-> Where possible, we recommend that your organization use a custom domain name, as it can enhance your email's appearance and improve it's reputation.

-To add, modify, or remove domains, you **must** be a **Domain Name Administrator** or **Global Administrator** of a [business or enterprise plan](https://products.office.com/business/office). These changes affect the whole tenant; *Customized administrators* or *regular users* won't be able to make these changes.

- - m365initiative-syntex

-description: Read the preview terms and conditions for Microsoft 365 Archive (Preview).

-# Microsoft 365 Archive preview terms and conditions

-Effective Date: November 15, 2023

-"Company" means the Enterprise customer that uses this Preview Feature.

-**By using this Preview Feature, you accept these Terms and Conditions and all rights and obligations within. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, DO NOT use the Preview Feature.** These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Preview Feature offerings as described below.

-ΓÇ£FeedbackΓÇ¥ is all suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas, or know how, in any form, that Company provides to Microsoft. It doesn't include sales forecasts, financial results, future release scheduled, marketing plans and high-level product plans or feature lists for anticipated products.

-**MICROSOFT OFFERING**: The goal of the Microsoft 365 Archive is to provide customers with a cost-effective, long-term storage for their inactive aging content. Customers can archive their SharePoint site using Microsoft 365 Archive from SharePoint Admin Center. Admins can also reactivate an archived site that will move the site and its contents from archived (cold tier) storage to SharePoint tenant (standard tier) storage.

-**PREVIEW FEATURE**: To terminate your Feature Preview during the Preview Period, stop using the Preview Feature. Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time with or without notice. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.

-During the Preview Period, Company allows its SharePoint tenant admins to Archive SharePoint sites. Company must be aware that this is a preview service and all the limitations described in these Terms and Conditions, including but not limited, that Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time and that Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.

-Prerequisite Requirements to enable Microsoft 365 Archive pay-as-you-go are:

-1. An Azure subscription with admin access as owner or contributor on the subscription

-2. A Microsoft 365 tenancy with either Microsoft 365 admin access or SharePoint admin access

-3. An Azure resource group

-No service-level agreement (SLA) applies to this Feature Preview.

-THE PREVIEW FEATURE IS PROVIDED ΓÇ£AS-IS,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£WITH ALL FAULTS,ΓÇ¥ AND ΓÇ£AS AVAILABLE.ΓÇ¥ Microsoft provides no performance guarantee for the Feature Preview (including accompanying URLs provided for embedded or unauthenticated viewing) and Company bear the risk of using it. The Feature Preview isn't included in the SLA for Microsoft Syntex and may not be covered by customer support.

-**<ins>LICENSE</ins>**

-If Company provides Feedback, Company grants to Microsoft, without charge, the nonexclusive License to make, modify, distribute, or otherwise commercialize the Input as part of any Microsoft offering.

-The above License doesn't extend to any technologies that may also be necessary to make or use any offering or portion thereof that incorporates the Feedback but aren't themselves expressly part of the Input (for example, enabling technologies).

-**<ins>PAYMENT TERMS</ins>**

-Microsoft 365 Archive use pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing through an Azure subscription. Microsoft 365 Archive billing is determined by how much data in GB you archive using Microsoft 365 Archive. Company will be able to view this usage as meter events through the Azure subscription it chooses.

-Microsoft 365 Archive Feature Preview pricing is as follows:

-|Microsoft 365 Archive Meters |Meter Unit |Price |

-||||

-|Archive storage |$/GB/Month |$0.05 |

-|Restore |$/GB |$0.60 |

-Company won't be charged for reactivation of an archived content within the first seven days of free reactivation period. If they reactivate after the seven days period, the restore meter charge of $0.60/GB will apply.

-**<ins>LENGTH OF OBLIGATIONS; DISCLOSURE</ins>**

-**Preview Period.** The Preview Period continues in effect until <ins>June 30, 2024, or 30 days after Commercial General Availability of the Preview Feature, whichever is first</ins>. Company may terminate their use of the Preview Feature at any time. Terminating use of the Preview Feature won't change any of the rights, licenses granted, or duties made while the Preview Period is in effect. Termination is defined as i) the CompanyΓÇÖs termination of use of the Preview Feature and/or ii) the Preview Period ends.

