Forum Discussion

Haniel Croitoru's avatar
Haniel Croitoru
Learn Expert
Jun 17, 2017

Microsoft Forms Preview for Office 365 Business tenants - First Impressions

It's great to see that Microsoft has made the Forms product available to non-Educational tenants.  But now that many of us have it available in our toolbelt, questions started around its use and purp...
education
microsoft forms
Survey
PeterHutch's avatar
PeterHutch
Copper Contributor
Sep 10, 2019

Hi Haniel Croitoru 

Great read.

We've recently introduced Office 365 into our business and are running through all the GDPR and Retention Policies for our staff when they use the apps.  One query I can't find the answer to is WHERE is the data actually stored for Forms?  I know you can click the "Show Results" button and the data appears, but where is that data physically held and how long is it there for?

Just because, if we have any queries on the data that we have held on people (should we gather such information from a Form), then we need to be able to get hold of it.  At the moment, if a member of staff creates a Form and collates data... if he/she goes off sick, would anyone else in the tenancy be able to get that data?

I've read that Flow can be used to move data into Excel Spreadsheets and stored locally... but what about the data BEFORE it goes there.  Where is it exactly?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Resources