Viewing Dashboard

The Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 dashboard contains built-in widgets that provide information on the state of your backups, users and licenses, as well as shortcuts to explore your backed-up data and an overview of user activity.

Accessing Dashboard

To access the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 dashboard for the first time:

1. Log in to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365.
2. Complete the onboarding steps outlined in Self-Service Onboarding.

After that, the dashboard is the landing page every time you log in.

Required Permissions

To view the full dashboard display, users must have permissions assigned to their role. The required permissions are the following:

• View Backup Jobs. Required to view the Backup Status, Backup Users, and Backup Retention widgets.
• View M365 License Information. Required to view the M365 License Activity, VDC Licenses, and M365 Storage Use (GB) widgets.
• View/Restore Outlook. Required to view the Outlook backups shortcut.
• View/Restore OneDrive. Required to view the OneDrive backups shortcut.
• View/Restore SharePoint. Required to view the SharePoint backups shortcut.
• View/Restore Teams. Required to view the Teams backups shortcut.
• View Veeam Data Cloud User Activity. Required to view the Recent User Activity overview.

To grant the required permissions to the role assigned to a user, do the following:

1. Log in to Veeam Data Cloud with an administrator account.
2. In the main menu, click Settings.
3. In the Roles page, find the role you want to edit and toggle on the required permissions.
4. Click Save changes.

Dashboard Widgets

There are 6 widgets available on the dashboard:

• The Backup Status widget provides information about the date, time and status of your last backup. You can also see the total count of restore points from the last 6 months with data and the total storage used by all your backups each month.
• The Backup Users widget provides information about the total number of Microsoft 365 user accounts and whether they are protected or unprotected. Protected user accounts are accounts whose data was backed up at least once.

If your organization has Microsoft Backup Storage (MBS) enabled, the widget will also contain information about Flex, Express and Premium accounts as part of the protected users.

• The Backup Retention widget provides information about your configured backup retention period and the dates of the current and oldest restore points.
• The M365 License Activity widget provides information about active and inactive users from your Microsoft 365 tenancy in the last 7, 30 or 90 days. Active and inactive users both consume Microsoft 365 licenses, however, inactive users are users who have not used any Microsoft 365 apps during the specified period. You can also click View Inactive Accounts to see and export a list of inactive users.
• The VDC Licenses widget provides information about the number of user accounts that are protected or unprotected and the number of user accounts that either require or do not require a Veeam Data Cloud license.
• Protected. The total number of Microsoft 365 user accounts whose data was backed up at least once.
• Licensed. The total number of Veeam Data Cloud licenses consumed.

If your organization has Microsoft Backup Storage (MBS) enabled, the widget will also contain information about Flex, Express and Premium licensed users.

• No license required. The total number of protected user accounts that do not consume Veeam Data Cloud licenses.
• Unprotected. The total number of user accounts whose data was not backed up.

You can click Manage Licenses to manage your licenses. For more details, see Viewing License Model Details.

• The M365 Storage Use (GB) widget provides information about the top 5 highest storage users and the total size of used Microsoft 365 storage which includes the total storage of mailboxes, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.

Backups Shortcuts

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 allows you to explore your backups directly from the dashboard. To do this, click on a shortcut, and you will be able to view and restore your Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams backed-up data. For more information, see Performing Restore.

Recent User Activity

In the Recent User Activity overview, you can view information about the last 10 Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 users, the actions they took and the date and time of those actions.

In this section you can:

• Click the Refresh button to refresh the view with the latest information.
• Click View Detail for a full overview of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 user activity. In Veeam Data Cloud User Activity, you can:

• Filter the table by typing the name of a User or Object (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, and so on). You can also filter by selecting the Date from the calendar, and selecting an Action from the drop-down list.
• Click on a table row to view further details about a user's activity.
• Click the Refresh button to refresh the view with the latest information.
• Click Export User Activity Logs to download a .CSV file with user activity information. In the Export user activities pop-up window, select the month to export and click OK. The file is downloaded to your Downloads folder.