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This post is going to cover off using Azure PowerShell to get a Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster up and running in your Azure Subscription. In the previous post, we went through the same AKS cluster creation using the Azure CLI Which one you choose will depend on your background and usage, if you are familiar with PowerShell then you might choose this option as you might be more familiar with the object output. There are lots of posts already out there around the Azure CLI vs Azure PowerShell here is one, but I am not going to get into that here. Install AzureRead More →

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In this post we will cover getting started with Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) much the same as the previous post covering Amazon EKS, we will walk through getting a Kubernetes cluster up and running. Now we could walk through the Azure Portal and this is pretty straight forward and if you would like to see that as a walkthrough let me know and I will cover this but I think the most appropriate way is gearing up for Infrastructure as Code. I took the scientific approach over the weekend and asked if I should use Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell, the twitter-verse responded withRead More →

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Yesterday I decided to walk through and record for the first time the upgrade process from the previous version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 to v5 to take advantage of all the good stuff in v5 around Microsoft Teams and some proxy enhancements, you can catch that demo here below and also the GA blog post that also went live on the day of GA here. One of the areas that I stumbled upon was having to enable something during the process to take advantage of the new team’s functionality above so wanted to document that also. Firstly, head on over toRead More →

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In a year where the world has been reliant on remote working and collaboration tools like Microsoft Office 365, the emphasis has also grown in this space on how we protect or if we protect that data and how, our roadmap for Veeam Backup for Office 365 was always planned to have a better way to protect Microsoft Teams before the surge of many companies and users switching to remote working during 2020. As well as making things much faster when it comes to backing up the data but more importantly the granular recovery and speed of that recovery back into your Office 365 environment.Read More →

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What if I told you, you could take any Veeam image based backup and convert / restore that to an Azure virtual machine without the requirement of any additional storage or file system within Azure other than the disks and resources required to run that virtual machine or virtual machines. And what if I told you, this has been around for years with Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam have had this capability for a while now since 2016 in fact. Primary use cases that we have seen have been, Test and development When you have the public cloud at your fingertips why not take advantageRead More →

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Last week Veeam released its version 1 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. What is Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure? This new product focuses in on the Azure IaaS workloads you have running in the public cloud, much like the Veeam Backup for AWS edition that was released early this year, this product provides you the ability to protect those Azure VMs without having to install and agent on each one. It is a policy driven approach allowing for both snapshots and backups to be part of your data management plan when it comes to Microsoft Azure. The product is a standalone solution that isRead More →

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SaaS Backup – Veeam Backup for Office 365 v2 GA I want to start by showing some of the major players in the Software as A Service (SaaS) market, I want to put an ask here, if you are using any of these SaaS based workloads and there is no native way to protect your data then I would like that feedback and to understand what that workload is and what areas and specific features would you like to see around that SaaS offering. Office 365 the journey so far Version 1 and 1.5 was completely concentrated on Office 365 mail and mitigating the riskRead More →

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A few years back (November 2016) I attended the Microsoft UK Partner Summit at Twickenham Stadium, London. I wrote something about that here. Well today I am back there at the home of English rugby to hear some more stuff from Microsoft. This event is two days though now, but I am only able to be there on the first day and to be honest this is the most relevant to me. There are three tracks running during the day for the different audiences. My intention is to arrive for a quick coffee and meet up with some industry peers I would think before headingRead More →