Mar 31

Working from home? Protect your hard work

Hi, March 31st is #WorldBackupDay, an annual event that looks to remind people to back up their data before they lose it. With so many people working remotely on various devices and ransomware attacks due to Covid-19, data backup needs to be taken seriously shares, it’s even more important to back up the files on your computers. Backup is important to you and your business (Working from home? Protect your hard work). Instead of storing all your important files and data in one place (like your computer), you should keep another copy of everything somewhere safe. One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about. This article provides a step by step guide to deploy Veeam Agent for Windows, install it and back up your computer or laptop to a USB Hard disk (or a network shared folder), piece of mind and very easy restores. Super easy to set up in a few minutes and free!

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Mar 29

Working from home with Microsoft Teams

Hi, I have begun to reflect a great deal more about the issue of safety and the best way to assist you on the crossing of this Covid-19 crisis. One of the main topics is “which service to use to work from home or to make meetings?” I know some tools such as Zoom, Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. In this context, Microsoft Teams (available with Office 365), is Microsoft’s fastest ever growing product. Microsoft is positioning Office 365 as being able to respond to key trends in the Digital Workplace, basically of the Covid-19 crisis: Remote work from anywhere (working from home with Microsoft Teams) and bring your own device (BYOD) and Cloud collaboration. All these points are important but the level of security should not be overlooked. If you are not sure what product to choose, please read this post about Microsoft Teams.

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Mar 27

Veeam Vanguard 2020 – Level 5!

Hi, today I received a great new from Nikola Pejkova. I have been selected for the Veeam Vanguard program for the 5th year! Honored and proud to be selected as a Veeam Vanguard 2020 then congratulations to all the returning and new Vanguard! 🙂

What is “Veeam Vanguard” program?

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Mar 26

Working from home with VeeamPN

Hi, at the moment, the trend is for VPNs. So much the better because VPN is a best practice (security habit to build), especially in businesses. If your sent all your employees home and they are now struggling with your corporate network access, but you don’t have time or knowledge to build, optimize and maintain your own VPN infrastructure, Veeam PN to the rescue (working from home with Veeam PN Blog Post).

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Mar 13

Fix KB4551762 for the vulnerability in the SMBv3.1.1

Hi, yesterday, Microsoft has released a patch for a vulnerability in the SMBv31.1 (CERTFR-2020-ALE-008 / CVE-2020-0796) protocol that accidentally leaked online earlier this week during the March 2020 Patch Tuesday preamble. Updates a Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 protocol issue that provides shared access to files and printers. The KB KB455176 is an update for Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909, and Windows Server 2019, versions 1903 and 1909.

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