Acronis Solutions for Microsoft Environments

Complete data protection for every Microsoft operating environment, hardware platform and workload

The Fastest and Most Complete Data Protection for Microsoft and Azure Environments

Data protection is a critical requirement for any business or institution that runs on Microsoft products and services.

Acronis offers the most comprehensive Microsoft backup and recovery solutions for every operating environment, platform and application.

Acronis protects the complete Microsoft technology stack:

Windows Server, Windows PC, laptop and Surface data
Microsoft business applications, including Microsoft 365
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Acronis offers the world's first data protection solution for:

Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server
Microsoft Hyper-V Server, including Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)

Acronis drives value for the Microsoft Azure Cloud:

Accelerates Azure Storage utilization
Migrates any server to Microsoft Azure
Offers optional service package planning and pre-configured service packages for Windows Azure Pack and Microsoft Azure Stack

Azure			Hyper-V
Exchange	SQL Server	Active Directory	SharePoint
Intune	Microsoft 365 Email	Windows PC	Windows Server

Acronis Solutions
for Microsoft Environments

Acronis offers a range of solutions that provide rich Microsoft-specific functionality
for resellers and end-users of Microsoft products and services.

Backup and Recovery Protect all your mission-critical Microsoft systems (Azure, Microsoft 365, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Windows PC) and workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Active Directory, Intune) with Acronis Backup – world’s fastest backup solution that protects all your data, located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, and on mobile devices. With 15-second RTOs, backups that are two times faster than the closest competitor, and support for 21 platforms, it is the most advanced and most complete backup solution available on market today.
Enterprise File Sync and Share Enable secure file access, synchronization, and sharing between a broad range of Microsoft and other servers and endpoints. Deploy an Intune-aware mobile content manager in Azure with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business or in a hybrid premise/cloud configuration to help users migrate seamlessly to Microsoft 365.
Cloud Disaster Recovery Deploy a complete, cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Windows and Hyper-V environments. Recover Microsoft workloads, including Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and Active Directory at a granular level. You can also protect a broad range of non-Microsoft operating systems, hypervisors, and applications.
System Provisioning and Deployment Provision Microsoft operating systems and software to one, tens, or hundreds of machines in one easy step. Supports provisioning of Windows Server and Windows 10 on servers, desktops, laptops, and tablets (including Microsoft Surface).
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Monitor, analyze, and generate detailed reports on the performance of Microsoft Cloud, on-premise infrastructures, and hybrid infrastructures with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based tool. Ensure critical systems are properly running and meet service-level commitments.
Mac Integration into Microsoft Environments Empower Apple users with the same print and file services that Windows Server users enjoy.

Benefits for Microsoft Partners

High-margin platform Deliver low-cost, high-margin data protection services to businesses and institutions that run Microsoft products and services.
Flexibility Offer data protection services with the option to store backup data in your own infrastructure, Acronis’ infrastructure, a third-party infrastructure, or any combination of the three.
Rich sales and provisioning tools Become an expert and jump into the Microsoft Data Protection Business quickly with Acronis’ rich, easy-to-use sales and provisioning tools.
Every type of environment Exploit the advantages of a multi-tenant platform to maximize the use of your infrastructure, reduce operational costs, and offer tiered services.
Customer self-service features Customize the self-service console so customers can choose their backup plans and initiate recovery operations, reducing your management efforts.

Greater Azure utilization Drive additional Azure revenues by offering additional cloud services including backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share.
Multi-tenancy support Differentiate your offering with an unparalleled breadth of data protection services for Microsoft environments. Protect physical and virtual servers; private and public clouds; desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones; and popular Microsoft application workloads.
Flexible deployment options Choose the deployment option that works best for you. Start with a fast-entry, low-risk, pay-as-you-go solution using the Acronis-hosted, turnkey, white-label option. Upgrade later to achieve greater control and realize better margins by using an Acronis-hosted console to manage your own storage or third-party storage, or host the entire solution on your own infrastructure.

