Planned Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Feature Deprecation
| KB ID: | 4567 |
| Product: | Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 |
| Published: | 2024-09-03 |
| Last Modified: | 2024-09-19 |
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 User Guide: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Feature Deprecation
Purpose
This article documents features and functionalities of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365) that will deprecated in a future versions of the product.
Veeam is committed to delivering an exceptional experience with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, which means evolving with the times! Just as Microsoft 365 continuously expands and improves, we are also laser-focused on enhancing our product to meet our customers' ever-changing needs.
To ensure we provide the most efficient and cutting-edge backup solution, we're streamlining Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 by phasing out some older features in future releases. This is an exciting step forward in our journey, and it allows our incredible team of developers to double down on innovation — refining current functionalities and introducing fresh, powerful tools designed to make your backup experience smoother, simpler, and more secure.
Your data's safety and your peace of mind are our top priorities, and we’re confident these updates will bring an even more robust and user-friendly backup solution to your organization.
More Information
Below is the list of features that will be deprecated in future versions:
- 1 Functionality related to Basic Authentication, which is being deprecated by Microsoft 365:
- Basic authentication for M365 tenants
- Auxiliary backup accounts
- Modern authentication that allows for using legacy auth protocols
- 1 M365 Germany region
- 1 Auxiliary backup applications (from unlimited to a limited number)
- Azure Blob Storage Germany region
- SMB-Based Repositories — This functionality was always experimental, and over time, it has become clear that the jet-based databases we use to store backup data do not function efficiently with SMB-based repositories.
- Support for on-premises Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint
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