Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Initial Setup

Michael Schwarzer - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at INT/box GmbH

The implementation procedure was straightforward and easy to follow. It involved simply installing the entire backup system, which was completed promptly.

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KH
Technical Operations Manager at Ocient, Inc.

The setup for the product was straight forward. The actual deployment of the product was very quick. I would say it was inside of 20 minutes. After the installation, it has to go out and discover all the mailboxes and folders and stuff, and that can take a couple of hours. So I would say the amount of time it took in total was probably two or three hours. The actual keyboard time, was about 20 minutes. It depends a bit on how big the environment is. If you have a huge environment then it will take more than two hours to do all the discovery.  

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DF
Head of Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is straightforward because we use specialists.

We already have a shared platform, so bringing in new customers is very easy for us. We simply apply a license and bring the customers in.

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
March 2024
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PH
Senior Engineer at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

It’s straightforward to set up. It’s very, very easy. It is up and running within the same day as they offer a quick deployment.

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Gerald Ashokan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Account Executive at Tata Consultancy

The initial setup of Veeam Backup for Office 365 was simple. It took approximately five minutes.

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Stephen Catalano - PeerSpot reviewer
National Sales Engineer at Insight

The initial setup is simple, with deployment taking a relatively short period of time, about a couple of hours.

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KoenTeugels - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Presales at Huawei

The initial setup was very straightforward and simple. After 10 years, you know what the pitfalls are, so it's quite easy to manage implementations. So it's still an upgrade of an upgrade. The deployment takes a couple of days. 

You only need one person for deployment and maintenance. 

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AH
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very easy to set up. Once you start, you just click through and enter information about storage, user name, and password. 

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Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at Relacom

The initial setup is very simple. It's not complex at all. 

It takes approximately one to two hours to deploy everything. 

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Pablo Ramírez - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter & Security Manager at Binaria IT Services

The initial setup for Veeam Backup for Office 365 was easy and not complex at all.

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BS
Backup & Recovery Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution offered an easy initial setup. I'd rate the ease of implementation ten out of ten. Overall, it shouldn't take more than an hour to deploy it. 

I did a session with a Windows server with the latest operating system. After installing the VBR software on that and then installing the credentials which we're going to use for the backup and adding the backup repository, then external cloud repositories, I could make the backup policies and handle testing.

So far, we haven't really needed to handle maintenance. It's running well. 

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Ghislaine-Resplandy - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineers at Qair

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365's deployment was easy. 

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Salem  Suljic - PeerSpot reviewer
System Technician at INFONET d.o.o.

The initial setup is straightforward and does not take long.

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WM
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is straightforward.

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Ricardo Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Sales Account Manager at Divultec

I cannot comment on the initial setup complexity because a different department handled it. One engineer is required for implementation.

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Jan De Jong - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT specialist Virtualisation/Storage at Detron ICT Solutions at Detron

I did not participate in the initial setup of the product. We have a separate team that handles deployment. That said, my understanding is that it is a simple setup.

Five to six people tend to handle the deployment process. We might have as many as ten people in our organization that can handle the requisite tasks. 

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a Windows software application, and you can install it on-premises or you can install it on the cloud.

As long as you have a Windows Server, the installation is really easy. 

The download, installation, and configuration will not take more than 20 minutes.

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JC
Senior Technical Specialist at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

I just set up two instances. It was not that hard. We have two or three people for deployment and maintenance.

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OO
Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

The initial setup is relatively straightforward.

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RC
Senior Engineer at MRB Secure

Initially, the setup is straightforward. However, once compliance is in play, it gets complex. 

The initial deployment was quite quick. We just basically installed it. It takes about an hour or so, and that's very quick for backup notification. The actual configuration was initially quite quick, so you can set it up very quickly. 

If you do not need to comply with GDPR, you are fine. The minute you start to comply with GDPR, it becomes very complex, and there are a lot of extra tweaks and stuff that you need to do in order to do that.

To set it up, you just install it on a machine and add your Office 365 admin credentials. Then you get a list of what you want. You just pick the accounts that you want to protect and click next and select your backup application which has to be a physical volume. It starts backing up, eventually.

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James Mwaura - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales & Technical Director at Epitome Panafrican Tech Ltd

I rate Veeam eight out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Veeam is straightforward because it's a cloud-based solution. When I did AWS Cloud backup for my personal laptop three or four years ago, someone walked me through it over the phone. phone, some two, three years ago, four years ago. It is simple for someone with IT skills.

The time needed to deploy depends on the organization's size and the amount of data being backed up. It typically takes between two weeks and a month for a medium-sized or large project.

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JD
Spectrum Protect/TSM Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. I rate the process a nine. It takes less than a day to complete.

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Jannet Taboada Lizana - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales System Engineer at Licencias OnLine

The initial setup is easy.

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Daniel Inyang - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is simple.

The process taken to do the implementation starts with the download of the agent from Veeam's website and a Veeam account that needs to be set up. Once the agent is downloaded you run it on the server with the global credentials the administrative privileges you will be able to access every service provided. For sample, SharePoint backup capabilities. The last stage is to import the data for backup and a plan. The full installations take approximately 10 minutes.