-**Effects upon Termination.** Once terminated, Company will no longer have access to Microsoft 365 Archive and all the archived content if Microsoft doesn't continue with the then generally available Microsoft 365 Archive use pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing through an Azure subscription should Microsoft choose to make the Microsoft 365 Archive service generally available.

-**<ins>TERMINATION FOR NON-PAYMENT</ins>**

-In case the CompanyΓÇÖs Azure subscription goes into an unhealthy stage of deleted or canceled or suspended, we'll prevent any future archival and restores until the subscription is back to a healthy state. Company has 30 days to recover any archived data and restores by bringing back the subscription to an active state. If no action is taken from the Company to bring subscription back to active state in 30 days, we'll soft delete the archived data from systems after this 30 days. Upon reactivation, Company must also pay for Microsoft 365 Archive usage for the days the subscription was in unhealthy state.

-This Agreement can't be extended. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.

-**<ins>REPRESENTATIONS AND LIMITATIONS</ins>**

-**Input.** Company represents that it will not give any Feedback that:

-1. Violates any copyright or trade secret claim or right of any third party;

-2. It has reason to believe violates any patent claim or right of any third party; or

-3. Is subject to an excluded license.

-**Authority.** Company represents it has all rights and authority necessary to be legally bound to these Terms and Conditions and grant the rights described therein for itself and its affiliates.

-**Limitations.** All information, materials, and feedback are provided ΓÇ£as-isΓÇ¥ and Microsoft bears the risk of using them; Company gives no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions as to its Feedback; and to the extent permitted under local law, Company excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement as to its Input.

-**<ins>LIMITATIONS ON AND EXCLUSIONS OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES</ins>**

-Except as described herein, the only remedy for claims relating to these Terms and Conditions is for Company to terminate its use of the Preview Feature. Neither Party can recover any damages, including direct, consequential, lost profits, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the other. This limitation applies:

-1. To claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.

-2. Even if one of us knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.

-The limitations in this section don't apply to claims arising from or in connection with any infringement, misuse, or misappropriation by one of us of the otherΓÇÖs intellectual property rights.

-description: Read the preview terms and conditions for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage (Preview).

-# Microsoft 365 Backup Storage - Third Party public preview terms and conditions

-Effective Date: May 31, 2024

-"Company" means the ISV that utilized this Preview Feature with their customers, and for CompanyΓÇÖs development and testing of compatible solutions.

-**By using this Preview Feature, you accept these Terms and Conditions and all rights and obligations within. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, DO NOT use the Preview Feature.** These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Preview Feature offerings as described below.

-"Feedback" is all suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas, or know how, in any form, that Company provides to Microsoft. It doesn't include sales forecasts, financial results, future release scheduled, marketing plans and high-level product plans or feature lists for anticipated products.

-**MICROSOFT OFFERING/Preview Feature**: Microsoft 365 Backup Storage ("Microsoft Offering") offers backup and recovery of OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online data for large volumes of data within the Microsoft 365 security boundary. Microsoft Offering can restore the data in the end customer's tenant in which the Backup Storage application is running in the event of accidental deletion/modification or ransomware. Customers will be able to sign up for Microsoft Offering by onboarding to the Backup Storage APIs, linking a valid Azure subscriptionID for billing purposes, and operating an application on these APIs once consent by the end customer tenant has been granted for said application.

-To terminate your use of the Microsoft Offering Feature Preview during the Preview Period, stop using the Preview Feature. This can be done by pausing existing backup policies in all tenants where they exist via appropriate API calls and filing a ticket with Microsoft to request hard deletion of existing backups in the tool, or by letting said backups age out naturally over a 52-week after pausing the backup policies. Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time with or without notice. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.

-During the Preview Period, Company will allow their applications to backup SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange mailboxes. Company must be aware that this is a preview service and all the limitations described in these Terms and Conditions.

-Prerequisite Requirements to enable Microsoft Offering pay-as-you-go are:

-1. An Azure subscription with admin access as owner or contributor on the subscription

-2. A Microsoft 365 tenancy with either Microsoft 365 admin access or SharePoint admin access

-3. An Azure resource group

-No service-level agreement (SLA) applies to this Feature Preview.

