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Microsoft’s very own Scott Rachui put together another great self-study guide for System Center 2012, this time focusing exclusively on Data Protection Manager and Endpoint Protection. If you’re wanting a head start in mastering these technologies then these are a great place to start. ===== In part...

Say you want to use the DPM “SAN recovery” option. This requires storage management steps for which it is useful to know which Windows disks (LUN’s) hold the associated DPM volumes for a given data source. First a generic recap of the potential ‘DPM SAN recovery’ advantages and steps; ‘SAN recovery’...

I like to draw attention to something that may not be well known and surprise some. You probably are familiar with the ‘rule’ that all protected hosts within a cluster must be protected by the same DPM server! This is does not apply to Exchange 2010 and is formally documented here: http://technet.microsoft...

Just a quick heads up on a new System Center Data Protection Manager KB article we published this morning.  This one talks about configuring cluster networks for Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) redirected access: ===== Summary When System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) is protecting Hyper...

This video covers troubleshooting DPM communication to and from a TMG server.  In the video we verify that we have connectivity, then we break the communication between the two and walk through the steps needed to be performed on the TMG server in order to allow successful communication once again...

With special thanks to Fahd Kamal for the backgrounder content. Imagine that you are experimenting with DPM 2010. You protect some data, and then you remove that protection group. Then, showing DPM to one of your friends, you protect the data again, and later unprotect it. Later that same day, you...

Those with interest in modifying and creating DPM protection from CLI probably appreciate this otherwise there is little sense in reading further I guess. Those that seek to save and recreate protection configurations are up for a task that proved to be a daunting one, you may want to look into a twin...

There are people that understand and monitor what’s happening in their environment, I’m sure you are one of those and may observe strange looking statistics. On the 10.000ft level and a per job basis, not all data that gets transferred is also stored!? Are we losing information? No, of course not! DPM...

Assume we have some sort of scenario where protection is continued on new storage pool and are left with old storage pool that contains data but is no longer relevant. You could develop the idea to re-use old storage pool disk space to enlarge the new storage pool and may even be part of a migration...

So, you’ve protected your server with BMR using DPM and now you need to restore. What's next? Well, I’ve been playing with the new BMR functionality on DPM 2010 for a while now and while it is very slick in how it operates, it seems like there might be some confusion on exactly how to...

Certainly, you can use DPM 2010 to protect the content databases within the farm, and there is goodness in DPM 2010 such as auto-protection of new content databases within the farm and the one-click setup for farm content protection. But there are a few other aspects of the SharePoint farm that you need...