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I wish to build a new HOMELAB. Here is a guide and many others I found on Reddit.- How is your lab setup? What would you recommend? Main virtualisation solution would be VMware (would need multiple hosts here). I would also have HyperV and Proxmox VE within this environment. Yes, this is possible!https://www.altaro.com/vmware/perfect-homelab-vmware/?vgo_ee=%2BWombPttbhpwDFBk3C2zvW7%2BX%2FpMfSStElYb34Re%2FNg%3D (I love the first approach in this guide).I have got my ideas, but would like to learn from you. Keep in mind, I need a cost effective solution ranging from hardware to Power etc. Here is a talking point but just talking about the installation. I do NOT need help with the setup (deployment) tips as this is a walkthrough for me. Just ideas on how to setup low a cost effective lab, but yet a Lab to be reckoned with.
Hello Legends/Vanguards in the building,I would like to write about this course (VMCA) on my blog and also share the write up here word to word. If any of you is interested in saying a word (contributing) to the reviewing the Veeam Backup & Replication: Architecture and Design (VMCA) course, please pleat me know. You can share your thoughts in the comment session or send me a message privately. I will collate all information and post it online. I will do a lot of social media promotion on it as well. An opportunity to affect and influence the product, let’s seize it guys!Kindly spare some minutes of your time as this will greatly influence the outcome for many future VMCAs. After reading @MicoolPaul post today “Veeam Legend Experience - Year One Review” I have gotten more points to write on :-) Hello @haslund , can I also reference your videos thread? I can see some of us already contributed in the comment session via this post from @regnor!I will be looking forward to some lines
Microsoft says that Windows 11 will get more security improvements in upcoming releases, which will add more protection against cybersecurity threats, offer better encryption, and block malicious apps and drivers. Perhaps you want to learn how you can protect your device against theft as a consult due to frequent travels etc: Kindly take a look at link1 and link2. I have a torn of guides on this topic. Kindly ensure to search the archive!It was also noted in the report that significant security updates which adds even more protection from the chip to the cloud by combining modern hardware and software will be added. Below are some of the key features.Enhanced phishing protection against targeted phishing attacks with the help of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, a cloud-based anti-phishing and anti-malware service. With SmartScreen integrated into the OS, Windows users will be warned when entering their credentials into malicious applications or hacked websites. This has been proven to w
Veeam Backup and Replication is comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution which is capable of creating image-level backups of virtual, physical servers, cloud machines, and restoration as well. You may encounter the following errors when installing the Veeam backup and replication tool “VEEAM service is unable to start, error 1064: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request”. Therefore, I will be showing you the steps on how to resolve this issue very quickly. Here is a detailed link to this post.If you are here reading this troubleshooting guide "new Veeam Backup server but then Veeam won’t start", this means you must have recently installed Veeam Backup and Replication Server or must have recently upgraded it. As you can see from the images below, these are some errors I encountered while installing Veeam Backup and Replication in my test environment before deployment.The "Failed to start service / connect to Veeam" and "connection refus
I am more than excited to announce today that I was selected from the raffle as a winner of this amazing prize. Basically I love kicks and this will be my regular henceforth.My enthusiasm go make me to use this shoe almost every day eeehn (Naija pidgin) . Special thanks to @Kseniya and @Rick Vanover for this special opportunity as a Veeam Legend. I am grateful once again.This bring me to the question @Rick Vanover, how can Veeam maximise my sites? I love to even showcase Veeam more and more on my site. I get thousand of visitors and viewers around the world each day, and I want Veeam to leverage on this.
