Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul
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Certificate Verification Failure when Patching Veeam Backup for Office 365? You’re not alone!
UPDATE 18/08/2022: Veeam have an expired certificate impacting auto-updates for older versions of v6, this is fixed from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 Cumulative Patch P20220718 (6.0.0.400) onwards. As Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a is now available, I suggest updating to this instead due to important Microsoft Teams data protection changes. See KB4344 for the download link,…
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Using an Asustor NAS? Shut it down now!
Hi everyone, Quick one here due to time sensitivity. Deadbolt, the ransomware that has previously been utilised to attack QNAP NAS devices, has been used to attack Asustor NAS devices. Looks like there’s an exploit in the EZ Connect system, so advice is currently to disconnect the NAS from the internet and disable this service…
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Backups, Trust, Boundaries, and Cloud Security Considerations in 2022
Cloud adoption continues to increase as organisations are either taking their first steps into the cloud, or progressing their IT strategies, whether it’s a full cloud migration, multi-cloud or delivering a hybrid architecture. A great workload to leverage the cloud has been as a backup repository. By using the cloud, we can meet multiple improvements…
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VMware vCenter Log4j Patches Available
As of yesterday, VMware released the vCenter Log4j fixes for releases 6.5 and 6.7 of both their vCenter Server Appliance and vCenter Server (for Windows). Combined with the previously released vCenter 7.0 patch, VMware now offer complete protection against the currently disclosed Log4j vulnerabilities within the VMware vCenter product. What version do I need? Depending…
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VeeamON 2022 Website is Live!
Yep, it’s happening! VeeamON 2022 is fast approaching! Let’s get straight down to business: When? 16-19th May 2022 What’s going to be there? All the latest news and insights from Veeam. Whether you want to know about what’s coming in v12, how to protect modern cloud workloads such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes or SaaS solutions such as…
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Key Changes in the New Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a Release
As the headline suggests, Veeam recently released a “version 3a“ of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Whilst there are your usual mixture of security fixes and bugs resolved, it actually brings a new (and welcome) change to the licensing structure around protecting Azure SQL workloads (not to be confused with Azure virtual machines running SQL…
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Upcoming Community Engagement: Veeam’s Friday Tech Bytes – Friday 21st January 5pm 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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Veeam Backup Service Fails to Start – AKA How I broke my lab this time…
It feels like everyone is always trying so hard to be perfect, I’m certainly not! But I’m happy to learn from and share my mistakes. I was messing about recently with Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator and made some changes to my lab, and all was fine when I shut down. A few days later I…
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Fixed: Windows BitLocker Password Screen Auto Powering Off
Quick one from me today. I’ve had to fix this so many times I thought I may as well do a write up… If you’re like me and have no TPM but want to use BitLocker, or if you just see the security advantages to typing a password prior to unlocking your machine, then you’re…
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Veeam Legend Experience – Year One Review
As the Veeam Legend 2022 intake is only a couple of months away, I wanted to share my experience and views on the Veeam Legend program, and help those considering it, whether it’s right for them. Today I’ll give a brief overview of the Veeam Legend program in case you’re not familiar and then I’ll…
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 