Honest review of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
November 26, 2019
Honest review of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
We use Veeam across the whole organisation to backup SharePoint, Exchange, Teams and One Drive, we use a 4 hourly snapshot to ensure that we have data in more than one location at all times.
Veeam is excellent at keeping a copy of all mailboxes locally and when we have archived users its ability to search through archived mailboxes is a lifesaver.
Veeam is excellent at keeping a copy of all mailboxes locally and when we have archived users its ability to search through archived mailboxes is a lifesaver.
Pros
- Veeam is excellent for backing up SharePoint at a granular level.
- Veeam is excellent for backing up our users' OneDrive repository.
- Veeam's ability to index our users mailboxes, especially those that are not live in exchange is amazing.
Cons
- MFA is hard to set up.
- Can't set a service account to map to the datastore.
- Replication to multiple places isn't possible.
- Veeam has assisted in several cases where users have left the company with little to no handover and we've needed to recover data relating to potential customers, it has paid for itself in the ability to recover this type of data which is not available from Microsoft.
- Veeam gives us peace of mind that our data is secure in an environment we control.
- The only negative is the additional bandwidth and space required to keep a full backup of our Office 365 environment.
We needed a product that was capable of cloning our data to a secondary location, Veeam's ability to take delta backups makes this perfect. We now take regular backups of all data to an off-line location and have the ability to search, restore and export backups when required. This functionality isn't something that we could do on Office 365.
It's not very granular in what you can select, however it's very good if you split the jobs into applications.
Yes, we archive mailboxes to PST when a user leaves.
- Export to PST
- Indexing live
- Restore to live
Do you think Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365's feature set?
No
Did Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 again?
Yes
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