Microsoft Teams Essentials and VBM365

[neilmarquardt]

After doing a bit of research on and following multiple links between Veeam and MS sites, I've come to the conclusion that VBM365 can't backup/restore Microsoft Teams Essentials due to Administration privileges required???

Just looking for a definitive yes MTE is supported or no MTE not supported.

[nielsengelen]

Hi Neil,

To clarify, do you mean that the main administrator account of the organization only uses an Essentials license? Or is this for 1 or more specific users?

[neilmarquardt]

The customer has 25-30 Users on Microsoft Teams Essentials, and the Partner is looking to provide VBM365 as the mechanism to backup the Microsoft Teams Essentials implementation/data.

I don't think there is Administration privileges available that suit the VBM365 requirements for backup/restore of data????

Hence looking for yes/no for MTE support from a VBM365 perspective

[Polina]

Hi Neil,

We haven't tested the Essentials plan support, but so far I don't think we can protect such environments. You're right that we need a highly privileged M365 Global Administrator account and permissions for adding an M365 organization to VB365 and I doubt that customers with just a Microsoft Teams Essentials plan have access to it.

[glwschwarz]

Hi Polina, could you please clarify whether Teams Essentials is officially supported with VBM365 or not?
Thanks

[Polina]

Hi glwschwarz,

If you can set up all the required permissions with Teams Essentials, the backup/restore will work with no issues. We have not tested this plan specifically so far.

Thanks!