Organization Object Types

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 allows you to specify object types and their processing and exclusion options when creating and configuring backup jobs.

The following object types are available for backup and restore:

• 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.

• Teams

Consists of Microsoft Teams teams.

• Organizations

Consists of organization objects and their processing options.

Each of these object types (except for the Sites and Teams 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 Back Up and Select Objects to Exclude steps of the New Backup Job wizard.

Groups

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

Users

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

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 SharePoint organizations.
• You can select either the root site, or any of its subsites.

In the following example, you can 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.

Teams

Consider the following:

• Objects of this type do not have any processing/exclusion options.

• Objects of this type are available in Microsoft Office 365 organizations only.
• When you add an object of this type to a backup job, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 backs up the following objects:

• The Team Chat and TeamsMessagesData folders of the group mailbox that belongs to the Office 365 group associated with the backed-up team.
• Document library of the SharePoint team site.
• Messages from the Posts tab of a team channel.
• Team metadata: settings of the team, information about team members, channels, tabs, applications, and so on.

Organizations

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