
Keep Working When
Microsoft 365 Goes DownSuitebriar helps organizations build a Microsoft 365 business continuity and disaster recovery environment on Google Workspace.
If Microsoft 365 becomes unavailable, your employees can shift to a secure Google Workspace standby environment and continue working, accessing email, calendars, files, meetings, and other critical collaboration tools until Microsoft service is restored.
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What is Microsoft 365 disaster recovery?
Microsoft 365 disaster recovery is a plan for keeping your people working when Microsoft 365 is down. It gives them a second environment to switch to, with their recent data already in it.
Using Google Workspace Business Continuity + CloudM Continuity, Suitebriar designs, deploys, and manages the secondary environment so it is ready before an outage happens. Google runs Business Continuity alongside Microsoft 365, with no migration, and CloudM copies your mail into it on a schedule you choose, with calendars, contacts and files available as add-ons.

How It Works
- 1SyncMicrosoft 365 data is continuously synchronized into Google Workspace. Organizations can choose weekly, daily, or hourly synchronization depending on their recovery requirements.
- 2Fail OverDuring an M365 outage, users move into their pre-provisioned Google Workspace environment and continue working rather than waiting for Microsoft services to recover.
- 3RecoverOnce Microsoft 365 is restored, work created or changed in Google Workspace during the outage can be synchronized back into Microsoft 365.

More Than Backup
A Google Workspace standby environment gives your organization a separate collaboration platform to use when your primary Microsoft environment is unavailable.
Backup
Protects your data.
Business continuity
Protects your ability to keep operating.
Why Suitebriar
As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, Suitebriar helps organizations build and operationalize the Google side of their continuity strategy.
We can support:
Business continuity readiness and solution design
Google Workspace standby environment deployment
CloudM Continuity implementation
Security and access configuration
User and license provisioning
Failover testing and recovery planning
Administrator and end-user training
Ongoing support
Microsoft 365 disaster recovery FAQ
What IT leads ask before they set up a Google Workspace standby environment for Microsoft 365.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us how many people rely on Microsoft 365 and which work would stop first in an outage, and we'll talk through the options.
Do we have to move off Microsoft 365?
No. Google Workspace Business Continuity runs alongside Microsoft 365, with no migration. Microsoft 365 stays where your people work every day, and the Google Workspace environment waits until you need it.
What can people use during a Microsoft 365 outage?
They sign in to the standby Google Workspace environment and work in Gmail, Calendar and Meet, with the Gemini app alongside. Google names those as the apps teams keep using during a Microsoft outage. Recent mail is already there, because it was synced before the outage started.
How often does Microsoft 365 data sync to Google Workspace?
You choose how often it runs, from weekly to hourly, and the schedule can differ by team. The time between syncs is how much recent data could be missing when people switch over. The first copy brings across the most recent 30 days of mail, and after that only changes sync.
How is it licensed?
In two parts: Google Workspace Business Continuity Plus licenses for the people who would switch over, and a CloudM Continuity subscription for the sync.
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Is Your Business Ready for an M365 Outage?
If Microsoft 365 went offline tomorrow, could your employees still communicate, collaborate, and access the information they need? Talk to Suitebriar about building a Microsoft 365 business continuity solution powered by Google Workspace.
- Google Cloud Premier Partner, working only on Google Cloud and Workspace for more than a decade
- U.S.-based support team

