Microsoft 365 Archive preview terms and conditions
Effective Date: November 15, 2023
"Company" means the Enterprise customer that uses this Preview Feature.
By using this Preview Feature, you accept these Terms and Conditions and all rights and obligations within. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, DO NOT use the Preview Feature. These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Preview Feature offerings as described below.
“Feedback” is all suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas, or know how, in any form, that Company provides to Microsoft. It doesn't include sales forecasts, financial results, future release scheduled, marketing plans and high-level product plans or feature lists for anticipated products.
MICROSOFT OFFERING: The goal of the Microsoft 365 Archive is to provide customers with a cost-effective, long-term storage for their inactive aging content. Customers can archive their SharePoint site using Microsoft 365 Archive from SharePoint Admin Center. Admins can also reactivate an archived site that will move the site and its contents from archived (cold tier) storage to SharePoint tenant (standard tier) storage.
PREVIEW FEATURE: To terminate your Feature Preview during the Preview Period, stop using the Preview Feature. Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time with or without notice. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.
During the Preview Period, Company allows its SharePoint tenant admins to Archive SharePoint sites. Company must be aware that this is a preview service and all the limitations described in these Terms and Conditions, including but not limited, that Microsoft may change or discontinue the Preview Feature at any time and that Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.
Prerequisite Requirements to enable Microsoft 365 Archive pay-as-you-go are:
An Azure subscription with admin access as owner or contributor on the subscription
A Microsoft 365 tenancy with either Microsoft 365 admin access or SharePoint admin access
An Azure resource group
No service-level agreement (SLA) applies to this Feature Preview.
THE PREVIEW FEATURE IS PROVIDED “AS-IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS,” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” Microsoft provides no performance guarantee for the Feature Preview (including accompanying URLs provided for embedded or unauthenticated viewing) and Company bear the risk of using it. The Feature Preview isn't included in the SLA for Microsoft Syntex and may not be covered by customer support.
LICENSE
If Company provides Feedback, Company grants to Microsoft, without charge, the nonexclusive License to make, modify, distribute, or otherwise commercialize the Input as part of any Microsoft offering.
The above License doesn't extend to any technologies that may also be necessary to make or use any offering or portion thereof that incorporates the Feedback but aren't themselves expressly part of the Input (for example, enabling technologies).
PAYMENT TERMS
Microsoft 365 Archive use pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing through an Azure subscription. Microsoft 365 Archive billing is determined by how much data in GB you archive using Microsoft 365 Archive. Company will be able to view this usage as meter events through the Azure subscription it chooses.
Microsoft 365 Archive Feature Preview pricing is as follows:
| Microsoft 365 Archive Meters | Meter Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Archive storage | $/GB/Month | $0.05 |
| Restore | $/GB | $0.60 |
Company won't be charged for reactivation of an archived content within the first seven days of free reactivation period. If they reactivate after the seven days period, the restore meter charge of $0.60/GB will apply.
LENGTH OF OBLIGATIONS; DISCLOSURE
Preview Period. The Preview Period continues in effect until June 30, 2024, or 30 days after Commercial General Availability of the Preview Feature, whichever is first. Company may terminate their use of the Preview Feature at any time. Terminating use of the Preview Feature won't change any of the rights, licenses granted, or duties made while the Preview Period is in effect. Termination is defined as i) the Company’s termination of use of the Preview Feature and/or ii) the Preview Period ends.
Effects upon Termination. Once terminated, Company will no longer have access to Microsoft 365 Archive and all the archived content if Microsoft doesn't continue with the then generally available Microsoft 365 Archive use pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing through an Azure subscription should Microsoft choose to make the Microsoft 365 Archive service generally available.
TERMINATION FOR NON-PAYMENT
In case the Company’s Azure subscription goes into an unhealthy stage of deleted or canceled or suspended, we'll prevent any future archival and restores until the subscription is back to a healthy state. Company has 30 days to recover any archived data and restores by bringing back the subscription to an active state. If no action is taken from the Company to bring subscription back to active state in 30 days, we'll soft delete the archived data from systems after this 30 days. Upon reactivation, Company must also pay for Microsoft 365 Archive usage for the days the subscription was in unhealthy state.
This Agreement can't be extended. Microsoft may also choose not to make the Preview Feature generally commercially available.
REPRESENTATIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Input. Company represents that it will not give any Feedback that:
Violates any copyright or trade secret claim or right of any third party;
It has reason to believe violates any patent claim or right of any third party; or
Is subject to an excluded license.
Authority. Company represents it has all rights and authority necessary to be legally bound to these Terms and Conditions and grant the rights described therein for itself and its affiliates.
Limitations. All information, materials, and feedback are provided “as-is” and Microsoft bears the risk of using them; Company gives no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions as to its Feedback; and to the extent permitted under local law, Company excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement as to its Input.
LIMITATIONS ON AND EXCLUSIONS OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES
Except as described herein, the only remedy for claims relating to these Terms and Conditions is for Company to terminate its use of the Preview Feature. Neither Party can recover any damages, including direct, consequential, lost profits, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the other. This limitation applies:
To claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Even if one of us knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.
The limitations in this section don't apply to claims arising from or in connection with any infringement, misuse, or misappropriation by one of us of the other’s intellectual property rights.
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