The System Center teams has released a new version of Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). For who ignore what is it, MABS is a product to protect your environment on-premises with the possibility to create a short-term retention locally and a long-term retention in Azure through Backup Vault. MABS is free for all Azure Backup […]
New chapter dedicated to Windows Admin Center. Into the first part, I showed how to integrate WAC with Microsoft Azure and how to use the Backup extension to protect the content of single virtual machine, thanks to integration with Azure Backup. In this article we will see how to extend the protection to an entire […]
One of my favorite features in Windows Admin Center is absolutely the Azure integration because this means extend the solution to do everything. As I said many times, WAC is the future of Windows Server management and all the teams are working to integrate the roles into this console. By the way, in this article […]
One of the most frequent question that my customers did is how to restore Group Policy Objects or Active Directory items when they are deleted. First of all, Microsoft has introduced the Recycle Bin for Active Directory since Windows Server 2008 R2 and this can help the IT admins to restore everything without use backup […]
With the arrive of Windows Server 2016, and Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced a new cool feature, very interested for everyone that want do remote tasks with virtual machines. PowerShell Direct allows IT admins to run PowerShell session inside a virtual machine from Hyper-V in a direct mode, without networking or similar. This means invoke […]
During my previous article (Azure File Share: Your New Share on the Cloud), I wrote about the new Microsoft’s strategy to expand the cloud usage through the release of new services like share folders. One of the pain point is absolutely the security, in particular the data protection, because the share (local or cloud) is […]
Docker is a great solution to create Microservices to reduce the footprint about deployment, management and security. The logic around the container is that I can create a new image in a couple of seconds and this could mean no backup. More or less is correct but without a backup, in case of failure from […]
During my previous article, Veeam Backup for Office 365: Overview and Configuration, we have seen that is not yet possible save the database into a Backup & Replication repository, but only into a local volume or SMB share. To resolve this limitation, until the feature will be present natively, we can use Veeam Agent […]
One of the darkest side of cloud services is the impossibility to have full management of information, compared to on-premise infrastructure. An example could be the mail, like Microsoft Exchange Server: when the solution is based into our servers, we can run backup/restore when is necessary, faster and with a great granularity, without forget the […]
Starting a couple of days ago, is available the new version of Veeam Backup & Replication, that introduce many new features for Windows but also for VMware. The v9.5 follows the trend of the v8, in terms to increase stability, reability and features of an application used in over 70% of companies present into Fortune […]