Data management at Microsoft
Protecting and managing your customer data
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Troubleshooting for preventing, detecting, and repairing problems affecting operations of services.
Feature improvement
Ongoing improvement of features including increasing reliability and protection of services and data.
Personalized customer experience
Data is used to provide personalized improvements and better customer experiences.
What happens to your data if you leave the service
Microsoft is governed by strict standards and removes cloud customer data from systems under our control, overwriting storage resources before reuse, and purging or destroying decommissioned hardware.
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Data policy of Microsoft services
Azure Data protection
“Data deletion” is discussed on page 21 in the Data Protection in Azure document.
Data management resources
How Microsoft categorizes data
Who can access your data
Responding to government requests
Additional resources
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[1] The information on this page does not apply to Bing Search Services or Windows, except for the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Desktop Analytics services and Windows diagnostic data processor configuration.
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