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032619 1651 INSTALLBACK10 240x180 - STEP BY STEP to INSTALL VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 4a

STEP BY STEP to INSTALL VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 4a

Veeam released the Backup & Replication 9.5 service pack 4a today, Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a is a cumulative hotfix rollup that addresses issues reported by customers on the original build of Update 4, as well as minor platform support enhancements –
VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 readiness, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019, Dell EMC Data Domain DD OS 6.2. In addition, Update 4a addresses over 300 minor bugs reported by customers and found during the internal testing.
The details information you can check from Veeam website https://www.veeam.com/kb2926
The Installation steps are straightforward, but you need to confirm that you are running version 9.5.4.2615 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. After upgrade, your build number will be 9.5.4.2753.

032619 0023 HOWtoFIXDem1 240x180 - Step by Step to Fix Access Denied Error in Demote DC server

Step by Step to Fix Access Denied Error in Demote DC server

Today, I was trying to remove an old windows 2003 R2 DC server in our domain, when I run DCPROMO command to demote it, I received the following error message:
The operation failed because: The attempt at remote domain controller DC2016 to remove domain controller CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Name,CN=Sites….from the forest was unsuccessful. “Access is Denied”

110118 0151 HowtobuildS1 240x180 - How to build Sophos XG firewall at Azure Hyper-V Nested VM for free

How to build Sophos XG firewall at Azure Hyper-V Nested VM for free

Have you been followed my previously blog to build up Hyper-V nested virtual machine on Microsoft Azure? If you don’t, you better build it right now, because this is pre-requisites and you will get lots of benefit for your lab or even production environment, you can reference this link and build it. If you did, congratulation! You can create a nested gest virtual machine and install Firewall (e.g. Sophos XG, Fortinet…) for free, why we still need to build firewall at our Azure Hyper-V nested environment? Because it supports lots functions that we cannot get the functions for free from Azure, e.g. server load balance, firewall, SNAT, application filter, IPS…and so on, we also can use it for LAB or simulate issues or POC. I am going to show how to build Sophos XG here.

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Hyper-V nested VM with multiple IP addresses Port Forwarding at Azure

As we know, you can easy to create VMs, Firewalls, Load Balancers on Microsoft Azure, you also can make routing path change but all of them will cost you lots of money, it depends on how many virtual devices or virtual machines that you created.

070518 2300 HowtoINSTAL2 240x180 - How to INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3a

How to INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3a

Veeam released the service pack 3a on July, it includes to fix some support issues and it also add to support some current platforms – Microsoft Windows Server 1803, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 1803, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801, Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update, VMware vSphere 6.7, VMware vCloud Director 9.1…. and added support for Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure for environments with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure.

050618 0250 SITETOSITEV26 240x180 - STEP BY STEP TO BUILD SITE-TO-SITE VPN FROM SOPHOS XG FIREWALL TO AZURE

STEP BY STEP TO BUILD SITE-TO-SITE VPN FROM SOPHOS XG FIREWALL TO AZURE

oday, I would like to tell you how to build a site-to-site VPN from Sophos XG firewall to Azure, if you have no budget to buy a hardware base firewall for your home office or lab, no worry, you also can download and install at Microsoft Hyper-V (or others) Virtual Machine and it’s free!!

041118 0000 HyperVSetti6 240x180 - Hyper-V Setting Up the Virtual Machine and Also other stuff Pt.2 #VirtualMachines #Microsoft

Hyper-V Setting Up the Virtual Machine and Also other stuff Pt.2 #VirtualMachines #Microsoft

Welcome back GDM fans and let’s continue about the blog about Hyper-V, remember that I am using Windows 2016 Server so I am setting it up a little differently than a normal windows setup. 1. So first, of course you have to right click your virtual machine and press connect.

040918 2348 MigrateExch1 240x180 - Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 2- Deploy Azure AD Connect

Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 2- Deploy Azure AD Connect

Have you been follow my previously post steps to add your domain to Office 365? if not please check my previously post and do it. If you did and then it’s time to deploy Azure AD connect to sync your on-premises AD to Azure AD (Office 365).
You can download and install Azure AD Connect to your ADFS server or you also can install it at your domain server if you won’t use ADFS server for your infrastructure. you can install Azure Ad Connect with Express settings but I recommend install it with Customized settings, because you can adjust settings to match your requirements.

040718 2002 MigrateExch3 240x180 - Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 1- Pre-requisites, Add On-Premises Domain and Deploy Certificate

Migrate Exchange Services from On-premises to Office 365 PART 1- Pre-requisites, Add On-Premises Domain and Deploy Certificate

The process described mainly focuses on a typical transition of Exchange services to Office 365 environment, converting the Exchange servers to Office 365 CAS role, HUB role and MBX role. Additional role options such as the Unified Messaging Server role and Edge Transport role, are out-of-scope within this document.

032018 2133 VEEAMTROUBL1 240x180 - VEEAM TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – ERROR CODE 32768 FAILED TO CREATE VM RECOVERY SNAPSHOT

VEEAM TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – ERROR CODE 32768 FAILED TO CREATE VM RECOVERY SNAPSHOT

when we tried to use Veeam backup and replication 9.5 with Update 3 to Back and replica VMs, all VMs are happy except two Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Servers, they showed error message “Failed to create VM recovery checkpoint (mode: Veeam application-aware processing) Details: Job failed (”). Error code: ‘32768’. Failed to create VM recovery snapshot, VM ID ‘d2936ee7-3444-419e-82d9-01d45e5370f8’.Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Failed to create production checkpoint.)Task has been rescheduled”.