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Great news! The pre-registration for VeeamON 2022 is open!https://www.veeamon.comThis year VeeamON will be a hybrid event, which means you can either attend virtually (for free!) or in-person. If you go for the later you’ll have to hurry as the seats are limited (1500). Also there’s a bonus option to add VMCE/VMCA training for a very good price. If you need to justify the costs for attending the in-persion event and the training, there’s even a template you can download and fill in our details. This will sure make it easier to get the budget for the trip to Vegas  So regardless if your planing for the virtual or in-person event, go to www.veeamon.com and register yourself!Also don’t overlook @MicoolPaul’s post with more details below  

VMware just released the log4j patches for vCenter 6.5 and 6.7. https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html

Since I was tired to click roles together in vCenter server, I wrote a simple script on creating a vCenter role for Veeam with PowerCLI.This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam Backup & Replication V10.The privileges used are based on the recommendations out of the Veeam Help Center which you can find here: Cumulative Permission for VMware vSphere – Veeam Help CenterSimply execute the script and follow the steps to fill in the relevant data like your vCenter server name, the username and your password. The script will then ask you to choose a name for your new role and automatically creates it. The script in actionThe script was successfully tested against:VMware vCenter 6.5 VMware vCenter 6.7 VMware vCenter 7.0You can read about this on my blog:https://www.virtualhome.blog/2020/04/22/creating-a-vcenter-role-for-veeam-with-powercli/The script is online at github: https://git

Hi,Backup jobs target is SOBR with capacity tier.I have an option to configure versioning and lock on the capacity tier bucket.Can someone please tell me what could be the impact?Thanks,Moshe Mazor

The first of February was "Change your password" day. Because there are a lot of InfoSec people in the community I would like to ask: Is it still a good idea to change the password regularly? Respectively does this make sense any more?I am not convinced to change the password regularly. For sure it makes perfect sense, when:Account was hacked Check with tools like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Using the same password for more than one service/account Using a bad password (for example: Password1)I am convinced of the following measures to protect accounts and passwords:Using long and/or complex passwords Using MFA wherever possible Using a password managerWhat do you think about this?

Another week, another script Today I’m sharing a Powershell script to configure the audited items (user) and set the audit notification settings. More details about the enhanced audit item functionality can be found here:https://www.veeam.com/blog/next-gen-office-365-backup-security-auditing-and-reporting.htmlThe read me and the code can be found on github:https://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbo/vbo-auditcfg 

Based on my original script from 2020 where I created a vCenter role for Veeam Backup & Replication with PowerCLI, I decided to do the same for Veeam ONE. You can find the other script for VBR here:As a result the blog post here with the new script was born !This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam ONE V11.The privileges used are based on the recommendations out of the Veeam Help Center which you can find here: Connection to Virtualization ServersSimply execute the script and follow the steps to fill in the relevant data. Most importantly your vCenter server name, the username and your password. The script will then ask you to choose a name for your new role and automatically creates it. The script in action :DAfter you have created the role you need to assign a user to it. As a result, continue within Veeam ONE where you add your vCenter Server. Veeam ONE vCenter “add”The p

Error message is about a missing restore point for a certain VM. Because of this catalog replication job fails.  Cause and solutionOne possible cause is the deactivation of VMs guest indexing in backup job during a period of time when Enterprise Manager did not have access to the VBR server. In a specific case the password of the user that was used by Enterprise Manager to communicate with VBR server was changed.Fortunately, the solution here is also quite simple. At least I found a quite simple way to solve the problem. You need enable guest indexing and run the backup job. After this run make sure catalog replication runs without an issue. Now you can disable indexing again. From now on catalog should be replicated without problems.

Hey everyone, ACG are offering some free training courses again this month, some of them are looking really good!Disclaimer, haven’t watched all of the courses yet, but wanted to share early enough in the month that everyone gets a chance to review! AWS: AWS EssentialsIntroduction to AWSIntroduction to the AWS MarketplaceHow to Properly Secure an S3 BucketEKS Basics (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) Azure: Azure ConceptsIntroduction to Azure SecurityIntroduction to Networking on Azure GCP: Google Cloud ConceptsGoogle Cloud Security EssentialsIntro to GCP for AWS AdminsGKE Basics (Google Kubernetes Engine) Kubernetes: Hands-on Kubernetes Troubleshooting Linux: Linux Operating System Fundamentals Want to see the whole list available? Click here!

Veeam has release a Cumulative Patch for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 5.0 and can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/kb4278Got some fixes about sharpoint backup failure

VMware vSphere 7.0 U3c is released today, this version can resolve some critical issues. Please check the followings.For Log4j issue on vCenter 7.0, vCenter 7.0 U3c can resolve this issue.https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Critical Known Issueshttps://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86287

Hey guys,I am currently using v11. To use v11a, should I perform upgrade or download a cumulative patch and perform update?

Hey Veeam Community, Question goes to people who work with companies that use Salesforce. 1) What is the is the most typical setup you see, in terms of Salesforce administration: Internal Salesforce team Internal IT team External service provider2) What is the size of that company and Salesforce deployment? (relative estimate or actual user count)For example, at Veeam it is managed and owned by the dedicated internal Salesforce team.Thanks!  

