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Restore Deleted AD/Office 365 User in AD Connect Environment

Restore Deleted AD/Office 365 User in AD Connect Environment

In this post, we will walk through the process of restoring a deleted user in an environment that leverages Directory Sync/Azure AD Connect. The process isn’t overly intensive – It entails restoring the deleted user in Office 365, restoring the Active Directory account, and performing a hard match between the on-prem and cloud account. In our case, we will restore the Active Directory object from Veeam as the environment did not have the AD recycle bin enabled. Restore Deleted User…

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Veeam VSSControl Error Backing up VMware VM

Veeam VSSControl Error Backing up VMware VM

I recently utilized VMware Converter for a Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware conversion. After the conversion, Veeam backups started failing on the converted machines due to a VSSControl Error. The error stated: Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212529 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot add volumes to the snapshot set. Cannot add volume to the set of volumes that should be shadowed. VSS error: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR. Code:0x8004230f  As per Veeam, this error is due to a third party…

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Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 Issue

Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 Issue

Attention Veeam and Microsoft Exchange 2016 users; if you are running Veeam B&R against your Microsoft Exchange 2016 environment, you may want to wait to upgrade to Exchange Cumulative Update 5. As noted in Veeam Digest, customers who upgraded to CU5 are experiencing restore failures while utilizing Veeam Explorer for Exchange. The specific restore failures pertain to mailbox item-level recoveries, which are failing due to a significant change in the mailbox database structure. Typically, users receive an error stating Invalid property…

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VMware Tools and Windows RSS Issues

VMware Tools and Windows RSS Issues

Last Thursday, VMware distributed a rush post regarding an issue with Windows Server and VMware Tools. The issue pertains to packets being dropped on virtual machines running Windows as the guest OS and VMware Tools versions 9.10.0 through 10.1.5. For reference, 9.10.0 through 10.1.5 were packaged with ESXi 6.0 and 6.5, respectively. The increased rate of dropped packets stems from a malfunction in Windows Receive Side Scaling (RSS) on Windows 2012 and later guests. RSS normally works to distribute network processing…

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Veeam and vSphere 6.5

Veeam and vSphere 6.5

Attention VMware and Veeam backup users: If you are thinking about upgrading your VMware environment to 6.5, Veeam has a YouTube session for you. Veeam’s own Anton Gostev will be discussing ‘vSphere 6.5 backup gotchas’. As per the Veeam Community Digest, the session will be available to the base install group via his live YouTube channel tomorrow. A recording will be available for all others. In this session, he will be discussing topics that should be considered when upgrading to vSphere…

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