructure-level
Physical security
Logical security
App-level security
User/Admin controls
Role as Data Processor
Dato privacy
Regulatory controls Industry certifications HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley
Your
Responsibility
Your Microsoft Office 365 Data
Access and control of your
data residing in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Office 365 Data Backup Copy of your data
stored in a different location
Full Data Retention
ST & LT retention filling any/all policy gaps granular & point in time recovery
Data-level
Internal: Accidental deletion Malicious insiders Employee retaliation Evidence tampering
External: Ransomware, Malware, Hackers, Rogue apps
Role as data owner
Answer to corporate and industry regulations
Demands from internal legal and compliance officers
Microsoft’s Responsibility
Microsoft Global Infrastructure
Uptime of the Microsoft 365 Cloud service
Microsoft 365 data replication
(DC to DC geredundanta)
Recycle bin
Limited, short term data lass recovery Ino point in time recovery!
Infrastructure-level
Physical security
Logical security
App-level security
User/Admin controls
Role as Data Processor
Dato privacy
Regulatory controls Industry certifications HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley
Your
Responsibility
Your Microsoft Office 365 Data
Access and control of your
data residing in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Office 365 Data Backup Copy of your data
stored in a different location
Full Data Retention
ST & LT retention filling any/all policy gaps granular & point in time recovery
Data-level
Internal: Accidental deletion Malicious insiders Employee retaliation Evidence tampering
External: Ransomware, Malware, Hackers, Rogue apps
Role as data owner
Answer to corporate and industry regulations
Demands from internal legal and compliance officers
Discover powerful tools built to secure, manage, and enhance your Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Protect business emails, calendars, and contacts with secure backups and quick recovery.
Safeguard user files with version history and fast, granular restore options.
Keep SharePoint sites and documents protected with reliable, on-demand recovery.
Secure Teams chats, files, and collaboration data with automated backups.
Relying only on Microsoft Office 365 Data can put critical business data at risk. Automated backups and instant recovery give you full control over your data, helping you recover faster from mistakes, attacks, or outages.
