Great news — Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 is out and generally available today! There are many great things to love in this build, including but not limited to, enhanced security features, expanded proxy capabilities and shared and private Teams channel support. In this build, Veeam focused on providing a more secure and agnostic ecosystem for end users. This article will cover the highlighting features in this build at a high level, but, if you’re interested in seeing the full list of what has changed check out this What’s New document.

Comprehensive Immutability and added Security

According to the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, 41% of organizations say that cyberthreats are their biggest inhibitor to digital transformation. Version 8 offers three major security enhancements in this build; immutable backups, role-based and MFA access to the console.

Currently Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 offers backup copy immutability. In version 8 the immutability option will be expanded to the backup, and can be stored on a variety of cloud object storage options, ensuring your data is physically unreachable and totally unalterable. In addition, a new governance mode will provide flexibility to storage administrators to delete immutable data under prescribed circumstances. These added features will help to provide extra layers of security along with the ability to pivot the business later.

Starting in v8, a new role-based access control will be added to access the console. The User and Group section will give the option to add backup administrators to the console. Currently the restore web portal and the Veeam Service Provider console can offer options to add MFA to enhance security.  Version 8 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 adds MFA to the console and restore explorers.  This feature will require specified users to perform additional forms of authentication to access the backup console and restore data. There will be an option put on users configured in Users and Roles with the added security to enable inactivity log offs.

Enterprise Scalability

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 will offer two key enhancements — Linux support and Proxy Pools. Version 8 will move away from SQLite as the backend database to PostgreSQL setting the way for these two enhancements. Both RHEL and ubuntu based Linux machines can now be used as proxies in the configuration. Also new is Proxy Pools which will allow proxies to be grouped together for processing to a repository. This group will balance resources for processing load and load-balance throttling across the group, delivering increased backup performance. An additional benefit will be the ability to take individual proxies in the group down into maintenance mode while not sacrificing jobs scheduled run times.

Shared and Private Teams channels

Adding to the currently supported Microsoft Teams standard channels version 8 will now fully support Shared and Private channels. The restores will be accessible from both the Microsoft Teams restore explorer and the restore web portal. The same diverse restore options will be available like restoring and exporting data. This added support will complete all channel types in Microsoft Teams.

So Much More

There is not enough space in this article to convey all the enhancements released in this version but there are some honorable mentions worth highlighting. In the spirit of security and Microsoft alignment Basic auth will be depreciated and Windows server 2012 and 2012 R2 will no longer be supported. For a complete list check out this What’s New doc.

Conclusion

Veeam is excited to release Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 with many advanced security options and expansions into deployment flexibility. To unlock all these features, check out the update requirements and upgrade your backup protection today.

Learn more about Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 here.

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