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Hello everyone A long time ago, I was employed as a programmer at a small hosting company. About eight weeks in, I had just returned after two weeks of absence from the office due to family matters. Out of the 3 Linux sysadmins we had, we only had one left. The only one left got tasked to replace a RAID controller on a faulty server overnight. When I came in the next morning, I got a call from the customer asking why their server was still down. Being the programmer in the company, I contacted the owner and the Windows sysadmin to see if they knew why. They gave me the cellphone number of the engineer and I reached out. All I got was a snarl from him with “I am still working on it!”Together with the Windows sysadmin, we decided to go to the data center and see if we could help him somehow. When we entered the suite, the only thing he could say was “Everything is gone, I can no longer find the partition tables”. He gave some details on what he did and we decided to send him home to get
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
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 hackathonOn 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 participatedAll 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: h
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 hackathonOn September 28, 2023, @JonahMay and I will organize the 1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathon! This event will start at 15:00 CEST/9:00 AM EST and will run for 24hTeams of 12-18 will work together and consist of people from all over the world, with the ultimate goal to bring the world together in a fun community event You are not required to participate for the full 24h but you are welcome to. Each group has a group-leader. This leader is someone from the Veeam100 group We are using members from the Veeam100 group because they are experts in the Veeam products. The teams should make the life of an end-user easier by creating a complementary product to one of the existing Veeam products. An example would be the Grafana dashboards created by @jorge.delacruz There is no limit on the te
Introduction Last week I wrote a blogpost on how to install and update VM365 using Chocolatey. This week we will continue with Veeam Backup & Replication or VBR. Unfortunately installing a VBR Server is not as easy as VB365. The installation of a VBR Server has some required parameters that you need to configure for the installation to work, the management software (console and explorers) do not require parameters and are quite straight forward. Best practices tell us that the VBR Server and console should be installed on separate (virtual) machines. With Chocolatey this is achievable. But, if you really want, one can install the console on the same machine.For more VBR best practices have a look at the bg guide: https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/ ❗ If you do not know what Chocolatey is, what it's for and how to install it, please read the blogpost for VB365 linked above ❗ Chocolatey Tips & Tricks Most Chocolatey packages require Administrator permissions to install. Usually packages e
Hi All,Mastering Veeam APIs with Grafana banner;the Automation Desk is back with a new event; Mastering Veeam APIs with Grafana. This will be a virtual event, in English so anyone can attend!Our one and only Senior Analyst at Veeam @jorge.delacruz will join the Automation Desk Leaders @k00laidIT, @JMeixner and @mkevenaar.In this online session, you will learn the fundamentals of using RESTful APIs for automation and observability with Grafana, specifically in the context of Veeam APIs. We will cover the basics of REST architecture, including the key principles and how it can be used to create efficient and scalable web services. You will also learn how to use Grafana to automate repetitive tasks and visualize performance metrics, allowing you to monitor and optimize your Veeam infrastructure.• Learn the fundamentals of RESTful APIs and how to use them for automation and observability with Grafana• Explore Veeam APIs and how to interact with them using RESTful requests• Discover how to
It has been a while since I wrote a blog post about Veeam. This time, I wrote one, especially for the Service Providers running Veeam software. You may or may not know about the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), but in short, it’s for you if you are a Service Provider and it’s free!Just like the VBR and VB365 packages, the VSPC software is distributed as an ISO. This is not new to me and made it possible to leverage the Chocolatey ISO Mount extension once again. Veeam Service Provider Console, the Chocolatey packagesThis series of VSPC packages consist of the following Chocolatey packages:Veeam Service Provider Console ISO downloader Veeam Service Provider Console Application Server Veeam Service Provider Console Application WebUI Veeam Service Provider Console Application Server for Self-Service Portal for Veeam Agents Veeam Service Provider Console Self-Service Portal APIs for Veeam Agents Veeam Service Provider Console Application Server for Veeam ConnectWise Manage Plugin Veea
The great people from the Community hub (looking at you @Madi.Cristil, @safiya and @Rick Vanover) have created a new badge, just for our group: The Automation Wizard badge! What do you have to do to earn this badge? You created 10 topics and replied 15 times in Automation Desk.
Hi Everyone, We have seen the post by @Rick Vanover two months ago where he showed his first steps into Automation:And now I am asking your story, how did you start your journey into Automation? What tools did you use, what resources did you use, what mistakes did you make, etc. NOTE: This does not have to be Veeam related, but would be preferred. If you haven't started your journey jet, what is holding you back? What resources / information are you missing? Thanks, Maurice
Hi all, During the V12 event there was an on-demand content video about Veeam-Man: Master of the Dataverse! If you haven't seen it, it's belowAs far as I have been told, the “ad” tells you that the action figures are sold separately. But, as one might expect it isn't (officially) available.
