How Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Works

The following steps briefly describe the overall concept of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 backup and restore procedures:

1. To be able to back up your Microsoft Office 365 and/or On-Premises Exchange organizations data, you add these organizations to the program scope.

For more information on adding new organizations, see Adding Microsoft Organizations.

2. To process your data more efficiently, you configure additional backup proxy servers to govern ingress/egress requests, and assign new backup repositories to store your backup data.

For more information on configuring backup proxy servers along with the backup repositories, see Configuring Backup Proxy Servers and Configuring Backup Repositories respectively.

3. To create a new backup file, you configure a backup job that defines the behavior of how your organizational data should be archived.

For more information on creating and configuring new backup jobs, see Performing Organization Data Backup.

4. To explore, recover, export, save or send your backup data, you utilize the capabilities of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange.

For more information, see Exploring Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Backups.