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's as easy as downloading the file, installing it, and then simply entering the administrative accounts for Office 365. You also need internet access. It's really an easy task to do with Veeam Backup Office 365. Literally just clicking next, next, next.

So from an ease of use perspective, it's really easy. It's just that when enterprise companies come to deploy it, they might face a bit of a challenge in this region specifically when it comes to internet bandwidth, because sometimes in Saudi Arabia bandwidth is a huge restriction for organizations that have, for example, 5,000 users or huge mailboxes. It's really expensive to have corporate internet in Saudi Arabia. So it can be a challenge backing up these environments under restricted bandwidths. It's not a restriction from the solution. It's just a regional restriction. Other markets can enjoy the privilege of backing up without any issues related to bandwidth.

It's also deployable on the cloud. That's an option. But in our region, some government entities don't allow that.

I did a proof of concept a week ago. We were backing up a physical server using the other product. That took us about half an hour. During that half an hour, I downloaded Veeam Backup for Office 365 from the website. I joined the client's Office 365 account. I downloaded and installed Veeam Backup for Office 365. Then I asked for the client to enter his credentials for the Office 365, and boom. We were seeing all the mailboxes and we just started to back up from there.

Backup does take some time, of course, because the mailbox was pretty huge. Generally, ease of use and configuration is pretty simple. It's easy to use, straightforward, actually.

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Hugo Morillo - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter & Infrastructure Guru at ITGES

Setting up Veeam is easy and intuitive. One or two people can deploy it depending on the number of devices or the workload. 

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AN
Product Manager - Netapp at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is straightforward.

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Systemarchi67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at Tebicom SA

The initial setup is very straightforward. Deployment takes about a half-day. If I was a customer who bought a Data Domain, a physical appliance, and Veeam virtual, it would take one day to have the Data Domain up and then to add Veeam. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance.

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FK
Business Development Management at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is very straightforward and simple to set up. You do not even need to be an expert to set it up. While the design is another story, the installation is really easy.

How long it takes to deploy depends on your existing architecture. It depends on how you want to integrate the product. If you are in a company with, let's say, 100 users, it could take you one hour to put it in place, without the time consumed by the design, as the most important part of the deployment is the design. It is the phase that takes a lot of time. That said, setting it up is very easy as soon as everything has been designed.

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BH
Hybrid Infrastructure Solution Architect at Bitcon

The initial setup is straightforward. It's is very easy to install.

It can be deployed in less than an hour.

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RD
Computer Scientist at a tech services company

The initial setup is straightforward and pretty simple. In total, it took about one or two hours to do the installation and configuring. Most products take more time so comparably it was not so long. It's an easy solution to maintain and I think that really one person should be enough to install and monitor it in most situations. 

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NG
Senior Support Engineer at Rogers Capital Technology Services

The initial setup was rather simple. 

Deployment was done in one day, however, we had to do the backups for each mailbox. These took time. Those backups took more than a month because of the size of the mailboxes. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance.

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WL
Senior Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm not an engineer. I didn't really handle the initial setup. I can't really speak to if the implementation is straightforward or complex. I'm not sure how long the deployment takes either. I wasn't hands-on in that respect. That said, it's my understanding that, overall, it should be pretty simple to execute.

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Karthikeyan Balasubramani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at Unicorp Technologies LLC

The initial setup is pretty simple and very straightforward. We finished the deployment within one or two days.

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ES
Teamlead Enterprise Content Management at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. It runs very fast.

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VH
Director at Infoware Systems

Veeam Backup for Office 365 is simple to set up.

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JO
IT Technician at Sherpas Group

Installing Veeam is pretty straightforward.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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JM
Team Lead Manager at Adonai Corporation

The initial setup was straightforward, and it took us less than an hour.

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GC
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is a bit complex.

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TR
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's my understanding that the initial setup wasn't too difficult. That said, I wasn't directly involved in the process. It's likely pretty straightforward. 

You only need one person to handle the deployment and maintenance tasks. It doesn't require a big team. They need to be a bit technical, however, it's not too complex. 

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YS
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. You have to install the console and everything is there. It is just a console installation. There are only three or four clicks and you are done. However, everything goes on the cloud. That is how we have configured. 

It is not a huge task to configure O365. If you know how to do that particular thing, it's hardly a half-day's worth of work. In one instance, we had three, One storage and NetApp storage devices and 50 mailboxes, and two or three servers. That was the infrastructure. The deployment for that took half a day.

I can handle the deployment and maintenance aspects of the solution on my own. You only need one person.

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Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC

The documentation for the installation is good. However, if you are new to the environment the installation could be difficult. The first time we did it it took approximately four days.

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VP
Delivery manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

As the solution is on the cloud, there is no installation required. 

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KM
Project Manager at Aktios

The initial setup is easy.

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HN
Solutions Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup and installation were straightforward.

It only took 10 to 15 minutes to deploy.

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SH
Pre-sales Engineer at Dorcom

The initial setup was very simple. If you are very experienced the setup can take you half an hour. 

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BG
Technology Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. Veeam is quite easy to set up.

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it_user971241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Solutions Architect -IT Infra & Cloud Technologies at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup is very simple. It takes 15 minutes.

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.