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Why a Teams chat disappears or shows Unknown User after an employee's account is deleted, where the messages really are, the eDiscovery route, and how to keep leavers' chats.

Why a SharePoint or OneDrive file is marked Archived, who can reactivate it, how long it takes, the 120-day re-archive lock, and the file-level alternative that restores in one click.

What survives when a former employee comes back: the 30-day restore window, the unlicensed OneDrive clocks, inactive mailboxes, and how to give a returning employee their old data.

Microsoft's priority cleanup can now delete Preservation Hold Library content despite retention policies and holds. The roles, the query, the approvals and the limits.

If you have a large collection of photos you don’t know what to do with, and need a fast, efficient way to store and keep your memories protected, then cloud storage may be the option for you. Moving your photos to cloud storage is a simple way to store, back up, and manage your photo library without relying only on your phone, computer, or physical storage devices. But how do you move photos to the cloud, do your photos automatically get backed up, and how much cloud storage do you actually need?

Three ways to total the GB of SharePoint files not modified in 2, 3 or 5 years: Purview content search, a PnP PowerShell script and SharePoint Storage Explorer.

What Kantar and Dentsu archived before rolling out Copilot, what Microsoft 365 Archive hides from Copilot, and how to keep old content findable.

Storage rarely fails loudly. A pool fills. Latency climbs on one LUN. The first to notice is a user whose application timed out. The best storage monitoring software catches it earlier. It watches capacity, IOPS, latency and drive health across your arrays, which is what storage resource monitoring is for. In this blog, you will see: By the end you will know which one fits. Storage monitoring software tracks the health, capacity and performance of your IT storage.

What SharePoint Advanced Management includes, which licences unlock it, whether Copilot covers it, and what it does and does not do about SharePoint storage.

Cloud storage goes far beyond just uploading your files online and leaving them there. You can do much more with your files to protect, collaborate, and keep your files updated with the proper cloud storage. Two popular approaches for file management are file syncing and backups, which are different methods that you should know how and when to use to get the best from your cloud service provider.