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Practical guides on Microsoft 365 retention, leaver mailboxes, compliance, and everything we've learned building an email archive — no jargon, no scare tactics.
The archive works — it is the server underneath that nobody wants to own anymore. What to check before moving an on-prem email archive to a service.
Six years? Ten? Forever? Why there is no single answer, what typical retention periods look like, and how to set a policy you can actually enforce.
Your order confirmations, complaints, and contracts live in info@ and sales@ — the mailboxes with the most authors, no owner, and the weakest retention.
No jargon, no scare tactics: what archiving actually is, whether your business needs it, what it should cost, and how to get it done in an afternoon.
Purview retention policies can preserve email. So when is a dedicated archive worth paying for? A side-by-side look at what each one actually guarantees.
“Microsoft surely keeps everything, right?” Sort of. Sometimes. Depending on licensing and setup. Here is what the built-in tools actually do.
The PST export is the most popular email retention strategy in small business IT. It is also one file-share cleanup away from being no strategy at all.
A backup answers “can we get it back?” An archive answers “can we prove what was sent?” Confusing the two is how companies end up with neither.
Remove the license and a 30-day countdown starts. Here is what actually happens to the mailbox — and the four ways to keep its contents, honestly rated.
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