Accounting for Licenses and avoiding over-use

[timgowen]

I've set up Backup for Exchange Online to backup the entire organisation. However this is backing up users who've been disabled for a while, and unusual mailboxes that people have created and mailboxes which I don't need to back up. Is there a best practice for setting up the backup so it only backs up mailboxes in a certain container (in On Premises AD or the Hybrid copy?

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Tim,

Most organizations will work with groups to protect their data in an automated way. Or, for example, create a security group (disabledUsers or something similar) and exclude that explicitly

[SteelContainer]

Hi Mike,
Do the exclusions work with nested groups?
i.e. Adding Group1 and Group2 to a Group called "Backup Exclusions" and then excluding that from the backups
Thanks

[Polina]

Hi,

They work for backup for sure; so I assume it should be the same with exclusions.