Transcript
Hi everyone, welcome to what's new in Veeam Data Cloud, the second half of the 2025 edition. I'm Michael Paul, thanks for joining me today. We've got a few topics we're going to go through with what's new for Veeam Data Cloud. We're going to talk about the core platform, we're going to talk about Microsoft 365, we're going to talk about Entry ID, and we're going to talk about some new products and announcements that have come to the platform as well. Let's kick off. As I've mentioned, here are our core topics for today. Let's start with the core platform updates. I'm going to show each of these new platform updates that I mentioned to you. The first one is a new view, which is our dashboard view. It's a multi-workload, multi-tenant, effectively, for lack of a better term, dashboard that we're going to have a look at. We have our activity log as well. This is going to give us some insights into the backup session information as well as quite a few different security elements. Let's go take a look at these. I'll just share the Veeam Data Cloud, and you'll see here that we've got our different services. Let's go into dashboard. We can see from the dashboard, this is what I mentioned about different workloads and different tenants. The idea here is that within our Veeam Data Cloud organization, we can have multiple tenants for each workload. It does support a subscription pool concept. At a glance, I can see the protected object status of my various workloads. If I hover over here, you'll see for Microsoft 365, I can see the number of SharePoint sites, Exchange, OneDrive, etc, that I've got, the number that are protected and unprotected. You'll see this is broken down for each workload type as well, so with Enter ID. You can then see the data protection history as well. Across each day, how have I been doing against my backup, jobs, or schedules, so I can see if there's been any warnings, any errors, what objects were impacted, so I have an idea of how good I'm doing against that data protection posture. As I mentioned, I can filter this down. If I want to specifically just look at Enter ID, I can see that information. If I wanted to filter that by different tenants, I can do so as well. If I head over to activity, you can see that backup session information, and we have a lot of different filter tools available. But the key thing I want to show you here is the audit log. If I go over to audit log, you can then see things such as who's been logging into the Data Cloud. If I filter this down, you'll see there's additional insights such as if any RBAC roles have been added, changed, removed, if users are being created, if users are being deleted, if workload tenants are being created, updated, or deleted. There's quite a lot of central tenant security information there that's available at a glance. Now, let's head back over and we're going to start talking about our second topic today, which is going to be Microsoft 365. Here's the updates. Veeam Data Cloud Express is gaining new restore options. Within Exchange, you can restore to new folders, and from a OneDrive SharePoint perspective, you can create new sites, which is going to be incredibly useful when we're trying to see data and we don't necessarily want to roll back what we've already got there. Potentially, we need to pull back from, say, a week or two ago, but we don't want to go back that far. Instead, we can do that restore and query that data as a really easy use case. Next up, we've got Bring Your Own Key. This is currently in our limited preview. At the moment, this is only for our premium customers. However, that will be expanding out after the new year as we make that generally available. We also have some multi-geo enhancements. Previously, you could only onboard your tenant once within our EMEA group of regions, once within our EMEA group of regions, and once within our APJ group of regions. That restriction has been lifted, and now, as of the time of this recording, we have 23 different regions globally that we support for Microsoft 365, and you can onboard to all of them for your tenants. This is a really powerful addition for those multi-geo organizations that have various different data sobriety requirements they need to meet. Then just as a few miscellaneous updates here, we've improved our login throughout the platform, whether it's Express or Flex Backup Jobs. We have added the Teams conversational data is now protected by default. I just want to clarify, this doesn't impact one-to-one or group chats. We're not doing that today. However, with the Teams conversational data, and by this, I mean Teams channels, posts, replies, this is now something that we are beginning to enable by default for anyone that's onboarding, and you can go and enable that yourself. Historically, this was a metered API, meaning you had to pay Microsoft for its usage, which is why it was an opt-in by default. However, towards the end of the summer, Microsoft announced that they were going to stop charging for that API. Now, there's no reason for us to not offer that. Other things that we have done are we have launched the self-service portal within our One UI modern experience. Again, lots of different capabilities there, and these are just a few of them. Let's go take a look at them. I'll just hop back over to the Veeam Data Cloud. You can see where we were in the activity log. I'll just go into one of these tenants. Just to see here at this top view, you can see that I have multiple registrations within the Amer group of regions. I've got East