-**THE PREVIEW FEATURE IS PROVIDED ΓÇ£AS-IS,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£WITH ALL FAULTS,ΓÇ¥ AND ΓÇ£AS AVAILABLE.ΓÇ¥ Microsoft provides no performance guarantee for the Feature Preview (including accompanying URLs provided for embedded or unauthenticated viewing) and Company bear the risk of using it. The Feature Preview is not included in the SLA for Microsoft Syntex and may not be covered by customer support.**

-Backup restores are meant to recover from attacks, not to circumvent primary storage costs or other unintended purposes. Periodic testing is permitted, but not in excessive amounts. Restores should be limited to no more than two (2) restores per protected site/mailbox per month, unless recovering from a real attack.

-**RELATIONSHIP WITH COMPANYΓÇÖS CUSTOMERS**: If Company is an Independent Software Vendor (ΓÇ£ISVΓÇ¥) both Parties, Microsoft and ISV will retain responsibility for and control over all aspects of its relationship with its customers/users for the purpose of these Terms. Nothing in these Terms changes or terminates either PartyΓÇÖs rights or obligations with regard to, or its relationship with, its customers/users. Microsoft won't be a Party to any ISVΓÇÖs customer agreement that Company may use with its customers/users to test the Feature Preview, and Microsoft won't be identified to CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users, as a direct support provider for CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users of the Feature Preview.

-**Nothing in this Agreement changes CompanyΓÇÖs responsibility with regard to ISVΓÇÖs customers/users data. ΓÇ£User DataΓÇ¥ means any data, images, text, content, code, or other information or materials that a user provides to ISV or Microsoft. ISV is solely responsible for informing CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users that this is a Preview Feature, and that ISV has all the legal authorizations to allow ISVs customers'/users' data to be stored in the Preview Feature. ISVΓÇÖs and their customers/users will not hold Microsoft liable from any liability arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.**

-**<ins>LICENSE</ins>**

-If Company provides Feedback, Company grants to Microsoft, without charge, the nonexclusive License to make, modify, distribute, or otherwise commercialize the Input as part of any Microsoft offering.

-The above License doesn't extend to any technologies that may also be necessary to make or use any offering or portion thereof that incorporates the Feedback but aren't themselves expressly part of the Input (for example, enabling technologies).

-**<ins>PAYMENT TERMS</ins>**

-Microsoft Offering uses pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing through an Azure subscription. Microsoft Offering billing is determined by how much data in GiB your application backs up in end customer tenants, where GiB is measured as the user-facing size of the content. Company will be able to view this usage as meter events through the Azure subscription it chooses.

-Microsoft Offering Feature Preview pricing is as follows:

-|Microsoft 365 Backup Storage Meters |Meter Unit |Price |

-||||

-|Backup storage |$/GiB/Month |$0.07 |

-**<ins>LENGTH OF OBLIGATIONS; DISCLOSURE</ins>**

-**Preview Period.** The Preview Period continues in effect until <ins>September 30, 2024, or 30 days after Commercial General Availability of the Preview Feature, whichever is first.</ins> Company may terminate their use of the Preview Feature at any time. Terminating use of the Preview Feature won't change any of the rights, licenses granted, or duties made while the Preview Period is in effect. Termination is defined as i) the CompanyΓÇÖs termination of use of the Preview Feature and/or ii) the Preview Period ends.

-**Effects upon Termination.** Once terminated, Company will no longer have access to Microsoft Offering and all the backed-up content if Microsoft doesn't continue with the then generally available Microsoft Offering features. Should Microsoft choose to make the Microsoft Offering service generally available using the same pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing setup through an Azure subscription, Company may continue without interruption. As this is a preview and not commercially generally available, bugs and other system errors may occur causing interruptions or errors in operating. As referenced in the "Representations and Limitations" section below, this Preview Feature is provided ΓÇ£as-isΓÇ¥ and Company bears the risk of using them.

-**<ins>TERMINATION FOR NON-PAYMENT</ins>**

-In case the CompanyΓÇÖs Azure subscription goes into an unhealthy stage of deleted or canceled or suspended, we'll prevent any future backups and restores until the subscription is back to a healthy state. Company will have 30 days to recover any backed-up data and restores by bringing the subscription back to an active state. If no action is taken from the Company to bring subscription back to active state in 30 days, we'll soft delete the backed-up data from systems after this 30 days. Upon reactivation, Company must also pay for Microsoft Offering usage for the days the subscription was in unhealthy state.

