May, 2011

Microsoft’s own Shane Brasher has just released another great new video.  This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager client setup, protection group configuration, client synchronization and client side file restore.  Check it out...

When using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM) to backup your production servers, you might encounter a situation where the recovery point volumes for your protected data source keep running out of space and the number of days that...

Hi, Shane Brasher here, and I just wanted to let you know about a new video I released. This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to deploy and configure the Self-Service Recovery Tool (SSRT).  System Center Data Protection...

The Set-Quota PowerShell script (attached below) applies or removes disk quotas for protected client computers. It uses the expected data size per client value of the protection group to set the required disk quota for the client computers protected under...

The following article explains the necessary steps to successfully share a Physical Tape Library and a Virtual Tape Library on System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM).  It also shows how to manually map library drives to the correct Tape...

I know this isn’t DPM specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here and I wanted to take a minute and show you how to use a new feature that came with the March DPM hotfix rollup package that allows users that are not local administrators on a protected client to recover their protected...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here, and I wanted to take a minute to discuss a few issues recently where customers were having problems configuring protection of SharePoint 2010 running on their Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 server. When you attempt to...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we just published this morning about an issue you’ll see if you protect a database with two backslashes in the path: ===== Symptoms When you create a new SQL database (or it is created automatically by an application...