US and I've got Canada Central. I will just click into here, and I'll show you exactly how you can enable that Teams conversational data. If I go over to settings, I go to M365, you can see it's already enabled for this tenant here. However, if that's not configured, you'll have a button that you can enable Teams chats. You'll go through, you'll reauthorize the app registrations. We can elevate to those additional API permissions that we require. And then from a backup policy perspective, all I need to do is if I've got any jobs that are already protecting Teams, I can edit them. And then you'll see here where I've got my Teams and I can edit and I can enable chats as it's called. So really easy to use. Now, let's jump back over to our next topic of the day, and that's going to be Enter ID. So for Enter ID, some big headlines here. First of all, Intune support. So we are now supporting Intune device configuration policies, which is very useful as we start to expand into the different areas of Enter ID beyond what we've already been doing. You saw this earlier in the year, as we started to add support for conditional access policies, and we're continuing to grow the different amounts of data types that we support. But that's not all. We're also enhancing the capabilities of each of these object types that we support. So JSON export is something we can now do for all object types. This is something that historically you could do within Veeam Data Cloud, but only for the log files. And now you can do this across all of the objects. This is really useful because sometimes we don't actually want to restore. We just want to see how something was at that point in time. We can now do so. And then the final key thing I want to highlight with Enter ID is so many new regions have come on since we launched Enter ID for Veeam Data Cloud. When we launched Veeam Data Cloud for Enter ID, we launched with 10 regions globally. That number has already more than doubled in the year. So I'd recommend checking out our help center documentation, which has got the up-to-date information on all those regions we support. But at least within EMEA, as I mainly operate in EMEA, I can tell you this is a one-to-one mapping. If we support that region for M365, we support it for Enter ID as well. So let's go take a look at Enter ID. So we'll just share Veeam Data Cloud once more, and you'll see we go over to the Enter ID workload. I'll click in here. And the first thing I want to show you is you can see we've got some Intune policies now that are protected. If I go over to objects, you'll see I've got Intune policies, and you'll then see the policies there. So I've got device configuration and device compliance policies. You'll also notice that I've got the export JSON button. Now, just to show you for any of the existing types, it's there, whether I'm selecting a batch of users, whether I'm selecting an individual user, it's available across all of the different object types. And I simply choose what I'm after, choose to export. I can choose which point in time I'm interested in exporting. So again, I might not want to roll back a policy to two, three, four weeks ago, but I want to see what that looks like because maybe I'm now having issues. And this is where data reuse really starts to take on a new perspective. With Enter ID, there's no concept of rollback. So the ability to see historically how things are can help you with troubleshooting. If you have a user that now can't access resources and you can see that the policies being applied to them have changed or different policies are now being applied, those insights are really useful for that troubleshooting perspective. So it stops being just about recovery and it starts being about that resilience piece. So let's hop back over now. We've got a few final key headlines that I just want to give to you. So we'll start sharing that again. And now, new products and announcements. Some really cool things just to mention here. First of all, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure is now within our one UI. We've offered protection for Microsoft Azure for a while now, but that has still historically sat within its own independent portal. Well, earlier this year, we brought it across into our one UI, we integrated it into our frameworks, and now we can offer that as part and parcel of the unified experience. And we also have enhanced a really key capability for Vault. So Vault being our backup storage as a service offering, historically only available on Microsoft Azure, it's now available within Amazon Web Services. And our VCSP offerings have been expanded as well. So now there's even more workloads that you can consume via Veeam Data Cloud as a VCSP. What I would just like to add is you don't have to wait for these videos as well. If you want to access the changelog yourself, scan this QR code, don't worry as well. You can always have a look at the description on this video and you'll be able to jump straight to this URL. A cool trick for this as well is if you go into that changelog, if you decide to filter it down, maybe just by the workloads you're using today, maybe Microsoft 365 and Enter ID, if you then bookmark after selecting that, that stays in the URL. So when you go back to it, it's pre-filtered, ready to go. Now, those are just some of the key things we've been working on. This isn't an exhaustive list, but it's just some of the key highlights to let you know what we've been working on. Thank you for your time watching today and see you in the new year.
