Late last month, we saw the release of version 5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Version 5b with build number 5.0.1.179 provides new functionality beyond the functionality provided by version 5a of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (build number 5.0.0.1070).
What’s New
Here’s what’s new and enhanced in version 5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365:
Support for Veeam Backup & Replication v11 and Veeam Cloud Connect v11
Version 5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 now supports installation on top of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 and Veeam Cloud Connect v11.
Enhanced guest user enumeration
Guest users are automatically excluded from organization objects enumeration and backup.
Enhanced email notifications
For backup jobs processing personal sites, email notifications on job results add a link to user’s backed up personal sites.
What’s Fixed
There are a lot of issues that have been resolved in version 5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365:
General
Under certain conditions, retention policy mistakenly cleans actual Exchange backup data from Jet-based repositories set with snapshot-based retention of less than 2 years. This issue applies to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 versions 3.0 through 4c.
Backup
SharePoint and OneDrive backup may fail with one of the following errors:
(500) Internal Server error
(400) Bad Request
Under certain conditions, Teams backup may fail with the following error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
OneDrive backup may fail with the following error:
Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list
SharePoint backup may fail with the following warning:
Failed to request item versions for list: %name% (list ID: %ID%). The operation has timed out
SharePoint backup may fail with the following error
Invalid MIME content-length header encountered on read
Archive mailbox backup may fail with the following error:
Failed to access archived message folder root. SOAP header Action was not understood
Restore
Teams restore with an application and app certificate fails with the following error:
Error in validating credentials: Account does not have a valid Microsoft Teams license
OneDrive restore may fail with the following error:
The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator
Under certain conditions some of the site folders may not be displayed when browsing SharePoint or OneDrive for Business backups.
RESTful API
In the (GET) /v5/JobSessions/{jobSessionsId}/LogItems and (GET) /v5/JobSessions/{jobSessionsId}/LogItems/{logItemId} REST API calls responses, the creationTime and endTime values are provided in the backup server local time instead of the UTC.General.
The Last backup parameter is displayed in the job sessions history while should be hidden from the job results.
Upgrading to version 5b
If you're running a previous version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 and want to be prepared for the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 and Veeam Cloud Connect v11, now is a great time to upgrade to the updated version. You can simply upgrade to version 5b from versions 3.0 (build 3.0.0.422) and upwards.
However, upgrade from the beta version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 5.0 are not supported. Additionally, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 5b is not applicable to installations of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 on top of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, 4a, or 4b and Veeam Cloud Connect 9.5 Update 4, 4a, or 4b.
Further reading
KB4092: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 5b
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 5b Release Notes
Quick Post – New Patch for Backup for Microsoft Office 365… v11 is Coming!
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