Grant a service account required roles and permissions
Register a custom application in Azure Active DirectoryĬreate a new service account in Azure Active DirectoryĮnable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on this service account The below steps should be done for using the modern authentication. In instance, we want to use modern authentication with Veeam Backup for Office 365. In this strategy, the service account will be used to connect to the EWS and PowerShell services. With this access, we can pick up the data from the “Microsoft Office 365 organization tenant”. The custom application (App application) registered in Azure Active Directory will allow Veeam Backup for Office 365 to access the Microsoft Graph API.
We need an Azure Active Directory custom application and a service account that has MFA (Multi-Facture Authentication) enabled. This means using service accounts enabled for MFA (multi-factor authentication). The release of version 4 of Veeam Backup for Office 365, now we are able to use the so-called modern authentication. What is Modern Authentication visit Microsoft Veeam Office 365 Modern Authentication
Modern Authentication with Veeam, In this article I will explain how to configure the modern authentication with Veeam Backup for Office 365. This is a very very quick post to highlight that earlier this week we released v5b of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (Build 5.0.1.225) mainly to address enhancements to the RESTful API which has been driven mostly buy our Service Providers leveraging VBO for their Office365 Backup service offerings.