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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
Automation Desk Content Supportability

The Automation Desk is great and please keep engaging and sharing here, however it is important to clarify the supportability of this content: Veeam is not responsible nor can be held accountable for the accuracy and usability for code samples published in the Automation Desk. All published scripts and code are licensed to you by the sample's author and you should not contact technical support to submit issues on the code. The result of the script is your responsibility. Veeam nor the author can be held accountable for any loss of data.

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Rick Vanover
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
Welcome to the Automation Desk

First of all, welcome! You have found your way to all kinds of resources, talks and discussions about Automation. In this small area of the internet we can discuss all things related to automation, Veeam related of course, share your the thing changed your automation life or anything else related to automation. About the leaders The group currently contains 3 leaders. Each leader will introduce themself below. Maurice Kevenaar (@mkevenaar) System Engineer @ INFO, 3x Veeam Vanguard and Mr Chocolatey (According to @Rick Vanover). You can find me on the Socials with username @mkevenaar. I am doing a lot of automation using Chocolatey, Boxstarter, PowerShell and Ansible. Jim Jones (@k00laidIT) Sr. Product Infrastructure Architect @ 11:11 Systems and 8x Veeam Vanguard. You can find me on social media (mostly twitter and github) @k00laidIT and on the web at https://koolaid.info. In terms of automation I am mostly into using Powershell and APIs work to fix all the small parts so the larger pa

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JHoughes
ericeberg
ericebergComes here often
Using Postman to work with Veeam REST APIs – now with Postman Vault

I want to share a small, but significant improvement to the authentication process for using Veeam REST APIs with Postman thanks to recent changes in the Postman app. Allow me to turn your attention to Postman’s Vault feature, located in the app’s bottom toolbar. Using Postman Vault, which stores and encrypts your secrets locally on your system and does not sync them anywhere, we can enhance the security of how access tokens are handled within the Postman client and streamline the process of getting up and running with Veeam REST APIs. Let’s dive in. (FYI, I’m using the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication, 12.3.1.) Select Vault from the bottom toolbar, and you’ll see a familiar key/value interface to set up your secrets. Let’s use the Vault to store our VBR username and password that we’ll use to authenticate with the REST API. Set up two key-value pairs, vbr-username and vbr-password, and put the username and password for the VBR service account in the respective value fields

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ericeberg
JonahMay
JonahMayVeeam Vanguard
VSPC Usage Report - v2!

I’ve performed a bit of an overhaul on the script I wrote last year. Originally, the script mainly existed in order to give some basic inventory and consumption information. Now, I daresay it is nearly a full-blown consumption report! Changes/enhancements include: - Collecting Insider Protection usage metrics - For customers on SOBRs, separating performance vs. capacity usage - Collecting M365 consumption information - Collecting license consumption information (local VBR, VB365, and cloud connect) - Write to XLSX with pre-generated tables now instead of CSV - Split the data into multiple tabs (License, BaaS, DRaaS, M365, No Information) - Collect from multiple VSPC servers For companies without any billing integrations with VSPC, this makes it relatively easy to compile consumption reports for your billing department each month. Alternatively, you can take the APIs used by this script and write your own automated report or billing integration! The script also now has a new home! All o

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Srgls1234
Srgls1234Not a newbie anymore
Making DNS more resilient with ansible automated etc/hosts (Part 2)

What are we going to do? In Part 1 Making DNS more Resilient with ansible automated etc/hosts (Part 1) | Veeam Community Resource Hub Setup our Ansible Controller on Ubuntu24.04 Setup our Windows Proxy with Scripts Setup our Linux Proxy In Part 2 Setup our Ansible Inventory Create our centrally managed etc/hosts Create and verify our ansible playbook Setup and Verify Ansible Inventory The hard part is done. We configured our environment that we can SSH from our Ansible Controller to our Windows and Linux servers. Now let's setup our ansible inventory. Create an inventory file next to your ansible.cfg file. [win]vbr.srgls.lanwinproxy01.srgls.lan [win:vars]ansible_shell_type=cmd [linux]linproxy01.srgls.lanlinproxy02.srgls.lan It is important that you specify windows variables so ansible does not try to use a linux shell on windows. Let's check if ansible can reach these systems. Starting with windows: ansible win -m ansible.windows.win_ping -i inventory Linux: ansible linux -m ping -i in

