Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Exchange restores

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Exchange restores

Based upon the entire organization backup job, we will dig deeper on how to perform restores for Exchange and more important the requirements to it. IMPORTANT: To export Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 entities to PST or MSG files, you must have a 64-bit version of Microsoft Outlook 2016, Microsoft Outlook 2013 or Microsoft Outlook 2010 installed on the computer running restore sessions. Starting a restore session Before we can actually restore an item (e-mail, calendar item,…), we need…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Job management

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Job management

Now that we have our organization added and created our first jobs, we will explore more details on job management such as: starting and stopping jobs enable or disable jobs renaming jobs modifying a job schedule adding or removing objects from the backup job deleting jobs Starting and stopping a job There will be moments where you manually want to start or stop a backup job. For both these actions, a JSON is required and we will POST this request…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Creating your infrastructure

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Creating your infrastructure

In part 1, I explained the basics on how to work with the RESTful API from getting familiar with REST as well as performing our first login and get some basic information. Now you’re used to this and saw how to get information out, we will start with the next step: creating and increasing your VBO infrastructure. You will learn how to: Create a new proxy Create a new repository Add an organization Create backup jobs for the organization assigned…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Getting Started

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 RESTful API: Getting Started

A common question around Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO) is about automation and more specific the RESTful API. Since I created an example self-service web portal since VBO 1.5 came out, I’ve had numerous meetings around this topic. Something which always comes back are questions related to “how do I do X” or “how do I create X”? While it’s easy to explain how it works, I decided to start a blog post series on the use of the…

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 data mover tool release

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 data mover tool release

A common question about Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is how to move user data around from one repository to another repository. Currently, in version 2 there is no wizard available in the GUI for this, however, there is a Powershell cmdlet for this Move-VBOEntityData. Timothy Dewin already wrote about how to use it and I’ve used this as a reference quite a lot already. As an enhancement, I decided to make a GUI wrapper around this which allows…

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