Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on DPM 2012. This one talks about an issue where some console menu items may show up multiple times: ===== Symptoms In System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM), console sub menu options such...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a restricted user can attempt certain actions that they don't have permission to yet get a (false) message indicating it was successful. ===== Symptoms When using...

New from our community driven TechNet Wiki: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) offers with its new console in the creation of a protection group in System Protection, a new option called "Bare Metal Recovery". This option...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here. I have seen some issues recently where the System Center Data Protection Manager Admin Console crashes and logs an Event ID 945 any time any changes were made.   The information below describes the issue, how...

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So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

Hello, Chuck Whitson here from the Data Protection Manager Team here in Texas. Lately, we’ve had several customers run into issues with sharing their tape library between multiple DPM servers so I’ve put together some of the things that have been known...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here. I have seen some issues recently where DPM volumes are flagged as “missing” in the DPM console so I wanted to take a minute and show you an easy way to fix this. Symptoms In System Center Data Protection Manager, DPM volumes...

There are many failures that can happen when protecting Hyper-V hosts and CSV’s that are a result of the Cluster network configuration not being optimized for redirected mode communication. In most cases these problems will only happen under a heavy load...

Hello, I’m Shane Brasher. I’d like to discuss the System State Restore Process, basically a walkthrough if you will. First however let’s discuss a high level view of what is done during the backup of a server system state. From a very high level, Data...

Hello, I’m Shane Brasher and I’m part of the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager team. I’d like to discuss the process of performing a successful Bare Metal Restore (BMR) via Data Protection Manager 2010. So everything is running fine, but...

Hello, Shane Brasher here. I’d like to go over some very basic troubleshooting steps used to narrow down some common causes on initial replication and just plain replication failures for System State and Bare Metal backups. Troubleshooting a System State...

Here’s another new KB article we published today. This one describes and issue where a dynamic disk goes offline after a reboot: ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario:   You have a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 computer running System...

Just a quick heads up on one more new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Configuring SMTP Server information in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM) fails with the following error:...

Just a quick heads up on one more new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Pushing the System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM) agent to a target computer fails with the following error: Install protection agent on name.domain.com failed...

Data Protection Manager for System Center 2012 provides significant performance improvement for backup and more flexibility in recovery for Hyper-V deployments. Hyper-V Express Full Backup: DPM 2012 has made significant improvement in Stand Alone Hyper...

Here is a scenario : “DPM Backups have failed because the SQL Server refused connection. The SLA has been missed thrice already in this week. The operator re-runs the backup the next day outside the backup window and it succeeds. Someone needs to answer...

We recently published some great case studies demonstrating how Microsoft IT uses System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to provide state of the art backup and restore services while at the same time savings millions of dollars every year.  If...

Here’s a new DPM 2010 KB article we published this morning.  If you see an issue where some recovery point jobs fail intermittently when performing a host level backup of guests located on a CSV in Windows 2008 Hyper-V Cluster then this one’s for...

Most enterprises have a centralized team which amongst other responsibilities also handles running of the backup service in their organization. It is a considerable challenge to effectively delegate work to the various support teams while retaining control...

  DPM 2012 provides the capability to protect Workgroup computers and computers in untrusted domains using Certificates for the purpose of authentication. If you are already using DPM 2010, you have the ability to protect machines without trust by...

When we started work on Centralized Management, it became very apparent that we need a UI that not only presents a summary of the entire DPM environment, but also Enables customers to work on more important issues first – like working on alerts affecting...

It’s all about reducing management costs. We not only wanted to provide a Central Console which effectively aggregates status across of your DPM Servers, but can make your every day tasks of managing the backup environment seamless thereby reducing your...