Bringing the Veeam User Group back to Christchurch! It is VeeamOn Tour week, so a couple of visiting speakers might join us. Grab a free ticket if you are local: www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/beers-with... #VeeamUserGroup #Veeam100 #VeeamCommunity #Christchurch

Beers with Engineers – Veeam User Group NZ (Christchurch)

Evening built for the technical community — where conversations are real, insights are practical, and there’s zero sales fluff.

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Drive costs are up, lead times are longer, and cold data is still sitting on your most expensive storage. Veeam Vault Archive fixes that with automatic, low-cost archiving for trusted, long-term retention. Now available. https://bit.ly/4fLtQUY

The native bulk options in the new #VSPC 9.2 Vault plugin are great for standard setups, but some providers need custom naming conventions for strict internal standards. I mapped out the 6-step REST API chain to show how to fully customize the workflow. buff.ly/cHelzHo #Veeam #Veeam100 #VDCVault

Bulk Provisioning VDC Vaults with the VSPC 9.2 Vault Plugin API

A REST API walkthrough for provisioning VDC Vault tenants and storage vaults with custom naming, bypassing the WebUI's bulk-provisioning limits.

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🪿 Between Two Geese 🪿 has a new nest Find our YouTube episodes, LinkedIn Lives, useful links, and next live: 2geese.com Take a look and honk back. What works, what is missing, and what should we improve? #BetweenTwoGeese

#Veeam support for #Proxmox is solid, but we still need a way to automate recovery testing without native SureBackup. My mate Andre built a workaround using the REST APIs to spin up isolated test VMs. It verifies they actually boot. Part 1 is up. buff.ly/QNNTSbP #VeeamMVP #Veeam100 #VeeamCommunity

Proxmox Backup Verification – Part 1

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial personal passion project, not an official Veeam product, and it isn’t supported or endorsed by Veeam in any way. I’m also not a professional developer, so treat this…

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Year 9 in the MVP program! 🛠️ Started deep in Storage Spaces Direct when hybrid barely existed. Now it's Azure Local & Arc, but I still love getting under the hood of Windows Server/Azure. Thanks to the Microsoft PGs & Azure Local Slack crew. Cheers to year 10! #MVPBuzz

Well hello from LittleBeansByt.es! Another Blog? Yes, I’ve found my ability to quickly release posts day-to-day on https://bcthomas.com lacking, as I end up spending too much time debating over the level of technical detail and clarity and layout and I never get anything finished and published […]

TUIs are back—Claude, nmtui, etc. Could terminal UIs be the next big thing for #VBR? Imagine opening your console, running a command, and keyboard-navigating your backup dashboard to inspect runs or repo storage. Reality? Or a bad April Fools joke? #Veeam100 #Keeah #Veeam

Monday morning at the Microsoft MVP Summit and the shuttle lines are already massive. It is just the pre-day! I am going to need a lot more coffee to get through this week. ☕ ​#MVPBuzz Microsoft #MVPSummit

Manual #Veeam audits for VDC Vault migrations are a total slog. I got tired of clicking through 100s of jobs to check encryption and retention, so I built a local analyzer tool to do it for me. Drop in a HealthCheck JSON and see your blockers. buff.ly/YibmAsg #VeeamCommunity #VDCVault

Introducing the VDC Vault Readiness Analyzer

A new pre-flight check tool to validate Veeam environments for VDC Vault migration readiness.

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Microsoft Defender scanning a 4TB .vbk file is a great way to kill your backup performance. I got tired of manually adding the 50+ exclusions from KB1999 every time I built a server. So I scripted it. Smartly. buff.ly/LIl0mfN #VeeamCommunity #Veeam #MVPBuzz #PowerShell

Automating Veeam Defender Exclusions

A role-aware PowerShell script that automates Microsoft Defender exclusions for Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure using KB1999 recommendations.

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Veeam Data Cloud finally has dark mode. My eyes can finally stop burning during late-night config sessions. It is tucked under the appearance menu in the top right. 🌙 #VeeamCommunity #Sysadmin #DarkMode

It’s the little things that win me over. In #Veeam v13, the #VBR console finally handles its own updates. No more digging for ISOs or manual installs after patching the server. Just connect, click update, and you're back in. Huge time saver for the lab. #VeeamCommunity #MVPBuzz

Just knocked out a full #VBR appliance patch before my coffee even got cold. ☕️ Under 10 minutes to hit v13.0.1.1071. No RDP, no mounting ISOs, and zero Windows Update drama. It’s hard to justify sticking with the Windows install for the lab after seeing this. #VeeamCommunity #MVPBuzz #VSA #Veeam

