I found a download URL last week. At the time, it only shared a file saying \u201ccome back next week\u201d. Well, it\u2019s next week now. I checked it last night – no change. Mark Taylor (@ChorusMark) pinged me on Twitter late last night (I saw it this morning) and sure enough, the download<\/a> went live:<\/p>\n The description goes as follows:<\/p>\n With Microsoft Azure Backup, you can protect application workloads such as Hyper-V VMs, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and Windows clients to:<\/p>\n You can deploy Microsoft Azure Backup server as:<\/p>\n If you log into your Azure subscription, you\u2019ll see that Azure Backup vaults show the new feature too:<\/p>\n The system requirements are as follows:<\/p>\n Operating system – you must supply a license, either via virtualization<\/a> rights or normal physical licensing:<\/p>\n Processor:<\/p>\n RAM:<\/p>\n Hard Drive Space:<\/p>\n SQL 2014 is included in the setup. This license is free and can only be used for Azure Backup server. FYI, I\u2019ve been pre-warned that a pre-requisite is .NET 3.5.1 and this can take about 1 hour to install. Plan your time around this!<\/p>\n I haven\u2019t found a launch announcement from Microsoft and the AB site doesn\u2019t have any documentation yet. But this will be very similar to a DPM setup for Azure Backup.<\/p>\n [EDIT]<\/p>\n I forgot to address the localisation of the above Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). The Azure Backup team wanted to get MABS out as quickly as possible, so English was released first. More localisations will be released over time – the team really is customizing DPM to Azure Backup to make MABS, which you’ll see when you’re required to supply backup vault credentials to complete the setup, and they want to get more functionality into people’s hands as rapidly as they can.<\/p>\n Woohoo! Azure Backup has started the evolution from a very basic online backup service to something very interesting – the price is already super competitive versus MozyPro and the gazillions of Ahsay-based vendors but functionality has been a challenge. If you\u2019re not aware of Venus, then read this article I wrote for Petri.com. In short, … Continue reading “Azure Backup Project Venus Has Gone Live”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,55,175,65],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-backup","tag-dpm","tag-hybrid-cloud"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image_thumb8.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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