#Out-of-Scope Objects

If you have moved objects from a protected selection to an unprotected scope (this also means if content dynamically changes to an unprotected container), this indicates that you do not want this data protected. For the sake of your privacy, Cloud Backup will delete the corresponding backup data in 90 days. The Expiration date column displays the scheduled deletion date, and the Reasons column explains why the data is marked as unprotected. To prevent certain backup data from deletion, you can update the backup scope on the home screen to include the out-of-scope objects. The deletion records for out-of-scope objects are displayed in the Deletion History tab after their backup data is removed.

Note the following:

• This feature does not apply to the BYOS subscription, Trial subscription, or the subscriptions with multi-Geo enabled, which indicates, your backup data already taken will not be deleted, and you can use the backup data of your currently unprotected objects for data recovery.

• If you are a BYOS customer and are looking to save storage space by removing unprotected data, contact the Support team to enable this feature for your environment.

• The backup data for the objects that have been protected by Cloud Backup but removed from your Microsoft 365 tenant is not within this scope. For the Exchange Online and OneDrive, the corresponding objects will be added to the Offboarded Users tab. For details, refer to Offboarded users. For other service types, Cloud Backup will keep such backup data according to your retention policy.

• If you have deleted an object from your Microsoft 365 tenant and removed this object or the service type from the backup scope, but you did not perform an Auto Discovery scan job to update the object registration, Cloud Backup may include the backup data of this object to the Out-of-scope objects tab. Your backup data will not be deleted since the Cloud Backup deletion job will check whether the object exists in your Microsoft 365 tenant before deleting the backups. You will receive email notifications of the result.