If you wish to explore the capabilities of Veeam Backup and Replication v11A, then you probably upgrade to this version. Kindly visit the following URL for more of these capabilities/features.Here is a link to the complete guide highlighting on all the needed steps.You may be notified if there is an update of the Veeam Backup and Replication. Upon clicking on this notification, you will be redirected to the following KB (download) link. Note: I will be upgrading from Veeam v11 Build 11.0.0.839 → 11.0.1.1261.I will be downloading the new 11A ISO as shown below. If you are not prompted that an update is available, you can download the latest version of the Veeam Backup and Replication ISO from the following Veeam Backup & Replication Download page. You will be required to login in order to access the download. Before proceeding to upgrade, ensure all existing jobs are successfully completed. If there are any filed jobs, ensure to re-run them.- Also, ensure there isn't any restore s
Having read and analyzed this myself, employees make these mistakes day in and day out. User Awareness Training is never enough!!! In cyber security, there are two types of companies, those that have been hacked and those that are yet to be hacked :-) Recently, Microsoft was in the news, and now Cisco. You may want to read about the attack: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-hacked-by-yanluowang-ransomware-gang-28gb-allegedly-stolen/Some security experts have simplified and explained the breach! Kindly employ ways to increase and improve your security defenses, else you will pay the real-life costs of getting breached. Today, I was just discussing and shedding light on this guide below and I highlighted that despite the attacks perpetrated on 2FA, it Is still highly recommended to employ it (still far better than the alternative of simply relying on a username and a strong password), and also never underestimate user awareness training whenever possible…
VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of guests operating systems and seamless user interactions with them. VMware Tools has the ability to pass messages from the host operating system to the guest operating system. Therefore, VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine guest operating system and improves the management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality. Installing VMware Tools improves these issues low video resolution, inadequate color depth, incorrect display of network speed, restricted movement of the mouse, inability to copy and paste and drag and drop files, missing sound, and provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots of the guest OS, and synchronises the time in the guest operating system with the time on the host Impacted ProductVMware Tools for Wind
Windows LAPS is also referred to as Windows Local Administrator Password Solution which is a new feature that allows System Administrators to secure and protect local administrator passwords on domain PCs. More specifically, if you ever needed to recover a device and wished you could log in with a local administrator account in an AD or AAD environment, bingo! Here is an article created on Microsoft LAPS (Legacy LAPS) by Gary Williams. You can still use this solution in an Emulation mode while you prepare to migrate to the improved Windows LAPS. https://www.veeam.com/blog/microsoft-laps-deployment-configuration-troubleshoot-guide.htmlWindows LAPS inherits many design concepts from legacy Microsoft LAPS. If you're familiar with legacy Microsoft LAPS, many Windows LAPS features are familiar. A key difference is that Windows LAPS is an entirely separate implementation that's native to Windows. Windows LAPS also adds many features that aren't available in legacy Microsoft LAPS. You can use
Account lockout help keep user accounts secure by preventing unauthorised users etc., from guessing the username and password. When your account is locked, you will have to wait for a specified amount of time before being able to log into your account again. Here is the link to the original blogpost. In the past, it was recommended to disable the local Administrator account due to several known vulnerabilities such as the built-in administrator account cannot be locked out no matter how many failed logins it accrues, making it a prime target for brute-force attacks that attempt to guess passwords. This is no longer true as beginning October 11, 2022, or later Windows cumulative updates, a local policy will be available to enable local administrator account lockouts. Brute force attacks are one of the prevalent ways Windows devices are attacked today. Previously, Windows devices did not allow local administrators to be locked out. This leads to scenarios where, without the proper netwo
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Veeam ONE is a comprehensive solution developed by Veeam Software and it enables real-time monitoring, business documentation, and management reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam ONE is designed to give IT administrators peace of mind to manage every aspect of the modern virtual environment.Do not turn your eyes away from unknown issues lurking in your environment. Mitigate potential issues even before they occur (threats) with 340+ preset alarms and 150+ prebuilt reports available in Veeam One.Veeam ONE brings deep visibility that helps you prevent common backup problems, stay informed about your storage trends and cut costs through better storage usage and planning, thanks to new insights for NAS data.In the typical deployment scenario, all Veeam ONE components are installed on a single machine, and this comprises of the Veeam ONE Client and Veeam ONE Web Client.– Veeam ONE Client is the primary tool used f
Who else took the LabWarz challenge? Here is my score :-)What did you score?Outside the score, I found he challenge very informative. A quick way to learn!
