Where is your Microsoft Teams Data Stored in Office 365?

Microsoft Teams data spans several workloads within Microsoft 365. This makes it challenging to compliantly manage the full range of data types employed by Teams. 

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Microsoft Teams Data Storage

1:1 Group Chat
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared

OneDrive

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Channel Collaboration
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared, OneNote & Wiki

SharePoint

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Private Channel Collaboration
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared, OneNote & Wiki

SharePoint

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Channel Meetings
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared, Notes (Wiki), Meeting Recording

SharePoint

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Private Meetings
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared, Notes (Wiki), Meeting Recording

OneDrive

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Private Channel Meet Now Only
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Files Shared

OneDrive

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Online images, emojis and stickers 

Media Services

Voice Calls
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Chat

Users Exchange Online Mailbox

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Call Recording

OneDrive of person initiating recording

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Archive360’s policy-driven Teams data classification, analysis and management ensures every part of a Microsoft Teams conversation can be retained and protected cost-effectively according to your regulatory compliance requirements. 

Easily Capture, Manage, And Review Microsoft Teams Communication And Content 

Archive360 FastCollectTM for Microsoft Teams enables you to mitigate compliance issues and quickly alert reviewers to policy violations. 

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Considerations for Archiving MS Teams Content

Why organizations may need to reach out to third parties to provide additional archiving support.

Find Archived Microsoft Teams Content Quickly and Securely

In a single search, entitled users can retrieve archived files from all data sources connected to the platform.

Streamline e-Discovery and analytics

Precisely surface search results that are not just relevant to the search term but are relevant to the user, based on role, location, search history and other factors. Complete and accurate results can be managed and analyzed with case management and data visualization tools. 

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Users are a click away from archived content

Enable end users to find archived files directly, quickly and easily from within Microsoft Teams through the embedded Archive360 Search web application. Keep Teams data safe and compliant in a way that allows easy access and retrieval of Microsoft Teams content in its native format. 

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Control access and permissions at every level

Supports seamless authentication and provides role- and attribute-based access controls that ensure users can only view content they are entitled to access. Unauthorized access to sensitive data is actively prevented with optional anonymization, pseudo-anonymization and redaction, and all access and activity, system-wide is captured in an immutable audit trail. 

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Effortlessly meet regulatory requirements

Policy-driven content classification, analysis and management automatically ensure Teams content retention, protection and disposition is consistently and defensibly managed to meet SEC, FINRA, MiFID II, FCA, FOIA (or state equivalent) and other regulatory requirements so the cost and burden of manually responding to investigations and protecting sensitive information is significantly reduced. 

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Easily respond to e-Discovery requests

Archive360 can capture and consolidate content from Microsoft 365 and systems enterprise-wide so you can quickly produce relevant Microsoft Teams communications, email, and other content in a single search, saving IT and legal stakeholders significant time, effort and costs on Early Case Assessments.

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Control costs and confidently produce defensible evidence

Teams content can quickly consume storage and drive-up costs. Archive360 can automatically archive inactive Microsoft Teams content to less costly storage tiers as well as Write Once Read Many (WORM) storage to protect data from tampering or accidental deletion, recover deleted data and provide an immutable chain of custody.