Veeam launches a tool to see what AI agents do with Microsoft 365 data and undo their mistakes
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Veeam now offers iResOps for Microsoft 365, an add-on to its cloud backup service that tracks down Copilot and other AI agents, including ones nobody had on record. When one of them damages documents, the tool lets teams revert only what that agent touched. Its own report puts the share of organizations using or trying out agents at 88% and those truly prepared at just 7%.
Veeam, a Seattle-based data backup and recovery company, announced on Thursday, October 15, the general availability of Veeam Intelligent ResOps (iResOps) for Microsoft 365. It is an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, the company's cloud backup service, and the first product in the iResOps family to reach general availability.
The tool uncovers Copilot and the other AI agents present in the company, both known and unknown ones, and shows which sensitive data each of them can get to, so that needless access can be shut off. When an agent alters or deletes the wrong files, it shows what changed, file by file, and lets teams undo just those changes, without taking the rest of the data back to an earlier state.
It also keeps classifying sensitive and regulated data in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Exchange, and spots redundant, obsolete or trivial data so it can be quarantined while someone decides whether to archive or delete it. On top of that, it checks that critical data has a backup, flags whatever has been left unprotected before an incident happens, and lets users ask questions in everyday language about data, access, agents and backups.
According to Veeam's 2026 report on data trust and resilience, 88% of organizations already use or are testing AI agents, but only 7% are genuinely ready for them; over 82% of large companies have unknown agents running in their systems, and 95% say problems with their data have already held back their progress with AI.
Veeam's chief executive, Anand Eswaran, describes the tool as giving customers "both a recovery point and a recovery map": the first says what can be restored; the second, what to restore first, what has changed and what should not be brought back.
It is available in the Foundation and Advanced editions of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 and also through Veeam's service providers, and customers hook it up without moving data or changing their backup setup. The announcement gives no prices.
Veeam is also opening private previews, for selected customers, of iResOps for its Veeam Data Platform, which will arrive with version 13.2, expected later in the fourth quarter, and for Okta, an identity management service that, according to Veeam, offers no way to go back to an earlier point in time and keeps deleted users for only 30 days. For the fourth quarter of 2026 it plans further previews for GitHub, Azure DevOps and Google IAM.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
Until now, a backup answered a single question: whether what was lost could be recovered. With agents that read and edit documents nonstop, the question becomes who touched what, and there a full restore does almost as much harm as the mistake, because it wipes out the good work done afterwards. That a backup company now sells an inventory of agents and selective rollback suggests AI governance is starting to be bought as one more piece of data protection. Gaps remain: the announcement gives no price and, outside Microsoft 365, everything is in preview. Anyone already using Copilot can start with something free: asking which agents they have running and which folders those agents reach.
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