Every component of the Modern Data Center requires authentication of some form or fashion.  Microsoft's Active Directory Services contains information about individual objects within the forest and stores the necessary information in a relational database (ntds.dit). Domain Controllers are the heads of the infrastructure that controls access to resources through an authentication and login process. When a user attempts to access a file on the corporate domain-based file server, either. Kerberos and NTLM are authentication protocols used to verify the identity of a computer or user. To say the least, authentication is critical to the Always-On Business.

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When we released Veeam Explorer for SQL Server last year, I was very excited about this new Explorer. It truly addresses the database restore situation with ease for virtualized SQL Server systems running as a virtual machine (VM) on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V without requiring the expertise of a SQL Server database administrator (DBA). In this blog post, I’ll focus on simply restoring a SQL Server database from a Veeam backup job.

There are three ways Veeam Explorer for SQL Server works to restore SQL Server databases: From the image-based backup restore point, from a log replay to point in time, and from a log replay to a specific transaction.

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Veeam® recently announced the Veeam® FastSCP™ for Microsoft Azure beta at Microsoft Ignite. This new release is a standalone tool that lets you copy your files securely onsite to Microsoft Azure VMs (virtual machines) and from Microsoft Azure VMs to your on-site location.

Hybrid cloud models are becoming more and more important and will continue to be important in the coming years. Using cloud resources like Microsoft Azure VMs s, for specific use-cases will give your business additional benefits and enable you to become more competitive in your industry.

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The upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v9, among many new and exciting features, will bring more enhancements for Enterprise environments. In these environments, two main characteristics usually arise, and require proper solutions: scalability and management of multiple remote/branch offices.

Interaction with guest OS of the protected virtual machines for proper backup and restore is a great advanced capability of our software. Being a completely agentless solution, our backup jobs deploy a temporary, runtime process into every virtual machine for which “Application Aware Image Processing” is enabled. This process is responsible for VSS processing orchestration, performing application-specific backup steps such as log truncation, and guest file system indexing.

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Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE as the name implies is a free solution: you can download and install it at no cost. How about support?

Usually free product comes without support at all. We like to do more, even for a free product. Here at Veeam we value customer feedback and moreover it’s one of the main motivation factors to keep making best backup solutions.

Let’s make sure we are on the same page from the very beginning: free support is provided ‘at best effort’ which means there is no SLA like in regular support for our paid solutions.

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Two weeks ago we’ve announced an upcoming Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE 1.1 and today I am very pleased to say it is general available! Be the first to upgrade your existing setup by downloading the newly released version from our website - and be rewarded with a number of new fancy features.

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In todays’ post we are going to explain the difference between ad-hoc backups and scheduled backups. Actually, there are three different types: scheduled backup, the ad-hoc backup, and the ad-hoc standalone full backup, all of them have different characteristics so let’s take a closer look.

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Thousands of books, magazines, articles and other documents about Microsoft Hyper-V are available in bookstores and on the Internet. Watch this short 1-minute video and find out the top five materials about Windows Server and Hyper-V virtualization that Veeam employees and former Hyper-V beginners find useful. Read more

Last year I was tapped to spearhead a new project here at Veeam: launch a global influencer program. This honestly was something I was a bit timid about as I have no experience operating a program like this. I’ve happily been nominated as a VMware vExpert and a Cisco Champion for a number of years. Additionally on my team, Doug Hazelman, Luca Dell’Oca and Clint Wyckoff have been nominated as current and prior vExperts and Mike Resseler as a Microsoft MVP. We feel we have a good background on how these types of programs should operate and now we are happy to publically announce the Veeam Vanguard Program.

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Microsoft Windows 10 will hit the market in a couple of days, on the 29th of July. Just like many of you, I have accepted a free upgrade offer from the tray menu popup, since I am very much looking forward to this operating system after having spent the last months as a Windows insider testing its pre-release builds.

There are quite a few enhancements that excites me, and my personal top 3 would be Microsoft Edge, Cortana and the new security measures for the enterprise.

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