Enabling or disabling offering items

You can enable all offering items available for a given edition or a billing mode, as described in Creating a tenant.

Disabling all offering items of a service does not disable the service automatically.

There are some limitations to disabling offering items, listed in the table below.

Offering item Disabling Result
Backup storage Can be disabled when the usage is equal to zero. The cloud storage will become unavailable as a destination for backups within a customer tenant.
Local backup Can be disabled when the usage is equal to zero. The local storage will become unavailable as a destination for backups within a customer tenant.
Data sources (including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace) Can be disabled when the usage is equal to zero. The backup and recovery of data sources (including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace) will become unavailable within a customer tenant.
All Disaster Recovery offering items Can be disabled when the usage is more than zero. See the details in "Soft and hard quotas".
All Notary offering items Can be disabled when the usage is equal to zero. The Notary service will be unavailable within a customer tenant.
All File Sync & Share offering items Offering items cannot be enabled or disabled separately. The File Sync & Share service will be unavailable within a customer tenant.
All Physical Data Shipping offering items Can be disabled when the usage is equal to zero. The Physical Data Shipping service will be unavailable within a customer tenant.

For an offering item that cannot be disabled when its usage is more than zero, you can manually remove usage, and then disable the corresponding offering item.