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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Critical Update for Veeam Backup & Replication, Enterprise ManagerCritical Update

Critical Update Available As featured in the recap and shared on social media; please update Veeam B&R and Enterprise Manager in accordance with this KB Article:KB4510: Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 and Updates

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Special Department Overload and VeeamON Prep | Ep. 167Veeam Community Recap #167

This week @Madi.Cristil is back! We have a lot to cover however! We’ll cover a lot of special department news as well as some excellent user group activity and previews for VeeamON. Watch this week’s episode here: The Linksvia @pureben via @allynz via @Geoff Burke Special Department News: Critical Product UpdateI want to draw everyone’s attention to KB4510 for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. The KB includes a critical patch to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager as well as new Veeam Backup & replication capabilities:KB4510: Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 and UpdatesFeatured Special Department Newsvia @Chan Ekanayake @chas @jb16wer and @kenlu via @HunterLAFR and @Gustavo Dutschmann en Español! 🇪🇸via @Eric Machabert @BertrandFR En français 🇫🇷 via @HangTen416 and @mhmdadl Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +246 new users to the Veeam Community! Thank you for preparing this @safiya! The coolest usernames this week are @Gold

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Backups, Databases and MoreVeeam Community Recap #165

This week, @safiya and I host the recap with some great content to share and we almost had to cut the recording due to giggles! Solid list of featured content, Who’s New and Special Department News. Watch this week’s episode here:Featured Contentvia @MarkPolin Question via @Cragdoo via @yasmine-boudhina (use browser to translate from French)Critical KB and Suspicious File List UpdatedIf you are using the Veeam Service Provider Console, please see this urgent KB article: KB4575: Veeam Service Provider Console Vulnerability ( CVE-2024-29212 )The suspicious file list has been updated (part of the malware detection engine). It recently went to version 68 (two updates since last week). For offline environments, you can go here to update the XML file: KB4514: How to Manually Update Suspicious File List (veeam.com)Special Department NewsReplay up of the Veeam 100 show with @Michael Melter and @anthonyspiteri79: via @Rick Vanover You can download the Veeam Events app for iPhone and Android lea

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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AI, AI and Breaking the Rules in Recap #166Veeam Community Recap #166

Rickatron and @safiya are up this week and what a run while @Madi.Cristil was on well-deserved holiday! Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @andy.sturniolo via @HunterLAFR via @Iams3le via @tarik.yenisey Special Department News This week @Madi.Cristil (she’s back!), @safiya and I attended Gainsight Pulse, where we overviewed our community strategy. This picture below is us right after our session with our colleague from Gainsight, Vish, who has helped us be successful in our community: L-R: Vish from Gainsight, Safiya Mohamed, Rickatron and Madalina Cristil from Veeam at Gainsight Pulse 2024 in St. Louis Missouri, USA on 16-May 2024.via @Matt Crape Veeam Backup for Proxmox is coming! Read this post on the Veeam blog: Veeam Backup for Proxmox via @tarik.yenisey - Congratulations on winning April’s Blog of the Month!via @Geoff Burke via @Daria_K  - Check out the VeeamON page in our Community: | Veeam Community Resource Hub Who’s New is Back Next WeekSorry we published this late!

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Homelab Backup Storage, Corruption Guard and MoreVeeam Community Recap #164

This week @Madi.Cristil is on well-deserved leave and @safiya stepped up to host this week’s recap with me. We have a great list of content this week and I’m going to do something new. Watch this week’s recap here: The Linksvia @tarik.yenisey via @Link State via @regnor and you can download the new Splunk app here: Veeam App for Splunk | SplunkbaseSpecial Department Newsvia @Chan Ekanayake, @chas, @jb16wer and @kenlu via @Rick Vanover - Vote by 14-May!Suspicious File List UpdatedNEW in the recap, I will start letting everyone know when the suspicious file list has been updated (part of the malware detection engine). It recently went to version 66. For offline environments, you can go here to update the XML file: KB4514: How to Manually Update Suspicious File List (veeam.com)  Who’s NewWe welcomed +111 new members over the last two weeks. The coolest usernames are @techierick, @SayFLY, @UbuntuChan and @VeeamDream. Alfred’s pick this week is @foolonthehill! Welcome everyone and have a gr

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Calculators, Storage Efficiency and More!Veeam Community Recap #162

Neither @Madi.Cristil or @Rick Vanover are in normal circumstances, but it is great to be back to normal-ish! We have a solid list of content this week and have a surprise for next week. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @SSimpson via @Geoff Burke via @jaceg23 Special Department News!via @Madi.Cristil via @HunterLAFR via @safiya Who’s New!Covering a few weeks, but a massive to +194 new members! The coolest usernames are @DrThirsty and @That Sharpe Guy. This week’s Alfred’s Pick goes to @iamslytherin!  Have a nice weekend everyone!  

