Protecting Exchange Online data

What items can be backed up?

You can back up user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, and group mailboxes. Optionally, you can choose to back up the archive mailboxes (In-Place Archive) of the selected mailboxes.

Starting from version 8.0 of the Cyber Protection service, you can back up public folders. If your organization was added to the Cyber Protection service before the version 8.0 release, you need to re-add the organization to obtain this functionality. Do not delete the organization, simply repeat the steps described in "Adding a Microsoft Office 365 organization". As a result, the Cyber Protection service obtains the permission to use the corresponding API.

What items can be recovered?

The following items can be recovered from a mailbox backup:

The following items can be recovered from a public folder backup:

You can use search to locate the items.

When recovering mailboxes, mailbox items, public folders, and public folder items, you can select whether to overwrite the items in the target location.

In this section

Selecting mailboxes

Selecting public folders

Recovering mailboxes and mailbox items

Recovering public folders and folder items