Five things I wish I knew before ‘Next-Next-Finish’ing my Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4 installation

Veeam Backup for Office 365 is an awesome product with a lot of possibilities and features. Just like Active Directory, it is a product that you can typically ‘next, next, finish’-install in about 10 minutes. However, is that the best approach to implementing Veeam Backup for Office 365? Here’s my list of five things I … Continue reading "Five things I wish I knew before ‘Next-Next-Finish’ing my Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4 installation"

Configuring Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 with Modern Authentication

With Security Defaults being the norm in newly created Azure AD tenants and their respective Office 365 tenants, it’s a good time to look at how Veeam Backup for Office 365 offers modern authentication since version 3. Setting up modern authentication requires these five steps after you’ve downloaded and installed Veeam Backup for Office 365: … Continue reading "Configuring Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 with Modern Authentication"

Veeam now provides a stand-alone VBK Extract Utility

When working with Veeam products, you’ll be familiar with the *.vbk extension. Veeam uses this file extension to store back-ups, made with Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). Based on the popular demand from my fellow Dutch Veeam Vanguard Maurice Kevenaar, Veeam now has published the Extract utility as a separate download on their web-site. This … Continue reading "Veeam now provides a stand-alone VBK Extract Utility"

The recording and slides of the Active Directory Best Practices webinar is now available

Last week, I presented two webinars with Veeam’s Andrey Zhelezko, technical product analyst at Veeam Software, on Active Directory Best Practices in terms of administration and disaster recovery. With 1849 and 2217 registered attendees for the European and North American webinar, respectively, these GoToWebinar sessions were solid Active Directory knowledge transfer successes. The recording and … Continue reading "The recording and slides of the Active Directory Best Practices webinar is now available"

I’m presenting two live Active Directory webinars with Veeam’s Andrey Zhelezko

On March 5th 2020, I’m presenting two webinars with Andrey Zhelezko, technical product analyst at Veeam Software, on Active Directory Best Practices in terms of administration and disaster recovery. Active Directory has been around for two decades. This decade, a secure and resilient Active Directory is needed more than ever. AD has been a part … Continue reading "I’m presenting two live Active Directory webinars with Veeam’s Andrey Zhelezko"

Analyze your Office 365 Backup requirements with ease

As organizations embrace the full suite of Office 365 and intend to extend their Veeam Availability Suite with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Officer 365, we often get the question on how to design the backup for Office 365 backup. When you use Veeam Backup for Office 365, it creates a local or cloud backup of … Continue reading "Analyze your Office 365 Backup requirements with ease"

2019 in Review

It’s that time of the year again. While businesses are finishing off 2019 and people start to reminisce of all the good, the bad and the ugly. This year, I’ll join the people who look back at another trip around our sun on our beautiful planet Earth. Let’s look back! January 2019 The year usually … Continue reading "2019 in Review"

What’s New in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4

Since August 2016, this blog features news on Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. We’ve been implementing this awesome Veeam product at customers ever since version 1.5 and validated the Office 365 contingency plan vision with Veeam repeatedly. This week marks the release of version 4 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, so let’s … Continue reading "What’s New in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4"