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Working With Archived and Deleted Data in Microsoft 365

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 45 seconds
Students: 451
Rating: 4.6/5

Microsoft 365 provides multiple features and services for managing working data as well as for retaining them as needed. It is critical for you as an IT administrator to understand the features available for ensuring that deleted data can be restored and that you can import other data and use Microsoft 365 as an archive.

This lesson will focus on how to manage archival, deletion, and restoration of content and data within Microsoft 365. By the end of this lesson, you will know the various options available for that and when to use the Admin Center or PowerShell to restore data and content. We will also discuss some of the important aspects of working with deleted data.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify content for recovery
  • Ensure your end-users have the data they need
  • Recover data in Microsoft 365
  • Archive data in Microsoft 365

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for people who want to become a Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate.

Prerequisites

If you wish to follow along with this lesson, it is recommended that you have a Microsoft 365 tenant, an account with Global Administrator access, as well as content within SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, a few Exchange Online mailboxes, and users in Azure Active Directory.