What Is Email Archiving for Microsoft 365?
Email archiving preserves business email in a tamper-proof, searchable repository — not because you'll read it tomorrow, but because a regulator, court, or public-records request may demand it years from now. Acronis Email Archiving for Microsoft 365 is SaaS-based: immutable storage, flexible retention policies, legal hold, and full-text search with email preview — deployed in minutes with no hardware.
Archiving is not backup, and the difference matters legally. Backup exists to restore what was lost; an archive exists to prove what was said — complete, unaltered, and produceable on demand.
Why It Matters
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Compliance Is Not Optional
GDPR, HIPAA, NIS 2, FINRA-style retention — plus public-records laws for schools and local government. Legal hold and per-tenant retention policies fit the obligation to the industry.
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E-Discovery in Seconds, Not Weeks
Full-text and advanced search across the entire archive, organized by mailbox with preview before export — turning a subpoena response from a project into a query.
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Immutable Against Deletion
Malicious or accidental, deletions don't reach the archive — emails persist per policy in immutable storage, with exportable audit logs recording every user action for forensic and compliance visibility.
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Sovereignty Options
Storage across Acronis' global network of 50+ data centers supports data residency requirements — including US regions (Dallas, Ashburn, Phoenix, St. Louis).
How palmiq Runs It
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Scope
- Retention obligations mapped by regulation and industry — how long, for whom, with what hold rules.
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Deploy
- SaaS activation in minutes; journaling configured; policies applied per tenant.
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Serve
- palmiq handles searches, exports, and legal-hold administration when the request comes — calmly, because the archive was built before it was needed.