Onboarding for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

We are confident that you will have continued success with the solution and leverage the wealth of resources available for you:Veeam AI Online Assistant: is a chatbot that helps with common issues and questions related to Veeam products. It is available starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 and later. Customized Veeam Search Engine: use this custom tool to search official Veeam content. Veeam Help Center Technical Documentation: user guides, product overviews, release notes, what's new, etc. KubeCampus is a free online lea

Self-restore portal Job best practices Common roadblocks Authentication method Least privilege approach Proxy deployment scenarios ImmutabilitySelf-restore portalVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 provides users with the ability to explore and restore data from backups by themselves or delegate this task to somebody els

  Reports Notification settings Advanced monitoring with Veeam ONE™ ReportsAs your backups start to complete successfully, you may wish to start monitoring the health and status of the environment and consider automating some common tasks.Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 allows you to create the following data protection reports:Mailbox Protection R

 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3There are three major steps for restoring Microsoft 365 data with Veeam.Step 1The first step to setup restores is to launch the restore wizard. In this example we’ll show how to restore data from OneDrive for Business.Launch the Restore wizard.To launch the Restore wizard, you will do the following:1. Select an object that you want to restore:To restore a OneDrive for Business account, select the necessary account in the inventory pane. To restore a folder, select the necessary folder in the inventory pane. To restore a document, select a folder that contains the document in the inventory pane

Veeam Explorers for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams are designed to search and recover data between online, on-premises and hybrid Microsoft 365 deployments.  Veeam Explorer for Microsoft ExchangeTo explore and recover Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, folders, messages, tasks, contacts, and items. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePointTo explore and recover Microsoft SharePoint sites, libraries and items. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft OneDrive for Business To explore and recover Microsoft OneDrive for Business items and folders. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft TeamsTo explore and recover Microsoft Teams, channels, tabs, posts, and files with enhanced support for restoring individual components within Teams. Veeam Explorer

By now, you have an operational backup environment, some initial backups finished, a fine‑tuning set and are successfully monitoring and reporting. Congrats! You’ve also likely tried a test restore (hopefully you haven’t needed to do a real restore, but if you have, we’re glad you had a backup). If you haven’t, or you want to dive a bit deeper, here are some resources to help explain and guide you through the restore process.You can explore your Microsoft 365 data four key ways:1. Exploring backup jobs When exploring backup jobs, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 loads the latest restore point that was created by the selected job.2. Exploring single organizations When exploring a single organization, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 merges and loads the latest restore points that have been created by each backup job of the selected organization, including objects (i.e. users) no longer protected

You can add any backup job to a backup copy job by right clicking the job and selecting Add to backup copy job.Backup copy capabilities are only available if you have specified an object repository as a target for your backup jobs. An extended backup repository where you store your backups and a backup repository where you store backup copies must be located on the same backup proxy server and have the same retention type. After Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 created backup copies, you can explore and restore, or retrieve backup copies. Suggested resourcesBackup Copy User Guide If you need more help ge

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 introduces more granular control for backup windows, allowing you to better manage job execution during specific periods to avoid peak times or system load. This includes enhanced capabilities for setting more detailed permitted and denied time frames. You can select one of the following options:Daily at this time. Select this option if you want to run the job daily at the specified hours. Periodically every. Select this option if you want to run the job every N minutes.Time periods can be selected in the dialog, in which you can:Set the Permitted execution time frame for the backup job. Set the Denied execution time frame for the backup job. The following is an example in which it is prohibited to run a backup job on the following d

Creating a backup job Selecting backup scopeCreating a backup jobTo back up data of your Microsoft 365 and on-premises organizations, you use backup jobs.A backup job is a set of configuration parameters that define a list of users, groups, sites, teams and organizations to back up, a location where to store backups, and a schedule according to which new backups must be created. This also supports immutable backups and encryption options during configuration, providing enhanced security and compliance for backup data. Creating a backup job

  Supported storage Retention policiesSupported storageVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 supports a variety of different storage options, including local repository and object storage. Read this Storage Decision Guide for Microsoft 365 Backups to learn pros and cons of local storage vs. object storage.You can use block or object storage. If your goal is to implement backup copy to object storage (with or without immutability), your source repository must also be object storage. The backup copy repository retention type must also be the same as the source (snapshot

  Infrastructure planning Infrastructure components Installation packageInfrastructure planningVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 considers the size of the environment in terms of the number of objects you need to protect rather than the number of users when planning infrastructure. The solution supports primary and archive mailboxes, shared mailboxes, public folders, Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams (including channels and tabs).With the maximum configuration, it can now support up to 1 million objects per instance, 20,000 objects per proxy, and up to 250,000 users per deploym

You can choose the deployment that best fits your business needs and change it when needed with ease. Your Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 deployment can come:self-managed on-premises or in the private, public and hybrid cloud environments as a Managed ServiceThe prerequisites and how these components work for each environment are very similar. IT organizations have the flexibility to choose from different designs based on their current requirements. On-premises deploymentsFor customers seeking local control over their Microsoft 365 data, on-premises deployment provides robust backup for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams. On-Premises deployme

An assumption for this course is that you are using the latest product versions and package updates. Check for available updates manually if required. You can also configure whether Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will notify you when new versions appear on Veeam servers and allow Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to download available updates automatically.  Moving further, we’ll guide you through all the necessary steps to your best experience which are laid down at the diagram below. Step 1:

 Account and Roles LicensingAccount and RolesLog in or create your My Account login if it's your first time.My Account is a central place to access your Veeam® products, license keys, Veeam Support, technical documents and much more! You can also use this same login to access resources on Veeam.com.Once you have access to My Account, you will be able to: