Facing Hyper-V backup issues with Veeam? Discover how a mismanaged VM disk move led to checkpoint failures and learn effective troubleshooting tips.

Treat a VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, or Proxmox exit as a tested recovery process with dependency mapping, recovery points, validation, rollback, and post-move recovery proof.

Discover Synology Surveillance365: a cloud-based platform for quick, efficient camera management across multiple sites without on-site servers.

With the General Availability (GA) of Veeam Data Platform 13.1, Veeam delivers one of its most critical releases to date. This release introduces fundamental enhancements to modern hypervisors, storage appliance integrations, zero-trust security, and unstructured data handling. In this guide, we shall discuss the "Strategic breakdown and step by step guide to upgrading to VBR 13.1 on a Windows-based deployment", and explore why upgrading to version 13.1 is essential for your infrastructure".

Oracle RMAN backups using the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN involve multiple components working together. When something goes wrong, the problem is not always immediately visible from the Veeam console. In this article, I want to share a real troubleshooting case where Veeam Backup & Replication reported the backup session as Success, while RMAN was reporting errors during the backup. At the same time, files were being created on the backup repository, but according to the DBA validation, the data was not being written correctly.

When a Windows server or workstation suddenly consumes system storage, system administrators immediately face the challenge of isolating the cause. Standard built-in Windows diagnostic utilities show high-level storage categories, but they often fail to pinpoint the exact directories, application logs, or recent file system changes responsible for rapid disk growth. In this guide we shall discuss "SizeTrend: A Fast Windows Disk Space Analyzer for Storage Analysis".

In this article, we shall discuss the steps to upgrade Veeam ONE to build 13.1.0.7034. Veeam ONE 13.1 expands monitoring coverage, strengthens identity and access controls, improves threat visibility, and modernizes reporting and upgrade operations. Please see how to perform in-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator to version 13.1, Enhanced Proactive Monitoring with Veeam ONE, and steps to…

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) provides centralized management, global data visibility, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across multi-server backup environments. In this guide, we will walk through upgrading Enterprise Manager to version 13.1.1.18 via the web-based Veeam Host Management Console, aand applying underlying OS and security updates. Please see Veeam Enterprise Manager setup and User Role management, How to license Veeam Enterprise Manager and Add VBR Servers…

Learn how to perform an in-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator to version 13.1 for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities.

Kubernetes Cluster Docker and Kubernetes have been around for some time now with many still trying to fully understand both tools especially Kubernetes. Deploying Docker images to Kubernetes is a great way to run your application in an easily scalable way. Please see how to install Kerberos packages in Windows via Cygwin, how to configure a remote server (windows) to Support Ansible…

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef Automate server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. Please see Configuring WSUS Email Notification to Work With Office365, How to setup and configure Windows server update services (WSUS)

In this blogpost, we will discuss "Fix INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE in Windows and Windows Server". Please see Active Directory Vulnerability Assessment with Purple Knight: Domain Controller Owner Is Not an Administrator, AGMP extended support ends April 2026: Find alternative solution, and Steps to customize Windows PE boot images. The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE stop error 0x0000007B occurs when Windows loses access to the system partition during startup.

Review Synology CC400W installation and configuration, covering setup, Surveillance Station integration, motion detection, and recording performance

There is nothing more frustrating than booting a client PC into your Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) environment, preparing to roll out a fresh operating system, and being stopped dead in your tracks by the infamous error: "PCI Driver Error: Connection to Deployment Share could not be made". Please see Steps to Fix the “Invalid OS GUID” Error in MDT, and…

Deploying operating systems using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is straightforward until unexpected errors interrupt the process. One common issue you can encounter is the “Invalid OS GUID” error during task sequence execution. Therefore in this guide we will discuss the steps to Fix the “Invalid OS GUID” Error in MDT. Please see Faulting SecHealthUI: Resolve Windows Defender Notification, and…

