Microsoft 365 Archive
Store inactive SharePoint content at a lower cost with long-term, compliant cold storage.
Overview
Archive and restore your content
- Manage your growing SharePoint storage costs by archiving inactive content to a cost-effective archive tier.
- Keep all data in SharePoint and reactivate at any time.
- Only pay for Archive storage when your total storage surpasses your tenant’s quota.
- Retain the Microsoft 365 security and compliance features you already trust, no matter the age of your data.
- Improve Copilot results by removing outdated content from Copilot Search.
- Reduce the risk of oversharing any irrelevant or inactive data via Copilot.
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
Pay-as-you-go
$0.05/GB Archive data tier storage
*Azure subscription required
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 hours, regardless of the amount or size of content being stored.
- Keeping admin search indexes intact.
- Archiving and rehydrating SharePoint content 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.
- Yes, you can archive and reactivate full sites and individual files in SharePoint. File-level archiving is now available in public preview.
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