June, 2011

Hi, Marc Reynolds here.  I wanted give you a quick update on an improvement in DPM Client Protection after installing the hotfix rollup package from March 2011.  With this hotfix rollup, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) now supports...

The large range of ports used by dynamic RPC can pose a problem when attempting to allow communication through a firewall. In most cases, opening up 16,000 ports in the firewall to allow some application traffic is not feasible.  So if IPSec is not...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here. In my opinion, the biggest enhancement from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 is the auto-healing capabilities that enable protected datasources to remain reliably consistent. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010’s auto-healing...

Hello, my name is Walt Whitman and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft.  Today we will be discussing how Data Protection Manager 2010 knows about the different data sources that comprise a SharePoint farm. SharePoint farms come...

Just a quick FYI on a new Data Protection Manager Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Summary While trying to create a protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 or System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, you may...

The following article explains the necessary steps to successfully restore large amount of data using SAN Based Recovery in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. Imagine a scenario in which DPM 2010 needs to restore over 4TB of data on a SQL...