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Microsoft Windows Server 2025 has been released two months ago and has a lot of new features. But do you know Azure Arc can add more features and capabilitiers to your Windows Server?
Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multicloud and on-premises management platform.
Azure Arc provides a centralized, unified way to:
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Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be probably available in H2 2025 and most of the new features are already published and commented.
But you should be prepared, because, like each new major release (and sometimes also minor release), it will drop support for older platform and software versions and will also deprecase some old features and accelerate vacating discontinued features.
The reason, as Gostev commented in this post, is to don’t spread QA resources too thin as new OS versions come out. In addition, this simplifies the implementation of new features and enables to create more efficient and secure code. Finally, this improves overall platform security by disabling the ability to connect to outdated and long unpatched OS and applications.
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With Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3, the malware detection methods have been improved compared with 12.1 version.
The different malware detection methods are similar, they work in different way and can be used together to reach different scopes, but now there are more options.
As previous, the first main diffecence is that some works inline (during the backup process on the source data) and other works with a post-processing directly on restore points saved on the repositories. They provide different type of results.
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Starting with ESXi 7.0 the partions layout has totally changed, compared to previous versions.
And also the disk requirements have changed… you cannot install anymore on a very small disk (less than 4 GB) and the minimum required size is 32 GB. A big change, considering that before was possible install ESXi with less than 1 GB!
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The Veeam Managed Hardened Repository is a bootable ISO based on Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx) distribution preconfigured by Veeam.
The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience and improve the security of the hardened repository, with a solutionpre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way!
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The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository delivered as bootable ISO with a Rocky Linux distribution preconfigured by Veeam.
The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience while eliminating (or at least reducing) the need for any Linux expertise.
But also have an OS pre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way! Recommendations are based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) created and maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Rocky Linux.
Further, on-going management costs are reduced thanks to both hardened repository components as well as the base OS updates provided directly by Veeam.
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Veeam Threat Hunter is a new feature introduced in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 that provides the speed of YARA scans and the breadth of malware detection of a classic antivirus.
But how fast it is? In the Veeam Community somebody declares 3x-6x faster in testing depending on the contents being scanned when testing against Windows Defender.
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