ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus, Active Directory Backup and Restoration Solution

ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation, announced that RecoveryManager Plus, its Active Directory backup and restoration solution, can backup and restore Exchange Online mailboxes.

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Available, this version of RecoveryManager Plus lets administrators store Exchange Online backups locally and perform point-in-time restoration for any mailbox.

Email is still the preferred mode of communication within organizations and must be stored for regulatory and compliance needs. Exchange Online provides hold and archiving capabilities to handle compliance requirements, but it does not provide traditional backup and recovery capabilities like its on-premises counterpart.

RecoveryManager Plus fills this gap by allowing organizations to backup all mailboxes in their Office 365 tenant and store them securely within their premises. It also provides administrators the power to do one thing that Microsoft Corp. states is not in the scope of Office 365: point-in-time restoration.

“Hosting data on the cloud doesn’t absolve organizations from the responsibility of backing up critical data that can impact BC, and emails hosted in Exchange Online are no different,” said Subramanyan Balakrishnan, product manager, ManageEngine. “RecoveryManager Plus eases enterprises’ email governance with its Exchange Online backup and point-in-time restoration capabilities.“

Highlights
With backup and restoration support for Exchange Online, administrators can use RecoveryManager Plus to:

• Backup all Exchange Online items such as emails, calendar entries, contacts, journals, notes, posts and tasks.

• Perform point-in-time, item-level restorations to overcome the native 30-day storage limit on deleted mailbox items.

• Search for any version of Exchange Online items and view a live preview before restoring them.

• Take incremental backups to improve backup duration and reduce storage space.

• Schedule backups to occur during non-business hours to ensure minimal changes on mailboxes when the backup cycle runs.

In addition to the products’ existing capabilities to backup and restore Active Directory objects and Exchange Online, the company plans to extend backup and restoration features to the other major services in Office 365, namely OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.

Pricing and availability:
RecoveryManager Plus is available at the company’s website. Pricing for Office 365 backup and restoration is based on the number of mailboxes backed up using the product, starting at $295 a year for 25 mailboxes. A fully functional, 30-day trial version is also available.

About RecoveryManager Plus
ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus is a backup and recovery solution that empowers administrators to backup and restore their Active Directory and Office 365 environments. With its ability to perform incremental backups, granular restoration of AD objects and Exchange Online items, and backup retention policies, it acts as a simple solution to backup data that is critical for enterprises to function.