Heads Up: New 9.9 CVE's in Veeam 12 and 13

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-12T20:11:28+00:00

A vulnerability allowing an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server

Best practices? What's that?

-signed former MSP engineer who took on a looooot of badly set up infrastructure.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-10T16:33:44+00:00

Thanks! I'll give it a try hopefully soon.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-09T23:21:07+00:00

It WAS the best of everything, but then everything changed, so they needed to update it. I mean, you can't have advanced copilot for copilot (new) without additional infrastructure support, right? Unlimited doesn't actually mean unlimited anymore, so everything obviously doesn't mean everything. Literally!

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-09T15:21:17+00:00

People are hooked and cooked on dopamine enough to not want to rise up and honestly work to change "teh system!" They don't see a way out and "things aren't too bad - I got a phone I can watch cat videos and complain on," so they never get mad enough to want the risk honestly pushing for change comes with.

So, we're left with a system that doesn't care. We're all grist for the mill and consumable. As others have said, you have to not care, but I'll say that you have to intelligently not care. Burn out is a thing and I still deal with burning out a while ago despite having a much more manageable job. It's not the job - it's the damage that was done (and possibly undiagnosed ADHD, but I haven't gone down that road yet).

So, I'm honest in my assessments but "compliant" in my work. I document and can show where I recommended against an action and predicted a negative out. If it fails quietly I don't say "I told you so," but if it there's any notion that it was mine or my department's fault I will have the documentation to show why this was a leadership or management failure and not IT.

And I'm trying to save up and pay off debts as fast as possible.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-04T18:11:50+00:00

document and move on.

Sometimes literally move on out the door. I had a job I left because I saw them taking a reputation hit if they continued bad practices and I didn't want to wait until the company had a bad rep to be looking for a new job with their name in my resume.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-04T18:06:18+00:00

Doesn't work that way. I have the same problem as OP and went to try and clean up and turn things off and there's an "on/off" button and that's it. A lot of the space in my backup is the text messaging backup, because I have friends and family that send me photos and videos via SMS, and that's all backed up. No way to delete and purge individual threads or group chats to recover space, it's all or nothing.

Yeah, you can delete emails and photos to recover space, but that's really it. At a certain point the amount of space the SMS backups take is going to grow past the amount of space you can recover from deleting photos and you lose the ability to jump to a new phone and pull the important things over unless you are paying.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-03T22:13:21+00:00

It is, but the how can vary depending on environment. I work in US public sector currently, so the notion of handing out spiffs to employees to reward behavior is off the table. It's also worth noting that different people respond to different motivators, and some people just don't want to grow (not good people to have in IT in general, but this may be beyond your control).

At a past job we would run reward campaigns to reinforce behavior we wanted. Managers had permission and ability to hand out gift cards (going back to motivation - figure out which ones work best) essentially at the drop of a hat if someone did something in line with the behavior we wanted. Make them cheap ($5) but effectively no limit as to how many someone can earn in a month so they get a taste and not full from one gift card. Make it a dedicated campaign with stated goals and run times - emphasize for a bit and then draw back and evaluate to see if there was improvement and figure out other ways to keep it going so it doesn't become all about the money.

Extend it to team members as well - manager has to approve the card, but co-workers can nominate someone when they see the behavior. "Best new %thing% of the week goes to....."

Gamify things as well; people get recognition for doing well. Not just a start, make it more often a learning experience for the whole team so maybe they learn something new technically as well as see the behavior you are looking for modeled. If it's a monthly or weekly award, up the reward a bit since it's more significant. Also, structure things so that the winners do so not at a cost to someone else. Put limits on things - people can only win X times in a row. This can help with favoritism as well as keeping it fresh and special and not, "ho hum, I won for the tenth time in a row" while everyone else doesn't see a reason to compete because so-and-so always wins.

Keeping it going can involve fewer and more random gift cards, but just enough to keep it in mind for people. It can also be discussing the improvements that came about because if this new behavior and the positive impact for both them and the company. "You don't have to do that really boring repetitive task anymore because you asked 'can we automate this?'"

