A better way to select users for large sites

[DaveOBrien]

I've a domain with 20k users that I'd like to protect with Veeam. I'm OK with running multiple proxies to ingest the data, but I see that the backup guide recommends no more than 5k users per backup job. This is fine on day 1, where I'll just split all the users up, but what happens once a new mailbox is created? I'll have to manually edit a backup job every time. Is there some way using PowerShell to put all the users with names beginning with A-F into one backup job, G-M into another, etc. and automatically pick up the new mailboxes as they're added?

[Mildur]

Hi Dave

Do you have an automatized onboarding process for new users in your company?
I suggest you use Azure Security Groups as a backup source and just add new users to the correct Security Group.
The next time, a VB365 Job runs, it will start protecting the new user which was added to the security group.

VB365 Powershell would be an alternative. But I don't have a script ready.
You could use Get-VBOOrganizationUser with the parameter -NotInJob to get all users which are not in a job.
You can then add it to the job as a Job Item with Set-VBOJob.


Thanks
Fabian

[Mike Resseler]

I agree with Mildur. Security groups remain the best way to do this