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Chris.Childerhose
Srgls1234
Srgls1234Not a newbie anymore
Making DNS more Resilient with ansible automated etc/hosts (Part 1)

Stolen from: A haiku about DNS - It's not DNS. There is no way it's... - nixCraft If there are DNS issues our backup infrastructure will struggle. When it rains it pours so usually during these times a restore is suddenly our top priority. Would be good if our backup server could communicate with the proxies and the virtual infrastructure huh? Tough luck… What can we do to make our backup infrastructure more independent? On both Windows and Linux systems exists a hosts file which is read before the system resolves the DNS server. On Linux this is located in /etc/hosts, on Windows easily accessible via c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts As a bonus: With this you are able to control your network flow. If there is a dedicated network for backups available and you want to use that network, managing the hosts file with might be perfect for you. Does managing a single file on potentially hundreds of systems sound like a good idea? NO. Let's take a look how we can automate this task! For t

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TaylorNetterNot a newbie anymore
Scripting Help - Removing Offline Tape Backups

We are attempting to script a way to remove offline Tape backups from Veeam so that they can be reused without error. Can someone please help us with the correct cmdlet and syntax to search for all offline tapes and remove them from catalog? I have attached the script we are working with. It searches all media but does not find any offline tapes and it does not error out. # Get all media pools$mediaPools = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool foreach ($mediaPool in $mediaPools) { Write-Host "Checking media pool: $($mediaPool.Name)" # Get all tapes in the media pool $tapes = Get-VBRTapeMedium -MediaPool $mediaPool foreach ($tape in $tapes) { # Check the tape location for "Offline" status if ($tape.Location -eq "Offline") { Write-Host "Found offline tape: $($tape.Barcode) in media pool: $($mediaPool.Name)" try { # Attempt to remove offline tape Remove-VBRTapeMedium -TapeMedium $tape -Confirm:$false Write-Host "Removed offline tape: $($tape.Barcode)" } catch { Write-Host "Failed to remove tape: $($tape.B

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michaelcade
michaelcadeProduct Strategy
Event-Driven Backup, starting with the Incident API

100% of all Veeam customers have prescriptive Backup Jobs to protect their mission critical workloads. This is done by creating a backup job, adding your resources and selecting a target, schedule and retention setting for this backup job. These jobs run and hopefully the recovery point objective is met with this schedule. This is not strictly 100% true as some people are likely using vSphere tags to dynamically protect workloads as well… We find the same labels and tags in cloud-based workloads. The world is more dynamic so we should make sure if there is a smoke signal of something bad happening then we should trigger a backup just in case. Veeam Data Platform Back in the 12.1 release of the Veeam Data Platform there was a little feature called the Incident API. I want to talk about that API in this post, the overall marketing around this feature was really focused on security smoke signals or as the name suggests incidents. But what if this was based on any event. Overall release bl

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michaelcade
MarcoLuvisi
MarcoLuvisiInfluencer
As-Build Report Veeam - Guide for an easy installation

Hi All, I can share my As-Build Report Veeam guide for an easy installation and a good results 😁 ! Sources: https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core https://www.asbuiltreport.com/user-guide/new-asbuiltreport/ https://techmyth.info/posts/homelab-veeam-vbr-doc-with-asbuiltreport/ Veeam Server License requirements: Community edition will not be supported. Needed installed: Veeam Backup Console installed with same version of Veeam server Installation steps from PS admin shell: PS> Get-Module -Name Veeam.Backup.PowerShell -ListAvailable PS> Install-Module PScriboCharts PS> Import-Module PScriboCharts PS> Find-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.* -Repository PSGallery PS> Install-Module -Name 'AsBuiltReport.Core' -Repository 'PSGallery' -Scope 'CurrentUser' PS> $env:PSModulePath PS> $path = (Get-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.Core -ListAvailable).ModuleBase; Unblock-File -Path $path\*.psd1; Unblock-File -Path $path\Src\Public\*.ps1 Ver

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AndrePulia
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
2nd Annual Veeam Community Hackathon - Results!

