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StickyVeeam Community Recap #251

Veeam & HPE, Veeam Hardened Repository, Agent Commander and More!

  • February 26, 2026
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Rick Vanover
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This week I am co-hosting with ​@safiya, welcome back to the recap Safiya! We have a great episode this week, watch it here: 

Featured Content

via ​@Andreas Buhlmann 

via ​@leduardoserrano 

via ​@Mohamed Ali 

Vanguard Blog Spotlight: Derek Loeske

This week’s Vanguard Blog spotlight comes from ​@dloseke with his recent post: Deploying the Veeam Hardened Repository v13 Step-by-Step - Tech Notes & Dad Jokes → GREAT post Derek, thanks for sharing!

 

 

Special Department News

We have a lot to cover here! Let’s jump in:

Upcoming Microsoft 365 Changes

📢 I want to draw attention to Veeam KB4821 for all Microsoft 365 backup use cases (installed on-premises or Veeam Data Cloud) that there are upcoming changes to an API used for this backup. There will soon be an 8.4 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam Data Cloud will be automatically adjusted. Please read KB4821: Support Statement — Microsoft 365 Changes to Throttling Enforcement.

Veeam Announces Agent Commander

This is really exciting! Since the Securiti AI acquisition last year, many have wondered what comes next? Well, we have announced the direction we are going here with Agent Commander. Check out the following resources on Agent Commander:

Veeam Vault Promotion

I love passing along a good deal! Some of my Veeam colleagues let me know that customers who select Vault and or upgrade to 50+ Veeam Data Platform Advanced or Premium licenses with 10TB of Vault storage, they can unlock 20% off Veeam Vault for your first year. This is a great way to get more resiliency, quickly! You can find more information here: https://go.veeam.com/vault-multiplier-promo

New Veeam User Group - Ireland

📢 Happy to report that ​@Stephen Seagrave is up to some great things, and has launched and Irish VUG!

New Veeam User Group USA Event - West Michigan

Too bad I can’t make this one, but Chris will do great on this one! 

Veeam User Group France

This time in Lyon (operated in French) for 12-March.

Veeam Legends First Half 2026 Class

We’ll talk more about this next week when ​@Madi.Cristil returns, but we are happy to announce

Who’s New

Thank you again ​@safiya for the Who’s New this week, we are pleased to welcome +124 new users this week. The coolest usernames are ​@micmarkid, ​@T Peacock, ​@onlynow and ​@office (love that - all business!). Alfred’s pick is ​@mossZmossZ → You have a badge coming your way. Have a great weekend everyone!

 

5 comments

dloseke
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • February 26, 2026

@Rick Vanover ​@safiya Thanks for the Vanguard spotlight recognition - even if it was a little bit older of a post, I find it super helpful and often end up referring to my own posts as almost a pseudo-documentation. 

I always do bonding on my physical VHR’s….except the one I have in my own production that is technically bonded, but instead of doing Mode 6 balance-alb, it’s actually using Mode 4 802.3ad LACP.  But I’ve found that ALB is less difficult to setup and probably more reliable and I don’t really feel like I’m missing any performance.  Plus if I’m staging the server and send with an engineer on-site to be deployed, if he doesn’t use both ports, either port will work -- it’s happened, though I’m sending him back out to plug in the other port as his convenience.

 

Also, the Dad Joke is at the end of each post, but I’ve pasted this post’s joke below!

 

 


leduardoserrano
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  • On the path to Greatness
  • February 27, 2026

Dear Rick, Safiya, and Madi. Thank you very much for mentioning my post! Another rich weekly recap, showcasing important updates and the Agent Commander announcement. It addresses real security and compliance gaps in AI-driven environments! 


coolsport00
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  • Veeam Legend
  • February 27, 2026

Nice recap! Good to see you on here again ​@safiya ...it’s been a bit 😉

Derek...good post! Think I’ll have to go through that as I’ve not done a VHR ISO deployment (only manual-config’d VHRs). All very good posts shared this week!

Thanks for sharing about Agent Commander...I wanted to watch the Tech Bite yesterday but was time-constrained. Will do so today or this weekend.

Welcome to all new Community members… I hope everyone has a great weekend!


wolff.mateus
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • February 27, 2026

Good recap! Nice to see Safiya here.

Congratulations to all Veeam Legends 👏 and have a nice weekend everyone!


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • February 27, 2026

Another great recap and nice seeing ​@safiya on there this time. 😊

The content just keeps improving and so much of it for some great reading.  Congrats to everyone mentioned this week.

Congratulations again to all new and renewed Legends as well a great week when you see announcements and looking forward to hopefully the Vanguard one next week. 😎

Welcome everyone to the Veeam Community and have a great weekend everyone.