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Storage, Microsoft 365 and NIST 2.0Veeam Community Recap #163

This week @Madi.Cristil and @Rick Vanover are in the Veeam Seattle center are in the middle of a team meeting! We had a great week together with the whole team and the Community has great stuff to share. We will be back with Who’s New next week. Watch our recap below:The Linksvia @Iams3le via @Chris.Childerhose via @leduardoserrano Special Department Newsvia @coolsport00 and @ravatheodor via @Chris.Childerhose and @HangTen416 via @anthonyspiteri79 and @Michael Melter  (1) Honey, I shrunk the RPOs | LinkedIn 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Back Up Audit, Hidden Cloud Costs and Active Directory RenameWeekly Recap #161

This week, I have two special guests , community members @Luiz Eduardo Serrano  and @MarkBoothman  and we are discussing on real use-cases at customers site - an infrastructure backup audit that revealed a lot of issues with the back-up set up, hidden cloud costs with AWS, Google Cloud and Azure , how to perform active directory rename and last but not least the importance of testing backups.Thank you both of you for being part of the show 😊 The Links: via @Nico Losschaert Bad Practice vs Good Practice in a real use casevia @bradlinch The Hidden Cloud Costs of Backup in AWS, Azure and GCPvia @Iams3le How to Perform Active Directory Renamevia @Stabz The importance of testing these backups!  

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Hyper-V, Oracle Linux KVM and CybersecurityVeeam Weekly Recap #160

This week, I am joined by two special guests , @safiya  and @Andrew.Zhelezko  and we are discussing on Hyper-V 2025 updates , support for Oracle Linux KVM and data protection solutions from ransomware attacks. Don't miss out on the special department news with Safiya! Welcome to all our new members! 😊 The Links: via @johan.h Looking forward to Hyper-V 2025via @Matt Crape Announcing Support for Oracle Linux KVM!via @JMeixner Data Backup Basics XII: Safeguarding Backup Systems Against Ransomware Threatsvia @dips Keeping Updated with Cyber Security News Special Department News ( via @safiya ): VUG Spain in person event April 16th  shoutout to @HunterLAFR VUG USA Houston in person event April 16th  shoutout to @JonahMay , Tom May , @ertelle1 UK Veeam User Group - April 17 Virtual Event shoutout to @Cragdoo , @Ian Sanderson , @MicoolPaul , @Rin , @michaelcade Veeam User Group Finland – 2024 Meetup shoutout to @MikkoVanttinen , @Ville Blog of the Month March 2024 Winner congratulations @Mar

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Community Recap: Scripts, Certifications and Stories for World Backup Day 2024Weekly Recap #159

This week @Rick Vanover and Madi are up for the 159th episode of the recap, just before World Backup Day. Solid content to share this week with Special Department news and Who's New! The Links: via ​​​​@MicoolPaul World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!via @CarySun How to Migrate a Physical Machine to Hyper-V Cluster VM-P2Vvia @jcolonfzenpr AsBuiltReport for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Special Department News: New Thematic Groups: VMCE and VMCA ( @coolsport00 and @Geoff Burke )Kubernetes Korner event : 90 Days of Devops with Michael Cade ( @Geoff Burke  and @michaelcade ) VOTE! Blog of the Month March 2024 Veeam 100 Show with @MicoolPaul , @SteveHeart Gainsight Webinar with @Madi.Cristil and @safiya  Unlocking Peer-to-Peer EngagementWelcome to our new members! 😊

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Welcome to H1 2024 Legends class!Veeam Legends

It is our great pleasure to announce the first half of 2024 Legends class ! Veeam Legends program, which is among the top initiatives of Veeam Community, acknowledges individuals who actively participate in the Veeam R&D Forums, the Community Resource Hub as well as other Veeam platforms. Veeam Legends is part of the bigger program Veeam 100, together with Veeam Vanguard and Veeam MVP programs. Veeam 100 program plays an important role in empowering data protection industry specialists who possess a strong passion for technology and innovation and are enthusiastic about advancing their career while also contributing to the community by sharing their insights and experiences.Congratulations to all the new and returning Legends of the first half of 2024! Your dedication and contributions are truly exceptional! 😻👏💚Alex Heylin @alexheylin  Alessandro Tinivelli @atinivelli NEW Antonio D'Andrea  @Andanet   Cary Sun @CarySun NEW Chris Childerhose @Chris.Childerhose  Chris Eromosele @Ia

