More and more questions come up from customers, such as whether they can back up Azure File Sync data with Veeam and how to do it. The short answer is “yes we can!” But it’s a good idea to check the different configuration options. Read more

A few weeks ago, our engineers helped solve a big problem for an organization that needed to leverage Veeam Agents and Cloud Connect Backup to secure company data stored on the laptops and workstations of their remote workforce (you can read about that scenario here). Another opportunity came our way when we were asked to help this company reconsider their disaster recovery (DR) plan. Read more

To put it simply, we all should "hope for the best, prepare for the worst." The 3-2-1 Rule does just that; it helps you prepare for the worst while keeping the process simple and easy. Take 10 seconds and think of the worst three things that could happen to your data. Let's explore all the options on our hands. Read more

Microsoft originally offered the Microsoft Network Monitor which was subsequently succeeded by the Microsoft Message Analyzer application. Unfortunately, Microsoft has discontinued the Microsoft Message Analyzer and removed its download links. Therefore, only the older Microsoft Network Monitor is available. In this article, we are going to see how to capture and inspect packets using the latest available version of Microsoft Network Monitor. Read more

Any Microsoft SQL database administrator (DBA) will need to patch a SQL installation at one time or another. Using PowerShell, this can be made far easier and more convenient, especially with large numbers of servers. In this article, we are going to build a simple script for patching SQL Servers with Service Packs. Read more

In this tutorial, you will take a hands-on approach to resize a virtual machine in Azure with PowerShell. You will write code to mitigate the need to navigate to the Azure Portal and instead, manage the virtual machine with code from a text editor. Read more

When it comes to Disaster Recovery, vSphere tags can make things a lot easier. Let’s take a look at five quick tips on how to use vSphere tags in your environment alongside Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Read more

Veeam ONE allows you to create notifications for each predetermined alarm or alarms that we create ourselves. In this blog post we are going to see how to send the most critical notifications that we have to different channels in Microsoft Teams or Slack, not only because we are all more attentive to these communication tools, but because it is really easy to configure certain alarms depending on their importance and type of alarm, to the most relevant teams to solve and treat the alarm. Read more