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Steve Brining

Oct 27, 2026

3:49
Sounds like you maybe have a story for me.
3:51
So I think end of August, I think it was the last day of August, the Microsoft 365 backup, right? It's a native backup, right? It's deeply integrated in the whole Microsoft ecosystem.
4:01
So if, say, someone experiences, say, broad authentication or networking or service degradation event, Both the live data and the ability to restore from a native backup is simultaneously impact.
4:15
So if you think about it, it was an outage at the end of August, but it impacted Outlooks, impacted Teams, and impacted Azure, and not really any others.
4:27
So if somebody wanted to restore data during that outage, the restore job would have hung or maybe even failed since the destination, like, say, one driver wasn't accessible at that point.
4:39
So backup service up, I guess, doesn't necessarily mean you can recover your data if the primary platform goes down.
4:46
You know, as far as retentions, it's really interesting because, you know, with retentions, there's so many different ways that it's stuck.

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