Author Archives: Eric Harless

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Eric is Head Backup Nerd at SolarWinds

Single Sign-on (SSO) Now Available for SolarWinds® Backup version 18.11

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Eric Harless

We are happy to inform you that on November 15, 2018 we successfully released the Single Sign-on (SSO) update for SolarWinds Backup 18.11.

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Single Sign-on (SSO) Coming Soon to SolarWinds® Backup

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Eric Harless

Great news! In early November user authorization for the Backup Console @ https://backup.management will migrate to a new Single Sign-on identity server. Once logged in, your credentials will be standardized between other supported SolarWinds applications you have authorization for.

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Monitoring and Alerting on LocalSpeedVault Health Status

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Eric Harless

The purpose of this post is to inform you of additional alerting, that is being enabled globally over the coming weeks, that will inform you in the event that a backup device you manage has a LocalSpeedVault (LSV) failure.  Depending … Continue reading →

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January 23rd: Support System Outage – RESOLVED

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Eric Harless

As you may know, Salesforce is experiencing a widespread outage. As a result, some customers are experiencing intermittent error messages when trying to reach/access support via all support channels.

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Wi-Fi Security Compromise:

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Eric Harless

Researchers have detected a vulnerability through which Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) handshake traffic can be manipulated to induce nonce and session key re-use, resulting in key re-installation by a wireless access point (AP) or client.

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Phishing Campaigns Timely for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Eric Harless

We are aware of several phishing campaigns purporting to be SolarWinds with a malicious .doc attachment. The malicious document is being referenced in several phishing campaigns not related to SolarWinds. Our marketing infrastructure was not compromised; we only use PDF … Continue reading →

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Announcing Availability of SolarWinds Backup Version 17.9

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Eric Harless

We are pleased to announce version 17.9 of SolarWinds Backup. This release is available for our standalone partners to download directly from within the Management Console or our download site. Version 17.9 is our September 2017 release and includes the following updates … Continue reading →

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Solarwinds Backup: Scheduled Maintenance, Thursday 28th September

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Eric Harless

We will be performing a Cloud Service restart to update our Management Server infrastructure to version 17.9 on Thursday, 28th September.

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Usability Updates Now Available in Version 17.8 of the SolarWinds Backup Management Console

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Eric Harless

We are excited to announce the general availability of version 17.8 of the Backup Management Console.  This update includes several usability, reporting and educational enhancement to the Management Console available at https://backup.management.

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Announcing Availability of SolarWinds Backup Version 17.7

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Eric Harless

We are pleased to announce the general availability of version 17.7 of SolarWinds Backup. This release is now available for our standalone partners to download directly from within the Management Console or our download site. Version 17.7 is our July 2017 release … Continue reading →

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