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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Veeam announces third Backup & Replication v7 feature!

Veeam announces third Backup & Replication v7 feature!

Veeam has announced their third feature for version 7 on Backup & Replication: Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint! Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint gives IT an intuitive interface to look inside SharePoint backups, all without the use of agents. This new feature is the latest in a series of innovations from Veeam that enable IT to browse, search and recover individual items (following other innovations such as Universal Application Item Recovery, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange and Veeam Explorer for…

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New Fling: View Pool Manager by VMware Labs

New Fling: View Pool Manager by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called View Pool Manager. The download is available as zip package and the total size is about 57KB. This tool has been created by Andre Leibovici. Quote taken from the Fling page: View Pool Manager is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups. One of the biggest challenges VMware View administrators face in large deployments is desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has…

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vExpert 2013 applications are open!

vExpert 2013 applications are open!

Today VMware (or better said John Troyer) announced they have opened the vExpert 2013 applications. You can now submit your application and invite other people. This year VMware offers 3 different paths, just like last year. The deadline for application is April 15, 2013 at midnight PDT. Evangelist Path
 The Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, VMTN contributors, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal…

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New Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script by VMware Labs

New Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script. The download is available as zip package and the total size is about 1MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: This is a PowerShell script written to help customers validate their environment and assess if it is ready for a 5.1.x upgrade. The script checks against known misconfiguration and issues raised with VMware Support. This script checks the Windows Server and Active Directory configuration and provides an on…

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Veeam announces second Backup & Replication v7 feature!

Veeam announces second Backup & Replication v7 feature!

Veeam has just announced their second feature for version 7 on Backup & Replication: A New Plug-in for the vSphere Web Client! I saw many requests about this on the forums and it seems Veeam also received these questions on events like VMworld,… They have again listened to their customers and just created it. They already released a video and you can register for an upcoming webinair on March 26th. The vSphere Web Client plug-in will have good information such…

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