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August, 2019

13 August
My Top 5 Veeam ONE Reports for VMware

Introduction With this blog post I would like to introduce my top 5 Veeam ONE Reports for VMware, which I use in various projects regarding VMware and backup infrastructure planning. Veeam ONE is designed for documenting and reporting on the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, VMware vSphere, vCloud Director and …
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8 August
PowerShell File Hash Calculator Script

File Hash Calculator in PowerShell This File Hash Calculator Script in PowerShell lets you calculate a hash of a given file and compares it with the original hash/checksum the user provides. The Get-FileHash cmdlet computes the hash value for a file by using a specified hash algorithm. A hash value …
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June, 2019

26 June
Monitoring Veeam Backup & Replication with Splunk – Part 3 Getting Veeam Data into Splunk

This final part of the series now covers on how to set up the universal forwader on the Veeam server and how to establish a connection to our Splunk server. The Veeam technology addon for Splunk will be covered in this article aswell, as it is responsible for pushing data …
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25 June
Monitoring Veeam Backup & Replication with Splunk – Part 2 Installing the Plugin and configuring the Firewall

Now that we have installed our Splunk server, we need to do some more installation and configuration. This part covers the installation of the “Veeam Backup Monitor for Splunk” plugin and the firewall configuration on the Veeam Backup and Replication server and the Splunk Server for future communication. Downloading the …
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24 June
Monitoring Veeam Backup & Replication with Splunk – Part 1 Installation

I recently talked to one of our Big Data / Analytics guys about overarching themes in our subject areas. Since I’m a guy who is familiar with virtualization, backup and cloud subjects i always search for topics which have a relation to each other. That is how we managed to …
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17 June
VeeamON 2019 in Miami – my review

The surprise… First of all i have to start with the 24th of April. I just came home from work in the evening and was eating for dinner. After that i rechecked my E-Mails to find an e-mail from Veeam where i have been chosen to win the complimentary full …
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2 June
VeeamON Forum Germany 2019 in Wiesbaden

After the awesome VeeamON conference in Miami my next event I’m going to attend is the VeeamON Forum at the 5th of June in Wiesbaden. I’m happy to be there again, as it is always a great place to speak with the german Veeam employees and representatives. Furthermore, it is …
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May, 2019

2 May
Modern Authentication with Veeam Backup for Office 365 V3

Introduction to Modern Authentication Since the release of version 3 of Veeam Backup for Office 365, you are now able to use the so called “modern authentication”. This means using service accounts enabled for multi-factor authentication. Therfore you will need an Azure Active Directory custom application and a service account …
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March, 2019

13 March
Veeam Backup Validator PowerShell GUI

Hello all ! About two weeks ago i remembered a very underestimated feature from Veeam. The Veeam Backup Validator ! This command line tool helps you with checking your Veeam Backups. It checks your backup files via CRC at the file level. For the integrity validation of your backups the …
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February, 2019

15 February
New Features in Veeam Backup for Office 365 v3 BETA

General Information On Wednesday the 13th, Veeam released the public Beta for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3. I really appreciate this approach by Veeam, so the community is able to test it and give feedback in case of bugs or questions regarding the new features. All information and …
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