Some days ago, Veeam launched Microsoft Office 365 v5 with Microsoft Teams support, specifically on 3th of December. Veeam has been launching some patches and updates for their products in the last weeks. This Microsoft Office 365 v5 is one more.
What is new
This new version 5 has one main feature that is the support for Microsoft Teams. In these Home-office days, where more and more companies use Microsoft Teams for their online meetings, group chats, and file sharing, this is an important option to backup your Microsoft Teams environment.
Backup Microsoft Office 365 is an area that has been grown in the last couple of years and still space to grow, and many customers should and will use it.
Previous Veeam Microsoft Office 365 was supported for Microsoft Teams, including in the Share Point backup, but you did not have the option to backup in detail, or the restore was not granular as we like to be.
With Veeam Microsoft Office 365 v5, we can backup Teams settings, all channels, permissions, and files stored in those channels.
This version is also now possible to search your Microsoft Teams backup to find objects you want to restore. Search will find any file or object in any channel or chat that was backup. Great improvements here by Veeam for the restore and how to handle the restores for Microsoft Teams backup.
“In addition to flexible data recover and export options, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams provides unmatched eDiscovery, allowing for granular search across Teams components for seamless governance and compliance.”
Scalability and Performance
With new architectural enhancements can now deliver 5x the scale to support the largest enterprises Microsoft Office 365 implementation, with the ability to browse simultaneously 100,000 objects.
The new architectural improvements are included faster data movement to object storage and the possibility to deploy 5 times more Veeam Proxies, up to 50 per server, for better Performance and Scalability.
2X faster backup data migration to object storage from local repositories
Thousands of backup repositories, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange items are represented within seconds with the optimized RESTful API calls.
In this new version is also included:
- Enhanced backup job scheduling allows you to define the permitted time window for the job and the offset to specify the exact time when the job must start.
- Collecting and exporting Veeam Explorers log files becomes easier through using the Support Information wizard in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 console.
- Audit information on changes in the backup job configuration, such as adding or removing protected objects, is included in Veeam.Archiver. Service log files.
- New VMC log files collect Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 usage metrics and infrastructure sizing statistics to help Veeam support simplify troubleshooting.
Some details where Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 is supported.
Operation System
Only a 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows 8.x
- Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 server can be deployed on the following core editions:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 LTSC, 1709
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Software
- Mail backup is supported for Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online and Microsoft Exchange 2019, 2016, or 2013.
- SharePoint backup is supported for Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online and Microsoft SharePoint 2019 or 2016.
Upgrade version support
Requirements
To upgrade to this new version confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 before upgrading to 5.0: 3.0 (build 3.0.0.422), 4.0 (build 4.0.0.1345), 4a (builds 4.0.0.1553, 4.0.0.1580), 4b (builds 4.0.0.2516, 4.0.0.2549),4c (builds 4.0.1.519, 4.0.1.531, 4.0.1.545).
This product on my list to write a blog review is already in the draft for some time now(like many others) but has been over and over postponed. I plan to finish before the end of the year since I would like to write a review of the top Backup Tools for Microsoft Office 365.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 links:
Check here also a nice demo presentation by Michael Cade, Veeam Senior Technologist, Product Strategyt.
Veeam also provides a free version of this product. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Community Edition provides FREE backup and recovery of Office 365 data for up to 10 users, 10 teams, and one TB of SharePoint data. Check more information HERE.
Resuming, when Veeam launched Microsoft Office 365 v5 with Microsoft Teams support, these new features are a big step forward for Veeam to fully integrate Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 in the Microsoft Office 365 product.
Adding all these new features, performance, and scalability, and the possibility to use more and more, RESTful APIs provide the ability to integrate this type of backup in companies’ integrated solutions.
Meanwhile, Veeam also launches two new updates for the following products:
- Veeam Backup & Replication 10a Cumulative Patch – support for VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
- Veeam Backup for AWS v3 – adds support for RDS.
I will try to talk about those two new releases soon.
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