This article was birthed by the following article shared in the community which by @Viperian. Kindly take a look at the comment section of this post as they are very informative as well.I see a lot of environments shared online with the .local suffix and this made me create a blog post on how to set up a Domain Controller as Recommended by Microsoft. There are numerous articles on this topic on the blog but I have decided to share the latest that was prompted by the above concern.But then, this is a new Active Directory environment. The issue has not been solved for existing AD environments with the .local suffix. Hence, this guide was developed to tackle this problem. Please see “how to change Active Directory Domain name from dot local to dot com” for more information. Note: I would recommend backing up your AD environment before making any changes to your domain controllers. I would recommend using Veeam Backup and Replication for AD protection. This ensures that you can recover in
As already shared by @dips, Microsoft has issued a statement on a zero-day remote code execution flaw tagged CVE-2022-30190 concerning the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) in Windows vulnerability. Microsoft Security Response Center team has detailed this security flaw and its impact on certain versions of Windows and Windows Server.These steps has been detailed on my blog via the following link. You do not need to visit it as all the steps are highlighted here as well. You will find interesting discussions on this topic in the link below. What is MSDT? Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) is a service in Windows 11/10/8 and 7 and also on Windows Server. The tool allows Microsoft support representatives to analyze diagnostic data and find a resolution to issues.A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is purpose-built for simplicity, scale, savings, and security for your Azure environment. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is available as a virtual machine (VM) offer exclusively through the Azure Marketplace in both Free and BYOL editions.Here are some guides that may interest you: How to set up Veeam ONE 11 Server, What’s new in Veeam Backup and replication v11?, how to install and configure Veeam Backup and Replication 11 Community Edition with its default SQL Server Express Edition, how to migrate Veeam MsSQL Database to a new MsSQL Server, and how to install Veeam Backup and Replication 11 Community Edition with a dedicated SQL Server.Due to the Shared Responsibility Model by Cloud providers, it is evident that it is still your data and that you retain the responsibility to secure and protect it. You may want to take a look at Veeam Backup & Replication which can also enable you to centrally manage Azure backup with another cloud, virtual, phy
Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. With Veeam Backup & Replication you can Create crash-consistent and application-consistent backups of virtual and physical machines, quickly restore physical machines, EC2 instances, VMs, VM disks, guest OS files, and application items, perform a backup health check to verify that backups are not corrupted and are ready for restoring, create VM replicas and switch to them in case of a disaster and automate transferring of backups to tapes and other external repositories. Veeam Backup and Replication Configuration Database Settings come with the Veeam.Backup.DBConfig.exe utility that allows you to manage connection settings for Veeam Backup & Replication and/or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager configuration database. Using this utility, you can:1. Connect to a different Microsoft SQL Server instance. If you specify a database that does not exist yet, i
Recently as blogged already, I got a DS923+ Nas and here is one of the guides agreed upon. This short article will discuss how to set up iSCSI Target and Storage LUN on Synology DS923+ for VBR.ISCSI stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface. It revolutionizes storage accessibility by seamlessly transporting SCSI commands over TCP/IP networks, granting unparalleled block-level access to storage devices. This innovative technology bridges the gap between traditional storage systems and modern networking infrastructures, empowering businesses with efficient, scalable, and flexible storage solutions.iSCSI allows you to use a Windows repository with ReFS which leverages FastClone. Do you wish to learn more about why the Storage LUN Better is better than a Mapped Network Drive etc. Create iSCSI Targets/LUNYou can create an ISCSI target or LUn on a Synology DS923+. Since this is a pretty new device, we will create both on the fly.For simplicity, I will create a single LUN and presen
Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26503) in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows allows local privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with LOCAL SYSTEM privileges.https://www.veeam.com/kb4289