Windows Security (formerly Windows/Microsoft Defender) is a critical component of modern Windows systems. However, you may occasionally encounter issues where SecHealthUI.exe crashes or generates event viewer errors, leading to malfunctioning security notifications. Therefore, we will discuss "Faulting SecHealthUI: Resolve Windows Defender Notification". Please see how to Update Your AMD Radeon Display Adapter Driver, and how to update Proxmox VE to the latest version 9.2.3 today…

If Windows Update or Device Manager fails to find the latest drivers for your graphics card as shown below. You can easily update them with this guide. Here, we will be discussing how to Update Your AMD Radeon Display Adapter Drive. Please see How to update Proxmox VE from to the latest version 9.2.3 today, and Secure Boot 2023 Compliance Across WinPE, MDT, WDS, and ADK: Boot Chain Alignment and PXE Validation…

On May 21, 2026, it was announced in the forum the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2. This release focused heavily on platform refinement, stability, and core optimization. Therefore, in this article, we shall discuss how to update Proxmox VE from to the latest version 9.2.3 today. Please see Secure Boot 2023 Compliance Across WinPE, MDT, WDS, and ADK: Boot Chain Alignment and PXE Validation…

Since my devices had secure boot update applied (SafeOS), the firmware and Secure Boot policy enforced stricter validation from the PC. While the deployment environment still served older ( mismatched boot files). This mismatch led to PXE failures, as the firmware refuses to execute the boot loaders that did not meet the minimum required version or trust policy. In this article, we shall discuss "Secure Boot 2023 Compliance Across WinPE, MDT, WDS, and ADK: Boot Chain Alignment and PXE Validation ".

The Deployer Service Management Port is a management communication channel used by Veeam to remotely deploy, upgrade, and manage components on protected infrastructure. It is part of the initial handshake process that enables Veeam to install or update services on repository or proxy hosts. In this article, we shall discuss "Failed to Upgrade VIHR Component: Failed to open deployer Service Management Port'.

A Real-World Lesson About Hidden Data Center Risks and Governance Failures When IT professionals discuss availability, business continuity, and data protection, the conversation usually focuses on backup software, immutable storage, disaster recovery plans, and cybersecurity. Those technologies are critical. However, some of the most dangerous Data Center Risks have nothing to do with software, storage arrays, or backup systems. Sometimes, the real threat is much closer than we think.

Throughout this tape series, I explored installation, troubleshooting, tape cleaning procedures, advanced diagnostics, and real-world operational scenarios involving Veeam tape environments. But there is another side of tape infrastructure that usually only receives attention when something starts going wrong: tape library administration. And many times, the problem is not directly related to the backup job itself. Issues often appear around:

In this article, we shall discuss how to Repair a Corrupt SQL Server Database Without Data Loss. Just imagine yourself as a database administrator. After opening your laptop and checking your database, you receive a message no DBA wants to see: "Database is in suspect mode." Before you know it, users are already complaining, your manager is already calling, and somewhere inside that inaccessible MDF file are months of critical business data that must not be lost.

This article provides a practical, real-world inspired walkthrough for configuring an Azure Application Gateway. The goal is to help engineers quickly understand how to design, name, and connect all required components for a production-ready setup. Architecture Overview An Azure Application Gateway acts as a Layer 7 load balancer that routes traffic based on URL, host, or headers. Key components include:

In the world of cloud computing, efficient resource management is essential to ensure security, performance, and cost control. Microsoft Azure provides several tools to manage complex environments, including PowerShell, which allows you to automate operations and simplify repetitive tasks. This article is designed as a practical guide to help you navigate the main commands of the Az PowerShell module…

Technical Preface As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server with Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) offers a flexible way to extend Azure governance, security, and billing capabilities to on-premises and non-Azure environments. This guide provides a practical, operations-focused walkthrough of deploying the Azure Arc Connected Machine Agent and enabling SQL Server PAYG, with particular emphasis on network prerequisites, outbound connectivity, and firewall considerations…

