Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Reviews

We've been using Veeam Backup for about a year. We get a lot of inquiries, whether it be from our partners or from end-users, who would like to backup their Office 365. They inquire about how to do so and the prerequisites, what exactly is required. Generally speaking, their concern is about how much storage is needed for the backup. Every company has a different backup policy, different RPOs, and different pre-pension policies. We help them determine how much storage they are going to need. That's basically it. That's how we deal with it.

A lot of customers have the misconception that when they host their data on the cloud, the cloud providers actually protect the data. Meanwhile, cloud providers are generally responsible for the availability of the service. The data is always the responsibility of whoever owns it. Nobody can ensure the data will always be there. So there are many news cases that happened. Sometimes people lose data on Office 365. For example, some emails get deleted and they seek the attention of Office 365. On average it has been discovered that it takes about 140 days to discover the email was deleted.

Employees can get disgruntled all of a sudden. There have also been hardware attacks on Office 365, even though there is cybersecurity in Microsoft. Nothing is bulletproof in the cybersecurity industry, so it's always good to have a second copy of your data.

A really good feature I saw is backing up company emails for the enterprises. This offers an easy ability to restore to the cloud.

The other really amazing part is that it doesn't just stop at Office 365. For example, some people have a hybrid setup. They have non-private exchange email software and then they have a hybrid with the Office 365. It is useful for that use case because it can back up both of them at the same time.

We are using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to take backups of shop floor PCs. I use it for clients locally, particularly for critical machines. It is also used globally for server-side backups and includes scheduling features like taking ten backups every Sunday when the factory is closed. This makes it easier as there is less network traffic.

Veeam Backup aids in preventing downtime by allowing for fast rollbacks and restoration of systems. This is essential in manufacturing as it minimizes production stoppages. By using network backups, we can quickly address and revert issues, saving time.

The primary use cases for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 include backing up SharePoint sites, Teams chat, attachments, and user emails.

I appreciate that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 allows me to back up on both local storage and cloud storage, providing two options for data restoration. One is through the cloud and the other is locally. The system is fast, offering a very efficient recovery journey.

I primarily use Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for image level backup and Office 365 email box backups.

I appreciate the feature of having a single tool for backup, replication, and secondary backup. With the same tool, the same job can be extended and configured to meet compliance requirements as per customer needs. There is no need to create multiple jobs, and it is user-friendly compared to other tools. Instant recovery is another valuable feature, as it allows for quick data recovery within five to ten minutes.

We use it to back up our Microsoft 365 environment - Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. So those things get backed up via Veeam. 

The most valuable feature is the simplicity of the GUI. Also, the modularity of it stands out. We can deploy it in different ways; several portions can all be deployed on one VM or server, or it can be split into different parts depending on the company's infrastructure and requirements.

The way Veeam handles version control is by creating replicas of your backups. I would call that a disadvantage because it doesn't rely on versioning on the storage side. For example, if you have an S3 bucket, you can set up versioning on the bucket, but Veeam doesn't support that feature.

Any versioning has to be done with replicas on the Veeam side. It does do snapshots, which is a type of versioning. You can set up snapshots on whatever schedule you need. 

For example, if you do a daily snapshot, it will keep all the previous snapshots for as long as you want to retain them. This allows us to go back to different documents. So I think that's what you mean by versioning. Versioning on an S3 bucket is a similar idea, but it's implemented a little bit differently in Microsoft 365.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 does not offer AI to enhance its backup services. The other Veeam product we have, Backup and Replication, does have AI, but it's basically just a chatbot. It won't automate anything for you, but it helps you look at the Veeam Support knowledge base.

I am a reseller of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, and I sell this product for my company. My use of the product involves working as a partner of Veeam and participating in its deployment and sales operations. 

Besides reselling it, I have hands-on experience, utilizing it for providing backup solutions to small businesses, mostly in the education sector.

The most valuable features of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 are its intuitive interface, ease of use, and unlimited capacity for backup and restore. I appreciate its strong performance and high reliability. 

Its adaptability for different businesses, whether small, large, or medium, makes it an attractive solution. 

Furthermore, my team of engineers is certified by Veeam for implementations, ensuring expert deployment.

We have backups for Microsoft 365 because it is in the account of the complete tenant compromise. If we lose access to a tenant or all of the client's data gets Microsoft 365, and they lose access to all of their emails, OneDrive, and Teams data, then at least we have an off-site copy that is not linked to their Microsoft side of things.

Then, we can at least restore and recover data from there. So, there's not as much running backup in case of accidental deletion or user issues. It's more for data security in terms of if something gets compromised, then we know we have another set of backups of the entire Microsoft 365.

The most crucial component is immutable backups to ensure that the backups cannot be affected by anything that happens to the tenant. That is the most critical feature. Second, you should also get proper insights into whether the jobs run as scheduled and the ease of maintenance on it to monitor the backup jobs daily to make sure you don't have any issues, also in terms of functionality to restore backups and backup testing, that also pretty much works easily in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

I do everything in-house for maintenance. I manage the full stack myself. I do daily backup monitoring to make sure everything works. Every single VM is my responsibility. I don't need to do maintenance procedures very often - maybe once a month, if even that much. Otherwise, it's mostly just monitoring the jobs and ensuring everything runs. If there are errors, they're usually related to internet issues or something like that. In those cases, I typically just run the backup job again. Regarding monitoring, I barely spend 15 minutes a day on all my backup checks. It's quick and painless.

I'm very satisfied with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and would continue using it if it were up to me. However, my management is considering alternative solutions due to issues with our storage solutions.

We're at a point where we need to decide whether to scale out our existing storage (which would mean spending more money) or switch to a 365 backup service that includes its storage. The storage issue is the main reason we're considering a change.

Apart from that, I'm very happy with the product. It works perfectly, the support is excellent, and it's fairly simple to manage. The app works 100% as expected.

The tool needs to improve its reporting to gain more valuable insights into what data is being backed up. The reports do not provide all the information one would like. But other than that, all the features are up to standard and working perfectly.

We use Veeam because — while Microsoft provides a terrific environment called Office 365 — they do not back up files that are stored there. The files most customers are concerned about are OneDrive and SharePoint files, but they often overlook their mailboxes and the Exchange piece of Office 365. It is the customer's responsibility to actually back that data up, which Microsoft does not do a good job in sharing with you. We had moved all of our file server shares to OneDrive and SharePoint, and we were just over a terabyte of data. To make sure they were being backed up properly, I implemented Veeam Office 365 Backup.  

It has given us some peace of mind when it comes to backing up Office 365 files that Microsoft does not include in the 365 backup structure.