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Veeam Service Provider Console 7 API Changes v3.3
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Veeam Service Provider Console 7 API Changes v3.3

With any new release comes changes to the API, or at least new versions of the API you can target.Veeam Service Provider console Version 7 is a big release so there are

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 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

  • Ben Young
    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

  • Ben Young
    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

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
15 min read
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

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
6 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

  • Ben Young
    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

  • Ben Young
    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

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 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

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 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

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Automate tenant creation using the Veeam Service Provider Console API
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Automate tenant creation using the Veeam Service Provider Console API

Let me show you how in 2 simple web requests you can easily automate your Veeam Service Provider Console tenant creation through the power of APIs.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Get a notification when restricted user data is accessed in Veeam Backup for Office365
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Get a notification when restricted user data is accessed in Veeam Backup for Office365

Ensuring that you have an audit trail is very important when it comes to your backup data. Who accessed what and when. In Veeam Backup for Office365 v5 there is a new Audit

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
4 min read
Setting up the Audit API Notification Settings in Veeam Backup for Office365 v5
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Setting up the Audit API Notification Settings in Veeam Backup for Office365 v5

VBO v5 brought a new Audit feature into the final release. This sends audit notifications for operations performed with the data backed up by a specified user or user of a specified group.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
4 min read
API Changes in Veeam Backup for Office365 v5
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API Changes in Veeam Backup for Office365 v5

If you utilise the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office365 API here is summary of the changes between version 4 and version 5 of the API.There may be a few discrepancies as I

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
3 min read
Veeam Instant NAS Recovery in v11, Malware Detection and Machine Learning
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Veeam Instant NAS Recovery in v11, Malware Detection and Machine Learning

A powerful new Veeam Backup and Replication v11 feature extend the suites "instant" capabilities further such as Instant Disk Recovery, Instant VM Recovery which is... Instant NAS Recovery. Watch the quick demo video to see it in action.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
2 min read
Multi Engine Malware Scanning on your Backup Data? Veeam Data Integration API makes it possible with MetaDefender Cloud
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Multi Engine Malware Scanning on your Backup Data? Veeam Data Integration API makes it possible with MetaDefender Cloud

Have you ever wanted to run your backup data through multiple Malware/AV engines? Or retrospectively run this on all backup restore points from the last year? You can with MetaDefender Cloud and the Veeam Data Integration API.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
VBO v4 API Organisation UsedRepositories Performance
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VBO v4 API Organisation UsedRepositories Performance

The API in version 4 of the API appears to have been significantly improved. I have seen dramatic improvement of 300+ seconds per call down to 10s...nice.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Get NAS backup sessions detail from the Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager API
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Get NAS backup sessions detail from the Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager API

Overview of how to fetch NAS backup job sessions using the Veeam API using the new /api/NAS endpoints and an alternate method using the query service + filters

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
6 min read
Get NAS Jobs via the API in Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager
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Get NAS Jobs via the API in Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager

An overview of the responses for the /api/nas/jobs endpoints in Veeam B&R Enterprise Manager

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    Ben Young
7 min read
Veeam v10 API NAS Endpoints Overview
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Veeam v10 API NAS Endpoints Overview

With the introduction of the NAS backup functionality in Veeam B&R v10 there are some new endpoints available in the Enterprise Manager API under /api/nas.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Veeam Backup for Office 365 REST API - 
 The object has not yet been initialized
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 REST API - The object has not yet been initialized

Are you getting a weird "Object has not yet been initialized" with a fresh install of Veeam Backup for Office365? Simple solution.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
4 min read
Trying the new JSON payload super powers in Veeam Update 4
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Trying the new JSON payload super powers in Veeam Update 4

We now know with Veeam U4 you can specify an application/json accept header and have your requests returned as a nice JSON payload which is neat.In a super basic example here

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
2 min read
New TenantType node in CloudTenant Schema with Veeam Update 4
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New TenantType node in CloudTenant Schema with Veeam Update 4

Starting with Veeam U4 and assuming you are logging in with either v=latest or v=v1_4 there are some modifications you will need to make for editing cloud tenants.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
4 min read
Hotfix for Inoperational RESTful API v1_3 
& 1_4 support with Veeam Update 4 RTM
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Hotfix for Inoperational RESTful API v1_3 & 1_4 support with Veeam Update 4 RTM

Last week was pretty frustrating, debugging and discovering an issue / new "feature" with JSON support which broke some things. After resolving those I was still seeing having an issue with CloudTenant editing.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
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