Protecting Microsoft 365 Teams
What items can be backed up?
You can back up entire teams. This includes team name, team members list, team channels and their content, team mailbox and meetings, and team site.
A separate option in the backup plan enables the backup of OneNote notebooks.
What items can be recovered?
- Entire team
- Team channels
- Channel files
- Team mailbox
- Email folders in the team mailbox
- Email messages in the team mailbox
- Meetings
- Team site
You cannot recover conversations in team channels, but you can download them as a single html file.
Limitations
The following items are not backed up:
- The settings of the general channel (moderation preferences) – due to a Microsoft Teams beta API limitation.
- The settings of the custom channels (moderation preferences) – due to a Microsoft Teams beta API limitation.
- Meeting notes.
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Messages in the chat section
. This section contains private one-on-one chats and group chats. - Stickers and praises.
Backup and recovery are supported for the following channel tabs:
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Document Library