Merge pull request #27742 from MicrosoftDocs/main

Publish main to live, 02/19/25, 3:30 PM PT

Author: Ruchika-mittal01

.openpublishing.redirection.lighthouse.json

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
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          "redirect_url":"/microsoft-365/lighthouse/m365-lighthouse-deploy-standard-tenant-configurations-overview",
          "redirect_document_id":false
+      },
+      {
+         "source_path":"microsoft-365/lighthouse/m365-lighthouse-create-customer-report.md",
+         "redirect_url":"/microsoft-365/lighthouse/m365-lighthouse-tenants-page-overview",
+         "redirect_document_id":false
       }
    ]
 }

copilot/release-notes.md

@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ To buy and sign up for Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscription, complete the f
 
 Follow these steps to [finish setting up](setup-apps-for-business.md) your Microsoft Business Basic subscription. You can also [add a domain](../setup/add-domain.md) when you're ready.
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> If you have a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing account type with Microsoft, you automatically receive a product called Microsoft Entra ID Free. This product improves your tenant management and security by tracking new tenants created with the same billing account. There's no charge for this product, and there's no other action you need to take. To learn more about this product, see [Microsoft Entra ID Free](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/microsoft-entra-id-free). [Find out what type of billing account you have](../../commerce/manage-billing-accounts.md#view-my-billing-accounts).
+
 ## Frequently asked questions
 
 ### What is a business email and what are the advantages to setting one up?

microsoft-365/admin/setup/signup-business-basic.md

@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ The table below outlines each choice.
 
 Use these three factors to determine which of the two options is best for your business needs.
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> If you have a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing account type with Microsoft, you automatically receive a product called Microsoft Entra ID Free. This product improves your tenant management and security by tracking new tenants created with the same billing account. There's no charge for this product, and there's no other action you need to take. To learn more about this product, see [Microsoft Entra ID Free](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/microsoft-entra-id-free). [Find out what type of billing account you have](../../commerce/manage-billing-accounts.md#view-my-billing-accounts).
+
 ### Option 1: Sign in with your Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or other email account
 
 Sign in to Microsoft 365 with this email address. For example, [email protected].

microsoft-365/admin/simplified-signup/signup-business-standard.md

@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@ items:
 
     - name: Overview 
       href: backup-overview.md
-    - name: Admin setup 
-      href: backup-setup.md
-    - name: Privacy, security, & compliance 
-      href: backup-privacy-security.md
-    - name: Billing & invoice management
-      href: backup-billing.md
     - name: Pricing model
       href: backup-pricing.md
+    - name: Initial setup 
+      href: backup-setup.md
     - name: Create, view, & edit policies 
       href: backup-view-edit-policies.md
     - name: Restore data 
       href: backup-restore-data.md
+    - name: Invoice management
+      href: backup-billing.md
     - name: Offboarding
       href: backup-offboarding.md
+    - name: Privacy, security, & compliance
+      href: backup-privacy-security.md
     - name: FAQs
       href: backup-faq.md
     - name: Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

microsoft-365/backup/TOC.yml

@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 ---
-title: Manage billing and invoices for Microsoft 365 Backup
+title: Manage consumption and invoices for Microsoft 365 Backup
 ms.author: chucked
 author: chuckedmonson
 manager: jtremper
 audience: admin
 ms.reviewer: sreelakshmi
-ms.date: 01/10/2025
+ms.date: 02/19/2025
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: microsoft-365-backup
 ms.custom: backup
 search.appverid:
 ms.collection:
     - essentials-get-started
 ms.localizationpriority:  medium
-description: Learn how to set up and manage pay-as-you-go billing and invoices in the Azure portal for Microsoft 365 Backup.
+description: Learn how to set up and manage usage and invoices in the Azure portal for Microsoft 365 Backup.
 ---
 
-# Manage billing and invoices for Microsoft 365 Backup
+# Manage consumption and invoices for Microsoft 365 Backup
 
+<!---
 As a first step to start using Microsoft 365 Backup, you should link an Azure subscription in Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go, if you haven't already done so. Although Microsoft 365 Backup isn't part of the Microsoft Syntex product suite, this offering is still using the Syntex billing setup for consistency with other Microsoft 365 pay-as-you-go offerings.
 
