Note from the Author
Hi, I'm Brien. For those of you who don't know me, I am a long-
time Conversational Geek author, and 19-time Microsoft MVP.
My professional background is in both IT and commercial
astronautics. It's an odd combination for sure. I sometimes find
myself setting up virtual machines one day, and being strapped
into a space capsule the next day (seriously). Thankfully, my
friends at Conversational Geek have embraced my unorthodox
(dare I say eccentric) career choices and have allowed me to
author books on subjects ranging from AWS to rocket science.
In this book, I wanted to write about some of the challenges
associated with backing up Microsoft Teams. On the surface,
this probably sounds like a really simple thing to do. Teams is a
part of Microsoft 365, so if you want to back up Teams, all you
have to do is to back up Microsoft 365, right? But what do you
actually back up? Exchange? SharePoint? Something else? Like
so many other things in the world of IT the answer is anything
but clear. As such, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk
about some of the finer points of Microsoft Teams backups.
Oh, and one more thing… This book is not intended to be a
vendor product pitch. My goal here is to take a vendor neutral
approach to the subjects at hand.
Brien M. Posey
