What Is Acronis Backup for Microsoft 365?
A cloud-to-cloud, agentless backup service for the Microsoft 365 estate: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, OneNote — and now Entra ID, the identity layer underneath it all. It runs without hardware or agents, backs up as often as six times a day, and restores granularly: one email, one file, one site, or an entire mailbox, with search across subject, sender, recipient, dates, and file names.
The uncomfortable fact it addresses: Microsoft's shared-responsibility model. Microsoft guarantees the service stays up — it explicitly recommends third-party backup for your data. Deleted items age out of retention, ransomware syncs into OneDrive, and departing employees' mailboxes vanish with their licenses. Native retention is not backup.
Why This One
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The Whole Tenant, One Fee
Teams, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, OneNote covered together — with storage in Acronis Cloud included, not metered as a surprise.
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Restore in Seconds, Not Tickets
Point-in-time and cross-tenant recovery, content preview before restore, and search that finds one attachment across ten thousand mailboxes.
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NEW — Entra ID Backup
Users, groups, roles, policies, and configurations backed up with relationships intact — recoverable past Microsoft's native limits. A misconfigured conditional-access policy or a malicious admin change stops being unrecoverable.
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Group-Based Management
Static or dynamic protection groups from your Entra ID data — new hires are protected automatically, not when someone remembers.
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Security Underneath
AES-256 encryption, backup frequency up to 6×/day, and monitoring with alerts — inside the same console as the rest of your Acronis protection.
How palmiq Runs It
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Connect & Configure
- API-based tenant connection — protected the same day, no agents anywhere.
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Operate
- palmiq monitors every backup cycle and handles restore requests — from "I deleted an email" to "we offboarded a department."
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Extend
- Pairs with Email Archiving for compliance retention, Email Security and Collaboration Security for the attack side — the full 7-in-1 Microsoft 365 protection story.