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Ben Young

Specialising in the integration & automation of a broad range of cloud & virtualisation technologies including Veeam, VMware, Fortinet, Dell EMC into multi-tenant web applications.

Christchurch, New Zealand •
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Service Provider Console can't connect to Cloud Connect Server, invalid user or permissions
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Service Provider Console can't connect to Cloud Connect Server, invalid user or permissions

Quick one - after having just added some new servers in the lab with Veeam on them and Server 2022, I went to add this server into the Service Provider console and got

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    Ben Young
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Backup for Microsoft 365 is critical to your data protection strategy
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Backup for Microsoft 365 is critical to your data protection strategy

I think it is time we had a discussion about Microsoft 365 and data protection. Before we do that let us cast our minds back to the way things used to be to

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    Ben Young
9 min read
Vanny went on a historic run through Prague
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Vanny went on a historic run through Prague

I have been granted as the custodian of Vanny on my last day here at the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague. This bird is very much part of the 100 and has been

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    Ben Young
9 min read
Introducing the Veeam100 VLOG - I need your help!
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Introducing the Veeam100 VLOG - I need your help!

We are around 2 weeks out from me starting the long journey to Prague for my first summit. Covid got in the way the last couple of years so I could not be

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    Ben Young
1 min read
Monitor backup repository utilisation with the Veeam API
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Monitor backup repository utilisation with the Veeam API

Monitoring your backup infrastructure is just as critical as monitoring your production compute and storage platforms. I set out to see using the new VBR API I could achieve this using these interfaces

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    Ben Young
7 min read
Service account usage with Veeam V12 API and MFA enabled
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Service account usage with Veeam V12 API and MFA enabled

Service account usage is commonly used when machine-to-machine communication is required. Remember when I said the first thing you should do with Veeam v12 is enable MFA/two factor authentication? (this is still

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    Ben Young
3 min read
Protect your Veeam console by enabling MFA
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Protect your Veeam console by enabling MFA

V12 is due out soon and for me two-factor login support is one of the best new features and it will literally take you 2 minutes or less to configure so there is

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    Ben Young
3 min read
10 cool things you do with the Veeam ONE API
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10 cool things you do with the Veeam ONE API

Anyone that has used Veeam ONE will know it loves consuming data from not only Veeam products but also your hypervisors and related infrastructure. That data can be then beautifully presented in business

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    Ben Young
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Changes to Microsoft Teams API's are on the way and your backups will now cost you (chat only...for now)
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Changes to Microsoft Teams API's are on the way and your backups will now cost you (chat only...for now)

Not really the news I wanted to wake up to late last week but we are here now so let's take a look at what this means, specifically what it means for Veeam

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    Ben Young
6 min read
Multi-tenant (VCSP) Self-service restore using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6
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Multi-tenant (VCSP) Self-service restore using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6

With the launch of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 came the release of a self-service restore portal.As a service provider it has been on our roadmap for a while to build out

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    Ben Young
7 min read
I am speaking (twice) at VeeamON 2022 - come have a listen! (in person or virtual)
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I am speaking (twice) at VeeamON 2022 - come have a listen! (in person or virtual)

I am super excited to announce that I will be speaking at VeeamON this year, in fact I have TWO sessions. The best part, they will be in-person which is my first in

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    Ben Young
2 min read
InfluxDB  max-series-per-database limit exceeded
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InfluxDB max-series-per-database limit exceeded

If you are writing a bunch of data you may come across this error in your InfluxDB logs... or... notice via your visualisation tools that data is missing.Well the latter occurred to

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    Ben Young
1 min read
A look at the enhanced Veeam VBO v6 Restore Session API - Who restored that VBO Data part 2
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A look at the enhanced Veeam VBO v6 Restore Session API - Who restored that VBO Data part 2

I posted a couple of weeks ago about different ways a customer could get visibility into who was restoring data with the global admin account when the backups are hosted with a service

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    Ben Young
6 min read
A look at the web api throttles in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 REST API (Token endpoint)
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A look at the web api throttles in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 REST API (Token endpoint)

Upgrading to VBO v6 here and testing it before we push to production, immediately noticed that some of my integration tests were failing, which was weird as some were working and it was

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    Ben Young
6 min read
Who restored that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Data?! A look at what a Service provider can provider clients in a multi-tenant environment
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Who restored that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Data?! A look at what a Service provider can provider clients in a multi-tenant environment

When customers restore data out of their Backup for Microsoft 365 tenancy that we host as a Service Provider in our multi-tenant environment, often they want to keep the security team happy in

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    Ben Young
5 min read
Veeam Job Disk Usage Report and Alert when threshold reached
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Veeam Job Disk Usage Report and Alert when threshold reached

Need to monitor Veeam jobs and their disk usage? There are a few reasons why you may need this - for me I wanted to have alert when a job was over a

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    Ben Young
1 min read
Vanguard Class of 2022 - Social and Desktop Images

Vanguard Class of 2022 - Social and Desktop Images

2022 Veeam Vanguard design has dropped, social header banners and desktop backgrounds. Enjoy!

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    Ben Young
1 min read
Veeam Enterprise Manager failing Data Collection - Max Credential Length, SQL Exception
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Veeam Enterprise Manager failing Data Collection - Max Credential Length, SQL Exception

I had an Enterprise Manager instance start failing to collect data from the B&R server. We rely on these APIs for customers to report on Backup job status, restore capability and

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    Ben Young
5 min read
I am a Veeam Vanguard again in 2022
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I am a Veeam Vanguard again in 2022

Vanguard intakes only happen once a year and you typically submit your application in December and it takes a couple of months for the team at Veeam to process all of the applications

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    Ben Young
2 min read
CarPlay or Android Auto Veeam Dashboard - Concept
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CarPlay or Android Auto Veeam Dashboard - Concept

I was stuck in a bit of traffic yesterday and I got thinking how lacking the CarPlay and Android Auto eco system really is. Most people really just use it for maps and

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    Ben Young
2 min read
Getting started with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6
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Getting started with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6

The Veeam VBO v6 release is one that is highly anticipated by the market since it was announced mid 2021 as it includes a number of new features as well as a bunch

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    Ben Young
11 min read
Perform first-class disk restore using Veeam VBR API
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Perform first-class disk restore using Veeam VBR API

Let's take a look at the new restore endpoints in the Veeam Backup and Replication API - For clarity, I am not talking about the Enterprise Manager API but the new  api attached

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    Ben Young
8 min read
Creating a Christmas Cracker alarm dashboard for VeeamONE
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Creating a Christmas Cracker alarm dashboard for VeeamONE

VeeamONE allows you fire a script when alarms are triggered so given the time of year for the last Veeam User Group of the year I have created a Christmas themed dashboard and

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    Ben Young
5 min read
Salesforce Backup with Veeam
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Salesforce Backup with Veeam

#VeeamOnUpdate 2021 was just broadcast - you can still register then watch at veeamon.com - one of the new products that was just announced was Veeam Backup for Salesforce which is due

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    Ben Young
1 min read
Veeam Instant Recovery direct from Object Storage
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Veeam Instant Recovery direct from Object Storage

Instant Recovery is one of those technologies that Veeam keeps iterating on and it still blows my mind how capable, powerful and relevant this technology is today. I have blogged about some of

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    Ben Young
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