Veeam Community Hackathon banner for 2024. Alfred is sitting in the middle at a desk. He is about to press a run button with his paw. Binary code and a slider is shown on the left of Alfred. In the middle the word Hackathon is shown with arrowed lines pointing to icons and text describing several aspects of the Hackathon: Development, Brainstorm, Time, Presenting, Goal, Teamwork, Community. On Sep 26 9 AM EST/15:00 CEST to Sep 29 9 AM EST/15:00 CEST we organized the 2nd Annual Veeam Community Hackathon, organized by @JonahMay, @jos.maliepaard, @Mayhem and @mkevenaar. This year we had 2 teams who actively participated. First, we want to thank everyone who participated and helped during the event. Including, but not limited to: Our sponsors Wasabi Object First Progress 11:11 Systems GitHub Different Dev Our judges @amm777, @DarthDave, @ddomask, @Viperian, @Mildur, @Madi.Cristil, @NikolaPejkova, @Rick Vanover, @safiya and @vmJoe Everyone who helped us lead a team or participated The Teams

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Chris.Childerhose
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
I am scared of snakes but looks like I will have to face Python

Hi Folks, After years of laziness and utter avoidance it looks like I will have to learn some coding :). Anyone here a Veeam/Python champ who can point me in the right direction to where/what and how to learn. I know about the VeeamGitHub repo. Any advice about how best to go about this task from the expert snake charmers would be much appreciated.

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lukas.k
lukas.kVeeam Vanguard
Veeam Hackathon 2024 Team 4 Recap

Veeam Hackathon 2024 Team 4: VSPC Mobile App This year, I participated in the Veeam Community Hackathon for the first time. It was the second hackathon organized by the community, and there were several weeks between registration and the actual start, during which the teams were formed behind the scenes. What worked particularly well was that Veeam took participant preferences into account, so I was able to team up with my two preferred colleagues, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at this year’s VeeamON in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Members of team 4 of this year’s Hackathon: Ian Engelbrecht – Technical Sales Manager – Johannesburg Markus Kraus – Technical Solution Specialist – Hamburg Chalid Mohamed Fathallah – Consultant – Frankfurt Markus Hartmann – Senior Consultant – Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse) Lukas Klostermann – Senior Consultant – Muenster Phases of implementation: First phase: KickOff Here, as a team, we brainstormed our goals, identified the problem we wanted to solve, and out

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djONew Here
need to EXPORT VM from Capacity Tier to file

Hello I need to script an exportation of Capacity Tier BAckup I use this command to get the ID of the lastest backup of a VM ( here frhagfs7 ) $moi=Get-VBRSOBRObjectStorageRestorePoint -CapacityTier -name frhagfs7 | Sort-Object {$_.CreationTime} -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 but unfortunatly the export command never works : Export-VBRBackup -RestorePoint $moi -Dir "E:\TEST" Export-VBRBackup : Cannot bind parameter 'RestorePoint'. Cannot convert the "FRHAGFS7" value of type"Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRSOBRObjectStorageRestorePoint" to type "Veeam.Backup.Core.COib".At line:1 char:32+ Export-VBRBackup -RestorePoint $moi -Dir "E:\TEST"+ ~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Export-VBRBackup], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.ExportVBRBackup

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Chris.Childerhose
michaelcade
michaelcadeProduct Strategy
Using Terraform + Ansible to build an automated home lab Veeam environment

Hey Everyone, I had a few queries the last few weeks about the VeeamLab terraform code that has not been updated for 3-4 years… it made me jump in and start something again but this time I wanted to take what @Chris.Arceneaux had built with the Ansible Playbooks and that he posted the other week and combine that with some Terraform code. This is not finished and only applicable right now for vSphere environments but there is a plan and hopefully over the next few weeks and months we can get some of these complete for AWS and Microsoft Azure as well. Full blog post here - https://t.co/wcDANj6Wgw

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hkausNew Here
Bulk Restore

We have 2000+ documents that need restoring from different paths on the same server. Is there a way to put those paths into a spreadsheet or csv and run a script to restore them all?