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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World Backup Day advice and More!Veeam Community Recap #158

This week Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are busy with stuff! Great list of content to share as well as an overflowing cup of Special Department news! Watch this week’s recap here:The Links via @Chris.Childerhose via @mkevenaar via @JMeixner Special Department NewsJoin us on Thursday 28th March for the special World Backup Day live stream with @Tyler Jurgens and @dloseke(10) World Backup Day with the Veeam Community | LinkedInvia @JHoughes and @allynz via @Geoff Burke FYI Veeam Data Cloud is now using Veeam KBs! KB4555: Veeam Data Cloud Release Information and Build NumbersWho’s NewThank you @safiya  for preparing the Who’s New this week! We are honored to welcome +88 new members! The coolest usernames this week are: @brocbutler, @VincentVegas , @iTob and @MehLeh! Alfred’s pick goes to @DataDefender → a badge is coming your way! Have a great weekend everyone! 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Veeam Encryption, Inline Entropy Scans and VPCVeeam Community Recap #157

This week, @Rick Vanover  and Madi talk Veeam Encryption and best practices for best managing the security of information, feature-adds for Veeam Malware Detection and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Don't miss out on the special department news! The Links: via @marco_s Veeam Encryption (What) is the key ?via @coolsport00 Inline Entropy Malware Scan Update!via @Iams3le Learn how to create VPC, Subnet, NACL, Security Group on AWS instead of using the defaults Special Department News: via @safiya  & @vmJoe Security Blueprints (From Veeam's Solutions Architects!) via @jos.maliepaard & @Sander Berkouwer  virtual event VUG Netherlands : Webinar over OOTBI en hoe Virtuele Domain controllers te backuppenvia @falkob , @Michael Melter , @Tobias Gregorius Veeam Usergroup Deutschland – 2024 Meetupvia @BethSouza , @wolff.mateus , @Jean.peres , @leduardoserrano Veeam & Object First, a melhor combinação à prova de ransomware Who's New: Welcome to all +88 new community members and congrats

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JBuff
JBuffProduct Strategy
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Veeam Innovation Awards 2024 : we want to celebrate you at VeeamON

Greetings all – the fantastic Veeam Community Dream Team (@Madi.Cristil, @NikolaPejkova, @safiya, and @Rick Vanover) don’t let me on the Community Hub very often (just kidding), but I wanted to remind folks that nominations are still open for the Veeam Innovation Awards through February 15. The VIA’s are a way to celebrate:Veeam Customers who might have recovered from Cyber events ... or increased their BC/DR readiness … or improved their backup operational efficiency … or gotten rid of a legacy technology that stopped being reliable years ago, etc.  Tell us about how Veeam made your world better! Veeam Partners who have delivered great solutions or developed as-a-service offerings that help Veeam customers gain those benefits listed above. Veeam Platforms who have built on top of hardware, clouds, or other architectures in cool ways, thereby enabling solutions for Veeam partners or great outcomes for Veeam customers.Partners – nominate yourselves and also your customers.  Platforms –

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Malware Detection, SIEM and moreVeeam Community Recap #156

This week Rickatron, @Madi.Cristil and others from our team are on a special assignment! That doesn’t stop the community from over-delivering! Watch this week’s episode for a top-notch list of content, several Special Department pieces of news and an incredible community milestone.The Linksvia @ericeberg via @Geoff Burke via @coolsport00 Special Department Newsvia @safiya via @Madi.Cristil via @Madi.Cristil via @Madi.Cristil Next week in Boston USA and Prague CZ (online) there is a Veeam User Group meetup:Amazing News in Who’s NewThis week we crossed 20,000 members in the Veeam Community. WOW! The 20,000th user is @edv_holz-boegnerthis is incredible news, thank you all and have a great weekend everyone!   

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Linux, Homelabs and Orchestration oh My!Veeam Community Recap #153

This week El Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are sharing a solid list of Featured Content, Special Department News and a new format for Who’s New! You can watch this week’s episode here:Featured Contentvia @vmali via @Geoff Burke (and see part 2!)via @allynz206 Special Department Newsvia @ertelle1 via @DarthDave via @MarcoLuvisi @Andanet and @marcofabbri via @Thiago dos Santos Nunes and @Julia F Morgado And did you know about the questions? You can answer them here too! Unanswered questions | Veeam Community Resource HubWho’s NewThank you @safiya for preparing the Who’s New! Alfred’s pick this week is @buffalomac → Please let us know the scope of the username, what’s it about, is mac and cheese with buffalo sauce? Yummy! Have a great week everyone. 

