This page is dedicated to tools, eBooks, and other interesting links.
| Name | Description | Link |
| VM Backup (Formerly Altaro VM Backup) | Ransomware Protection Leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage assuring data cannot be erased, modified, or deleted by anyone for a set duration. | Download a fully functional 30-day trial |
| 365 Total Backup (Formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup) | Automatically back up Microsoft 365 Mailboxes, OneDrive, Teams Chat, SharePoint, and files on users’ EndPoints in one solution. | Download your free 30-day trial here |
| 365 Total Protection | Next-Gen Email Security, Encryption and Signatures for Microsoft 365, easy to use and built to protect your Microsoft 365 environment against phishing, ransomware, and data loss. | Start your free 30-day trial |
| 365 Total Protection Enterprise Backup | Protect your Microsoft 365 against phishing, ransomware, advanced threats, and data loss with 365 Total Protection Enterprise Backup, a unique cloud-based, all-in-one security backup suite. | Request a free 30-day trial |
| A Hornetsecurity Podcast: The Security Swarm | A weekly conversation of the most critical issues facing the world of cybersecurity today, hosted by Andy Syrewicze, Security Evangelist at Hornetsecurity. The world of cybersecurity should not be taken on alone. | It’s time to join the swarm. |
| BDRSuite homepage | BDRSuite is a robust and comprehensive backup solution that addresses various backup, recovery, replication, and DR needs of your diversified IT infrastructure such as Virtual, Physical, Cloud workloads & SaaS Applications, and supports advanced use cases, thereby ensuring business continuity at affordable pricing. |
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| BDRCloud homepage | Cloud Backup & Recovery | Link |
| BDRSuite Blog | BDR blog with guest blogs | Link |
| RVtools | Great free tool for an inventory of you’re vSphere environment. | Link |
| vSphere Assesment Tool | Tool that helps with you’re vSphere upgrade journey | Link |
| As Built Report | Automate the documentation of your VMware vSphere, NSX, PureStorage, Horizon, Cisco UCS environment | Link |
| vDocumentation | vDocumentation provides a community-created set of PowerCLI scripts that produce infrastructure documentation of vSphere environments in CSV or Excel file format | Link |
| Ghostbuster | Removes ghosted hardware in a VM | Link |
Ebooks / PDFs
| Name | Description | Link |
| Microsoft 365 Security Checklist – A practical guide for the time-strapped admin | The Microsoft 365 Security Checklist shows you all the security settings and configurations you need to know for each M365 license to properly secure your environment. Written by veteran IT consultant and trainer Paul Schnackenburg, this free 100+ page eBook contains full explanations of all the important security parameters, the step-by-step processes of how to access, how to optimally configure them, and a full checklist to ensure you don’t miss anything! |
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| The Backup Bible | Your complete guide to backup and disaster recovery. | Download here |
| Office 365/Microsoft 365: The Essential Companion Guide | In order to get the most out of your investment, Altaro have put together an 85-page eBook detailing everything about Office 365 and Microsoft 365 from explaining the feature sets, hidden applications, best practices, migrations, use-cases, and more! | Download here |
| “How to get the Most Out of Windows Admin Center, 2nd Edition” | This eBook is a second edition covering all the latest updates and features Microsoft has added to the tool since the original publication in 2019. These constant updates clearly demonstrates that Microsoft envisions Windows Admin Center as the essential Windows management tool. |
Download here |
| PowerCLI – The Aspiring Automator’s Guide, 2nd Edition | Stop looking at scripts online in envy because you wish you could build your own scripts. PowerCLI: The Aspiring Automator’s Guide Second Edition will get you started on your path to vSphere automation greatness! |
Get your free ebook now |
| The SysAdmin’s Guide to Azure Infrastructure as a Service, 2nd Edition | Whether you’re making new VMs directly in the cloud, have VMs in your own datacenter and are looking to migrate to Azure, or you’re looking to manage VMs with cloud-based tools regardless of where they live, The SysAdmin Guide to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) will teach you to set up and maintain a high- performing Azure IaaS environment. |
Get your free copy now |
| VMware Troubleshooting Guide | An essential handbook for administrators in small to mid-market business. | Download here |
| Mastering vSphere | Best Practices, Optimizing Configurations & More. | Download here |
| Ransomware: A Survival Guide | How it affects individuals and organizations, and how to protect yourself against attacks. | Download here |
| ESI® Benchmark Report | Hornetsecurity ESI® Benchmark Report highlights the risks of phishing and suggests defence strategies that focus on security awareness. | Download the Report |
| PowerCLI: The Aspiring Automator’s Guide Second Edition | This free eBook adopts a use-case approach to learning how to automate common vSphere tasks using PowerCLI. | Link |
| VMware Technical Paper | Latest VMware technical paper | Link |
| VMware Visio Shapes | Visio shapes for VMware Validated Designs | Link |
Other
| Name | Description | Link |
| VMware Resources | Page with an overview of VMware resources I frequently use | Link |
| NVIDIA Virtual GPU releases | Overview of the NVIDIA vGPU releases | Link |
| NVIDIA GPU models | COMPARE GPUs RECOMMENDED FOR VIRTUALIZATION | Link |
| VMware Product Resources | List of handy VMware resources | Link |
| Windows 10 Enterprise en Education lifecycle | Windows 10 Enterprise en Education lifecycle | Link |
| Windows 10 lifecycle fact sheet | Windows 10 lifecycle fact sheet | Link |
| Windows 10 releases information | Windows 10 releases information | Link |
| Windows 10 release information Enterprise and Education | Windows 10 Enterprise and Education follows the Modern Lifecycle Policy | Link |
| Windows 10 known issues | Windows 10 known issues | Link |
| Microsoft Office 365 licensing overview | Microsoft Office 365 license overview | Link |
| Veeam KB | Latest Veeam KB articles | Link |
| Veeam Restore Point Simulator | Link | |
| Veeam VMware support | Veeam Backup & Replication support for VMware vSphere | Link |
| Microsoft Portals | Microsoft Portals overview | Link |
| VMware Tools download | VMware Tools download | Link |
| HPE Software Delivery Repository | HPE Software Delivery Repository | Link |
| HPE ESXi Offline Bundle | HPE Offline bundle for VMware ESXi includes HPE CIM Providers | Link |
| Remote Display Analyzer | Analyze and change display protocol settings on the fly | Link |
| Connection Experience Indicator | Connection Experience Indicator for RDS, AVD & W365 | Link |
| Citrix VMware support | Supported Hypervisors for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Provisioning | Link |
| AVD MSRD-Collect | This script is designed to collect information that will help Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) troubleshoot an issue you may be experiencing with Azure Virtual Desktop or Remote Desktop Services | Link |
| Microsoft Commands and portal overview | popular aka.ms links for Microsoft portal pages | Link |
| Azure Status | Display the status of the Azure Services | Link |