What Customers Say

In our competitive environment it is important to use the latest software to protect all of our technical information. The release of Acronis Backup is welcomed by Scuderia Toro Rosso because it provides the high level of data protection and flexibility that we need. Scuderia Toro Rosso Head Of IT, Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula 1 Racing Team
It’s all about recovery time. Our recovery time is cut by an average of 50 percent or more, and it no longer matters what hardware we use to recover to. But in addition to savings, one of the main benefits we get out of Acronis is pure sanity. Acronis is a vendor I rely on. We’ve been able to reduce weekend hours by 10 to 15 percent.Lance Auman Systems Integration Manager, Pentagon Credit Union
In Acronis’ recovery product we have found, after an intensive selection process, a product, which meets the responsible administrators’ demands extremely well. We employ this product in all server operational situations and can already confirm its effectiveness in multiple recovery cases that have occurred.Thomas Haass vom Strategic Outsourcing Team (SO), Bechtle Remote Services
Acronis’ software has proven itself in a challenging environment and backup failure is no longer a problem for us.Shaheed Mahomed Network Communications Specialist, Assupol Life
Prior to getting Acronis, we would have to rebuild an OS and restore from tape, which would take a day or so. Now we pop in a bootable CD and let Acronis do its thing.Don Kurfurst Senior Network Engineer, Clintrak
If our Bohemia building is struck by a disaster, we’ll have the images of the physical boxes on the SAN. Rather than having a physical server at the recovery end point, we can take the Acronis image and convert it to a VM. This allows us to meet a 15-minute recovery time objective.Don Kurfurst Senior Network Engineer, Clintrak
With the Acronis solution in place we know that we are well prepared in case of a disaster or system crash. I believe we can proudly say that we now have a robust and reliable IT infrastructure in place to support our business operations the best way possible.Willem Trip IT Manager, DV Nutrition
The possibility of being able to make remote backups instantly, and to rapidly restore images stored in disk, even in dissimilar hardware, provides a high-level protection against contingencies at a reasonable operational cost.Josu del Alamo Systems Director, Euskaltel
We checked backup performance and it’s a lot faster than any other software we have.Suyog Gaiki Senior IT Administrator, Hudson News
Meeting strict service level agreements is also a key advantage of using Acronis. Last but not least, we minimise expensive installation times and the associated costs – especially for systems with specific, customised setups.Harald Waibel Director, Wels-Grieskirchen
The software is intuitive and offers the full range of functionalities required by our environment and policies. Backup plans can be easily located and launched, it perfectly suits our needs and plan which provides IT managers with peace of mind.Samuel Chemouni Technical Director, Gerard Darel
Without access to imaging products, we would have spent probably five hundred extra administrative hours in the last year to get where we are right now. For us, Acronis has had an ROI of close to 1000 percent.David Wilson System Administrator, New Bedford Community Health
Key benefits of the solution include efficient, centralised management with high-level backup protection for mission-critical servers. It frees IT personnel from recovery-related tasks as we now have automated recovery with a simple, guided process which allows us to recover an entire system, single file or folder.Gerard Luiten IT and Facilites Manager, Dolmen Insurance
By choosing Acronis, we have been able to install a more flexible and faster backup and recovery solution that gives us greater confidence in our ability to retrieve and recover data.Jaime Lockwood IT Manager, Morrish Solicitors
One attraction of the Acronis solution was the flexibility to backup to tape, disk or into the cloud, or multiples of those options as a standard feature. The product also addressed the issue of making backups faster and data easier to retrieve.Jaime Lockwood IT Manager, Morrish Solicitors
After building the server, we loaded the Acronis Cyber Backup and Recovery 10 plug-in and started running backups. It was so easy to configure Acronis and we had a backup completed in just 15 minutes.Mike Popernik Network Administrator, Oxford School District
Since installing Acronis we have had two or three incidents of system failure due to causes such as virus attacks. In each of the cases the systems have never been down for more than 20 minutes due to the excellent restore capabilities of Acronis.Mohannad Maswady IT Technical Manager, Kings Academy
Acronis has brought peace of mind to us all, and an increased level of confidence in the way we backup and recover our data. At the end of the day, you just can’t put a price on that.Joe Rylands Group IT Director, Brown Thomas
Acronis products have simplified recoveries and effectively reduced them to non-events, minimizing time, effort and staff as we grew our server population by several times in the past several years.Wayne Kyryluk College Administrator, George Brown College
Since the installation we haven’t experienced one backup that we haven’t been able to restore and the speed of recovery is the best on the market. The solution is intuitive and easy to use, allowing us to work from one central management console.Shaheed Mahomed Network Communications Specialist, Assupol Life
We use Acronis to take snapshots of a virtual server so we can bring it up in a virtual server environment if we have to carry out a quick recovery. This will help ensure we can be up and running shortly after a failure.Angie Michini Systems Administrator, Hargrove Engineers
We can dump a server image on a blank server, and within an hour or two the system will be up. Without Acronis, we would require more staff effort, but because we do have the software, we can bring a server back online in two or three hours without causing an interruption.Carlos Ruiz Senior Administrator, New York City Probation
We can pick the most critical machines and use Acronis to restore them to another VMware farm that’s ready to consume any boxes we want to recover.Clint Johnson Enterprise System Architect, Mississippi DOT
I can have the Acronis image up and running in minutes, either virtually or on dissimilar hardware. In some cases the dissimilar hardware will run slower, but users can continue to work without interruption until repairs are made and the original machine is back online.Jim Boyer CTO, Rush Memorial
Without Acronis, there would be more headaches, for sure, and greater unease. In Florida, we always have the impact of hurricanes to plan for. If a hurricane threatens to damage our facility, we can take the disk images and restore them onto servers located several miles away. Zack Knezevic Geographic Information Systems Analyst, Plant City
Acronis’ software ensures that the entire backup process is fully automated, and can be managed centrally by our IT team. As such, staff at our schools and colleges don’t need to worry about business continuity – and can focus on their primary role of educating students.Daniel Gale Network Manager, Sutton Local Authority
The Acronis solutions are extremely intuitive with a simple and easy to use GUI. When I upgraded to the latest version, I immediately warmed to the new console which was even easier to work with. Mohannad Maswady IT Technical Manager, Kings Academy

