I decided to test my idea in a lab environment, not touching our Production Veeam M365 at all.
1. Completely new Win Server VM 2019
2. Community edition of Veeam M365 Server, with a Wasabi S3 repo setup with Encryption Password.
3. Backing up a Trial M365 Small Business account Exchange.
Tested backing up E-mails = works. Created snapshot. Shut down VM. Removed Network Adapter. Powered on. Confirmed no NIC or any kind of internet access.
Went to Manage Passwords. Input old password misspelled on purpose, then new password. Did not accept it, complained old password incorrect. Input old password, this time correctly. It allowed me to change password. Implication: there's a local cache that recognizes the password.
Reverted to snapshot prior to NIC removal and prior to password change. Tested backup and restore of several E-mails = works under old password, no record of it being changed.
Next test, this time change password WITH internet access. Did it successfully, then tested a few more e-mail backups and restores: I was able to restore e-mails backed up prior to password change, and after password change, hence, password seems to change universally, not tied to date of backup files.
So far, it looks like I can use that method to test if my password for the production system works. If it works with the NIC and internet access removed, I know it's the right one, and I can then revert snapshot and go back to normal operation.
Any thoughts?
1. Completely new Win Server VM 2019
2. Community edition of Veeam M365 Server, with a Wasabi S3 repo setup with Encryption Password.
3. Backing up a Trial M365 Small Business account Exchange.
Tested backing up E-mails = works. Created snapshot. Shut down VM. Removed Network Adapter. Powered on. Confirmed no NIC or any kind of internet access.
Went to Manage Passwords. Input old password misspelled on purpose, then new password. Did not accept it, complained old password incorrect. Input old password, this time correctly. It allowed me to change password. Implication: there's a local cache that recognizes the password.
Reverted to snapshot prior to NIC removal and prior to password change. Tested backup and restore of several E-mails = works under old password, no record of it being changed.
Next test, this time change password WITH internet access. Did it successfully, then tested a few more e-mail backups and restores: I was able to restore e-mails backed up prior to password change, and after password change, hence, password seems to change universally, not tied to date of backup files.
So far, it looks like I can use that method to test if my password for the production system works. If it works with the NIC and internet access removed, I know it's the right one, and I can then revert snapshot and go back to normal operation.
Any thoughts?
Statistics: Posted by HenryA — Aug 10, 2024 4:17 am
