If you would like to give us feedback about the DPM v1 MOM pack, now is the time. We need your help in filling up a questionnaire which includes giving feedback about existing MOM pack and adding suggestions on new features. Of course you have the option...

Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day.  While going through the DPM Protection Group wizard to protect a servers NTFS volume, after enumerating the protected servers data sources and clicking on the volume to protect you receive the...

We recently released a hotfix for an issue related to short file name issues and "access denied" error. The KB associated with the same is: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906881 (906881) - You may receive an "Access Denied" error message when you use the synchronization with consistency check feature in Data Protection Manager and you are running Windows Server 2003. The problem occurs because during a consistency check, both the long name and the short name of each file m...

The spirit of this document is to provide you with a quick guide to troubleshooting System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) Certificate authentication issues. This document assumes that you are already familiar with DPM 2012 and have a healthy...

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...

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...

Data Protection Manager 2006 aka DPM V1 primarily caters to the file server protection market. But a lot of servers out there are application servers. So if you bought DPM V1, how do you ensure protection of your application servers? DPM has a file...

Welcome to the DPM CLI world. The CLI is based upon the latest Powershell technology from Microsoft, and gives the user a powerful scripting and CLI experience in a .Net environment. Feel free to browse through the Powershell pages, blogs etc. for great...

Two new pieces of information to keep you informed on what is going on with SQL Server database protection and System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1.   As part of Service Pack 1 for DPM, we now have official support for SQL Server 2005 Service...

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...

Today, DPM 2007 was awarded silver in the Storage Management category for this year's awards. Criteria: The winners were chosen by a select group of solution providers, and their picks reveal what the channel values most. Value. Support. Profit...

Hi everyone, Mike Jacquet here, and I want to take a minute to talk about an issue we’ve seen a couple times here in product support where DPM tape jobs may take longer than expected or they fail outright with ID 24052.  There are two possible symptoms...

The DPM Error Code Catalog has been published for download, in Word format, with the errors listed in numerical order. For more details, refer to Jeanie's post . - Balaji Hariharan

While using the DPM Management Shell, one would like to have a list of all cmdlets and its short help for quick reference. Also, we heard it would be useful to group the various cmdlets by the function they do – e.g. Library, Disk, Recovery or Protection...

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...

What is Data Protection Manager v2? Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager V2 Beta 2 (DPM) is a server software application that enables disk-based and tape-based data protection and recovery for file server data and for application server...

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...

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...

The following script creates a protection group with disk based protection, for a simple folder. It can be easily extended to add more data sources of different kinds – like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, System state or Virtual Servers. The Synchronization...

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...

This script restores the latest recovery point of the specified SQL databases. Save this script as a .ps1 file and run it. Usage and examples of scripts can be found by calling them with ‘-?’ or ‘-help’ from inside DPM Management Shell. ----------...

The MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM script can have many formats one of which is to migrate a source disk to a target disk or array of disks. How much space do you need to migrate? You need at least as much as the source disk size of course but what if 1...

  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 is a sample script that will automatically create new recovery points for the entire Data source’s in a Protection Group. You can customize this easily to change script file to create recovery points on disk. Save the attached file as a .ps1 file...

Our very own Shane Brasher just released another new video, this one covering the steps to perform a System State restore using DPM 2010 to a target server should it need a system state repair. You can view it here below or at the link here .    ...