Hello, Mike Jacquet here, and today I would like to discuss a fix that has been included in the released version of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) that enables End User Recovery (EUR) for file shares on the root of mountpoints to work...

Hello, Mike Jacquet here, and today I would like to discuss things you can do to help Data Protection Manager (DPM) utilize your tapes to full capacity. Many customers have reported that DPM tape backups use more tapes than necessary when backing up large...

          Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud—How to Apply the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) The Microsoft Operations Framework team is working on a new guide: Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud...

Hi everyone, Andy Nadarewistsch here, and today I want to talk about secondary protection and Exchange 2010 DAG node protection in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM). DPM allows for great flexibility when it comes to protecting Exchange...

Hi everyone, Andy Nadarewistsch here, and today I want to talk about passive node visibility in System Center Data Protection Manager. To be more specific I would like to discuss why passive nodes would not show in the DPM console. In general, there are...

We are very happy to announce that seven of the Product Solution Centers on http://support.microsoft.com are featuring new Top Solutions sections that pull dynamically from the Top Solutions RSS feeds . The Top Solutions are usually listed on the page...

Hi Everyone, Vivek Kumar here from the Data Protection Manager (DPM) support team. DPM 2010 comes with Bare Metal Restore (BMR) capabilities that are much talked about and have helped us in many of our crucial disaster recovery scenarios. Many of my friends...

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 supports protection of computers in workgroups and untrusted domains using local accounts and NTLM, however in scenarios where an organization does not allow creation of local accounts this solution does not...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one walks you through fixing a issue where a DPM SharePoint Catalog Task fails with Unknown error (0x8013151a): ===== Symptoms Symptom 1: While attempting to protect a SharePoint 2010 farm with...

Hi everyone, Andy Nadarewistsch here.  While the restore process for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007) and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) is the same for all versions of Exchange, the procedure on the Exchange...