I’m using Veeam 11 (11a? not sure how to tell) Community Edition on my home network.  Mostly everything is working fine; however, two of five win10 computer agents (5.0.1.4584) in the inventory are showing :  Microsoft Windows version installed on this machine is not officially supported by Veeam yet.  which is AFAIK is incorrect - both are standard Windows 10 Pro installs (I have never used any dev or pre-release builds).  For example, the machine that gave the above is 10.0.19044 N/A Build 1466 which according to this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information is a production release, not a Technical Preview. Where is the issue?  How do I convince Veeam that it a production OS? PS, in case you are wondering; the backup still works.  The issue is my reporting mechanism… since Veeam reports a Warning due to “Technical Preview”, I keep getting alerts about the issue. 

Hello,We want to perform VEEAM backups on a server that has MAXDB. Is there an agent allowing MAXDB backups including logs as it is the case for SQL Server? Moreover, it seems to believe the forums that restoring a VM with a MAXDB database leads to an inconsistent database if you don't freeze it first. Is it always the case? cordially

As the headline suggests, Veeam recently released a “version 3a“ of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Whilst there are your usual mixture of security fixes and bugs resolved, it actually brings a new (and welcome) change to the licensing structure around protecting Azure SQL workloads (not to be confused with Azure virtual machines running SQL Server). Licensing Per Server, not Per Database It’s not unusual to see Veeam adapt their pricing models over time to provide better value for customers. We’ve seen this historically when, for example, Veeam adjusted their NAS licensing to increase the amount of storage protected per instance license. However I was certainly surprised when Veeam released the latest version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and included a change to the way they process Azure SQL Workloads.First of all, this isn’t to be confused with the “traditional” approach to running SQL Server workloads in Azure, aka, running a virtual machine with SQL Server installed. That

I see a interesting thread on Veeam Forumhttps://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/case-05192176-problem-restoring-backups-from-multiple-rdx-tapes-t78398.htmlwhere they’re trying to restore .vkb from RDX and got this error:  From your experience, what do you guys think it can be?In my opinion, the RDX device was broken BEFORE the backup job, or it is a known bug due to the missing update KB4025334 and ReFS enabled on Windows Server 2016.And above all, RDX in nearly 2022? What do you think?Let’s flow this thread with our experience in cases like this one, and just leave real solutions on R&D Forums.

Just wanted to let everyone know my new v11 book is set to publish in approximately two weeks so I am doing the marketing of it.  You can see my blog post below and can preorder the book at Amazon. Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - Publishing SOON 

I am just starting out doing Veeam SQL backups and one thing I found is I need to be able to exclude certain dBs from getting backed up in Veeam. The dBs that I do not want backed up are for dev and the dB is restored to a different server nightly so when a Veeam SQL log backup happens I’m getting the error “Collected SQL Server transaction logs do not match any existing database backup: DatabaseName” which is 100% accurate.I do not take full backups every day so when the logs are getting backed up this particular dB does not have a full associated with the log backups.This dB would not need to get backed up at all.

The following error can occur in Veeam Enterprise Manger during catalog replication. Catalog replication is needed to transfer guest indexing information from the VBR server to the Enterprise Manager server.By default, replication task runs automatically after each backup job. You can trigger it manually within Enterprise Manager GUI. Just enter the Configuration section, select Settings and press Update Now.Log files can be seen beneath Sessions.Meta-file errorThis error is about the meta-file that does not contain a certain attribute.Cause and solutionThere is a meta-file for catalog replication on Enterprise Manager server. In some situations it may happen that this file is empty. I do not know exactly under what circumstances this can happen but the solution is simple. Just delete, or rename the empty file. File is located on the Enterprise Manager server in directory C:\VBRCatalog\Replication\InConnectors and is named VbrServerName.uuid.con.The next replication task should not sto

For anyone that is an MSP and happens to use the Veeam Service Provider v6 console for managing your tenants and VCC environments there was a patch released today for this.  I will take the build from 6.0.0.7739 to 6.0.0.8787.It contains some nice fixes including a new downloadable EXE file for the Windows agent installation.  Check here for further information - KB4277: Release Notes for Veeam Service Provider Console v6 Patch 1We will be patching and testing our server sometime this week or early next.

Veeam has just released the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a. Check release notes here - KB4279: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a

The Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing competition is an industry award-winning platform which provides an opportunity to share your expertise, unique deployments, best practices, or any other relevant technical topic of interest. I have been participated in this competition for 4 years, fortunately my articles were selected for publication by Dell Technologies. I enjoyed this competition. My articles are list as below: 2021 – Get Ready for Edge Computinghttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2021KS_Wu-Get_Ready_for_Edge_Computing.pdf2020 – Multiple Active DataCenters Solutionhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2020KS_Wu-Multiple_Active_DataCenters_Solution.pdf2019 – Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRailhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2019KS_Wu-Unmatched_Availability_Solution_for_VxRail.pdf2018 – Storage Migration – Hybrid Array to All-Flash Arrayhttps://education.emc

VMware vSphere 7.0 u3c was released last week, the Log4j security issue can be resolved by this version. Dell VxRail appliance is a black box solution (Dell hardware + VMware solution). Dell just released VxRail 7.0.320 package that includes the resolution of VMware Log4j. Please refer to below for details.