Release Information for Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure v3a

Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure v2 (build 2.0.0.303) or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number (Server Version) in the About section under Configuration | Support Information. After installing Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure v3a, your build number will be 3.0.1.19.

Licensing

• Data protection of Azure SQL workloads is now licensed per server that hosts protected databases. Previously, licensing model was done per database.  

General

• Retention policy task fails to complete if it runs more than one hour.

Security

• Veeam Updater component of Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure allows users to bypass authentication mechanisms and execute arbitrary code. See this KB for more information > https://www.veeam.com/kb4261
• When recreating the Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure, the database settings from the previous database installation are used.

Licensing

• Manual Azure SQL backup consumes a license key.

Backup

• Restore point creation date does not honor the Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure appliance time zone settings. The creation date-time is saved in the UTC format in the backup metadata file.
• Manual Azure SQL backups are removed according to the retention settings configured in the backup policy.

Restore

• The restoration to the managed VM's original location with several disks can fail due to temporary tags being removed in the wrong order.

Workers

• Permissions for deleting networks belonging to workers configuration are not granted to the Azure account by default.

Azure SQL

• Azure SQL Managed Instances using non-default port/private endpoints cannot be backed up.
• Backup policy fails when processing SQL Servers from different subscriptions of one account via staging server. 

 

Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure 3a also includes all fixes that were present in Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure 3.