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M365 Backup & Restore

Granular restore, retention, encryption, audit chain.

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Microsoft 365 native retention vs evidence-grade backup: a 2026 guide for South African MSPs

Where Microsoft's built-in retention stops, what falls through the gap, and what an MSP actually needs to defend a POPIA Section 22 event.

Whole-mailbox restore is the disaster-recovery answer to a granular problem. The threats most MSPs face in 2026 need a different unit of recovery.