Microsoft 365 Archive

Keep your SharePoint content in Microsoft 365 with cost-effective, long-term cold tier storage – without sacrificing manageability, security, and compliance.

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Microsoft 365 Archive is now generally available. Use our documentation to start the setup.

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Explore the product features

Learn how Microsoft 365 Archive can help you manage your growing content volume storage costs.

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Visualize the cost savings

See how you can save money by archiving content using Microsoft 365 Archive instead of keeping it active in SharePoint.

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Data and cost overloads

In the absence of an effective archiving solution, organizations grapple with unmanageable data volumes, escalating storage costs, and inefficient data retrieval processes, hindering productivity and compliance.

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Why Microsoft 365 Archive?

  • Pay for archive costs only if your total storage exceeds tenant’s storage quota
  • Zero migration effort
  • Easy admin searchability
  • Up to 75% cost saving
  • Assurance of Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance
  • Free 7-day restorability
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Archive your content in SharePoint

When content exceeds your SharePoint Online tenant’s limit, the typical solution is to purchase additional storage regardless of how actively that content is being used. Now with Microsoft 365 Archive, you can store your expanding SharePoint content at a lower cost and easily reactivate it with a few clicks.

The best part? You only pay for Microsoft 365 Archive when your total storage surpasses the tenant’s quota. So, if you choose to archive some existing SharePoint data and remain within the quota, there’s no extra charge. Experience cost-effective, efficient storage with Microsoft 365 Archive.

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List of key features

  • Maintain valuable Microsoft 365 security & compliance: Use Microsoft 365 Archive + Microsoft Purview to maintain the same security and compliance including retention policies, eDiscovery, sensitivity labels and DLP (data loss prevention)
  • Keep the richness of your data: Your content maintains the same searchability as Microsoft Search indexes while in archive storage

See Microsoft 365 Archive in action

Watch how you can quickly archive and reactivate SharePoint sites.

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Pricing details

Archived data tier storage:
$0.05/GB

Reactivation of archived data after 7 days:
$0.60/GB

See Microsoft 365 Archive in action

See how you can use Microsoft 365 Archive as a cold data storage tier that enables you to keep inactive or aging data within SharePoint - retaining security, compliance, search, and metadata features, at a cost-effective price.

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Get enhanced version controls – now in public preview

Improve your version history limits and save on SharePoint Document Library costs. Version history is an integral part of Microsoft’s 365 built-in data protection in SharePoint and OneDrive.

Set up the version history preview to get new time-based and intelligent automatic trimming capabilities to give admins and content owners a way to reduce the storage footprint consumed by low value file versions while retaining appropriate recoverability.

How to set up the version controls previewVersion history limits

Microsoft 365 Archive is now generally available

Setup Microsoft 365 Archive and start benefiting from a cost-effective tiered storage in place within the Microsoft 365 boundary.

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