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Microsoft 365 Archive

Store inactive SharePoint content at a lower cost with long-term, compliant cold storage.
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Overview

Archive and restore in minutes

  • Manage your growing SharePoint sites by archiving inactive content to a cost-effective archive tier.
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  • Keep all data in SharePoint and reactivate in minutes.
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Get cost-effective, long-term storage

Security and compliance

Help ensure data safety with Archive and Microsoft Purview security features, retention policies, and sensitivity labels.

Easy content searchability

Maintain Microsoft 365-compliant security and retention policies, including sensitivity labels and data loss prevention.

Seamless management within Microsoft 365

Easily manage archived SharePoint sites without the need for external storage.
Pricing details

Product plan

  • $0.05/GB Archive data tier storage
  • $0.60/GB Reactivation of archived data after 7 days
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Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft 365 Archive: Store data in SharePoint cost-efficiently. For more information, see the pricing model for Microsoft 365 Archive.   SharePoint Advanced Management: Automate data archiving with a separate license offering that operates in conjunction with Microsoft 365 Archive.
  • Microsoft 365 Archive helps you keep your data in SharePoint and provides additional benefits you don’t get when migrating your data elsewhere. These include:
    • Archiving within minutes, regardless of the amount or size of content being stored.
    • Keeping admin search indexes intact.
    • Archiving and rehydrating SharePoint sites without losing metadata and security versioning.
    • Eliminating the need to manage data in a separate security and compliance domain.
  • Yes, content that has a legal hold can be archived.
  • Microsoft 365 Archive supports admin-level and Microsoft Purview–based content searches. End-user searches are not currently supported, but will be available in the future.
  • Currently, only full-site archiving and reactivating is possible in this offering. File-level archiving may be supported in the future.

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