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Understanding Organization Object Types

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This section explains object types and their corresponding processing and exclusion options that you can select when creating and configuring a backup job in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

The following object types are available:

Groups

Consists of Office 365 groups (available only in Microsoft Office 365 organizations), security groups, distribution groups and dynamic distribution groups.

Users

Consists of shared mailboxes, public mailboxes and users.

Sites

Consists of Microsoft SharePoint sites and subsites.

Organizations

Consists of organization objects and their corresponding processing options.

Each of these object types consists of a set of processing/exclusion options such as Mail, Archive, OneDrive, Site, Group Mail and Group Site which you can select/deselect to make data retrieval even more precise.

Processing and exclusion options can be selected at the Select Objects to Backup and Select Objects to Exclude steps respectively.

Groups

The following table lists available Group types and their corresponding processing/exclusion options.

Group Type	Processing/exclusion options for Microsoft Office 365 organizations	Processing/exclusion options for on-premises Microsoft Exchange organizations
O365 group (available only in Office 365 organizations)	When configuring Office 365 organizations, the following set of processing/exclusion options is available: Members with Mail, Archive, OneDrive and Site Group Mail Group Site	N/A
Security group	Members with Mail, Archive, OneDrive and Site	Members with Mail and Archive options
Distribution Group
Dynamic Distribution Group

Understanding Organization Object Types Note:

Consider the following:

Groups are not available in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint organizations.
Current version of the application supports mail-enabled security groups only.

Users

The following table lists available User types and their corresponding processing/exclusion options.

User Type	Processing/exclusion options for Microsoft Office 365 organizations	Processing/exclusion options for on-premises Microsoft Exchange organizations	Processing/exclusion options for on-premises Microsoft SharePoint organizations
User	Mail, Archive, OneDrive and Site	Mail and Archive	OneDrive and Site
Shared mailbox (available only in Office 365 and Exchange organizations)			N/A
Public mailbox (available only in Office 365 and Exchange organizations)			N/A

Sites

Consider the following:

Objects of this type do not have any processing/exclusion options.
Objects of this type are not available in on-premises Microsoft Exchange organizations.
You can only select either the root site, or any of its subsites.

As an example, in the following figure you can only select either the root Development site, which automatically selects all of its subsites, or you can select, for example, Builds and Releases. In the latter case, the root Development site will be deselected.

Organizations

The following table lists processing/exclusion options available for Organization types.

Processing/exclusion options for Microsoft Office 365 organizations	Processing/exclusion options for on-premises Microsoft Exchange organizations	Processing/exclusion options for on-premises Microsoft SharePoint organizations
Mail, Archive, OneDrive and Site	Mail and Archive	OneDrive and Site