Veeam Backup - Our Pick for Office365 Backup

We use Veeam Backup to provide a backup solution for all content stored in Office365. Veeam allows us to streamline our offboarding process for employees without the manual intervention needed for legal retention periods. As Microsoft does not include any backup of data in Office365, Veeam gives us peace of mind that our SharePoint sites, Teams, and mailboxes are securely backed up and recoverable.

Microsoft publishes that they do not backup data in Office365. Due to this, we knew that a third-party solution was required to ensure to the integrity of business-critical data stored in that environment.

We have restored mailboxes after our retention policy in Office365 expires to perform eDiscovery. Veeam Backup made this process simple and quick and allowed us to find the necessary data.

We greatly benefit from the ability to restore directly to a PST file. We utilize this when managers discover an old employee may have had a critical file or message in their inbox that we need to recover.

The standard retention policy that all Veeam products have allows us to rely on Veeam Backup for archival of past employees, offloading the requirement to store these files on our production storage array. The “set and forget” reliability of Veeam Backup allows us to rely on notifications for failed jobs and keeps us at ease that our backup methods are working reliably.