Challenge

Microsoft Azure has a number of built-in roles with predefined permissions. If you prefer to set up a custom role for Veeam Integration, you can use 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 a user with the newly created custom role to Veeam Backup and Replication

1. Start Windows command line (CMD.exe or PowerShell.exe) 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":

   cd C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup

3. Type following command:

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

The account is now ready for use.

More Information

Under some circumstances your password will be logged in plain text fortmat in the C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\VeeamBackupManager.log file:
CmdLineParams: [REGISTERAZUREACCOUNT <usrername> <password>]