Resources

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Data Sheet – Acronis Backup Cloud	62.51 KB

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Solution Brief – Protecting Microsoft Azure with Acronis Backup 12	96.83 KB

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Checklist – Selecting a Backup Solution	68.97 KB

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Data Sheet – Acronis Backup	217.51 KB

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What’s New – Acronis Backup 12	93.06 KB

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Data Sheet – Acronis Backup for Microsoft 365 Email	536.26 KB

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Data Sheet – Acronis Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack	129.34 KB

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Case Study – MSP Pro River Technology	331 KB

Use Case – Simplifying Server Workload Migrations

Use Case – Migrating Your Company’s PCs

Video – Acronis 3-2-1 Rule of Backups

White Paper – Seven Rules of IT Business Continuity

Microsoft Systems Supported

Operating systems	Windows
Hypervisors	Hyper-V
Cloud Workloads	Office 365, Azure
Applications	Office 365, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory
Storage	Microsoft Azure Cloud Cool Blob Storage
Web Browsers	IE, Edge

Show detailed requirements

Operating Systems for On-Premise Console Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7
Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003/2003 R2
Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003/2003 R2
Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010
Windows Storage Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003
Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86, x64)
HypervisorsMicrosoft Hyper-V Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V
CloudMicrosoft Office 365 mailboxes
Microsoft Azure VMs
Applications Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2005
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2
Storage Local disks – SATA, SCSI, IDE, RAID
Networked storage devices – SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC
Removable media – ZIP, Rev, RDX, etc.
External HDDs and SSDs – USB 3.0/2.0/1.1and IEEE1394 (Firewire)
Acronis Cloud Storage
File Systems FAT16/32NTFSReFS ** Some limitations and license-specific additional features may apply. Click here for details.
Web Browsers Microsoft Edge 25 or later
Windows Internet Explorer 10 or later
Google Chrome 29 or later
Mozilla Firefox 23 or later
Opera 16 or later
Safari 8 or later (running in Apple OS X and iOS)

Only Acronis Backup Solutions

Deliver cloud backup and on-premise data protection for small- and medium-sized businesses, providing a unified web console to back up and recover all individual workloads
Include Acronis Instant Restore, reducing your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) to seconds by running any physical or virtual Windows or Linux system backup as a VMware or Hyper-V VM
Back up on-premise physical and virtual systems, as well as Microsoft 365 mailboxes and Azure VMs for complete protection of your entire IT infrastructure

Protect Microsoft Hyper-V hosts (not just VMs) and recover them to dissimilar hardware for complete protection of your virtual infrastructure
Protect every user by backing up Windows PCs and tablets
Give you complete control over the location of your data, systems, and backups — ensuring that you always know where your company data is, even if it is stored in the cloud

Key Features

Unified Web Console
- Deploy in the cloud for easy implementation or
  on-premises for complete control
- Simplify administration and reduce IT workload
Centralized Management
- Manage all physical, virtual, and cloud machines with the unified web-based management console
Microsoft Hyper-V Backup
- Protect market-leading virtualization technologies
Application Backup
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Active Directory

UNIQUE! Cloud Workload Backup
- Microsoft Azure VM Instances
UNIQUE! Acronis Instant Restore
- Run backup as VM
- RTOs of seconds with no data movement required
- Any virtual or physical system
vmFlashback
- Change Block Tracking (CBT)-based incremental restore of Hyper-V VMs
- Quick RTOs, recovering only the data changed since the last backup