Tag: WINDOWS SERVER 2019

How to add WAN Acceleration to Veeam Backup and Replication v12

Veeam’s WAN acceleration technology optimizes data transfer to remote locations. It is explicitly designed for off-site backup copy and replication jobs. You must deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in your backup infrastructure to enable WAN acceleration and data deduplication technologies.

How to add Off-Host Backup proxy servers to Veeam Backup and Replication v12

Off-Host Backup proxy servers will retrieve VM data from the source datastore, process it and transfer it to the destination. The off-host backup proxy removes unwanted overhead on the production Hyper-V host.

How to add Microsoft Windows Servers to Veeam Backup and Replication v12

Suppose you plan to use as backup infrastructure components and servers that you plan to use for various types of restore operations. In that case, you must add the Microsoft Windows servers to the backup infrastructure.

How to install patches for Storage Space Direct Cluster Servers without Downtime

Microsoft released Windows patches on the second Tuesday of every month. This procedure installs Microsoft Windows server patches for the production cluster servers without an outage.

How to Rebuild a Gridstore Host via Virtual Media

There are many ways to rebuild the Hyper-V host, but I will show you how to rebuild a Microsoft Hyper-V host via Virtual Media. These screens captured were for Windows Server 2019, but not for Windows Server 2019 only. You can use Windows Server 2022 ISO image file too.

How to Rebuild a dataOn Host via Virtual Media Wizard

There are many ways to rebuild the Hyper-V host, but I will show you how to rebuild a Microsoft Hyper-V host via Virtual Media Wizard. This process is also can use for other vendors’ machines, not for the dataOn host only.

How to Rebuild DataOn Host via PXE

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There are many ways to rebuild the Hyper-V host, but I will show you how to rebuild a Microsoft Hyper-V host via PXE. This process is also can use for other vendors, not for the DataOn host only. It would be best to ask the host hardware vendor to send you the custom WIM image file before rebuilding it.

How to add the network attached storage (SMB shares) as a backup repository in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6

Network Attached Storage can also be a backup repository with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. These Network Attached Storage devices can be accessed and configured through a shared folder on your computer or through any other physical device that supports the SMB protocol.

How to Install Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v6

Veeam released Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 on March 9, 2022, there are lots of new features at this version included Self-Service Restore Portal, Backup copy to low-cost object storage… etc. the detail information as following link.

https://www.veeam.com/whats-new-backup-microsoft-office-365.html

Today, I am going to show you how to install Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 V6.

How to upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to v6 edition

Veeam released Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 on March 9, 2022, there are lots of new features at this version included Self-Service Restore Portal, Backup copy to low-cost object storage… etc. the detail information as following link.

https://www.veeam.com/whats-new-backup-microsoft-office-365.html

Today, I am going to show you how to upgrade the exiting Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to V6 edition.

How to deploy Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

Cyberattack is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world, we have seen passwords being leaked regularly, local administrator account is like God of machine, it has superpower to do anything for the machine. A lot of IT guys simply use the same password for all local administrator accounts, the attacker easy access to the whole estate if one machine is breached.

Microsoft LAPS is one of solutions to prevent the issues, The “Local Administrator Password Solution” (LAPS) provides management of local account passwords of domain joined computers. Passwords are stored in Active Directory (AD) and protected by ACL, so only eligible users can read it or request its reset. Today, I am going to show you how to deploy it.

How to fix upgrade Veeam backup & Replication failed –Error 1327.Invalid Drive

If it happened Error 1327.Invalid Drive when you tried to upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication to 11a, don’t panic, this is likely caused by a stale registry entry for the Veeam server. In my case, the Veeam server had a F drive but removed it long time ago. My error message is Error 1327.Invalid Drive F: and upgrade failed.

How to deploy Cisco Duo for Citrix (NetScaler) Gateway (Citrix ADC) – nFactor

To add Duo two-factor authentication to your Citrix Gateway with nFactor you’ll configure the Duo Authentication Proxy as a secondary RADIUS authentication server. Primary authentication happens directly between the Citrix Gateway and your Active Directory, LDAP, or other identity store, which enables additional features such as AD password resets.

Before starting, make sure that Duo is compatible with your Citrix Gateway device. Log on to your Citrix Gateway via the web interface and verify that your Citrix Gateway firmware is version 12.1-51.16 or later and your Citrix Receiver or Citrix Workspace clients support 12.1 or later.

Also verify that your Citrix Gateway is licensed for Advanced Authentication Policy. As of Citrix Gateway release 13.0-67.x, the “Standard” license also includes nFactor for Gateway/VPN, while Citrix ADC requires an “Advanced” or “Premium” license to use nFactor.

How to move failover clusters on the same hardware to another domain

How to move failover clusters on the same hardware to another domain

How to replace SQL Server Express LocalDB for Citrix Virtual Apps server

If you would like to upgrade Citrix Virtual Apps server from Citrix Virtual Apps 7 1912 LTSR version to the newer version, it might happen error messages “We cannot determine which SQL Server version is current installed” and “The SQL Server LocalDB version is lower than the minimum supported version”.

Please on hold to install Jan 2022 patches

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Please on hold to install patches for servers, there are lots of issues happened after install patches, the detail as following information.

Patch Tuesday Megathread (2022-01-12) : sysadmin (reddit.com)

Please wait up to 1 week prior to touching these updates on servers or at least TAKE A BACKUP PRIOR to ANY PATCHING.