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Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 🇺🇦
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Opinions always my own. Works in Data Protection. Specialises in #Veeam, #VMware, #Microsoft365 / #M365, Microsoft #Azure.

VeeaMVP | Former Veeam Legend | Former Veeam Vanguard | VMware vExpert | Tanzu Vanguard

Blogs @ https://michaelpaul.cloud
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[ 🎥 ] What's new in #Veeam Data Cloud Entra ID Edition!

The last month has seen a lot of groundwork being laid for the rest of this exciting year so I wanted to give a long promised overview to our #EntraID Protection within #VeeamDataCloud.

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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 / Entra ID Feature Recap August 2025
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September 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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[ 🎥 ] What's new in Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365 - July 2025

Last month we introduced our #Microsoft365 data protection workload to our modern unified experience within #VeeamDataCloud. I've given a quick tour of this below.

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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap July 2025
YouTube video by Michael Paul
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August 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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So excited to finally talk about this!
Veeam Software’s Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 joins the Unified Multi-Workload Experience! Full details below 👇

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Veeam Data Cloud Unifies Microsoft 365, Salesforce & Entra ID
Protect Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Entra ID with a single-pane view through Veeam Data Cloud. Gain agility, compliance, and end-to-end resilience
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July 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ICYMI: New VLOG Series

@hangtentech.bsky.social & I have just launched our new VLOG series 'VDC For Me'. Join us each month as we answer the question "What's in Veeam Data Cloud for me?".

First session is available now 👇

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New VLOG Series Entry – VDC For Me: Microsoft 365
Hey everyone. Have started off 2025 by launching a new VLOG series with Cloud City Veeam User Group leader Hin Tang called ‘VDC For Me’/’VDC 4 Me’. Each month we’re go…
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February 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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[ 🎥] Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365: 2024 Year in Review

Starting a new series, on all the great new features we're continuously adding to #Veeam Data Cloud! First up, a review of some of our key milestone releases over the past year.

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Veeam Data Cloud: Microsoft 365 Feature Recap - 2024
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February 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Lots to look forward to next week. First time in Sweden. First time at #ESPC24 and looking forward to first speaking session at ESPC24 as well! Who else will be there?
November 29, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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[📜] Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan: Troubleshooting Bonded Interface Creation
When building a physical Linux server with some questionable switching, I opted for active/passive networking configuration but Netplan didn't like it. After much testing I've made a guide 👇

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan Not Creating Bonded Interface
Did you know that you can't monitor both MII and ARP in a bonded network interface with Netplan? I didn't! In this blog I explain the difference between them, and how to configure them and troubleshoo...
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July 5, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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I see Bing is down…
May 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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[📜] #Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs

In this blog post I show you how Veeam Data Cloud alerts you to deleted #SharePoint or #Teams sites, and how to resolve these warnings if it's intentional.

#VeeamVanguard #VeeamLegend
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Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs
If you're using Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 to backup your SharePoint sites, and then you delete a SharePoint site, you're going to get a warning it can no longer be backed up, obviously, becau...
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May 22, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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[📜] World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures

All devices have a limited lifespan, but we don't need to wait for them to break to know it's time to replacement, as I discuss in this #WorldBackupDay post!

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World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures
Hello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, t...
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March 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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[📜] World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them
Why do we invest so much redundancy in infrastructure, then let backups, our last resort for data resilience, have minimal room for error? Thought piece in new post!
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World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!
Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them! So, what is an SLA? An SLA (S...
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March 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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[📜] VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches

In today's quick tip post, I wrote up an issue with #VMware vCenter's update manager in a recent project I worked on, and how to fix it.

#vExpert

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VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches
After working on a project recently where vCenter's Update Manager wouldn't import files, I decided to write up the troubleshooting steps and fix for my particular scenario.
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March 1, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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Great way to end the week! Reaching three years with the amazing #VMware #vExpert programme!

It's been great to learn so much from the talented people within the #vCommunity and I look forward to another year of knowledge sharing and opportunities!
February 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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[📜] Google: Egress Fees Waived - The Reality vs The Marketing

You may have heard that #Google is waiving egress fees from #GCP, but as always there is more to the story than a headline. I've provided a breakdown of when these fees are waived, and how you'd go about getting them waived below. 👇
Google: Egress Fees Waived – The Reality vs The Marketing
Google Cloud Platform has been making news recently with many headlines claiming egress fees have been waived, but *spoiler alert*, they haven't. In this article I've attempted to separate the marketi...
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January 25, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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[📜] Veeam & Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024

Take time to reflect on the year ahead & make sure you're not leaving yourself vulnerable to security risks in OS or applications. All #Veeam & Veeam supported platforms with an EOL in 2024 👇

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Veeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024
Times change, and software changes with them, until it's no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the soft...
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January 9, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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[📜] Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements

ICYMI: #Veeam dramatically improved the performance & efficiency of compression in v12! By how much? Check out my blog post below 👇
#VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements
One lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they've made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post.
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November 27, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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[📜] #Veeam B&R x #Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob

If you're having issues with lifecycle operations failing due to 'Failed to Copy Blob' when working with Veeam and #MicrosoftAzure storage, I've got a solution 👇
#VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard
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Veeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob
If you're using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the 'Failed to Copy Blob' error, this post just might help!
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November 22, 2023 at 10:07 AM
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[📜] #Veeam B&R - NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck

I was migrating some NAS Cache shares when the jobs started to get stuck, so I wrote up how to gracefully deal with this issue and how to work around this.
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Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck
Ever had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data.
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November 13, 2023 at 1:59 PM
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Day One is underway at the #Veeam100Summit and I'm reporting as close to live as I can over on the Veeam Community hub!

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October 31, 2023 at 11:25 AM
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The #Veeam100Summit is underway and
Michael Cade is smashing it with a great hands on #Kasten session. Amazing to be in the same room with so many amazing #VeeamLegend & #VeeamVanguard's!
October 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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[📜] #Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type

In my latest blog post I'll show you how to work around those pesky symlinks that can impact your ability to protect NAS shares!
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Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type
NAS Backups and Symlinks don't have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication!
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October 25, 2023 at 11:34 AM
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And we're back for day two of #SFD26, today we'll be looking at data & storage trends from none other than SNIA! Don't miss out 👇

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September 21, 2023 at 3:25 PM
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And we're back for the last segment of the day, the delegate roundtable, tune in below 👇 #SFD26
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September 20, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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Solidigm are up next and they're announcing a new product! Tune in below 👇 #SFD26
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TechFieldDay's #SFD26 is underway shortly, looking forward to hearing from CTERA, SNIA & Solidigm on their latest innovations and announcements.
Don't want to miss out on Storage Field Day? Be sure to watch it all happening live on the TFD website: techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/
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September 20, 2023 at 5:57 PM
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TechFieldDay's #SFD26 is underway shortly, looking forward to hearing from CTERA, SNIA & Solidigm on their latest innovations and announcements.
Don't want to miss out on Storage Field Day? Be sure to watch it all happening live on the TFD website: techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/
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