-This Agreement can't be extended. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.

-**<ins>REPRESENTATIONS AND LIMITATIONS</ins>**

-**Input.** Company represents that it will not give any Feedback that:

-1. Violates any copyright or trade secret claim or right of any third party;

-2. It has reason to believe violates any patent claim or right of any third party; or

-3. Is subject to an excluded license.

-**Authority.** Company represents it has all rights and authority necessary to be legally bound to these Terms and Conditions and grant the rights described therein for itself and its affiliates.

-**Limitations.** All information, materials, and feedback are provided ΓÇ£as-isΓÇ¥ and Company bears the risk of using them; Company gives no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions as to its Feedback; and to the extent permitted under local law, Company excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement as to its Input.

-**<ins>LIMITATIONS ON AND EXCLUSIONS OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES</ins>**

-Except as described herein, the only remedy for claims relating to these Terms and Conditions is for Company to terminate its use of the Preview Feature. Neither Party can recover any damages, including direct, consequential, lost profits, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the other. This limitation applies:

-1. To claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.

-2. Even if one of us knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.

-The limitations in this section don't apply to claims arising from or in connection with any infringement, misuse, or misappropriation by one of us of the otherΓÇÖs intellectual property rights.

- - m365initiative-syntex

-description: Read the preview terms and conditions for Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview).

-# Microsoft 365 Backup preview terms and conditions

-Effective Date: November 15, 2023

-"Company" means the Enterprise customer that uses this Preview Feature.

-**By using this Preview Feature, you accept these Terms and Conditions and all rights and obligations within. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, DO NOT use the Preview Feature.** These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Preview Feature offerings as described below.

-"Feedback" is all suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas, or know how, in any form, that Company provides to Microsoft. It doesn't include sales forecasts, financial results, future release scheduled, marketing plans and high-level product plans or feature lists for anticipated products.

-**MICROSOFT OFFERING**: Microsoft 365 Backup offers backup and recovery of OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online data for large volumes of data within the Microsoft 365 security boundary. Microsoft 365 Backup can restore your data in case of accidental deletion or ransomware. Customers will be able to sign up for Microsoft 365 Backup through Microsoft admin center. With Microsoft 365 Backup, customers can back up enterprise user accounts, sites, and mailboxes of users.

-**PREVIEW FEATURE**: To terminate your Feature Preview during the Preview Period, stop using the Preview Feature. Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time with or without notice. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature commercially available.

-During the Preview Period, Company allows its tenant admins to back up SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange mailboxes. Company must be aware that this is a preview service and all the limitations described in these Terms and Conditions.

-Prerequisite Requirements to enable Microsoft 365 Backup pay-as-you-go are:

-1. An Azure subscription with admin access as owner or contributor on the subscription

-2. A Microsoft 365 tenancy with either Microsoft 365 admin access or SharePoint admin access

-3. An Azure resource group

-No service-level agreement (SLA) applies to this Feature Preview.

-THE PREVIEW FEATURE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND "AS AVAILABLE." Microsoft provides no performance guarantee for the Feature Preview (including accompanying URLs provided for embedded or unauthenticated viewing) and Company bear the risk of using it. The Feature Preview isn't included in the SLA for Microsoft Syntex and may not be covered by customer support.

-Backup restores are meant to recover from attacks, not to circumvent primary storage costs or other unintended purposes. Periodic testing is permitted, but not in excessive amounts. Restores should be limited to no more than two (2) restores per protected site/mailbox per month, unless recovering from a real attack.

-**RELATIONSHIP WITH COMPANYΓÇÖS CUSTOMERS**: If Company is an Independent Software Vendor (ΓÇ£ISVΓÇ¥) both Parties, Microsoft and ISV retain responsibility for and control over all aspects of its relationship with its customers/users for the purpose of these Terms. Nothing in these Terms changes or terminates either PartyΓÇÖs rights or obligations with regard to, or its relationship with, its customers/users. Microsoft won't be a Party to any ISVΓÇÖs customer agreement that Company may use with its customers/users to test the Feature Preview, and Microsoft won't be identified to CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users, as a direct support provider for CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users of the Feature Preview.

