Microsoft 365 isn’t just email and Office anymore. It’s your identity layer (Entra), security controls (Defender), device management (Intune), and collaboration backbone (Teams, SharePoint, Exchange). And it’s all held together by thousands of settings, policies, roles, and integrations.

When those configurations get deleted, drift out of alignment, or are deliberately changed, operations can stop. Logins fail. Controls break. Collaboration stalls.

And here’s the gap most teams miss: data gets backed up. The tenant “blueprint” — i.e., the configurations that make everything run securely — usually doesn’t.

CoreView’s Recovering Data is Easy. Recovering Microsoft 365 Configurations Isn’t explains why those configurations are business-critical and why Microsoft’s shared responsibility model leaves backup and restore squarely with you. It breaks down four common ways tenants fail: simple human error, malicious or insider configuration tampering, full tenant compromise, and slow configuration drift. Different causes, same outcome — without a known-good baseline and rollback capability, recovery turns into a manual audit across identity, security, compliance, and collaboration settings. That can stretch downtime from hours into days or even weeks.

The guide also makes a practical case: configurations aren’t admin housekeeping. They’re the backbone of Zero Trust, least-privilege access, and audit readiness. You’ll learn how to reduce outage risk and recover faster by establishing baseline snapshots, automating configuration backups across workloads, monitoring for drift and unauthorized changes, rehearsing restores, and enforcing disciplined change control.

Finally, it lays out the non-negotiables for any configuration backup solution. That way, you can evaluate tools with clear criteria and build a recovery strategy that restores more than data. It restores confidence in how your tenant is secured and run. Get your copy.