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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YARA Deep Dive, Nutanix CE and Veeam Data CloudVeeam Community Recap #155

What a week at Veeam! We’re getting deep into VeeamON, so much great content to share and we’ve launched Veeam Data Cloud! Watch this week’s recap here:The Linksvia @andy.sturniolo via @JMeixner via @skitch210 Special Department Newsvia @allynz and @ertelle1 via @Madi.Cristil Today we announced Veeam Data Cloud! Check out this great post by Edward Watson at Veeam: Backup Service for Microsoft 365 and Azure | Veeam Data Cloudvia @NikolaPejkova Congratulations to the 2024 class of Veeam Vanguards. Today Nikola is onboarding them and communicating the renewals and new nominations. We’ll have the Veeam 100 page on the top of the Community Hub updated soon. Thank you Nikola!Who’s NewThis week we welcome +77 new members to the Veeam Community. Next week should be 20K! This week’s coolest usernames are @mikewire, @mph, @redscreen and @barney238! Alfred’s pick is @Electroteddy! Welcome everyone and have a great weekend. 

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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V12.1 with Ansible, Honeypots and VBR for Google CloudVeeam Community Recap #154

This week I got up early to take a call with @Madi.Cristil to do this week’s recap! Early is Early! We have a solid list of content this week, check out our episode here: The Linksvia @Chris.Arceneaux via @Michael Melter via @leduardoserrano Special Department Newsvia @Geoff Burke and @Nitish Kumar Be sure to join the upcoming Veeam 100 Show with @Viperian @Nico Losschaert and @WorkingHardInIT Unbreakable Veeam Backup Fabric: A Belgian Redefinition in two case studies | LinkedIn I also have two KB articles to share of interest this week:KB4493: How to Move Backup Data for a File Backup or Object Storage Backup to a Different Repository (veeam.com)KB1801: How to Migrate Veeam ONE DeploymentWho’s NewThank you @safiya for preparing the Who’s New this week! We are happy to welcome +75 new members and Alfred’s pick is @netw0rkn1nja! Have a great weekend everyone. 

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Cybersecurity Advice, Immutability, Scripting and MoreVeeam Community Recap #152

Hello everyone and what a week! First of all apologies for the outage of the Community Hub on Thursday 8-February for a bit, thank you all for letting us know. The platform service was restored quickly - the way I like it!@Madi.Cristil and I are in normal circumstances today and have a great roster of content. You can watch this week’s episode here: The Linksvia @Iams3le via @SteveHeart via @BertrandFR via @marcofabbri  WOWKey Product UpdatesI would like to draw everyone’s attention to Veeam KB 4541 for Veeam Availability Orchestrator previous versions (4,5,6): KB4541: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Vulnerability ( CVE-2024-22021 |  CVE-2024-22022 ) Special Department News via @Madi.Cristil and congratulations @coolsport00 Upcoming from VUG Turkey via @Bulent.Tolu and @berat.cakirca via @Federica Who’s New Thank you @safiya for preparing this week’s Who’s New! We are happy to welcome +107 new members! This week’s coolest usernames are @jazzzbass, @splough, @JustJoe and @Frankcool! And Alf

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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12.1 Hidden Features, Egress and PostgresVeeam Community Recap #151

This week @Madi.Cristil and Rickatron are trying a new recording setup ➡ what do you think? You can watch our recap below:The Linksvia @coolsport00 via @MicoolPaul  via @Iams3le Special Department Newsvia @JBuff Product update for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 KB4533: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 7a Cumulative PatchesVeeam 100 Show next week in Brazilian Portuguese! (46) Jornada de aprendizado sobre proteção de dados com a Veeam | V100 Show - YouTubevia @Madi.Cristil Who’s NewThank you @safiya for prepping the new member list. We are happy to welcome +125 new members to the Veeam Community!The coolest usernames are @GenuineLuke, @Mapz, @cloudsmart and @Bigggoonn! Alfred’s pick this week is @penguinpages → You have a badge coming your way. Have a great weekend everyone! 

