This blog explains five essential security, compliance and availability capabilities built into Office 365. These capabilities provide excellent value to Office 365 users, and there is no reason for you not to leverage them. However, these features were not purpose-built to be a backup solution, so there are gaps and trade-offs to consider if you want to use them for backup. Microsoft makes strategic business decisions about where to invest in certain features. They have chosen not to invest in a purpose-built Office 365 backup solution. They have left this gap for their strategic partners, like Veeam, to fill. 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

Regardless of what percentage of your organization’s mission-critical workloads are running in the cloud today, it’s likely far more than it was a year ago. This is due to a combination of net-new workloads, as well as migrating in from data centers, leading me to a Pinterest-worthy platitude – the life (of your data) is a journey, not a destination. The best infrastructures for our workloads today may not be the best tomorrow. We witnessed this with the decoupling and migration of the majority of our physical servers' OS, applications and data to virtualized platforms. Today, its rapid acceleration to the cloud, especially true in the light of COVID-19, further accelerating this shift. Read more

With everything that’s been happening in the world over the last few months, my company had to make some radical changes in our IT department. We’ve recently shifted to remote work ~100% of the time, which forced my group to react quickly to new challenges. Protecting user and company data on remote workstations has become a priority. Read more

Veeam had the pleasure to present its Cloud Data Management vision to the Cloud Field Day delegates. This event was a little different being a virtual event. Typically, Cloud Field Day is presented to a room full of extremely technical delegates, but this time we did it a little different. For this event, Veeam brought together David Hill, Anthony Spiteri and Michael Cade, three key members of the product strategy team managed by Danny Allan, Veeam’s Chief Technology Officer. Read more

With new Update 4c we've added the support for Office 365 tenants using modern app-only authentication with disabled legacy protocols. In the new mode, VBO performs all its backup and restore operations using an Azure AD application instead of user credentials. This new mode addresses the needs of customers using Microsoft Security Defaults in their Office 365 tenant organizations. Read more

With Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4, we offer an explorer for SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange Online. These explorers can not only restore data back to the original locations but export locally for manual upload or archival purposes. Read more

Knowing how to configure and scale Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is straightforward, but there are some additional components you might want to consider. Read more

Having the right account and knowing your backups’ components is a critical first step in the backup process, but you also need to know the scope of the Microsoft Office 365 environment you want to back up. Which services do you plan on including in this backup scope? Knowing the components you plan on backing up will help greatly when it comes to capacity and resource planning. Read more

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is responsible for backing up and restoring Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint online data. What most administrators don’t know is that Microsoft protects the underlying hardware where the data sits but not the data itself, meaning if someone was to modify your data through an access point, Microsoft is not responsible for restoring it back to a previous state. The following articles in this series will help you get started with the product so you can start protecting your Microsoft Office 365 environment today. Read more