Newsletter: July 30, 2017

Hello all, I hope that everyone has enjoyed the weekend so far. For us it has been a lot of very hot days which makes working in the lab less than ideal. Spent a bunch of time in VMC and I must admit I quite like it. I see a lot of possibilities. I did … Continue reading Newsletter: July 30, 2017 →

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Getting PowerShell working on my Mac - via Docker

Currently - 7/23/17 - Powershell Beta 4 and PowerCLI 1.10 are not compatible. But hopefully soon they will. But since I want this to work now, we are going to get it working in a Docker container. Thanks to Steve for the idea. I learned what to do between William Lam in this article, and … Continue reading Getting PowerShell working on my Mac - via Docker →

Explaining Veeam Backup job summary screen fields

I have had a few questions on some of the fields on the summary screen of backup jobs. So I thought I would answer and share on my blog. So below is the summary screen. BTW, when you are looking at the job summery screen you can use left and right arrows to move between … Continue reading Explaining Veeam Backup job summary screen fields →

Newsletter: July 15, 2017

Hello all, I hope that everyone had an interesting and enjoyable week? I had a good week and had some good successes too which is nice. I am heading back on the road for a week so that may impact my blog, but we will see. I am quite looking forward to visiting R&D again … Continue reading Newsletter: July 15, 2017 →

Newsletter: July 8, 2017

Hello all, I hope that this finds everyone doing well? Enjoying the weekend, and too the past week? I had a pretty good week and got a lot of things done. I have finished a DR strategies white paper and it should be on Veeam.com soon, and my VM and Veeam Encryption paper has turned … Continue reading Newsletter: July 8, 2017 →

Odd Issue: no desktop and profile issues

I am talking a short break between a couple of technical papers to install some cool Veeam software - Veeam Availability Console - so I can learn more. I have a VM for it but when I logged in I had an issue where I had no profile. There was no desktop and things were … Continue reading Odd Issue: no desktop and profile issues →

Connecting an external Content Library to my Content Library

So I am now using a Content Library in my lab - they are seriously improved in 6.5 and so the next thing to do is connected an external CL to mine. If you want an intro check out my past article on Content Libraries. I am going to use William Lam's externally hosted Content … Continue reading Connecting an external Content Library to my Content Library →

Newsletter: July 1, 2017

Happy Canada Day! Today Canada is 150 years old. It has come a long way. But, to put it into perspective, I slept in a B&B in Holland where the building was more than 600 years old. I visited a mud fort in Morocco that was 1400 years old. So Canada is in fact 150 … Continue reading Newsletter: July 1, 2017 →