Adding mulitple users to jobs through powershell

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi Morten,

please take a loot at the posts in this thread, hope this would help you to modify your script.

Thanks!

[nielsengelen]

Morten, you are mixing 2 modules and this results in this as an error. I will check if I can come up with an adjusted working example.

[steveschaub]

On version 4.0.1.545
We are using MFA exclusively, so dynamic groups are unavailable for us to use in VBO jobs. I'm trying to create a Powershell script that will accomplish the same thing. Basically I want a set of groups used only by VBO, where each group has all users whose userid starts with a letter of the alphabet. Then I can use those groups to populate my VBO jobs and know that user adds/removals will get picked up during nightly backups. This powershell script would run daily and delete each group, then recreate them populated with the latest information.
Not wanting to recreate the wheel, I thought I'd start here and see if someone already such a script, or one that is close enough to give me a jump start.
thanks.

[Polina]

Hi Steve and welcome to Veeam Forums!

In this thread, we're discussing the similar topic, so please take a look at the posts above.

Thanks!

[Stibo]

Not sure if this because Veeam has updated the Powershell scripting language, but had to do some tweaking to get this work. For me, I typically setup a job in the UI - then as the month goes on I want to add batches of users. Here is what I ended up using to add a list of users to a current job:

Some details to edit:
$repository - "Office 365 - 1 Year" (Name of your repo)
$name - "2020-02 Users" (Name of your job)
$Usernames - C:\Scripts\Users.txt (This should be a list of just the userPrincipalName of your user accounts to backup - no heading needed)

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$org=Get-VBOOrganization 
$repository = Get-VBORepository | where name -eq "Office 365 - 1 Year"
$name = Get-VBOJob -Name "2020-02 Users"
$Usernames = Get-Content -Path C:\Scripts\Users.txt
$orgusers = Get-VBOOrganizationUser -Organization $org
$users = compare $Usernames $orgusers.username -IncludeEqual | where sideindicator -eq "==" | select -ExpandProperty InputObject
$i=0
$foo = @()
ForEach($User in $Users)
{
	$newbackupuser = $orgusers | where {$_.username -like $user}
	$bi=New-VBOBackupItem -User $newbackupuser -Mailbox:$True -ArchiveMailbox:$true -OneDrive:$true -Sites:$true
	$foo += $bi 
	$i++
}

Set-VBOJob -Job $name -Repository $repository -SelectedItems $foo 

Hey ajtardio ,

Thanks for posting the script, but I have the same problem as swfguy, the script removed all entries from the current job and only added the one in the txt file.
Any idea how I could change this, meaning add the user(s) from the file but leave the entries in the jobs?

Thanks in advance!

[habibalby]

Hello,
Try this script; I've just modified it to allow me adding Teams to an existing job; Make sure you have a txt/csv file with header "Team"

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$Org = Get-VBOOrganization -Name "XXCXCC.onmicrosoft.com"
$Job = Get-VBOJob -Name "BAH MS Teams"
Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\Teams.txt | ForEach-Object{
$Tm = Get-VBOOrganizationTeam -Organization $Org -DisplayName $_.'Team' 
$newSite = New-VBOBackupItem -Team  $Tm
 Add-VBOBackupItem -Job $Job -BackupItem $newSite
} 

It will tell you cannot bind arugument 'Team', but at the same time while the script is looping through each line, you can run another PS console to run;

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$Job = Get-VBOJob -Name "BAH MS Teams"
(Get-VBOBackupItem -Job $Job).Count

Hope it helps.

Thanks,
Hussain

[habibalby]

Hello,
You can use this script to add SharePoint Sites into existing Job;

• You must have a txt file with a header name called Site and URL format https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName

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$Org = Get-VBOOrganization -Name "cxcxcxc.onmicrosoft.com"
$Job = Get-VBOJob -Name "Test"
Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\SitesURL.txt | ForEach-Object{
$st = Get-VBOOrganizationSite -Organization $Org -Url $_.'Site' 
$newSite = New-VBOBackupItem -site  $st
Add-VBOBackupItem -Job $Job -BackupItem $newSite
}