Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/08/2026micoolpaul.com/2026/08/08/v...micoolpaul.comVBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable ThemVeeam Backup & Replication v13.1 has introduced new object types for Entra ID protection. If you want to know how to enable this or learn more, read here! 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/08/2026[📜] VBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable Them In my latest blog post, you'll find out about the new protection for #EntraID that #Veeam has brought in Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 & how easy it is to start enabling this and enhancing your protection of Entra ID! Link below 👇micoolpaul.comVBR/VDP v13.1: New Entra ID Capabilities & How to Enable ThemVeeam Backup & Replication v13.1 has introduced new object types for Entra ID protection. If you want to know how to enable this or learn more, read here! 121
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/01/2026[📜] VB365: Item-Level Retention & Backup Copies In my latest blog post I've dived into how hashtag#Veeam Backup for hashtag#Microsoft365 handles Item-Level Retention & Backup Copies. Check it out below 👇: micoolpaul.com/2026/01/21/v... #VeeaMVPmicoolpaul.comVB365: Item-Level Retention & Backup CopiesVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 supports multiple retention modes, and backup types. Today I dive into some questions around item-level retention and backup copies. 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 31/12/2025[🎥] Discover What's New in Veeam Data Cloud - H2 2025 Edition One final post for 2025, a H2 recap of "What's New" in #VeeamDataCloud. Whether it's #EntraID, #Azure, #Microsoft365, or just to see what's changed in #Veeam Data Cloud, there's something for you 👇 youtu.be/5x_dCgnJbcA?... #Veeam100youtu.beWhat’s New in Veeam Data Cloud | H2 2025 Update OverviewYouTube video by Veeam 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/09/2025[ 🎥 ] What's new in #Veeam Data Cloud Entra ID Edition! The last month has seen a lot of groundwork being laid for the rest of this exciting year so I wanted to give a long promised overview to our #EntraID Protection within #VeeamDataCloud. youtu.be/lfBZI0IRxsE #Veeam100youtu.beVeeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 / Entra ID Feature Recap August 2025YouTube video by Michael Paul 020
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 14/08/2025[ 🎥 ] What's new in Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365 - July 2025 Last month we introduced our #Microsoft365 data protection workload to our modern unified experience within #VeeamDataCloud. I've given a quick tour of this below. youtu.be/AEHQP-Lnfv8?... #Veeam100youtu.beVeeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap July 2025YouTube video by Michael Paul 021
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 10/07/2025So excited to finally talk about this! Veeam Software’s Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 joins the Unified Multi-Workload Experience! Full details below 👇 www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-d... #Veeam100veeam.comVeeam Data Cloud Unifies Microsoft 365, Salesforce & Entra IDProtect Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Entra ID with a single-pane view through Veeam Data Cloud. Gain agility, compliance, and end-to-end resilience 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/03/2025We have this (www.veeam.com/veeam_data_p...) already on our website but I’ve fed back internally, thanks for sharing 🙂veeam.com 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/03/2025To be fair, it’s because it’s the normal product with some feature restrictions, but good feedback as to why have the filter without any contents 👍 110
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 03/03/2025Just saw you said it was the musical one so ignore that part 🤦♂️ 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 03/03/2025Was in the email that there were significant sound issues in one episode that was unsalvageable 😔 the musical episode, don’t know if she was on that one. 130
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/02/2025ICYMI: New VLOG Series @hangtentech.bsky.social & I have just launched our new VLOG series 'VDC For Me'. Join us each month as we answer the question "What's in Veeam Data Cloud for me?". First session is available now 👇 micoolpaul.com/2025/02/28/n... #Veeam100 #Veeam @veeam.bsky.socialmicoolpaul.comNew VLOG Series Entry – VDC For Me: Microsoft 365Hey everyone. Have started off 2025 by launching a new VLOG series with Cloud City Veeam User Group leader Hin Tang called ‘VDC For Me’/’VDC 4 Me’. Each month we’re go… 040
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 06/02/2025[ 🎥] Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365: 2024 Year in Review Starting a new series, on all the great new features we're continuously adding to #Veeam Data Cloud! First up, a review of some of our key milestone releases over the past year. youtu.be/wuLYm11SYI0youtu.beVeeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap - 2024YouTube video by Michael Paul 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/01/2025Looks like every time I’ve tried to Center a table & picture in word 😆 020
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 17/12/2024So the user that published is @coracox.bsky.social and if you see the content they’ve posted it looks like a lot of pirated content… 110
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 16/12/2024Advertising your 2nd edition of your book on a telegram channel. 100
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 16/12/2024@chrischilderhose.bsky.social FYI is this a pirated copy? 100
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/12/2024You sure can, the Veeam Explorer will authenticate you to your target tenant for the restorations 020
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 29/11/2024Lots to look forward to next week. First time in Sweden. First time at #ESPC24 and looking forward to first speaking session at ESPC24 as well! Who else will be there? 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 05/07/2024[📜] Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan: Troubleshooting Bonded Interface Creation When building a physical Linux server with some questionable switching, I opted for active/passive networking configuration but Netplan didn't like it. After much testing I've made a guide 👇 micoolpaul.com/2024/07/05/u...micoolpaul.comUbuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan Not Creating Bonded InterfaceDid you know that you can't monitor both MII and ARP in a bonded network interface with Netplan? I didn't! In this blog I explain the difference between them, and how to configure them and troubleshoo... 020
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/06/2024Check if AWS announced anything whilst you were in the lobby! Could’ve been an inside job to silence you 😆 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/06/2024First other person I’ve found talking about them! So excited for make some noise s3! The Noise Boys Are back!!! 🙂 not watched any of the d20 shows yet, any recommendations? 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/05/2024[📜] #Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs In this blog post I show you how Veeam Data Cloud alerts you to deleted #SharePoint or #Teams sites, and how to resolve these warnings if it's intentional. #VeeamVanguard #VeeamLegend micoolpaul.com/2024/05/22/v...micoolpaul.comVeeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup JobsIf you're using Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 to backup your SharePoint sites, and then you delete a SharePoint site, you're going to get a warning it can no longer be backed up, obviously, becau... 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 27/03/2024[📜] World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures All devices have a limited lifespan, but we don't need to wait for them to break to know it's time to replacement, as I discuss in this #WorldBackupDay post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/22/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpertmicoolpaul.comWorld Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware FailuresHello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, t... 031
