2026 Planning / 2026 Essentials
Cloud Applications Still Need a Recovery Plan
Know what your SaaS recovery features cover before data is lost.
Environment and inputs: An approved test tenant, a disposable document and its supported backup, version-history or restore workflow.
A hosted application’s availability does not answer every question about recovering deleted or damaged business data. Microsoft 365 Backup, for example, offers protection for selected SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange mailboxes. The important task is matching actual coverage and restore behaviour to business needs.
What matters
- Identify which data and accounts are included in the chosen protection arrangement.
- Check restore points, retention, permissions, and the practical steps needed to recover.
- Test a representative restore and record who can initiate it during an incident.
Practical example: A business verifies that its selected collaboration sites are protected and rehearses recovering a deleted document to a safe location.
One action today: Choose one critical SaaS data set and document its supported recovery path.