🎧🎹 We have one Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 to give away! Entry is open to AU/NZ residents aged 16+. Competition ends 21/12/2025. 🎧🎹 www.legendaryprizes.com.au/tech #pixel #music #googlepixel

Love the VDC Vault UI, but sometimes you just need raw data for Excel? I built a Chrome Extension to export tenant stats & storage usage directly to CSV. Handy for billing/chargeback workflows. Details on how it works here: buff.ly/Vv5qldX #VeeamCommunity #MVPBuzz #Veeam #VeeamDataCloud

Exporting Veeam Data Cloud Vault Data to CSV

How to export VDC Vault tenant usage, subscription limits, and storage statistics using a custom Chrome Extension.

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My mate Andre is attempting the impossible: a Veeam blog Advent Calendar. 🎄 He's publishing a new technical post every day until Christmas, covering automation, security and hidden features. Check out the first few posts and follow along here: buff.ly/gOzhHWS #Veeam100 #VeeamCommunity

Veeam Blog Advent Calendar 2025: Unwrapping 24 Days of Backup Magic

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Quickly building a VM back in my homelab in NZ for a demo as Im on a train from Florence to Pisa 😂😂😂

Getting ready to test the new mass Instant Recovery to #Azure in #Veeam V13? Here's a quick tip. The default settings can cause restores to fail at scale by hitting Azure API throttling limits. 1/2

“Veeam is removing complexity, giving partners and customers the ability to protect data quickly without the heavy lift of specialized expertise or ongoing management." Read more about the Veeam Software Appliance on @virtreview.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4nhLOAE

Data Resilience Skills Lacking? Veeam Launches First Software Appliance -- Virtualization Review

Veeam introduced its first software-only, hardware-agnostic appliance for backup and recovery, delivering a hardened Linux deployment with built-in immutability, automated patching, and Instant Recove...

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ICYMI this week we unveiled the Veeam Software Appliance, and it’s front and center in our latest Veeam Community Recap! 👏 Join @rickatron.bsky.social and Safiya Mohamed as they break down all the highlights and updates you might have missed. ➡️ Watch now: vee.am/VqxIHwq

Kicking things off at the #VeeamOn Tour in Perth! The agenda looks solid, and honestly, I'm also here for the swag. ​Looking forward to catching up with everyone. Say hi if you're around! #VeeamCommunity #Veeam #Perth

The room is filling up and we're ready to go! Great to be at #VeeamOnTour Melbourne this morning. Looking forward to a packed day of backup and recovery talk. If you see me, come and say hi! What's the one feature or update you're hoping to hear about from Veeam this year?

Early flight this morning. On my way to Melbourne for the VeeamON Tour! Looking forward to catching up with the ANZ tech community. Who am I going to see there? #VeeamCommunity #VeeamOn

Made a classic mistake, deleted a LHR VM before I removed it from Veeam. Left me with an entry that wouldn't clean up from VBR. The fix from Rhys Hammond was brilliant in its simplicity: just deploy a temp Linux VM with the same IP address. buff.ly/nCZrbOU #VeeamCommunity #Veeam100 #VeeamVanguard

Infra item delete failed Error: A connection attempted failed | rhyshammond.com

I recently deployed a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) ISO which involved removing the old Ubuntu based VHR server. Unfortunately I was a little too eager and deleted the VM before I had removed it…

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A new patch (8.0.0.376) for #Veeam Backup for #Azure addresses critical bugs, including data corruption risks and failed infrastructure rescans, while enhancing API handling to reduce Azure costs. More details: buff.ly/HzzqemR #VeeamVanguard #Veeam100 #VeeamCommunity #MVPBuzz

KB4749: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 8 Cumulative Patches

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 8 Cumulative Patches

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Happy to share I've been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for Hyper-V & Azure Hybrid & Migration. My drive is always solving problems & sharing insights. This is a cool recognition of that work, and I appreciate it! #MVPBuzz #MicrosoftMVP

Finally! The @veeam.bsky.social User Group is back in Christchurch, NZ! First meetup in a while. Jason and I are kicking things off with "Beer for Engineer". Come hang out, talk tech, and grab a cold one. #VeeamVanguard #VeeamCommunity #Christchurch

My internet felt slow tonight. Turns out I was just maxing it out pushing backups to Veeam Data Cloud Vault! 😂 Always fun when you're the bottleneck. Anyone else ever do this? #VeeamVanguard #VeeamCommunity #Networking #homelab #Veeam100