Email archiving preserves messages for search, discovery, and retention. Your organization’s requirements determine how long messages are kept and how they are accessed. Confirm supported mail systems, licensing, retention settings, and storage limits before deployment.
Secure and reliable
Remain confident that your information is protected with physical and digital security measures that are advanced and dependable.

- Keep all your important data in one place by giving users an In-Place Archive with a native, well-integrated user experience.
- Immutably preserve and hold user information for discovery at later dates with In-Place Hold.
- Safeguard your data by hosting it in globally-distributed data centers, with continuous data backup and premier disaster recovery capabilities.
- Availability commitments and any service credits are defined in the selected service agreement.
Stay in control
Host your archives on trusted Microsoft servers while maintaining control over your environment.

- An integrated management interface lets you manage your cloud-based archives from within the Exchange Administration Center.
- Archive storage is sized to your licensing, retention requirements, and service limits.
- eDiscovery features help you to find, produce, and manage data across your organization in an easy-to-use web interface.
- Support availability and response commitments depend on your support plan.
Easy to use and maintain
Provide your users with the business-class email archive they need to stay productive.
- Your users can access archived email from Outlook and Outlook Web App without having to learn new tools or UI, while helping to ensure your organization’s compliance needs are met.
- Automatic patching eliminates the time and effort needed to maintain and service your email archive system.
- Consistent and secure anywhere access to your information through Outlook and Outlook Web App.
- Improved end user performance by helping users manage their archived email within their inbox, ending the need for locally kept .pst files.
- Retention policies help users organize their information by enabling them to archive or delete items at their discretion.