June 2008 - Posts
To enable the end-user recovery in DPM 2007 on a Windows 2008 Server you should click on the recovery tab and then under actions (on the left hand side) click on “Configure end-user recovery…” link. This will launch a wizard to
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When installing the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Self Service Portal on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, you may encounter a Fatal Error if IIS is configured to run in 32-bit mode. This issue occurs when installing the SCVMM
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With the RTM release of Hyper-V just around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to re-visit some of the top things we have seen customers encounter when installing and configuring Hyper-V for the first time and give pointers to resources we
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With SharePoint gaining popularity in the last year and the recent release of DPM 2007 which supports the protection of SharePoint this has become a hot topic in the last few months. The protection and recovery of SharePoint data is not small undertaking
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Article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808814(TechNet.10).aspx describes how to install DPM on to a 2008 Server. However I have found that this article is incomplete. The following is how to install DPM onto a 2008 Server. After the 2008
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There are a lot of administrators that need to maintain a highly available Print Server running on Windows Server 2003 RTM/SP1/R2/SP2 Failover Clusters Hopefully with this series of blog posts, you will be able to create a solid printing environment where
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In Data Protection Manager 2007, when configuring a protection group for protection of Exchange data for the versions that DPM supports (Exchange Server 2003 w/SP2 or higher and 2007), you are given an option to enable execution of ESEUTIL.EXE against
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If you are protecting more than one domain controller, and using more than one DPM server to do it, you may experience an issue where at random times, all servers being protected by Data Protection Manager ("DPM") may lose connection with the
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In the last episode, Indy was hanging precariously from a ........ No seriously..... a high-demand commodity right now is information about Microsoft's new virtualization technology - Hyper-V. There is actually a good bit of information floating
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If the information under the Libraries tab in the Management Task area does not show up correctly: Follow the steps below to remap the tape drive information. Stop the DPMLA service if it is running Remove any tapes from the drive and insert at least
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The networking model changed significantly in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. First, and foremost, when we start talking about networking in 2008 Failover Clusters we need to drop some of the older concepts that have been around for awhile. Probably
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