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1. Choose an Azure-ready solution

Avoid impact to Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives and

ensure best backup performance by choosing a solution that is natively

integrated with Azure.

2. Maintain recovery flexibilityEnsure you meet recovery goals and shorten recovery time by seeking a solution that o�ers di�erent levels of email recovery, like individual, shared and resource mailboxes.

Email is one of the most business-critical applications we all depend on every day, but Microsoft only provides minimal, short-term data protection for O�ce 365 Exchange Online. To address compliance and reduce risk of data loss, most organizations require more comprehensive data protection, which includes maintaining backups for longer time periods and maintaining multiple copies for disaster recovery. Here are best practices to consider when protecting Exchange Online.

Email is one of the most business-critical applications we all depend on every day, but Microsoft only provides minimal, short-term data protection for O�ce 365 Exchange Online. To address compliance and reduce risk of data loss, most organizations require more comprehensive data protection, which includes maintaining backups for longer time periods and maintaining multiple copies for disaster recovery. Here are best practices to consider when protecting Exchange Online.

Azure adoption grew from 45 percent in 2018 to 52 percent in 2019 among poll respondents experimenting with Azure.1

52%

1.2 million companies use Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, which has

a 68 percent market share among email communication technologies.2

90 percent of organizations plan to use cloud as part of their data protection strategy within the next 12 months.³

4. “Future-proof” your investment

Ensure your backup solution uses the Microsoft GRAPH API – as opposed to Microsoft Exchange Web Services, which is being phased out in 2020.

On October 13th, 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting and fully decommission the

Basic Authentication for Exchange Web Services to access Exchange Online.4

By 2025, worldwide data will grow 61% to 175 zettabytes, a 9 percent increase over the previous year’s 2025 estimate.5

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¹ RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera² iDatalabs: Exchange Online Market Share and Competitors in Email Communications Technologies

³ IDC: World-Wide Data Protection as a Service Forecast 2018-2022, IDC US44108018, July 2018. ⁴ IMicrosoft | TechNet: “Upcoming changes to Exchange Web Services (EWS) API for O�ce 365” (07/2018)

⁵ IDC: Data Age 2025.

3. Always have a disaster recovery plan

Look for a solution that lets you maintain multiple copies

of your backups and store them at di�erent locations.

90%

5. Minimize storage costsComplement backup with a

data deduplication solution to significantly reduce storage costs. The massive volume of emails and

attachments have driven backup storage costs through the roof.

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Protecting Office 365 Exchange Online: Top Considerations