With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 6, we have added a self-service restore portal. The restore portal offers authentication via OAuth2 at the organization’s Azure AD and therefore needs a secure connection between these two services. Read more

The first Version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (V1) was released on Nov. 29, 2016. I was involved in the very first projects with the new product. Over the years, we saw a huge growth in customers and in product features as well. Due to the growth in data, usage and customer numbers, we adjusted our backup components to fit new needs. Over the last years of being a subject matter expert for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, I was able to collect a lot of experience I want to share with you. Read more

Veeam recently published the largest independent ransomware research project of its kind, the 2022 Ransomware Trends Report. For the next few weeks, we’ll be unpacking some of the key findings of that research, starting with “How pervasive are these attacks?” Read more

When it comes to data protection in small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB), the sector is similar in many ways, but unique in a few, when compared to larger organizations and their IT trends and strategies. That is abundantly clear when you look at both the global and the SMB-specific findings in the recently released Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends report. Read more

When running your application in a production environment, you may want to specify which components your application can communicate with as well as which components can communicate with your application. Read more

In the sage words of pop culture philosopher Camila Cabello, “I have questions.” When it comes to the behavior of backup operations, there are sometimes more questions than answers. A big question and pain point I have observed out in the field were intermittent large incremental backup points that seemed to have no reason. Here, we will work to uncover the data changes at the file-level behind incremental backup runs with Veeam Backup & Replication using a Windows Utility I built and am sharing with you. Read more

In a world that continues to challenge many of us in so many ways, Veeam remains committed and focused on driving customer success. The escalation of cyberthreats and complexity of hybrid cloud have pushed IT leaders to re-examine their data protection strategies. It used to be sufficient to think of backup as insurance against a remote possibility. It is now about restoring from an inevitable reality. Your needs have changed — and as always, your needs are at the core of everything we do. Read more

Backup is important, but equally important is having a variety of recovery options at your disposal. Veeam is famous for its breadth of recovery options within its platform across cloud, virtual, physical, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Kubernetes workloads. In this blog, we’ll unpack the 45 recovery options that come with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and how they can help you bring back data in the way that makes the most sense for your business.  Read more

Since the inception of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, Veeam has made it our mission to educate the IT community on the importance of protecting data in Office 365. Fortunately, as time has gone by, more and more organizations understand the “why” of SaaS backup and want to focus on the “how”. So, we have created a new easy-to-read technical guide on Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 which explains everything from what the components are, to how get up and running creating your first backups and restores. Let’s cover a few important aspects of deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Read more

With Veeam Backup & Replication version 10, it’s possible to back up NAS shares with the SMB (CIFS) and NFS protocol. One of the challenges with backing up large file shares is doing so in a consistent state. This blog post shows how to create a consistent backup of an SMB share hosted on a NetApp FAS storage by using Microsoft VSS snapshots. Read more