Veeam Office 365 Modern Authentication Setup
Setting up modern authentication in Veeam for Office 365 recently came up in a conversation so thought I’d write a quick blog post about it because honestly its amazingly easy and makes life a lot easier 🙂
- Log into your Veeam for Office 365 console.
- Select “Add Org”
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- Specify deployment type.
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- Select Modern Authentication.
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- Register a New Azure AD application automatically.
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- Select the correct certificate and provide a name for the Azure AD application.
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- Use the below code provided to authenticate against your AzureAD.
- Once the code is accepted, the Next button will become available.
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- Confirm all permissions are working as required, Got to love all the green 😉
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- From the AzureAD side it should look like the below when checking enterprise applications and your app registration.
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If everything went according to plan you should have your tenancy loaded and ready for some backups as shown below.
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Its that simple, like they say with Veeam products “it just works” 🙂