Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 8.6 has been released. To maintain consistency with previous product updates, this post includes information about versions 8.6 and 8.5. These versions bring practical maintenance capabilities to improve manageability, performance and recoverability. This is a result of ongoing efforts to implement customer feedback and enhance product capabilities.
Features include:
- Added PowerShell cmdlets:
- To remediate data in JET-based repositories
- Put object storage in maintenance mode (or with REST API)
- To remediate data stored in object repositories
- Support for Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription edition
- Preservation of SharePoint site permissions and members when restoring a site to a new location
- Microsoft teams channel messages are now referred to as “posts” instead of “chats” to better reflect Microsoft’s own terminology
- Improvements to backup and object storage repository performance
- Improved backup performance for large SharePoint sites and Exchange mailboxes with large amounts of emails
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 continues to strengthen operational agility, ensure restore flexibility, and provide administrative control. These updates bring more capabilities with PowerShell, repository maintenance, and performance enhancements. For the full list of what’s new, please refer to the release notes shared below.
Build number: 8.6.0.1102
Published date: 2026-09-14 (YMD)
Release Notes for 8.5: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/veeam_backup_m365_8_5_release_notes.html
Release Notes for 8.6: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/veeam_backup_m365_8_6_release_notes.html
