The problem

Leadership assumed we had backups. I found out we did not, live, with a director waiting on the call

A department head requests files deleted months ago. Recycle bin retention has expired, site-collection restore is too narrow, and no Purview retention or paid backup was set because leadership assumed the cloud was backed up.

This is a workplace problem tracked in SharePoint & Teams Admins. Below is the solution path currently available for it.

The solution path · 3 linked resources
  1. BlueprintTrack Microsoft 365 Restore Requests from First Report to Final Answer Join to open
  2. CourseWrite the Recovery Promise Before the Restore Request ArrivesView on Spaces
  3. BriefingDecide If You Need a Backup Tool for Microsoft 365 Before Data Is Lost Join to open

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