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Availability is not recovery.

And in the Copilot era, confusing the two is no longer a harmless assumption.

Many teams still believe some variation of:

“Microsoft has backups.”

That belief usually survives right up until the day something goes wrong —

not an outage, but something quieter and more dangerous:

• a bulk delete
• a sync mistake
• a ransomware encryption that propagated cleanly
• a permissions drift that went unnoticed
• a restore that brought the wrong state back

Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn’t create these failures.

It accelerates the visibility of their consequences.

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What Microsoft actually guarantees

Microsoft runs one of the most resilient cloud platforms in the world.

They guarantee:

• Service availability
• Platform durability
• Geo-redundant infrastructure
• Operational continuity of the service

This is platform resilience — and Microsoft does it exceptionally well.

What Microsoft does not guarantee is your business-level recoverability.

They do not promise:

• your last clean version
• your preferred recovery point
• your required recovery time
• your logical data correctness
• your post-restore permission integrity

That boundary matters.

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What you own (whether you planned for it or not)

You own everything that turns “the service is back” into “the business is whole”:

• RPO — how much data you can afford to lose
• RTO — how fast you must recover
• Restore scope — file, library, site, tenant
• Logical corruption recovery
• Ransomware rollback strategy
• Evidence that the restore is correct

Retention policies are not backups.

Version history is not disaster recovery.

Recycle bins are not a recovery strategy.

They are convenience layers, not guarantees.

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Why Copilot changes the stakes

Before Copilot, recovery failures could hide.

After Copilot:

• Missing data is noticed immediately
• Incorrect restores are summarized instantly
• Permission drift becomes discoverable at AI speed

Copilot doesn’t bypass security.

It simply operates at the velocity your architecture allows.

If your recovery posture is vague, Copilot will expose that vagueness very quickly.

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The calm conclusion

This is not a warning post.

It’s not anti-Microsoft.

It’s not fear-driven.

It’s architectural clarity.

Microsoft gives you a resilient platform.

You must design a recoverable system.

If you can’t confidently answer:

“What is our last clean point-in-time — and can we prove it?”

Then disaster recovery is still an assumption, not a capability.

And assumptions don’t survive the Copilot era.