Microsoft 365 Backup: Full workload backup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft 365 Backup now offers full workload protection for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. This simplifies backup policy creation, ensuring all current and future data within these services is automatically protected, reducing data loss risk.

The Impact

Security teams and M365 admins are affected by improved data resilience, reducing the risk of unrecoverable data loss.

• Security Teams: Reduced risk of data loss due to comprehensive backup coverage.
• M365 Admins: Simplified backup policy management for critical workloads.
• Organisations: Enhanced data recovery capabilities for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange.

The Action

1. Review existing Microsoft 365 Backup policies for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange.
2. Plan to enable Full Workload Backup for these services once available in your tenant.
3. Verify backup coverage and retention policies align with organisational recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).

Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview · Essential Eight: Regular Backups · ISM: ISM-1511, ISM-1515, ISM-1705, ISM-1706, ISM-1707, ISM-1708, ISM-1810, ISM-1811, ISM-1812, ISM-1813, ISM-1814