Before the Incident: Building Your M365 Minimum Viable Business Plan
Rubrik, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Rubrik sets out the peacetime planning that decides what gets recovered first when Microsoft 365 goes down.
When a Microsoft 365 data loss incident strikes, most organizations find they have backups but no plan, so data is preserved while the path back to operations is not.
Rubrik covers why traditional M365 recovery fails: a full restore of every mailbox, file, and archive collides with Microsoft's API rate limits and spends weeks on content that may never matter.
The answer is a minimum viable business framework defined before any incident, identifying the most critical people and the data they depend on.
Stage one asks which users and which M365 applications are essential, with input from leadership, legal, and finance, then maps them to Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Stage two has Rubrik discover the environment and generate a restore time benchmark.