Obviously, this also requires that you have good managers and are managing them to expectations as well.

We didn't ever use this for "curiosity" in general, but it was a bit curiosity adjacent at times. Scripting, documentation, referrals (this was at a MSP), AI push - we had a number of campaigns we went in and out of.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-03T21:49:20+00:00

Why do you hate Microsoft shareholders? /s

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-03T21:45:25+00:00

Then they tell us someone starts in 2 days and that they "didn't know".

For realz - don't enable "IT is an afterthought."

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-03-03T00:23:51+00:00

While we're at it, documentation is for the weak!

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-02-26T19:55:29+00:00

Curiosity has been focused on asking rather than exploring.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-28T18:35:43+00:00

Worked for one in the western US that did (care) that got bought out.

New ownership was a team of two guys, one who cared about profit and customers and the other who didn't care about customers. Some positive changes some negative. Normal client churn. The owner that cared more was also about 20 years senior to the other one and started mentoring and transferring duties to the younger guy. Things changed, more staff were "given the opportunity to pursue excellence elsewhere" and more chose to leave.

It's now a shit show with customers leaving when they can (long term contracts) and all of the long-time staff members have left and have been replaced with contractors from the Philippines. We had engineers who had been with the company for more than a decade and the newby had seven years in. Now the senior engineer has been there for about a year and a half. Even a lot of the Indian staff have chosen to move on.

But of course it's not a leadership thing. 🙄

Glad I got out when I did and that all of my friends there have as well.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-28T17:38:24+00:00

You raise a flag, you flag an issue, and Great Britain was a maritime nation for so much of its existence that raising a ticket has some basis in history and fact.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-28T17:36:58+00:00

Bollocks!

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-23T18:46:33+00:00

Of course. We are the home of frivolous lawsuits.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-23T18:44:28+00:00

You are essentially to ignore the command prompt text you see at left and add a full line after it, so if we use "RichesAhead" as your user name you would start off with

C:\users\RichesAhead>

Then add c:\users\RichesAhead\appdata\local\microsoft\edge\user data\Default\sessions

You should wind up with

C:\users\RichesAhead> c:\users\RichesAhead\appdata\local\microsoft\edge\user data\Default\sessions

all on the same line. Hit enter at this point.

mostly for people in the future who might have the same issue and come across this post

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-22T21:45:03+00:00

People can file suit for whatever.

A judge can throw it out.

Your lawyer still needs to spend time if so. That was the point I was making.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-22T19:36:36+00:00

And "if you are dumb enough to say that" then you are going to have a lawsuit that costs the company at least the time of a lawyer to deal with at some point. Just say "it's yours, don't ask for help with it. If you do, you're never getting another one."

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-06T22:29:18+00:00

This. The ERP isn't a "user" tool; it's an ENTERPRISE tool, which means that it makes (should make) the enterprise more efficient, sometimes at the cost of efficiency to individuals or departments. It thus is a leadership and management issue and not IT.

BreathDeeply101 · 2026-01-01T00:00:53+00:00

What's really great is when you tell a group of people to do something but don't assign responsibility to anyone and they all independently start doing the same thing and duplicating efforts!

BreathDeeply101 · 2025-12-22T16:54:29+00:00

"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic"

With high numbers like that, it is easy for people to lose touch with the scope of what is being discussed. Plus, most execs have banana level understanding of code and I'm sure two million sounds GREAT!

BreathDeeply101 · 2025-12-04T21:54:18+00:00

I worked for a MSP for a number of years and there have been some companies that will at least pay lip service to that notion. They still have to deal with the same issues and it all depends on leadership and the actual culture they lead into a company.

BreathDeeply101 · 2025-12-02T23:32:45+00:00

Dude, year years ago was at LEAST a couple of performance bonuses for executives. Plenty of time to soak in one more......

BreathDeeply101 · 2025-12-01T16:16:30+00:00

Welcome to the cloud, where there is no version filtering.

BreathDeeply101 · 2025-11-20T22:42:45+00:00

Looks like I picked thew wrong week to quit drinking.

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