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MicheleNot a newbie anymore
Create a new Port ID for all the replicated VMs

Hi all, my environment is VMware vSphere with 2 clusters managed by a single vCenter Server using Distributed Virtual Switch. Cluster 1 Production Cluster 2 DR All VM are replicated from Cluster 1 to Cluster 2, the problem is all VMs int the destination, have the same Port ID associated to the Port Group of the source. This is a problem, because vSphere expect different values. When I try a migrate of a replica VM, I cannot do that, I obtain the error message: “A general system error occurred: vDS host error: see faultCause Cannot create DVPort 5021 of VDS dvSwitch0 on the host xyz” I need to create new Port ID for every VM replicated or find a solution to fix this default behavior. Please help me! Best regards.

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coolsport00
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathon - Results!

Hackathon logo. Features Alfred, the community cat. Also shows arrows to Community, Development, Teamwork, Time, Presenting, Goal, and Brainstorm icons and text. These are parts included in the hackathon​​​​​ On September 28th we had our 1st annual Veeam Community Hackathon. Both @JonahMay and I ( @mkevenaar ) organized this event. We had 4 teams who participated. First, we want to thank everyone who helped us with this event. Including, but not limited to: Our sponsors: Wasabi and GitHub Our Judges: @amm777, @anthonyspiteri79, @DarthDave, @Viperian, @Mildur, @HannesK, @Jeff Reichard, @Madi.Cristil, @NikolaPejkova, @Rick Vanover, @safiya Everyone who helped us lead a team or participated All teams struggled with participants and contact between the members because our participants were scattered all over the world. Some teams struggled more than others. This is not the fault of the leaders or the participants. Team 1: Led by @Geoff Burke, did actually two projects on Kasten/K10 Video 1

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Chris.Childerhose
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Steve.BennettNot a newbie anymore
Veeam M365 & Ansible

I need some help. I am trying to automate my Employee Offboarding using ansible by creating a backup job that will do a final backup of the user’s mailbox, archive, teams, teams chat and personal site. Then restore it to an offsite File Share for long term storage. I’m using the REST API and I can query my Veeam server for Org ID, Repository ID, etc. However, I can not create a job. I think it is because I can list the user ID in the task. Is the User ID based off of the Azure ID? Would I need a separate task that queries my O365 Instance and retrieves that?

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JonahMay
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
Announcement: new leader Jonah May

Hi Everyone, I would like to introduce to you our new leader @JonahMay. Jonah has helped a lot during the Hackathon last year. He will be part of the Automation Desk leader group next to @k00laidIT and @JMeixner About Jonah: Jonah is a Product Architect at CyberFortress, an international platinum VCSP. In addition, Jonah is a co-founder of the Veeam Community Hackathon, a contributer of various scripts to the Automation Desk based mainly around VCSP operations, a VCSP Technical Ambassador, a VMCA, and a Veeam Vanguard since 2021. Connect with Jonah on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonah-m254/)and Twitter/X (https://twitter.com/jonahmayrocks)! We wish Jonah a warm welcome

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Rick Vanover
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rodeh65rNew Here
Using Ansible, is it possible to automate DB2ConfigTool --wizard?

Hello Veeam, My organization will be replacing Rubrik with Veeam to backup over 128+ production standalone DB2 database instances using Veeam Plugin for IBM DB2.Each of these database instances has a COLD DR site associated with it. We are running DB2 V11.5 Standard Edition on Linux RH. I’m trying to automate the installation and configuration of Veeam Plugin using Ansible. I was able to automate the installation portion. However, I’m looking for a way to automate the configuration piece, running the DB2ConfigTool --wizard. I’m seeking your help, and I would appreciate your input. Thank you

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ericeberg
ericebergComes here often
Leveraging IaC to Streamline Data Protection

Hello Veeam Community! As you might know if you’ve seen other topics and articles from me, I am a big proponent of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to manage resource and application configuration. Several exciting developments in this space have occurred in the past few months, and I thought it would be good to start off this week by asking you: How are you using Infrastructure as Code tools and principles to manage data protection operations in your organization? I’m curious to hear what problems you’re solving today using IaC, as well as your own roadmaps, wishlists, and barriers to adopting IaC. Sound off in the comments, and have a great week!

