February, 2010

Why the hassle about 300 data sources, the ‘LDM limit’ thing and where do the new DPM2010 options “ collocation” and “ autogrow ” come into play? More importantly, why should I care and what’s in it for me? Let’s start with that… Understanding the background...

  Download the upgrade advisor now! In the past we have received questions on upgrade steps of DPM server and agents from DPM 2007 SP1 to DPM2010 Release Candidate. DPM 2010 Upgrade advisor addresses questions on how to upgrade DPM versions ranging...

  Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast on March 3, 2010 , we...

A potential problem with Volume Manager on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista systems may lead to data loss. This hot fix does not apply to Windows Server 2008 R2 . Microsoft recommends that you apply this hotfix on any Windows Server 2008 and Windows...

Over the next several weeks, we are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments – including Hyper-V R2, Hyper-V and Virtual Server...

As we move from the Release Candidate to the final DPM product, we want to make sure that Microsoft Partners are ready to help our customers with the latest in data protection from Microsoft.  DPM 2010 is one of two System Center products that will...

Better backups with DPM – the story so far… DPM has consistently aimed at making your backups more reliable. The transition from tape to disk as a medium for storing backups provided the first impetus to improved reliability of backups, and was delivered...

We could say a lot of fluffy marketing stuff, but the most important thing to say is – COME AND GET IT ! We are very excited to announce that the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public download.   Download the Release Candidate...

  Recently we have written a blog on using scripts to help you automatically protect new Virtual Machines in you environment, on your Primary DPM server. With some of our customers using it successfully already we have received requests for similar...

Knowing how to manipulate DPM by way of PowerShell can come in handy in many situations. For example, I had a case to where I was troubleshooting the DPM console that was crashing and there was a concern as to whether or not recovery points where being...

There are some common issues we run into when troubleshooting SharePoint recoveries and the video below covers how to diagnose common SharePoint DPM recoveries using the various logs that are available. The two areas of focus are insufficient space and...