Private Exchange - Backing up your email accounts with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

Click Install, then select the first item in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 list to install all components.

Read and confirm the Veeam Backup Terms of Use by clicking I Accept.

• If you have a Veeam Backup license, you can load it from your computer by clicking the Browse... button.
• Leave the Update license automatically box ticked.
• Click Next to proceed to the next step.

• The installation tunnel automatically sets the database instance and NATS server credentials. Retrieve the elements indicated in the window below or click Customize Settings to define the settings yourself.
• Launch the installation by clicking Install.
• After this installation, you can go to the Configure Veeam Backup chapter.

• If you do not have a Veeam Backup database instance, you can create one by clicking directly on Next.
• OR you can connect to an existing instance by selecting Use existing instance and Native authentication with the following credentials, then filling in the connection information.

• For a new instance, enter a strong Username and password Password. If you already have an existing instance, select Use existing instance and enter the corresponding information.
• Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Launch the installation by clicking Install.

By default, Veeam Backup allows you to log in locally to your computer. Click Connect.

If you have not entered a license, a message will appear reminding you that you are limited to 10 users (10 email accounts). Click No to continue or Yes if you wish to associate a license with your installation.

Click Add Org in the top left of your window.

In the Select organization deployment type dropdown menu, select On-premise, then deselect SharePoint Server.

Before you proceed, you must create a user named "Impersonate User" on your Exchange platform. To create this type of user, log in to the OVHcloud API and use the following API call:

• In the exchangeService and organizationName boxes, enter the reference for your Exchange platform, visible from your OVHcloud Control Panel in the Web Cloud > Microsoft > Exchange section, by selecting the platform concerned.

• Enter a password of at least 15 characters between the quotation marks, next to "password":.

• Click Execute below to start creating your “Impersonate User”.

Retrieve the name of your "Impersonate User" with the following API call:

• In the exchangeService and organizationName boxes, enter the reference for your Exchange platform that you retrieved in the previous step.

• Click Execute below.

• The name of the "Impersonate User" corresponds to the value "upn": visible in the RESPONSE of the API call.

• Enter the host name of your Exchange platform. You can view it from your OVHcloud Control Panel in the Web Cloud > Microsoft > Exchange section, by selecting the platform concerned.

• The host name corresponds to the value mentioned to access the webmail.

From the Veeam Backup interface, enter the following information:

• Server name : Host name of the Exchange platform listed in step 8, enter it without the https://.
• Username: Username recorded in step 7 corresponding to the Impersonate User.
• Password: The password for the Impersonate User defined in step 6.

• You should get the same results as on the screenshot below (ignore the warning Check ApplicationImpersanation role).
• Click Finish to finish connecting to the Exchange platform.

Right-click in the window in the center and click Add to backup job....

Enter a name and description for your backup operation, then click Next.

• Select Back up the following object.
• Click Add, then Users.

From this window, determine whether your backup operation affects one or more accounts at once.

• Select the email account(s) you would like to assign to your backup operation.
• Click Add when you have finished your selection.

• The selected items appear in the window.
• Click Next to proceed to the next step.

From this window, you can add exclusion rules using the Add button. These settings will be applied to the email accounts you have selected. For example, you can exclude a specific calendar or folder.

• Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Select the backup repository that is located, by default, on your computer.

• From this window, set backup scheduling options if desired.
• Tick Start the job if you want to start the backup operation immediately.
• Click Create to finish creating the backup operation.

Once the operation is complete, in the lower part of your Veeam Backup interface, you will find the backup report.

• Click Explore in the top horizontal menu bar.
• Choose the last backup with the Explore the Exchange state of... or choose other backups via Explore Exchange point-in-time state....

In the left-hand column, you will see a list of your saved email accounts. Right-click the email account of your choice. There are two choices:

• Export a backup to a file .pst using the Export to... buttons
• Restore a backup directly to an email account using the Restore to... buttons