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Freshness - Configure and manage Enhanced soft delete

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articles/backup/backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-configure-manage.md

@@ -2,21 +2,23 @@
 title: Configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
 description: This article describes about how to configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 09/11/2023
+ms.date: 03/27/2025
 ms.service: azure-backup
 author: jyothisuri
 ms.author: jsuri
 ---
 
 # Configure and manage enhanced soft delete in Azure Backup
 
-This article describes how to configure and use enhanced soft delete to protect your data and recover backups, if they're deleted.
+This article describes how to configure and use [enhanced soft delete](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md) to protect your data and recover backups, if they're deleted.
 
 >[!Note]
 >Once you enable enhanced soft delete by enabling soft delete state to *always-on*, you can't disable it for that vault.
 
-## Before you start
+## Prerequisites
 
+Before you configure and manage enhanced soft delete on the vault, review the following prerequisites:
+
 - Enhanced soft delete is supported for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults.
 - Enhanced soft delete applies to all vaulted workloads alike in Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults. However, it currently doesn't support operational tier workloads, such as Azure Files backup, Operational backup for Blobs, and Disk and VM snapshot backups.
 - For hybrid backups (using MARS, DPM, or MABS), enabling always-on soft delete will disallow server deregistration and  deletion of backups via the Azure portal. If you don't want to retain the backed-up data, we recommend you not to enable the *always-on soft-delete* for the vault or perform *stop protection with delete data* before the server is decommissioned.
@@ -253,6 +255,12 @@ Follow these steps:
 >- You can also use multi-user authorization (MUA) to add an additional layer of protection against disabling soft delete. [Learn more](multi-user-authorization-concept.md).
 >- MUA for soft delete is currently supported for Recovery Services vaults only.
 
-## Next steps
+## Related content
+
+For implementing other security measures on the vaults, see the following articles:
 
-[About enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md).
+- [Multi-user authorization using Resource Guard](multi-user-authorization-concept.md).
+- [Immutable vault for Azure Backup](backup-azure-immutable-vault-concept.md).
+- [Private endpoints (v1 experience) for Azure Backup](private-endpoints-overview.md).
+- [Private endpoints (v2 experience) for Azure Backup](backup-azure-private-endpoints-concept.md).
+- [Secure by Default with Azure Backup (Preview)](secure-by-default.md).