Office 365 backup – Do you need it?
Protecting Office 365 A common misconception when moving resources such as Exchange e-mail or SharePoint to Office 365 is that the Microsoft will take care of the data backups for you. Unfortunately, this is...
Category: Microsoft
How to deploy a Veeam proxy server to Azure
Background. Following on from my previous post about recovering virtual machines to Azure, there was a step I did not cover. Deploying a Veeam Proxy in Azure will improve recovery times as the data can...
Microsoft Teams failed to extract installer – Workaround
Background. The Microsoft Teams Client fails to install on Windows 10 with the error message Installation has failed, Failed to extract installer. A bit of searching on the internet reveals this seems to be a fairly...
How to restore to Azure with Veeam 9.5
Background. One of the features that have been available in Veeam for a little while is the ability to recover from any backup taken with Veeam, be that VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Agent for Windows...
Managing Veeam Agent for Windows with Veeam 9.5 U3
Managed agents, Veeam, physical workloads, Whats that about then? Well then, Veeam has come full circle from its roots as a virtual infrastructure backup platform, to a full availability suite. Offering backups to the...
Veeam Agent for Windows and OneDrive you say? And its free!
Free is the new free. Let’s get a bit of background to this feature that seems to have slipped under the radar, Veeam Agent for Windows 2.1 was released with Veeam 9.5 U3 to...
vCloud Usage Meter – Relay mail via Office 365
Background Starting with vCloud usage meter 3.6, there is a hard requirement that the appliance has to send email reports back to VMware. If like me, you run the usage meter in a ringfenced...
Veeam – Upgrade to SQL Express 2016 SP1 for improved performance
Upgrade SQL Express for improved performance with Veeam UPDATE 22/10/2018 I had a comment on here stating that in-memory OLTP is not used by Veeam which prompted me to research this issue a little...
VeeamON – VeeamOFF. My take on VeeamON 2017
Introduction – VeeamON Wow what a week in sunny New Orleans! VeeamON 2017 was held between the 16th and 18th May at the Ernest N. Morial Convention centre with around 3000+ people in attendance....
VMware AppVols do not attach when assignment is set to a security group
The Problem During a tidy up of Active Directory I moved some security groups used by VMware AppVols to a new OU. The side effect of doing this is that no AppStacks were being assigned...
