DRaaS with Veeam Cloud Connect

DRaaSFor the last two years, I have been working closely with many service providers across Australia and New Zealand to build  Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) as an offering using Veeam Cloud Connect.

Veeam Cloud Connect introduces a great new opportunity for many service providers to become an off-site backup target for customers data and workload in the event of a complete Production site disaster. Continue reading

MS-Exchange & Office 365, Create Mailboxes and Dummy Emails for Testing

mailbox-lockI was recently testing a new email backup product that pushed me to a new test requirement. I needed to create a huge number of mailboxes, and then send dummy emails to fill the newly created mailboxes to simulate a production email system.

Luckily, I have been working with Microsoft Exchange for the last 16 years; but in recent years my path diverted from designing, deploying, configuring, and managing MS Exchange environments. Continue reading