 ## Set up pay-as-you-go billing
@@ -77,8 +78,7 @@ You have successfully set up billing. You can proceed to [Step 2: Turn on Micros
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Any subsequent changes made to the billing for Microsoft 365 Backup in the Microsoft 365 admin center or the Azure portal can take up to 24 hours to become effective.
-
-## Manage consumption and invoices in the Azure portal
+--->
 
 You can view actual and accumulated cost breakdown by tenants and service type for OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange in Microsoft Cost Management in the Azure portal or access the information by using the [Cost Management public APIs](/rest/api/cost-management/operation-groups). Cost breakdown by application ID is coming soon.
 

microsoft-365/backup/backup-billing.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: chuckedmonson
 manager: jtremper
 audience: admin
 ms.reviewer: sreelakshmi
-ms.date: 07/31/2024
+ms.date: 02/19/2025
 ms.topic: faq
 ms.service: microsoft-365-backup
 ms.custom: backup

microsoft-365/backup/backup-faq.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: chuckedmonson
 manager: jtremper
 audience: admin
 ms.reviewer: sreelakshmi
-ms.date: 07/31/2024
+ms.date: 02/19/2025
 ms.topic: article
 ms.service: microsoft-365-backup
 ms.custom: backup
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ To no longer use the Microsoft 365 Backup tool, you must offboard usage. This ac
 
 ## Offboarding recovery undo period
 
-If offboarding from Microsoft 365 Backup has begun due to either an explicit request from you or due to an unhealthy billing state, the grace periods shown in the following table initiate.
+If offboarding from Microsoft 365 Backup is begun due to either an explicit request from you or due to an unhealthy billing state, the grace periods shown in the following table initiate.
 
 ![Screenshot of a data table showing the offboarding undo periods.](../media/m365-backup/backup-offboarding-time.png)
 
 By bringing your billing back to a healthy state or by asking support to reverse the offboarding, the tool becomes usable again and no backups are lost.
 
+<!---
 ## GDPR special handling, compliance, and backup data deletion
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
@@ -60,11 +61,4 @@ Retention and deletion policies don't “flow through” to the backups. This me
 ### Sensitivity labels
 
 Restoration of any data (such as sites or mailbox items) reverts the data's sensitivity labels to the state of that protected item at the prior point from which it's being restored. That is, the state of labeling at the point in time from which the content is being restored; in other words, the state reverts to the prior point in time.
-
-<!---
-## Backup data deletion and undo grace periods
-
-If you need to delete data from the backups, you must offboard from the offering entirely and delete all backups. In the future, we'll enable more granular restore point deletion capabilities.
-
-Any offboarding or backup deletion activities trigger a 29-day grace period where we'll hold the backup data. If you re-enable the tool, the backups are present in the tool again.  
---->
+--->

microsoft-365/backup/backup-offboarding.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: chuckedmonson
 manager: jtremper
 audience: admin
 ms.reviewer: sreelakshmi
-ms.date: 07/31/2024
+ms.date: 02/19/2025
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.service: microsoft-365-backup
 ms.custom: backup
@@ -114,19 +114,16 @@ The following table summarizes expected performance for a normally distributed t
 
 <sup>**Exchange Online performance times based on an average sized mailbox of 26K items and a size of 10 GB.  Actual times will depend on the number and size of the items in each mailbox.  For a single mailbox, restore times typically fall in the 200 - 300 item/minute range.</sup>
 
-<!---
-|Scenario |Restore of all protection units* complete |
-|:-------|:--------|
-| 1,000 accounts, sites, or mailboxes<br>(10-GB average size)  |Less than 12 hours  |
+## Pay-as-you-go billing
+
+Microsoft 365 Backup is a pay-as-you-go offering that charges based on consumption, unlike traditional user-based licenses.
 
-<sup>*A *protection unit* is a OneDrive account, SharePoint site, or Exchange mailbox.</sup>
---->
 ## Integrated partner solutions
 
 We partner with many independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide differentiated versions of their applications integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform—all providing the same underlying performance value proposition for your Microsoft 365 data.
 
 For a partner application, operation of the Microsoft 365 Backup tool will be managed and paid for entirely through the partner's application. Those applications have the ability to provide a single pane of glass for all of your data estates that require backups, and they might provide more enhanced experiences or workflows.
 
-## General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
+## Multi-geo environments
 
-For information about GDPR and Microsoft 365 Backup, see [GDPR special handling, compliance, and backup data deletion](backup-offboarding.md#gdpr-special-handling-compliance-and-backup-data-deletion).
+Microsoft 365 Backup supports the backup of sites and user accounts from both the central and satellite locations.

microsoft-365/backup/backup-overview.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: chuckedmonson
 manager: jtremper
 audience: admin
 ms.reviewer: sreelakshmi
-ms.date: 07/31/2024
+ms.date: 02/19/2025
 ms.topic: article
 ms.service: microsoft-365-backup
 ms.custom: backup