Most mid-market companies assume Microsoft 365 is protected. It isn't — not the way you think. We tell you exactly where your recovery breaks, before the day you need it.
Microsoft's own agreement runs on a shared responsibility model. Native features — the Recycle Bin, retention policies, Litigation Hold — were built for short-term recovery and legal preservation, not backup and point-in-time restore.
Uptime, physical security, and replication across their data centers. The service staying available. That's where their responsibility ends.
Recovery from deletion, ransomware, account compromise, departing employees, and corruption. By contract, this is the customer's job — yours.
Native retention is not backup. The gap stays invisible right up until the moment you try to recover something and can't.
These aren't edge cases. They're the most common ways organizations lose Microsoft 365 data — and in each one, the native safety net runs out.
Encrypted files sync straight to the cloud. OneDrive faithfully replicates the damage, version history and all.
Deprovision a license and the mailbox and OneDrive are purged after a short grace period. Then it's gone.
A disgruntled employee deletes records before walking out — the single most damaging real-world scenario.
An attacker mass-deletes mail and files, then empties the Recycle Bin and recovery folders behind them.
Teams data scatters across Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. There is no unified restore. Most have never mapped it.
Multi-year retention mandates rarely match native windows. "We thought it was covered" is not a defense.
A fixed-fee, time-boxed review of your true recovery posture — led by a Commvault Master-certified architect. No products to sell you. Just a clear picture of where you stand and what to do about it.
Recovery posture review across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
Risk-ranked gap map tied to the scenarios that actually cause data loss.
RPO / RTO evaluation — what you can recover, and how fast.
Compliance & retention check against your obligations.
Executive one-pager your leadership or board can act on.
Vendor-neutral remediation roadmap — prioritized, not pitched.
Led by a Commvault Master-certified architect who has spent a career on backup, recovery, and resilience — not a generalist reading a checklist.
We're vendor-neutral. Our recommendation is what's right for your environment, not whatever we resell. The findings are the deliverable.
We work with private-equity-backed portfolio companies. We speak to operators and boards in the language of risk, not just IT.
Get the Microsoft 365 Backup Gap Checklist — a three-page, 12-point self-assessment. Count your blank boxes and you'll know in five minutes whether your data is defensible or unprotected.
No spam. We send you the checklist and nothing else.
Microsoft guarantees the platform's availability and replicates data across its own data centers — that protects against their hardware failing. It does not protect your data from deletion, ransomware, malicious insiders, or account compromise. That's the customer's responsibility under Microsoft's shared responsibility model, and it's the gap we assess.
Those are real tools, but they were designed for legal preservation and short-term recovery — not operational restore. They have hard time limits, are license-dependent, can be misconfigured or disabled, and restoring from them at scale is painful. We test whether they'd actually hold up in the scenarios that cause real loss.
No. The assessment is the product. We're vendor-neutral, so our remediation recommendation reflects what fits your environment and budget — not a reseller agreement. If you choose to act on it, we can help you do that, but the findings stand on their own.
The Rapid Review is roughly a week. The Full Assessment depends on the size and complexity of your tenant, but it's deliberately time-boxed and fixed-fee — you'll know the scope and the cost before we start. No open-ended hourly surprises.
Then you'll have found out on a normal Tuesday instead of during an incident — which is the entire point. You'll get a prioritized roadmap you can act on in stages, sized to your risk and budget.
A fixed-fee assessment. A clear answer. Book a short scoping call and we'll confirm the right tier for your environment.
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