

Microsoft’s code is batching the restore jobs and they aren’t handling item errors elegantly - if one item in the batch fails, it appears that all the remaining items in the batch fail. Confusing at first, after more investigation we pieced it together. Upon closer inspection, we noticed that the error details for each file referenced the same file and location. However, we checked several files for which the Recycle Bin gave this error, and they were NOT in the location. The restore error for each file said the file already existed in the location. Approximately 20% of the files were not restored. Our restore from the Recycle Bin yielded a partial recovery. We simulated some OneDrive for Business deletion scenarios and did some Recycle Bin testing of our own. Problem solved, right? Unfortunately, no. You can select one or more files and either delete or restore them with the click of a button. The Recycle Bin provides the list of deleted files within the past 90 days. SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business data goes to a Microsoft 365 Recycle Bin when it is deleted. After 93 days, deleted files are gone forever.” The OneDrive for Business recycle bin These phishing attempts have a numbing effect on users - they start to see legitimate Microsoft emails as yet one more phishing attempt.Īnd that’s a problem because, as the message states, When files are deleted, they’re stored in your recycle bin and can be restored within 93 days. While it is a great feature, the problem is that Microsoft 365 users often receive several phishing email messages each day that do a very good job at looking like official Microsoft alerts about their Microsoft 365 account. It was only later, upon closer inspection, that the user decided it might be legitimate after all. In our customer’s case, the employee dismissed the notification message as a phishing attack. Here is the email message our customer received: Without this, the issue may not have been detected so easily. The OneDrive owner benefited from a feature Microsoft introduced back in August 2018 - sending email notifications of mass file deletion activity. The following is our assessment of what organizations face (the good, bad, and the ugly) when depending on Microsoft 365 native tools alone. And most workers are probably heavy users of their OneDrive, sharing folders and files as needed, with all sorts of data that is critical to the business. Enterprises often replace traditional home directories with OneDrive for Business sites. To fully appreciate the native capabilities of Microsoft 365, we have to consider that most organizations subscribing to Microsoft 365 make heavy use of OneDrive for Business. What would this customer’s scenario be like if they had not been using NetBackup SaaS Protection? OneDrive for Business native backup and recovery tools However, this incident demonstrates just how important it is to have a data protection solution for your OneDrive for Business data. NetBackup SaaS Protection restored the deleted files, and the customer reinstalled the Surface laptop with a clean image. In this case, the customer had Veritas NetBackup SaaS Protection in place for their Microsoft 365 backups, so they were able to recover the data quickly and fully. All of the affected files were in a shared OneDrive for Business folder that contained important data (e.g., contracts, estimates, project records, and proposals).
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Here is what happened: Early one morning, an employee’s Surface laptop was infected with some sort of malware which performed 1,754 file deletions in Windows Explorer. One of our customers had an incident that perfectly illustrates why businesses need a backup solution for their OneDrive for Business sites.
