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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3 is here and it’s the best so far!

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3 is here and it’s the best so far!

A few years ago, Veeam released a product that allowed you to backup e-mails from Office 365. The number one question back then was: “Why? Microsoft does everything for me?“. Fast forward to the present and we all know better. Within Office 365, Microsoft is responsible for the infrastructure but it’s still your data and you want to be in control off it. Just like your own social media feed like Facebook or Twitter. Disclaimer: Nobody will judge you if…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: General settings

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: General settings

In the final part of the RESTful API series for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, we’ll go over some general settings which can be modified as well. These are fairly self-explaining. Exclusion settings The following request allows you to modify the backup exclusion settings. As this is a global setting, backup jobs will not process specified data. We will perform a PUT request against “/v4/ExclusionSettings“. {  “deletedItems”: “true”,  “drafts”: “false”,  “junkEmail”: “false”,  “outbox”: “false”,  “syncIssues”: “false”,  “litigationHold”: “true”,  “inPlaceHold”: “true” } The above will modify the…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Workflow examples

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Workflow examples

Over the past few weeks, I’ve explained on how to get started with the RESTful API and took a closer look on creating and managing your infrastructure as well as the restore process. The following blog post contains 2 complete workflows where we combine all this to make it even more clear on the steps required to get from A to Z. Workflow 1: Create and start a job The above image explains the steps we need to perform to…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: SharePoint restores

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: SharePoint restores

This post is based upon the entire organization backup job which we made in part 1, we will dig deeper on how to perform restores for SharePoint. Starting a restore session Before we can actually restore a file or folder, we need to start a restore session. We will leverage the organization ID and perform a POST request against “/v2/Organizations/{organizationID}/action“. This will start a Veeam Explorer in the background and return a restore session ID. The restore session ID will…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: OneDrive restores

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: OneDrive restores

This post is based upon the entire organization backup job which we made in part 1, we will dig deeper on how to perform restores for OneDrive for Business. Starting a restore session Before we can actually restore a file or folder, we need to start a restore session. We will leverage the organization ID and perform a POST request against “/v2/Organizations/{organizationID}/action“. This will start a Veeam Explorer in the background and return a restore session ID. The restore session…

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