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PashkaTLTNew Here
I want to keep last 2 full backups made by Veeam Agent for Windows

Hello, I’m a new Veeam Agent for Windows user and so far I loved it, just used it to backup and restore my system, went like a breeze! So I set up weekly system drive backups and what I noticed is that the first backup was full, and the 2nd backup is incremental. Can I set up the backup task so it will take weekly FULL backups and keep the last 2 full backups, deleting older ones?

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oscar.dlimaNew Here
script to revoke per socket license

Asking about a script to revoke per socket licences before start replica jobs

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JonahMay
JonahMayVeeam Vanguard
PowerShell Script to Collect Backup/Replication Usage from VSPC

The script can be accessed here. This script queries all cloud connect tenant resources and returns metrics on them to help find consumed resources. Simply edit the API token on line 27 and the VSPC base URL on line 33. Resource Information Returned: Company Tenant Name Cloud Connect Server Backup Enabled (Y/N) Replication Enabled (Y/N) Repository Name Repository Type Repository Server Host Name Backup Storage Used (TB) Replication Storage Used (TB) Replication Memory Used (GB) Replication vCPUs Consumed

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JonahMay
JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
How to automate Veeam Backup and Replication Global Exclusion Lists

In Veeam Backup and Replication Version 12 a global VM exclusion list was introduced. VMs added to this list are excluded from processing in all jobs. Up to now the only way to get VMs into or out of this list was via the GUI. In V12 you get there with “Hamburger menu” on the upper left corner --> VM Exclusions Then this dialog appears, and you can administer the global exclusion list via the GUI With the coming version 12.1 there will be some changes. First will there be an additional exclusion list. You have one “Global VM Exclusions” list and one “Global Malware Exclusions” list. You get there with “Hamburger menu” on the upper left corner --> Global Exclusions --> select one of the two exclusions lists. Then this dialog appears (it looks the same for both exclusions lists except the window title), and you can administer the global exclusion lists via the GUI The second new feature is that you can administer both exclusions lists via PowerShell commands. We will have a look how to a

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Welcome to the Automation Desk!

 

This group is your starting point for all Automation questions. Whether it's automated installation, configuration of day-to-day jobs, the Automation Desk is your place to be!

You did some automation yourself? That's great! Grab a Desk and share your stuff

 

Group leaders

@mkevenaar - Maurice is a System Engineer at INFO, located in Amsterdam, NL. In addition, Maurice is a package maintainer and moderator for the Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR), contributor to OSS projects, creator of Veeam Chocolatey packages and BoxStarter scripts, a Veeam Vanguard since 2020, and Veeam Legend since 2023. Connect with Maurice on LinkedIn and Twitter!

@k00laidIT - Husband, parent, geek, proud West Virginian. Cloud Architect at 11:11. Certified as a CCNA, VCP-DCV, VMCE, AWS-SAA & once upon a time a MCSE. Honored to be selected as vExpert and Inaugural Veeam Vanguard.

@JMeixner - Jochen works as a Consultant and Architect working for T-Systems in Germany. He has with more than 25 years of experience with different software and hardware vendors. Focus is on the design and implementation of IT infrastructures in the areas of backup/restore , disaster recovery, storage and virtualization. He holds technical certifications with various vendors and is member of the Veeam Legends program since 2021. Connect with Jochen on LinkedIn and Twitter! 

@JonahMay - Jonah is a Product Architect at CyberFortress, an international platinum VCSP. In addition, Jonah is a co-founder of the Veeam Community Hackathon, a contributer of various scripts to the Automation Desk based mainly around VCSP operations, a VCSP Technical Ambassador, a VMCA, and a Veeam Vanguard since 2021. Connect with Jonah on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonah-m254/)and Twitter/X (https://twitter.com/jonahmayrocks)!

 

Disclaimer 

Veeam is not responsible nor can be held accountable for the accuracy and usability for code samples published in the Automation Desk.
All published scripts and code are licensed to you by the sample's author and you should not contact technical support to submit issues on the code.
The result of the script is your responsibility. Veeam nor the author can be held accountable for any loss of data.

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