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 26/03/2024[📜] World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them Why do we invest so much redundancy in infrastructure, then let backups, our last resort for data resilience, have minimal room for error? Thought piece in new post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/21/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpertmicoolpaul.comWorld Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them! So, what is an SLA? An SLA (S... 011
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/03/2024Years ago I wrote a script to automate packaging a PS Vita homebrew payload for macOS users, and to this day I get people on reddit asking for help with the script, because they don’t understand how a script needs an absolute path if you don’t put it in the same folder as the files it is to use. 😞 100
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 01/03/2024[📜] VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches In today's quick tip post, I wrote up an issue with #VMware vCenter's update manager in a recent project I worked on, and how to fix it. #vExpert micoolpaul.com/2024/03/01/v...micoolpaul.comVMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload PatchesAfter working on a project recently where vCenter's Update Manager wouldn't import files, I decided to write up the troubleshooting steps and fix for my particular scenario. 011
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 23/02/2024Great way to end the week! Reaching three years with the amazing #VMware #vExpert programme! It's been great to learn so much from the talented people within the #vCommunity and I look forward to another year of knowledge sharing and opportunities! 030
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 25/01/2024[📜] Google: Egress Fees Waived - The Reality vs The Marketing You may have heard that #Google is waiving egress fees from #GCP, but as always there is more to the story than a headline. I've provided a breakdown of when these fees are waived, and how you'd go about getting them waived below. 👇micoolpaul.comGoogle: Egress Fees Waived – The Reality vs The MarketingGoogle Cloud Platform has been making news recently with many headlines claiming egress fees have been waived, but *spoiler alert*, they haven't. In this article I've attempted to separate the marketi... 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 09/01/2024[📜] Veeam & Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024 Take time to reflect on the year ahead & make sure you're not leaving yourself vulnerable to security risks in OS or applications. All #Veeam & Veeam supported platforms with an EOL in 2024 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguardmicoolpaul.comVeeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024Times change, and software changes with them, until it's no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the soft... 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 27/11/2023[📜] Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements ICYMI: #Veeam dramatically improved the performance & efficiency of compression in v12! By how much? Check out my blog post below 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/27/v...micoolpaul.comVeeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression ImprovementsOne lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they've made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post. 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 22/11/2023[📜] #Veeam B&R x #Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob If you're having issues with lifecycle operations failing due to 'Failed to Copy Blob' when working with Veeam and #MicrosoftAzure storage, I've got a solution 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/22/v...micoolpaul.comVeeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy BlobIf you're using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the 'Failed to Copy Blob' error, this post just might help! 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 13/11/2023[📜] #Veeam B&R - NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck I was migrating some NAS Cache shares when the jobs started to get stuck, so I wrote up how to gracefully deal with this issue and how to work around this. #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguardmicoolpaul.comVeeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets StuckEver had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data. 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 09/11/2023Thanks for sharing, I’ve wanted to have a poke about with this for a while! 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 31/10/2023Day One is underway at the #Veeam100Summit and I'm reporting as close to live as I can over on the Veeam Community hub! community.veeam.com/blogs-and-po... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard 030
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 30/10/2023The #Veeam100Summit is underway and Michael Cade is smashing it with a great hands on #Kasten session. Amazing to be in the same room with so many amazing #VeeamLegend & #VeeamVanguard's! 001
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 25/10/2023[📜] #Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type In my latest blog post I'll show you how to work around those pesky symlinks that can impact your ability to protect NAS shares! #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguardmicoolpaul.comVeeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item TypeNAS Backups and Symlinks don't have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication! 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/09/2023And we're back for day two of #SFD26, today we'll be looking at data & storage trends from none other than SNIA! Don't miss out 👇 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/techfieldday.comHTTP Error 403 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023And we're back for the last segment of the day, the delegate roundtable, tune in below 👇 #SFD26 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/ 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023Solidigm are up next and they're announcing a new product! Tune in below 👇 #SFD26 020
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 20/09/2023TechFieldDay's #SFD26 is underway shortly, looking forward to hearing from CTERA, SNIA & Solidigm on their latest innovations and announcements. Don't want to miss out on Storage Field Day? Be sure to watch it all happening live on the TFD website: techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/techfieldday.comHTTP Error 403 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 08/09/2023Poor Security Standards from Transport For London. Had to register for the ULEZ emissions, you can’t have any special characters in your password 😩 000
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 28/08/2023Was fixed in switches years ago, so no joy unfortunately! 010
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 21/08/2023[📜]#Veeam Backup & Replication: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks If your VBR server is demanding additional resources, you might be putting it under unnecessary stress. Read on to find out more 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguardmicoolpaul.comVeeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending TasksTell me if you've seen this situation before. You've got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there's different backup jobs for your various appl... 043
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦 @micoolpaul.com · 17/08/2023Excited to announce I'll be speaking at #VeeamON Tour in London! ICYMI, #Veeam are coming to London, UK on the 14th Sept to continue the Tour! Explore what's new & upcoming within the world of data protection, and hear from Veeam, their partners, and other industry experts! Register now 👇go.veeam.comVeeamOn Tour London 2023Join VeeamON Tour London 2023 free conference 040