MC1293709 – M365 Change Digest

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Starting May 22, 2026, Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) can be enabled in production environments without requiring a Pay-As-You-Go plan.

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Starting May 22, 2026, Pay-As-You-Go (PayGo) is no longer a mandatory requirement to enable Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) in your production environment(s).

How does this affect me?
You can now enable Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR) for your production environment(s) without a PayGo plan.

What do I need to do to prepare?
This message is for awareness, and no action is required. When SSDR is enabled, a secondary asynchronous copy of your environment(s) will be created and maintained in a remote region. This ensures that your business-critical workloads remain protected, even in the unlikely event of a regional outage.

Enabling SSDR will double the total storage consumption for that environment. For example, if your primary environment uses 10 GB of storage, an additional 10 GB will be used for the secondary copy.

To enable Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR):

Sign in to the Power Platform admin center as a system administrator.
In the navigation pane, select Manage.
In the Manage pane, select Environments. The Environments page appears.
Select the production environment where you want to turn on self-service disaster recovery.
Select Disaster Recovery in the command bar at the top of the page. The Disaster Recovery pane appears.
Select the checkbox to turn on Disaster Recovery.
Select Save.
The environment briefly displays the Edit details page.
The Environment details page displays that the process of turning on the feature has started.

For more information on Self-Service Disaster Recovery (SSDR), please visit Business continuity and disaster recovery for Dynamics 365 SaaS apps.

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