This guide describes the procedure for associating a Public IP address to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) at the network interface (NIC) level. In Azure, VMs are deployed with private IP addressing by default within an Azure Virtual Network (VNet), ensuring internal-only communication unless explicitly exposed. Assigning a Public IP enables inbound connectivity from external networks over the internet by binding a public endpoint to the VM’s network interface IP configuration (e.g., …

In this article, we shall discuss how to Upgrade Veeam ONE to 13.0.2.6723 to Address Security Fixes. Recently we updated Veeam ONE 13 as discussed here "how to upgrade Veeam One from v12 to v13". Shortly, Veeam released some patches to VBR and Veeam ONE as well as discussed in this KB4858. According to it, this update includes upgrades to critical third-party components listed below such as the "uuid libraries etc, dompurify, postcss, and System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.

Veeam ONE v12.1, the monitoring and analytics engine of Veeam Data Platform, delivers proactive management with real-time visibility to ensure confidence in your ability to monitor and maintain your best line of defence. In this blog post, you will learn how to upgrade Veeam ONE to v12.1. Please see Install PostgreSQL on Windows server as Veeam Database Engine, and…

Veeam Backup & Replication includes a built-in PowerShell extension called the Veeam Backup PowerShell module. This module exposes a full set of cmdlets that allow administrators to automate, configure, and manage most tasks available in the Veeam Backup & Replication graphical user interface. In this guide, we shall discuss "Veeam Backup and Replication: PowerShell must be Remote Signed". Please see…

In this guide, we shall discuss how to "Prevent Automatic Driver Updates in Windows and Xen-Orchestra". Keeping systems patched and secure is critical in every virtualized environment. However, blindly allowing automatic driver updates on production workloads can introduce instability, and sometimes could cause outages as we have seen severally. This becomes especially important in environments using virtualization platforms such as Xen Orchestra running Microsoft Windows.

Since the move to version Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v13, we have seen that FQDN works more reliably in VBR/VSA due to strict reverse DNS requirements for certificate authentication, SSH, and agent deployment on Linux. IPs skip PTR lookups and often fail validation as demonstrated in this guide "Building VIHR: Ransomware-Proof Repository with Veeam JeOS". In this article, we shall discuss how to "Switch from IP to DNS names for Backup Infrastructure in VBR cleanly".

Recently I had to return my OOTBI node. Therefore, I will show you how to remove a Repository from Veeam Backup and Replication. These are some similar guides on this topic "Fix broken Repository Path in Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository", and  “how to fix missing path and delete a Veeam Backup Repository“. A repository in Veeam Backup & Replication acts as a managed storage target that stores backup files, backup chains, metadata, restore points, and other backup data generated by backup, replication, and copy jobs.

How to upgrade Path and In-Place Upgrade for VBR v13 and Known Fixes, how to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication 12.3, and how to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication v12.3 to v13 on Windows Now you will run into errors because you do not have a valid certifxate with Error 404 The reason Install and Install All are grayed out in the "Missing Updates" window is a safety guardrail built into Veeam.

In this article, we shall discuss how to Fix broken Repository Path in Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository. In the past, we fixed a very similar error but we employed a different approach here "Fix missing path and delete a Veeam Backup Repository". Here is how to leverage Azure Blob Storage as an Object Storage Repo in Veeam. A repository in Veeam Software Backup & Replication is the storage location where backup files, backup chains, metadata, and restore points are stored.

In this article, we will discuss how to Leverage Azure Blob Storage as an Object Storage Repo in Veeam. Azure Storage Accounts provide the foundational management layer for storing cloud data in Microsoft Azure. They create a unique, secure, highly scalable, and globally accessible namespace for your data. Azure Storage Account give you access to Azure’s core storage services. Such as the Blob Storage (object storage), Azure Files (SMB file shares), Queue Storage (messaging), and Table Storage (NoSQL key-value data).