Modern business requires a Modern Data Protection solution that not only allows for the backup and recovery of core infrastructure, clouds, and applications but enables the lowest possible operational overhead through advanced automation, monitoring and orchestration. With Veeam Modern Data Protection, your critical data such as Microsoft 365 Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint online will be protected with just one integrated solution. However, Veeam also offers Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 as a standalone product to protect and restore Microsoft O365 data, including Office 365 mailboxes, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, and Teams. It allows you to timely back up your data weekly, daily, or as often as every five minutes.Here is a guide on why is it imperative to protect Microsoft Office 365.As of today, data is the most critical resource and valuable currency in the world. In Cyber Security, we refer to data as the New Oil. This Forbes link will highlight more on this
I have crafted an article on “Demystifying Zero Trust with Veeam: Design your Architecture”. In this piece, I discussed the concept of Zero Trust, and why it is of importance today.Further in this guide, the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model was deciphered in detail and the gaps were identified. It will interest you to know that these gaps have been adequately catered for by Veeam. To achieve this, the Zero Trust Data Resilience Requirements were defined, and the approaches were critically examined (outlined).Note: A holistic, effective implementation of Zero Trust Data Resilience principles is not a one-time, but a long-term project. The good news is that you can achieve radical resilience that only comes from having complete confidence in your cyber threat protection, response, and recovery with Veeam’s Solutions.Unfortunately, since this piece is not technical, I am unable to share all the details here. Kindly refer to the associated hyperlink above for more information.
Hi there, I would like to create a lot of blog posts on Veam Backup and replication, VeeamOne monitor, etc. Does Veeam have a promotion license for bloggers?
In this guide, I will show you how to display logon banners for VBR Server via Group Policy and Windows Registry.Why Display Interactive Logon Messages for your VBR Server?Oftentimes, System Administrators undermine the importance of implementing security practice. However, the display of a warning message before signing in helps act as a deterrent against unauthorized access attempts. Potential intruders may be discouraged from attempting to log on if they are presented with a clear message indicating that unauthorized access is prohibited and subject to consequences.Detective control is designed to reduce the likelihood someone will chose to perform a certain activity.For some of us that have administered network devices in the past such as on Cisco appliances, you will be very conversant with the implementation of logon banners (MOTD). This is usually over-looked on Windows. So, why not implement it for the solution that protects your critical business data? There are numerous reaso
If you have a keen interest in exploring Microsoft 365 management, you'll find the Microsoft 365 Developer Program beneficial in order to enhance your skills. This program is tailored to meet the needs of individuals like yourself who are eager to delve deeper into the intricacies of Microsoft 365.By participating in the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, you gain access to a rich set of resources and tools designed to empower your learning journey. This program serves as an ideal solution for those seeking to expand their expertise in Microsoft 365. It provides a comprehensive platform where you can explore and develop proficiency in managing Microsoft 365 services and applications.Within this program, you'll discover a wealth of learning opportunities, including documentation, tutorials, and hands-on experiences that cater to developers and enthusiasts alike. Whether you're interested in understanding the nuances of Microsoft 365 services, exploring application development within the e
TeamPass is a Passwords Manager dedicated to managing passwords in a collaborative way by sharing them among team members.. It is an Open Source project totally free of charge for any usage. Recent times, there have been lots of news on Password Manager exploit, Here are some examples A lot of articles have been shared on how to choose the right password manager such as the following below. But I am here today to share with you a completely free solution that you can use at home and at your organisation for free. Here is a fantastic question raised by @Geoff Burke ”is it safe to use online password stores? “ , Visit this article to learn more about the various contributions from the community. TeamPass Password Manager enables you to organise password items into a structured way of folders associated with access rights given to dedicated users and groups. Features of TeamPass Password ManagerTeamPass provides a lot of options and features permitting you to customise it to
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