Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v7 (build 7.0.0.467) or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number (Product version) in the About section under Configuration | Support Information | Updates. After installing Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v7 patch 1, your build number will be 7.1.0.22.

Security and Performance

• Overall stability and product security has been improved.
• The FLR process is enhanced to address and prevent potential local privilege escalation, ensuring greater security during operations.

Cost Optimization

• Enhancements in the usage of Azure Storage Queue service for better cost efficiency.

General

• Unexpected errors occur if Azure VMs have no primary network interface attached.

Backup

• Under certain circumstances, backup policies fail with the error:

  Crypto key {ID} was not found.
  

• Application-aware processing for Azure VMs that belong to a subnet with NAT gateway enabled may fail due to the missing ‘Microsoft.Network/natGateways/join/action’ permission.
• When the private deployment mode is enabled, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure disables the ‘Network Policy for Private Endpoints’ setting in the subnet associated with the backup appliance.
• Under certain circumstances, backup policies fail to perform weekly and monthly backups to immutable repositories.
• Backup policies fail when processing VMs with ephemeral OS disks.
  

Restore

• File-Level Recovery fails with the error:

  Requested operation requires an element of type 'String', but the target element has type 'Object'.
  

• When the resource group of the virtual network associated with the backed-up Azure VM is changed, the restore operation fails with a 500 error.

Retention

• The retention policy session fails when the repository is used to store configuration backups.

Upgrade

• If the appliance VM has certain customized settings, the upgrade process fails with the error:

  Failed to create snapshot of virtual machine.
  

• If a decimal comma is used instead of a dot for system account settings on the Veeam Backup & Replication server, the backup appliance upgrade fails with the error:

  The input string was not in the correct format.
  

To install updates, install the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication that includes the updated plug-in, or manually upgrade the plug-in to version 12.7.1.18. Then, update the appliances as described in section Updating Appliances Using Console of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.

Alternatively, follow the instructions in section Installing Updates of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.

After installing the patch, your build version will be 7.1.0.22