Posts by Karinne Bessette

Updating anything in an environment can be a very stressful process and is easily the least favorite task of any IT team. This is in large part due to the unknowns that can happen while updating any products or components. No one wants to modify something that is currently working, bringing on the mentality of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. This common rule can be a double edge sword that leaves your environment open to security vulnerabilities and dated product features. Considering this problem, I think Grace Hopper said it best, “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘we’ve always done it this way’”. This post serves as a guide for the reasons why you should update ... Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a released a couple of days ago, and we are excited to announce some new features and enhancements. To start, we ! Also included in this release is a , a new user protection report, and tons of efficiency enhancements. Read more

Veeam is excited to announce the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 6! That’s not a typo, we have updated the name of our fastest growing product to be in line with Microsoft’s official naming convention change to “Microsoft 365.” Along with this name change, we have added a self-service restore portal and backup copy to low-cost object storage, teased. In addition to these great features, we have now added the ability to restore SharePoint to new locations, a new ISO installer, support for multi-geo organizations, and much more! For details, please read the full release notes. Read more

The Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 product helps in the management and archival of Microsoft 365 data, offering flexible deployment options to meet business needs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 partnered with Lenovo to provide options for backing up Microsoft 365 data with a true separation of infrastructure and control. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is subject to throttling rules placed on SharePoint sites. These rules limit traffic speed for any item downloaded per user from any SharePoint site or OneDrive for Business on Microsoft servers. These throttling rules generally go unnoticed in day-to-day use of the cloud product but can drastically limit backup recovery point objectives. Veeam has a solution to this problem in the way of Auxiliary backup accounts. Read more

You may have heard Veeam is the leader in backup for Microsoft 365 with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. But did you know this software has many flexible deployment types from CapEx on-prem to completely OpEx IaaS in the cloud? In fact, this software can be deployed directly from the AWS or Azure marketplace, and in IBM Cloud, with the software already installed and ready for your organization. Running the software on a hyper-scale cloud like Azure, AWS or IBM Cloud can help align your company with any cloud-first initiative and cloud migration goals while giving you back control of your data. Read more

One of the first features added to Veeam Backup & Replication was backup copy jobs, and with backup copy jobs, we added GFS. GFS stands for Grandfather, Farther, Son. It is the term used for archival retention points originally in just backup copy jobs, but now it’s available in traditional backup jobs in more recent versions. These archival points allow customers to save a point-in-time full copies of their data in intervals of weeks, months, quarters and years. Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v11, there will be some changes to how GFS is handled in backup copy jobs and some new best practice configurations. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 5 is here, and we’re excited to announce the addition of integrated Teams backup and restore, so don’t miss out on all the great features added in this version. To understand why this is so important, you must understand what Microsoft Teams is and the journey we took to get here. Read more

Storing and sharing data is not unique to the digital age and has always been an essential part of the business. What has changed is the way we achieve this exchange. In the evolution of technologies came the evolution of communication. To exchange large data sets, we no longer need to copy information physically to hand it to another stakeholder. This can be achieved by storing data to a public cloud provider, which both parties have trust in. This kind of trusted transaction can help with sharing data both externally and internally. One of the most notable public cloud providers who facilitate this kind of exchange is Microsoft, with OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. Read more

For years, Veeam has established itself as the #1 Office 365 backup, and this will be further solidified with version 5 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, which adds purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams. Version 5 also includes Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams, which provides granular search across Teams components, with faster and easier recovery built for Teams. Veeam has also made architectural enhancements, delivering a massive scale increase to support larger enterprises, and added some new RESTful APIs to help with automation management. Read more