Protecting Office 365 Teams

What items can be backed up?

You can back up entire teams. This includes team name, team members list, team channels and their content, team mailbox and meetings, and team site.

What items can be recovered?

• Entire team
• Team channels
• Channel files
• Team mailbox
• Email folders in the team mailbox
• Email messages in the team mailbox
• Meetings
• Team site

You cannot recover conversations in team channels, but you can download them as a single html file.

Limitations

The following items are not backed up:

• The settings of the general channel (moderation preferences) – due to a Microsoft Teams beta API limitation.
• The settings of the custom channels (moderation preferences) – due to a Microsoft Teams beta API limitation.
• Meeting notes, chats.
• Stickers and praises.

Backup and recovery are supported for the following channel tabs:

• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• PDF
• Document Library

Files that are shared in private channels are backed up, but not restored due to an API limitation.

Note These files are stored in specific locations, separately from the files that are shared in public channels.