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Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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How does backup/restore work for MS Teams with a mixture of licensed & unlicensed users?
Do unlicensed users' contributions to Team chats/files/etc not get backed up so a Team restore will lose these items to licensed users?
If they are backed up, when restored will their contributions be visible again to the unlicensed users?
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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Hi Ian,

Teams licensing will become available later this year when we release v5 which adds Teams support. For now, we work on a user based license model and we will back up exchange, onedrive and sharepoint data (based upon your job configurations).
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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Ian,

Are you talking about internal users where there is a mix of licensed / unlicensed users (where the unlicensed are non-Veeam licensed) or licensed and external users (guests)?
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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With Teams, there is an License called „ Microsoft Teams Exploratory license“
This license is an unpaid license. Something like a trial, but it should be possible to use it with Teams.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/micros ... xploratory

Also, there is a „Free Version of Teams“
I don‘t expect, that veeam will support this, because it‘s not an enterprise solution :)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microso ... teams/free
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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Thanks Mike & others,
Sorry, I wasn't very clear - I meant unlicensed users in terms of VBO licences, not Teams licences. All our staff have MS licences for MS Office 365 & Teams, but we are considering buying VBO licences to protect key Office365 users, maybe not all users. So my question was about how Veeam backup & restore work with Teams data where not all team members are covered by VBO licences.
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You will be in direct violence with veeam license Agreement, if you are doing a backup of a team (O365 Group/Sharepoint Site) without the proper count of vbo licenses for each internal member of the team. Guest Member do not need a vbo license

Restore will always work with veeam, backup will not (in theory)
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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@ianbutton1 Mildur is correct. For each team site you will protect, you need to have the users licensed who have access to that team.
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Re: Teams with both licensed & unlicensed users

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Thanks Niels, Mike & Mildur - all points are noted.
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