In this article, we discuss "PXE Boot Failure: "Access Denied or Aborted" with Secure Boot on". This guide will help you eventually when Microsoft releases a newer version of ADK. Please see Fix Operating System Loader failed signature verification” on Dell Safe BIOS Systems via PXE , and how to protect Microsoft 365 beyond native limits with VDC . This issue occurs when you attempt to PXE boot a…

Working with tape backup infrastructure is very different from working with disk repositories. When a disk fails, the symptoms are usually more direct. With tape, the same symptom can point to completely different root causes: media degradation, drive instability, robotics issues, firmware problems, SAS connectivity, or even logical inconsistencies. That’s what makes tape troubleshooting difficult. And in many cases, Veeam is only showing the consequence of the problem — not necessarily the root cause itself.

In modern cloud environments, infrastructure protection is no longer optional. Organizations operating on Microsoft Azure must ensure that business-critical workloads, networking components, storage accounts, and security services are protected not only from accidental human errors, but also from unauthorized or malicious actions. One of the most effective governance mechanisms available in Azure is the Azure Resource Lock feature. Azure Resource Locks provide a native protection layer that prevents resources from being deleted or modified, even by users with elevated permissions.

This technical deep-dive stems from the guide Update WinPE Boot Images with Windows UEFI CA Certificates . In this guide, we shall discuss "Fix Operating System Loader failed signature verification" on Dell Safe BIOS Systems via PXE ". Since I observed a critical discrepancy during deployment. The devices that had not yet been patched with the 2023 Secure Boot CA were able to PXE boot normally.

In this article, we shall discuss how to protect Microsoft 365 beyond native limits . Microsoft 365 provides strong native security and compliance capabilities, but it does not deliver a complete backup solution. Key gaps remain around long-term data retention, granular recovery, protection against accidental or malicious deletion, and resilience against ransomware or insider threats. Learn how to create a…

Secure Boot embeds into the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and ensures that the system boots using only software trusted by the hardware vendor. As stated in this blogpost "Enable Secure Boot: Fix Secure Boot certificates expiration ". For 15 years, the Secure Boot certificates that are part of Windows systems will start expiring. Windows devices will need new certificates to maintain continuity and protection.

In this guide, we shall discuss "AGMP extended support ends April 2026: Find alternative solution". Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) and Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), both components of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Have reached their official End of Support today (14/04/2026). Please see How to extend a VM Hard Disk on VMware Workstation, and Steps to customize Windows PE boot images…

You can customize the Windows PE (WinPE) boot images included with the Windows ADK by adding drivers, optional components, and the latest cumulative updates, because they include only a minimal set of features and drivers by default. In this guide, we shall discuss "Steps to customize Windows PE boot images". Please, see how to enable or disable Secure Boot in Windows via UEFI Firmware Settings…

When working with tape environments, tape backup troubleshooting in Veeam is often more complex than it initially appears. Many professionals associate errors directly with faulty media. However, in real-world scenarios, issues often originate from hardware behavior, environmental conditions, or subtle physical problems. In this article, I will share real troubleshooting cases and, more importantly, explain the reasoning behind each analysis. The goal is to show how to identify the root cause instead of relying only on error messages.

In-place upgrades represent the standard and vendor-recommended approach for advancing Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) to newer releases, ensuring continuity of configuration, and retention of job etc without requiring a full reinstallation. But without a test lab, you are essentially performing a high-wire act. In this Real‑world "V13 Upgrade Failure: Veeam Configuration Backup Saved the Day". While everyone talks about restoring data during "World Backup Day", few share stories of how protecting the protector.

In this blog post, you will learn how to fix "Fix unable to contact Server: This may be the server does not exist." You may have run into this error after performing a swing migration, as described in this blog post "Build a New DC vs Swing Migration: Upgrade Server OS Correctly". Plase, see AZURE Kubernetes Service (AKS) upgrade minor version from 1.32.3 to 1.33.7…