Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul
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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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Microsoft Exchange Server KB5000871: Unable to Apply “owaauth.dll”, 400 Bad Request & Server Error in ECP application
Hey, so I’ve been going through all our customers this week that’ve been identified as potentially at risk by the latest Exchange Server vulnerabilities (full details straight from Microsoft here) and as you can expect from a rapid response release, it’s not quite consistent when installing. Please be painfully aware of the Microsoft installation notes…
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Last Call: Veeam v11 Launch Event & Updated Veeam Documentation Now Available
Morning, Just a quick reminder that Veeam v11 is launching TODAY! If you haven’t already, click here to register for the event! Here’s the time the launch event kicks off in some time zones: AWST (Australian Western Standard Time): Midnight (25th Feb) EET (Eastern European Time): 6PM EST (Eastern Standard Time): 11AM GMT (Greenwich Mean…
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Veeam Legend 2021!
Everyone likes receiving good news. Today I’m delighted to publicly share the good news that Veeam informed me of on Wednesday. I’ve been accepted into the first intake of Veeam Legends. What are Veeam Legends? To hear it straight from the wonderful Kseniya of Veeam you can read here. In essence though, the Veeam Legends…
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Veeam Agent for Linux – Failed to create Volume Snapshot / Failed to Load Module [veeamsnap]
So I had a unique support case recently, a customer using Veeam Agent for Linux with mixed success, they had one particular server that worked fine during implementation and then after a week the backups had started to immediately fail. The server was unable to load the veeamsnap module. Veeam themselves have a great article…
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Reminder: Veeam Support Stance when new Product Versions are released (e.g. v11)
I just wanted to remind people of Veeam’s stance towards supporting multiple editions of products with the impending release of v11 and the all-star collection of upgrades we’re about to receive. Veeam have three stages to the end of the lifecycle of a product version: Stage One: End of Fix Veeam focus their development on…
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Flash Player’s End of Life is coming, are you aware of the consequences to administrating VMware?
Afternoon, if you’re working in IT then unless you’ve been living under a rock or wrecked your internet this Christmas, you’re most likely aware that Flash reached its long overdue end of life on the 31st December 2020. However, unless you’ve been reading the fine print, you may not be aware that Adobe seem to…
