Tech Notes & Dad Jokes

Veeam Introduces Support for Proxmox VE

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:May 14, 2024
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At the request of multiple SMB customers, much of it due to the turbulence in the virtualization industry with Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, Veeam has listened to the requests for support of additional hypervisors. Today, Veeam announced support for Proxmox VE. This will provide support to those SMB clients that are finding VMware vSphere's rising pricings unaffordable. Personally, I'm looking forward to this support as it now makes utilizing Proxmox much more of a viable…

New Upcoming Series – Object First Ootbi

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:February 21, 2024
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By now, most folks in the Veeam community should be aware of Object First. But if you've been living under a virtual rock, Object First that is a company that came out of secrecy mode less than two years ago at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas. Co-founded by the co-founders of Veeam, Object First has developed the Ootbi, or the "Out of the box immutability" immutability appliance. It's a SuperMicro server running a hardened Ubuntu…

Service Provider Console Management Agent Access to VBR with MFA Enabled

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:January 25, 2024
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I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console. At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC. The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR. After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within…

Veeam releases Veeam Data Platform 23H2 and Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:December 5, 2023
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Veeam this morning released the newest edition of the Veeam Data Platform, Update 23H2. Included in this release is Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 which includes a whole host of new features including several wrapped around Cyber Resiliency which includes a new malware detection engine, proactive threat hunting, malware dashboard, and more! Also released is the newest build of the Veeam ONE v12.1 and for all of the Service Providers out there, the Veeam Service…

VeeamON Resiliency Summit – Embrace Cyber Resiliency – Oct 24/25, 2023

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:October 18, 2023
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In case you haven't seen all of the banners around the interwebs, Veeam is prepping for the VeeamON Resiliency Summit. This event is in just a few days on October 24th (25th for APJ). This is the evolution of the VeeamON Tour, that is, the mid-year update from VeeamON. In a few short days the Veeam team will be providing unveiling new information about the Veeam Data Platform 23H2, including but not limited to Veeam…

Patch P20231015 for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 Released

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:October 12, 2023
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A few days ago, I found an email in my my mailbox stating the below. Dear Partner, We are pleased to announce that the new patch P20231005 for Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 is now available for download. For partners using modern app‑only authentication, this build brings back the support for backup and restore of public folders and discovery search mailboxes, as well as identification of a shared mailbox user. (emphasis added) Along with that, the patch delivers a set of bug fixes and resolves the memory leak issue observed in the earlier build relating to the use of the Exchange Online PowerShell…

“Failed to create Azure Active Directory application” when setting up VB365 Restore Portal

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:August 22, 2023
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Found a perplexing issue when I was setting up VB365 the other day. I was attempting to set up the Restore Portal in my multitenant environment using Jorge’s guide (for v6 mind you, but close enough) but when I was attempting to enable the Azure AD application, I was receiving a pretty non-descript error. Veeam Error: “Failed to create Azure Active Directory application.” A bit of googling didn’t turn up much. After a lot of…

Veeam Legends – A Year in Review

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:August 14, 2023
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Late last night I received a welcome email congratulating me on my renewal for the second half of 2023 as a member of the Veeam Legends and Veeam 100 program. This means that I'm rounding out my first full year as a Legend, so I thought it appropriate to provide a quick(ish) recap of just what the past year has entailed, as well as what what it coming up for the Veeam 100 members as well as how you can work to join this fantastic community.

A Sysadmin Story: The cost of not updating your systems when advised, and when lives are at stake!

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:July 19, 2023
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Long, long ago (okay, it was 2020) in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as a small rural community in centralish Nebraska), there resides a community hospital who shall rename nameless. We, an eastern Nebraska-based MSP, sourced this new client and it’s looking like the beginning of a fabulous relationship.

Service Providers – Where to Find Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Licenses Consumed per Organization Tenant

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:July 6, 2023
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The Task at Hand, or the problem to solve NOTE: This post was updated at the end on 07 July 2023 to include additional information on where the license consumption is available. As a service provider that is actively growing our BaaS offering, one major source or growth is Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Obviously, you need to protect your Microsoft 365 data, and if you are a Microsoft 365 user but aren't backing…