Over the weekend, the DPM community lost one of its best – Ruud Baars. While you may be familiar with some of the DPM voices and faces, Ruud was one of the quiet and sometimes unseen, true innovators of how to deploy DPM in the real world. If you received...

YES! It is finally here! We are very excited to announce the RTM of DPM 2010. You can read the official announcement at System Center Nexus , as well as the commentary from my blog . DPM 2006 started our journey as ‘centralized backup of branch office...

We are very excited to announce the release of DPM 2012 Beta. Some of the big enhancements include: Centralized Management of DPM Servers (built on top of System Center Operations Manager ) A Central Console from which you can monitor and manage all the...

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...

In order to assist customers in designing their storage layout for Data Protection Manager 2007, we have put together a calculator that focuses on outlining the storage capacity requirements based on a set of input factors. For the first release, the...

The DPM team is very excited to announce the release of Service Pack 1 for DPM 2007.     What is new in Service Pack 1 http://www.microsoft.com/SystemCenter/DataProtectionManager/en/us/WHATs-NEW.aspx                       ...

This solution combines several existing tape related scripts with enriched functionality. The short list is shown in the DPMTapeUtil user guide illustration on the right. You can download the script and user guide from here , provided “as is”...

  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...

This script allows a user to mark any tape as free so that it is available for protection by DPM. Tapes which have unexpired data cannot be marked as free from the GUI but sometimes (esp. while testing) users need to override this behaviour. Save this...

My name is Bala Kasiviswanathan and I’m the Director of Storage Solutions Marketing in Redmond at Microsoft. I am very pleased to deliver the news that we recently made Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) available for...

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 tested hardware VSS provider for backup of Virtual machines deployed on Clustered Shared Volumes The table below contains the list of VSS hardware provider tested to be compatible with DPM for protecting virtual...

On October 17 th at Storage Networking World, Ted Kummert, Microsoft Corporate VP for Data and Storage Platforms announced the release to manufacturing of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. With the RTM, we are now counting down the days until...

How cool would it be, if we could schedule a nightly task that automatically grows your replica and shadow copy storage volume sizes, and in turn help the protection SLA to be good for the rest of the week! The script below does exactly the same...

I’m Seetharaman (Hari) Harikrishnan, General Manager of engineering for Data Protection Manager, here at Microsoft in Redmond. I’m writing today to announce the exciting news that we’ve recently globally released (RTW’d) System Center Data Protection...

Windows 2012 introduced deduplication feature that provides great savings for the file systems with lot of redundant data.  File systems in general, most of the data is cold meaning most of the files are not changed.  Windows 2012 deduplicates...

Hi, I’m Dan Taylor, a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to IT for ICON. At my previous employer, I implemented a small VMware infrastructure and learned the value of virtualization quickly. When I came to ICON, they had a small VM deployment with Virtual...

We are very excited to announce that the ‘Rollup Update’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available. There are new workloads to be protected, as well as new features in this update, including: Windows Server 2008 support...

Sid Ramesh wrote a fantastic script that provides great LDM statistics amongst which how many extents a data source uses. This helps to determine which volume to migrate first to reduce extents if there is a need to. Sample output is shown below followed...

The Data Protection Manager (DPM) team at Microsoft is happy to announce the arrival of Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta.  I am Anand Kamat, Group Product Manager for the DPM development team, and since shipping DPM 2007 SP1 in Jan 2009, we have...

As I write this post flying back from TechEd, North America ( check out Day 1 keynote ), it never ceases to amaze me how technology has really changed our lives!!! Speaking of which, what an honor that all of you voted System Center 2012 as best Microsoft...

Download the management pack I recently had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with the DPM 2010 management pack team. I was elated with some of the new features and the approach they took in designing this management pack. This one is definitely...

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...

Setting up System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! So many new features and “toys” to play with. I don’t know what to open first. Since it is something that can affect all the users here, I think I will unwrap...

Windows 2012 improved the CSV clustering by increased scale and performance.  Windows 2012 clusters can be as big as 64 nodes and 8000 VMs.  Windows 2012 clusters can now have their storage on a Cluster Storage Volume or can be a remote SMB...

The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production...