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April, 2020

22 April
Creating a vCenter role for Veeam with PowerCLI

Since I was tired to click roles together in vCenter server, I wrote a simple script on creating a vCenter role for Veeam with PowerCLI. This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam …
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March, 2020

30 March
I have been selected for the Veeam Vanguard Program

On friday night I found an awesome e-mail from Nikola Pejková in my mailbox, that I have been selected for the Veeam Vanguard Program ! I can only say, that I feel absolutely honored for being selected as a Veeam Vanguard for 2020 ! Thank you Nikola, Rick and the …
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January, 2020

7 January
Top 5 most read posts of 2019

Since 2020 has already begun, I wanted to do a little recap of the blog posts I wrote in 2019. I therefore picked the top 5 most read posts of 2019 in regards to their views. The outcome is kind of interesting as it is a great mix of old …
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December, 2019

24 December
How to backup ESXi hosts with PowerCLI

At the moment I have a lot of scripts laying around which are either snippets or not publishable. Therefore, I’m going to edit them all in the upcoming blog posts and upload them for the community. Today, I’m going to show you a simple but powerful and easy to use …
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23 December
Managing VMware vSphere with VMware Workstation

Recently, I tweeted that I was uploading a virtual machine to an ESXi host. So i thought, I might share a blog post on all the things you can do with VMware Workstation in regards to VMware vSphere. I’m going to cover all the options I know and use when …
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19 December
vSphere API for I/O filtering (VAIO) – Overview

In this post I’m going to present you a little overview of the vSphere API for I/O filtering (VAIO). I stumbled upon this API and did a lot of research about it. All in all I decided to write a blog post about it, because it is very interesting! Introduction …
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8 December
How to recover a failed Veeam Backup for Office 365 repository

What can I do, if the storage volume on which my Office 365 backups reside is corrupted, deleted or somehow lost ? That was the question I faced myself with. So I went into the lab to try out a few things ! In this blog post I’m going to …
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7 December
Veeam for Office 365 – Backup a single OneDrive folder

This is going to be a quick post on how to backup a single OneDrive folder with Veeam Backup for Office 365. One of my customers developed an internal policy regarding the usage of OneDrive for Business. The policy is, that each user has a specific “Work” folder (root folder) …
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November, 2019

30 November
Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4 – New features

I’ve been looking forward very much to this release and now it’s here ! Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4 is available since November 26, 2019 ! While playing around with the public beta of Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4, I was very pleased with the new upcoming capabilities. …
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29 November
How to modify an .ova appliance file

An .OVF file refers to the “Open Virtualization Format”, which is a standard regarding packaging to address the portability and deployment of virtualization appliances. Here is the source of this standard: DMTF OVF An .OVF file or package consists of a number of files like a descriptor file, an optional …
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