stored in SharePoint, while chat files are stored in
OneDrive for Business.
•
Voice Mail Messages
– Voice mail messages are stored
inside individual users' Exchange mailboxes.
•
Recordings
– Like images, recordings are stored in the
Media Service on Azure in Blob storage. However,
whereas images are imported into Exchange,
recordings are instead encoded to Stream.
•
Calendar Meetings
– Calendar meetings are stored in
user's Exchange mailboxes.
•
Contacts
– Contacts are stored in Exchange
•
Telemetry Data
– Telemetry data is stored in a
Microsoft data warehouse.
If you want to learn more about where
Teams data is stored, be sure to check out
this Microsoft blog post:
https://docs.microsoft.com/
en-us/microsoftteams/location-of-data-in-
teams
Six Reasons Why You Need to Back Up Teams
The bottom line is that if you want to back up Teams, then you
have to back up Microsoft 365. There is just no getting around
that requirement. Early on though, most people didn't realize
that they needed to back up their deployments.
I think there were probably a couple of reasons for this. The
first reason has to do with the way that the cloud was being
