Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul
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Microsoft Skype for Business Online’s Retirement is this Month! What to do?
So, you’ve been living under a rock, or you’ve just been busy with everything else, it doesn’t matter, if you’re either using Skype for Business Online exclusively or in a hybrid state with Lync Server/Skype for Business Server, you need to take action this month. Within this blog post we’ll be looking at the Skype…
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Windows 11 Has Been Announced! Now, About Them System Requirements…
Microsoft made a lot of noise about Windows 11 when they announced it last week, however they were a bit more shy when it came to talking about what it’ll take to run Windows 11…
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Veeam Certified Engineer 2021 Exam Released & Reviewed
I was recently made aware that Veeam have released the 2021 edition of the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) exam. If you’ve already got a VMCE 2020 certification, or have taken the VMCE 2020 training course within the past year, (or even been lucky enough to already take a seat on the VMCE 2021 training course)…
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Upcoming Community Engagement: VeeamON 2021 – Wednesday 26th May 2021 3PM GMT
Ready to talk about VeeamON 2021? I am! I’m going to be delivering a session at VeeamON this year, read on to find out all the details!
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Troubleshooting Tip: Recovering Access to a MSSQL Database
I was recently helping a customer create a SQL database backup for a support ticket and noticed that they had an interesting SQL Server configuration. There was only a single account with sysadmin rights, the sa account, but this account wasn’t allowed to sign in. The SQL Server was domain joined but there was just…
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Veeam – Achieving 3-2-1-1-0 Protection for Cloud Native Workloads
Ensuring you protect your public cloud workloads can require you to adapt your approach, but in this post, we’ll discuss how we can still meet and exceed our 3-2-1-1-0 best practice rule.
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Microsoft Azure Sentinel Log Analytics- Not Collecting Syslog
Today I was asked to advise on why a particular firewall was unable to send its syslog data to Azure Sentinel and found something rather interesting I thought would be useful to share. Firstly I validated that the deployment steps had been followed and that the VM Extension for Linux had been attached to the…
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VMware vSphere 6.5 – End of General Support Changes
Hey everyone! VMware released some unexpected news yesterday regarding the end of support for vSphere & vCenter 6.5 and vSAN 6.5 & 6.6. These were both originally intended to reach End of General Support (EoGS) this year, on the 15th November 2021. VMware are now extending this general support window to the 15th October 2022,…
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Designing Meaningful Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) Policies
Today, I’d like to talk about creating and scoping realistic and enforceable RPOs and RTOs for your Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) policies and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) within your organization. As every organization will have different requirements the focus of this blog post is on general considerations for shaping your policy. Additionally…
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Upcoming Community Engagement: Veeam v11 CrowdChat – 17th March 2021 2PM GMT
Happy Friday everyone! I’m honoured to announce that I’ll be participating in Veeam’s V11 Crowdchat alongside some truly talented members of the community. It’s taking place on the 17th March 2021 at 2pm GMT. Check it out!
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 