A few years ago, I was working at a service provider who had a high focus on VMware and Veeam. The job was great but I received the opportunity to join Veeam Software. I spent a fair amount of time being a pre-sales (system engineer) and in 2017 I made the jump to the Product Strategy team. Today I am happy that starting from January 1st, I have made the next jump within this amazing company. I have joined the…
Best practices are created to get the best out of a product. At Veeam, we have had the Best Practice Guide for Veeam Backup & Replication for a while now. I am happy to announce, we have now one available as well for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. This guide covers several topics to assist you in setting up everything correctly. Design: This section contains information on the components and where to place them, configuration maximums, networking tips &…
With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4, a new feature was added to improve backing up SharePoint and OneDrive for Business data. By leveraging auxiliary backup accounts, it reduces the risk of throttling which Microsoft has in place. Throttling, however, happens on a per account base so leveraging multiple is a major improvement. The normal workflow The normal workflow to do this is quite simple and here is the short version of it: Go to your…
Update 19/12: ESXi 6.5 patch has been released. At Veeam, we have seen quite a few issues with CBT and VMware over the past. Most of these usually got fixed fast but there is one that I would like to highlight as it may have an impact on your infrastructure. VMware listed information about this bug in their KB71155. In short, it states CBT does not support VM snapshot revert operation at all. This can have an impact since at…
At the start of this year, I wrote several blog posts on getting started with the RESTful API for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. With the recently released version 4 and the introduction of Object Storage support, I decided to add another part explaining how you can manage Object Storage via the API. Choosing your Object Storage provider Version 4 added several new API options in regards to Object Storage: Account AmazonS3CompatibleObjectStorage AmazonS3ObjectStorage AzureObjectStorage EncryptionKey ObjectStorageRepository We will take…