Challenge

By default, Microsoft Azure has limited amount of built-in roles with predefined permissions. If you prefer to set up a custom role specifically for Veeam integration, you can use the Azure PowerShell method to create one.
 

Solution

Setting up a custom role for Veeam Backup & Replication consists of two steps:

1. Creating a custom role on Microsoft Azure

 

$role = [Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Resources.Models.Authorization.PSRoleDefinition]::new()
$role.Name = 'Veeam Restore Operator'
$role.Description = 'Permissions for Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure'
$role.IsCustom = $true
 
$permissions = @(

'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/listkeys/action',
'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read',
'Microsoft.Network/locations/checkDnsNameAvailability/read',
'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read',
'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/join/action',
'Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/read',
'Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/write',
'Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/delete',
'Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/join/action',
'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/read',
'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/write',
'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/delete',
'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/join/action',
'Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/read',
'Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/write',
'Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/delete',
'Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/join/action',
'Microsoft.Compute/locations/vmSizes/read',
'Microsoft.Compute/locations/usages/read',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/write',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/delete',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/start/action',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/deallocate/action',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/instanceView/read',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions/read',
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions/write',
'Microsoft.Resources/checkResourceName/action',
'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read',
'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/write',
'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/locations/read'

)


$role.Actions = $permissions
$role.NotActions = (Get-AzureRmRoleDefinition -Name 'Virtual Machine Contributor').NotActions
$subs = '/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
$role.AssignableScopes = $subs
New-AzureRmRoleDefinition -Role $role

 

2. Add the user with custom role to Veeam Backup and replication software.

 

1. Start Windows command line with Administrative privileges
2. Navigate to Veeam Backup installation folder (by default: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\) and then to “Backup” subfolder, so the full path should look like: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup
3. Type following command:

   Veeam.backup.manager.exe REGISTERAZUREACCOUNT <username> <password>

Now you are ready to use the account.