-**Nothing in this Agreement changes CompanyΓÇÖs responsibility with regard to ISVΓÇÖs customers/users data. ΓÇ£User DataΓÇ¥ means any data, images, text, content, code, or other information or materials that a user provides to ISV or Microsoft. ISV is solely responsible for informing CompanyΓÇÖs customers/users that this is a Preview Feature, and that ISV has all the legal authorizations to allow ISVs customers/users data to be stored in the Preview Feature. ISVΓÇÖs and their customers/users will not hold Microsoft liable from any liability arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.**

-**<ins>LICENSE</ins>**

-If Company provides Feedback, Company grants to Microsoft, without charge, the nonexclusive License to make, modify, distribute, or otherwise commercialize the Input as part of any Microsoft offering.

-

-The above License doesn't extend to any technologies that may also be necessary to make or use any offering or portion thereof that incorporates the Feedback but aren't themselves expressly part of the Input (for example, enabling technologies).

-**<ins>PAYMENT TERMS</ins>**

-Microsoft 365 Backup uses pay-as-you-go billing through an Azure subscription. Microsoft 365 Backup billing is determined by how much data in GB you backup using Microsoft 365 Backup in GBs. Company will be able to view this usage as meter events through the Azure subscription it chooses.

-Microsoft 365 Backup Feature Preview pricing is as follows:

-|Microsoft 365 Backup Meters |Meter Unit |Price |

-||||

-|Backup storage |$/GB/Month |$0.15 |

-**<ins>LENGTH OF OBLIGATIONS; DISCLOSURE</ins>**

-**Preview Period.** The Preview Period continues in effect until <ins>June 30, 2024, or 30 days after Commercial General Availability of the Preview Feature, whichever is first</ins>. Company may terminate their use of the Preview Feature at any time. Terminating use of the Preview Feature won't change any of the rights, licenses granted, or duties made while the Preview Period is in effect. Termination is defined as i) the CompanyΓÇÖs termination of use of the Preview Feature and/or ii) the Preview Period ends.

-**Effects upon Termination.** Once terminated, Company will no longer have access to Microsoft 365 Backup and all the backed-up content if Microsoft doesn't continue with the then generally available Microsoft 365 Backup features. Should Microsoft choose to make the Microsoft 365 Backup service generally available a pay-as-you-go billing through an Azure subscription, Company may continue without interruption.

-**<ins>TERMINATION FOR NON-PAYMENT</ins>**

-In case the CompanyΓÇÖs Azure subscription goes into an unhealthy stage of deleted or canceled or suspended, we'll prevent any future backup and restores until the subscription is back to a healthy state. Company has 30 days to recover any backed-up data and restores by bringing back the subscription to an active state. If no action is taken from the Company to bring subscription back to active state in 30 days, we'll soft delete the backed-up data from systems after this 30 days. Upon reactivation, Company must also pay for Microsoft 365 Backup usage for the days the subscription was in unhealthy state.

-This Agreement can't be extended. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature commercially available.

-**<ins>REPRESENTATIONS AND LIMITATIONS</ins>**

-**Input.** Company represents that it will not give any Feedback that:

-1. Violates any copyright or trade secret claim or right of any third party;

-2. It has reason to believe violates any patent claim or right of any third party; or

-3. Is subject to an excluded license.

-**Authority.** Company represents it has all rights and authority necessary to be legally bound to these Terms and Conditions and grant the rights described therein for itself and its affiliates.

-**Limitations.** All information, materials, and feedback are provided ΓÇ£as-isΓÇ¥ and Company bears the risk of using them; Company gives no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions as to its Feedback; and to the extent permitted under local law, Company excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement as to its Input.

-**<ins>LIMITATIONS ON AND EXCLUSIONS OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES</ins>**

-Except as described herein, the only remedy for claims relating to these Terms and Conditions is for Company to terminate its use of the Preview Feature. Neither Party can recover any damages, including direct, consequential, lost profits, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the other. This limitation applies:

-1. To claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.

-2. Even if one of us knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.

-The limitations in this section don't apply to claims arising from or in connection with any infringement, misuse, or misappropriation by one of us of the otherΓÇÖs intellectual property rights.

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