Veeam Infrastructure Appliance

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Each book explains Veeam Infrastructure Appliance in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• LAMP

  Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.

• ISO

  The International Organization for Standardization. SQL became an ISO standard in 1987, twelve months after ANSI adopted it.

• backup server

  The Windows or Linux machine running Veeam Backup & Replication, which manages and coordinates jobs, schedules and resources and keeps global settings. When first installed it also takes on the default proxy and repository roles.

Related terms

• Administrative (Activity log category)

  Category of Activity log entries covering every create, update, delete and action call made via Resource Manager, for example adding a tag, attaching a disk or creating a resource group.

• Agent Registry

  A central list, reached in the Microsoft 365 admin center via Agents > All agents > Registry, of all agents people in your organisation can use. It flags overall numbers, ownerless agents and those that aren't managed.

• ARM template test toolkit

  Run via Test-AzTemplate, these PowerShell checks compare templates and parameter files against best practice for ARM. For Bicep, use the Bicep linter, since the toolkit can't check it.

• Authorisation

  Working out which actions and data a signed-in user or application is permitted, typically via role assignments. It comes after authentication.

• Auto-mapping

  An Exchange Online feature that adds a mailbox to a person's Outlook by itself once they're given Full Access directly. Granting that permission via a group doesn't trigger it.

• Azure Activity

  Connector for Microsoft Sentinel that streams each subscription's activity log, via diagnostic settings, into the AzureActivity table. A subscription that was hooked up the older, legacy way needs disconnecting before you switch over.

• Azure AD B2C

  Identity platform for customer-facing apps; since 1 May 2025 new customers can't buy it and are directed to its successor, Microsoft Entra External ID. Tokens it issues can be checked by API Management's validate-jwt policy via its OpenID configuration.

• Azure App Configuration feature management

  Keeps feature flags centrally in App Configuration; apps check them via Feature Management libraries, so flipping a flag needs no deployment.