VBO365 - Best Practices - Configure Backup Jobs

[scrat]

Hi team,

I want to backup through a security group as I don't want to backup all the users in the organization. According to VBO365's best practices, they recommend separating the data types (Exchange-Archive, OneDrive, Sharepoint-Teams) into different repositories.

My current configuration is:
One job -> Security Group -> Members -> Mail, Archive.
One job -> Security Group -> Members -> OneDrive.
One job -> Security Group -> Members -> Site.

My question are about the licenses. Do Sharepoint and Teams consume licenses? By configuration:
One job -> Security Group -> Members -> Mail, Archive.
One job -> Security Group -> Members -> OneDrive.
One job -> Entire Organization -> Sites and Teams.

Thanks,
Best regards.

[Mildur]

Hi Scrat

You have to license each internal user which was granted to a SharePoint site or Teams.

Example:
Your company has 500 internal accounts with M365 licenses.
- You backup mailboxes of 100 users.
- You backup a SharePoint Site or Teams, which all 500 accounts were granted access.
You need to license all 500 accounts.

We have documented this requirement in the user guide:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo36 ... tml?ver=60

Thanks
Fabian

[scrat]

Hi Fabian!

Thanks for the quick answer. So, if I have a Site/Teams accessed by 100 users... do I need to license all 100 users?
I was thinking of configure a job with all the Sites/Teams in the organization, but I can see that this is not possible if not all users are licensed.

Thanks,
Regards.

[Mildur]

You're welcome.

To answer your question, to be compliant with our license policy, each of this 100 users must be licensed.
Technically it's possible to backup the teams/site with fewer licenses, because we won't increase the license count, if the users personal data is not protected. But it will be against our license policy.

Thanks
Fabian