This page is dedicated to tools, eBooks, and other interesting links.
| Name | Description | Link |
| Altaro VM Backup | Award-winning virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. | Download a fully functional 30-day trial |
| Altaro Office 365 Backup | Easily back up all your company's Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, Teams and OneDrive and SharePoint files through an online dashboard, automatically backing them up to our secure data centers. |
Download your free 30-day trial here |
| 365 Total Protection | 365 Total Protection from Hornetsecurity offers comprehensive protection for Microsoft cloud services – specially developed for Microsoft 365 and seamlessly integrated to provide comprehensive protection for Microsoft cloud services. Easy to set up and extremely intuitive to use, 365 Total Protection simplifies your IT Security management from the very start. |
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 and backup suite. |
Request a free 30-day trial |
| Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition | Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is a free backup for VMware and Hyper-V, as well as physical servers, workstations and cloud instances. It protects up to 10 VMs | Link |
| Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Community Edition | Back up Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business data weekly, daily or as often as every five minutes in the location of your choice — on-premises or in cloud object storage — including AWS S3, Azure Blob, IBM Cloud and S3-compatible providers. Never settle for less than reliable, granular restore of Office 365 email items, SharePoint sites, documents, libraries and lists, as well as OneDrive for Business accounts, files and folders, in a few clicks. | Link |
| Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE | Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based PCs and laptops. With Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE, you can easily back up your computer to an external hard drive, NAS (network-attached storage) share or a Veeam Backup & Replication repository. | Link |
| Veeam Agent for Linux FREE | The NEW Veeam Agent for Linux FREE is a simple backup agent that’s designed to ensure the Availability of your Linux Instances, regardless of if they’re deployed in the public cloud or on-premises. | Link |
| NAKIVO Backup & Replication | Backup & Site Recovery Solution for Physical, Virtual, Cloud. Full-Featured Free Trial | 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 | In the modern workplace, your data is your lifeline. A significant data loss can cause irreparable damage. Every company must ask itself – is our data properly protected? | Link |
| 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, 2 nd 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, 2 nd 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, 2 nd 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 |
| Prepare for your VMware Certified VCP6-DCV Exam | Veeam® is happy to provide the VMware community with a new, unofficial VCP6-DCV study guide. Once again, Veeam has teamed up with VMware-certified professionals Jason Langer and Josh Coen to help you successfully prepare for the VCP exam. | Link |
| Active Directory Deep Dive | “Take a crash course on Active Directory to learn how to:
Properly deploy and configure an Active Directory |
Link |
| 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 |
| 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 |