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Backup copies, YARA and Pac-ManVeeam Community Recap #150

This week we have a slight switcheroo! @Madi.Cristil is taking some well-deserved time off so Rickatron and @safiya are up with the recap, and this is episode #150! Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @BelongsinaMuseum via @leduardoserrano (2 from Luis this week!) Special Department NewsProduct Update: Veeam KB 4510 is updated with the cumulative patch 1 for V12.1: https://www.veeam.com/kb4510via @allynz via @MarcoLuvisi Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +90 new members into the Veeam Community! The coolest usernames are @Never Give Up, @Bumsy, @bugbunty785 and @sitsilencer!And Alfred’s pick this week is @BelongsinaMuseum! Welcome everyone and have a great weekend. 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Linux OS, VDP AWS workloads and Veeam ONE UpgradeVeeam Community Recap #149

This week @Rick Vanover is in Las Vegas for a conference and I am back at home after a long journey from Columbus! We are discussing some awesome topics:  how to resize a Linux volume used as a Veeam Repository in Linux OS, enhanced capabilities on Veeam Data Platform , related to AWS workloads and going through a demo on how to upgrade from previous versions Veeam One to Veeam ONE 12.1. Don't miss out on some special department news! The Links: via @coolsport00 Resize Multipath Volumes Used as a Veeam Repository in Linux OSvia @Roy Adiel Veeam Data platform update 23H2 – all you need to know related to your AWS workloadsvia @Iams3le Steps to Perform Veeam ONE Upgrade to v12.1 Special Department News:Veeam User Group Spain and Latam event - Backup y DR offsite con Backblaze de manera sencilla y eficiente , January 24th 2024Kubernetes Korner event -Kubernetes came from Google, but how do you get to Google?, January 25th 2024Veeam 100 Show- Fourth Episode- Veeam Beyond the Clicks

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Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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2024 Plans, 12.1 Tips and a Special GuestVeeam Community Recap #148

This week was a special one! We have great content to share, a whole lot of Who’s New and a special guest. The Community Team was planning the 2024 strategy and @Rick Vanover, @Madi.Cristil, and @safiya were able to take over the studio for some well overdue shenanigans (all courtesy of @Geoff Burke). Check out this week’s episode:The Linksvia @MicoolPaul via @Stabz via @Chris.Childerhose Special Department Newsvia @mhmdadl and @Amr Sadek هذه الجلسة ستكون باللغة العربية! - This session will be in Arabic!via @JonahMay @Rin and @Mayhem (12) Veeam Beyond the Clicks | LinkedIn the Veeam 100 Show for January: Behind the Clicksvia @safiya Who’s NewWe had +374 members join over the holiday break! But that doesn’t stop @Witty-Donkey4927, @GreaseMonkey, @idontknowusewhatusername, and @iH8usrnames from getting the coolest usernames and @VeeamMeUp is Alfred’s Pick! Welcome everyone and have a great weekend!

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Backup Strategies, Scripts and Yara RulesVeeam Community Recap #147

Last recap of 2023! @Rick Vanover is on vacation but Madi has two special community recap guests: @Tyler Jurgens  and @coolsport00 , both Legends and Veeam 100 members! We discuss all data backup basics, scripts and Yara rules! The Links: Via ​​​​@JMeixner :Data Backup Basics IV: Understanding Backup Strategies: Full, Incremental, and Differential BackupsVia @keironbell : Automate Veeam Agent Upgrades via VSPCVia @Rick Vanover : YARA and Script Library SupportabilityHow to install a YARA rule with VeeamFeatured YARA rule: Top 10 Ransomware ThreatsVia @SteveHeart :Powershell - VBR Backup Scan - YARA ready Special Department News: VUG AFS: Veeam et la Résilience des données: les nouveautés de la version 12.1New Group: Veeam Hands-on Labs Best, Madi   

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Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Veeam Data Platform Takeover!Veeam Community Recap #145

What a release! This week, the Veeam Data Platform 23H2 release, which includes version 12.1 of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, has gone generally available! This episode is mostly about that :) You can watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @Tyler Jurgens via @Pybarra and be sure to see KB4521:  KB4521: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5 Cumulative Patchesvia @Andanet via @BertrandFR Check out this Cyber-Resilient Data Recovery Strategy whitepaper: Building a Cyber-Resilient Data Recovery Strategy (veeam.com)Congratulations @JMeixner on winning the Blog of the Month!Coming soon in Arizona, a Veeam User Group via @ertelle1 and @allynz Coming soon in Belgium, a Veeam User Group via via @Nico Losschaert and @kristofpoppe Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +133 new members this week! Thank you @safiya for preparing! The coolest usernames this week are @Notverybright96 (you are here, you are smart!), @euclids_bellybutton, @A bit of a byte and @Neopolis!

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