The world of NAS has changed over the years, historically being used as a central location to store and share user files and home directory data across the business.

Today, NAS is used much more widely - commonly including applications, large unstructured data sets and virtualization. What has also changed is the scalability that you can now achieve through your production NAS devices by exposing NFS or SMB protocols for these workloads. As such, unstructured data is currently measured in Petabytes and continues to grow exponentially.

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In this article, we will explore using PowerShell to create and modify an Azure DNS zone. By the end of this article, you’ll know how to work with Azure DNS zones (public and private) and various records therein. Read more

Microsoft Sysinternals PSExec is an essential tool for any IT administrator. Able to remotely execute commands, install software, launch applications, and run as the system account, PSExec makes short work of common administrative tasks.

As you will find out in this article, there are many different use cases, of which we barely scratch the surface. With that in mind, let’s jump into some common PSExec commands and scenarios below!

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Instant VM Recovery is a technology that has quickly become a fundamental requirement in the backup industry today. I’m happy to say that Veeam was the first to provide this technology to the market, and it is by far the most iterated and advanced implementation out there. In Veeam Availability Suite v10, Instant VM Recovery has been significantly enhanced; effectively reinventing its use cases for you and your data. In this blog post, I’ll overview a number of the new improvements in v10. Read more

A great way to improve your PowerShell module-building workflow is to use a Git repository hosted on GitHub. Using a Github repo for your PowerShell module comes with many benefits. These benefits include being able to roll back to previous versions and creating multiple branches to be able to test different changes while maintaining the existing working module among others.

In this article, you will learn how to create a GitHub repository for an existing PowerShell module to make development much more efficient.

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One of the biggest challenges when backing up data from Microsoft Office 365 was Microsoft's throttling metrics placed on SharePoint Online and OneDrive site data. This throttling is based on per account to a single site. In previous versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, the backup processing will download data with the one account used to authenticate the organization. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4 added a new feature called auxiliary backup accounts to help mitigate this issue. Read more

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can create a PowerShell module to interact with a REST API using the swagger petstore API as an example. You’ll also pick up some tips and tricks along the way to make the code work as efficiently as possible. Read more

Use our Custom Search Engine page to quickly search through all Veeam resources like forums, help center, KBs, blogs, white papers and more! Read more

It’s not a secret that we’re calling Veeam Availability Suite v10 the biggest release in Veeam’s history. There are lots of goodies we’ve baked into this version and now it’s my turn to unveil features which could be collectively named “Linux enhancements”, allowing you to leverage Linux ecosystem in the ways you wanted but couldn’t before. Without any further ado, let me please divide features by categories and then show them in order. Read more

Just like getting myself vaccinated helps with herd immunity while helping myself, protecting businesses helps protect the system on both a small and global scale. I am doing my part in this effort. This means I am always on the lookout for a better alternative way to achieve results. And that is where Veeam Backup & Replication v10 and immutability of your backup files in object storage comes into play. Read more