Hi All, I wonder, what kind of tools are you using for your day-to-day automation tasks? My top / most used list:Chocolatey Boxstarter PowerShell Ansible Bash
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. December Chocolatey Month has come to an end. All the results are counted and we are ready to announce the winners! We want to thank everyone participated in this contest and we really hope you enjoyed it!Recap There are 17 people that have participated in this contest. Two who are not mentioned in the leaderboard because their score is excluded due to the rules. However, they will get a special mention here: @safiya and @JMeixner. There were 21 questions. Two participants provided an answer for every question out there. 1 questions wasn't answered correctly by any of the participants and a total of 331 points were given. On average almost 8 answers where provided on each question, the most where 12 and least 5 participants.If you want to read the ques
Hi all,Introduction For those who do not know what Chocolatey is, in short it's an package manager for Windows. Just like apt/yum/dnf/etc for linux or brew for MacOS. If you want more information, have a look at their website. There are links to their docs and other resources for more information. If you can't find what you are looking for, reach out to them on their Discord or drop me a DM (probably slower responses) Why Chocolatey?Installing software on a Windows machine is like the wild west, every installer is different. There is no standardized installation. A lot of people who have installed software probably know the installer where you have that blue background and those white letters on top with the name of the software, or an installer where the next > button on the next screen is replaced by the < previous button. We all blindly click on next, next, next, finish, right?Only to find out that you, for example, need to install .NET Framework as a dependency and if you wan
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Which Veeam software suite(s) are currently not available as Chocolatey packages? a) Veeam Backup for AWSb) Veeam Backup and Replicationc) Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestratord) Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365e) Veeam Backup for Azuref) Veeam Agent for Windowsg) Veeam ONEh) Veeam Backup for Google Cloudi) Veeam Service Provider Consolej) Veeam Backup for Salesforce Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 31th 18:00 CETThis is the last question of this contest! This question has multiple answers. 1 point will be rewarded for each correct answer. A wrong answer will deduct 1 point.Screenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Windows Features can be installed using Chocolatey a) Trueb) False Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 29th 13:30 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. To install the management console and explorers for Veeam Backup & Replication you'll install which package: a) veeam-backup-and-replication-serverb) veeam-backup-and-replication-managementc) veeam-backup-and-replication-remote-controld) veeam-backup-and-replication-console Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 29th 13:30 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. All Chocolatey packages have an embedded PowerShell scripts that are used to install the software a) Trueb) False Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 28th 09:00 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Chocolatey packages are based on: a) rpm packagesb) zip archivesc) nupkg packagesd) deb packages Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 24th 15:00 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls.This will be the last leaderboard posted before results!Username Score @dips 34 @Chris.Childerhose 33 @jos.maliepaard 30 @dloseke 28 @HangTen416 27 @regnor 26 @Geoff Burke 21 @marcofabbri 16 @MarkBoothman 13 @JHoughes 10 @Inder 8 @vAdmin 8 @Iams3le 5 @ratkinsonuk 4
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Which one is not true, a Chocolatey source can be: a) Any NuGet api v3 feedb) Hosted on a Nexus serverc) A file share or folderd) The Chocolatey Community Repository Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 23th 12:45 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Chocolatey ecosystem is only available on the command line: a) Trueb) False Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 21th 11:45 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Chocolatey was founded by: a) Willy Wonkab) Rob Reynoldsc) Paul Broadwith and Gary Ewan Parkd) Bill Gates Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 21th 11:45 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Can I only install Chocolatey packages when I have local Administrator permissions? a) Yesb) No Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 20th 11:45 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls.Username Score @dips 24 @Chris.Childerhose 23 @jos.maliepaard 23 @HangTen416 21 @dloseke 20 @regnor 18 @marcofabbri 16 @MarkBoothman 13 @Geoff Burke 13 @vAdmin 8 @Inder 6 @Iams3le 5 @JHoughes 4 @ratkinsonuk 4
December Chocolatey Month banner; Alfred, a cat and community mascotte, is wearing a Christmas hat and licking a Chocolate bar with the Chocolatey logo on it. On the background pine trees are draw, a green heart and some festive swirls. Chocolatey CLI can be used in combination with this automation tool: a) Ansibleb) Puppetc) Chefd) PowerShell DSCe) Saltf) Otterg) All of the above Submissions should be in a spoiler and accepted until December 16th 10:45 CETScreenshot of the Comment box where you can find the spoiler option. Last icon on the right (More) and then lowest option (Spoiler) More info and rules:
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