Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our conversations realized that there is a lack of information...

Robert Hedblom, one of our Microsoft MVPs, gave a great presentation a few days ago on “Backup That Really Works” using multiple components of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite.  If you would like to watch the presentation, check it out on the Partner...

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...

Michael Vargo | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Some customers are experiencing failures on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts that utilize Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) when backing up virtual machines (VM’s) using System Center 2012 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...

Technorati Tags: DPM 2012 SP1 VM Mobility private cloud protection One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere.  Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone...

System Center 2012 SP1 - DPM has enabled data protection for Windows 2012 Private Cloud deployments.  Customers have been looking for a way to exclude some of the VHD/VHDX that have temp data or downloads or page files which have no value @ recovery...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for Data Protection Manager: Issue 1: An express full backup job in System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 may stop responding on a Hyper...

Hi, Michael Vargo here, and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how you can provide redundancy for End User Recovery of DFS shared data using Data Protection Manager. The environment diagram below provides a baseline for an explanation of the options...

When you try to back up data by using Windows Azure Online Backup, is the backup process is unsuccessful? If so this hotfix may be for you. The Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) certificate uses a new certification authority (CA) chain and this...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where after installing Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager you notice that the DPM database grows and eventually the DPM console will crash. This is fixed in SP1 but...

As you already know, there are some reports that come out of the box when you install System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM): However, you still might need a report that includes different information or a different format. Since DPM 2012 relies...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

We have a new article out that lists a couple issues you might see after deploying DPM 2012 SP1. You can check it out here: 2801420 - Issues that occur after you deploy System Center 2012 DPM SP1 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2801056 ) J.C. Hornbeck...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here, and today I’m going to walk through configuring Data Protection Manager to perform backups and recoveries using the Azure cloud. Note: This article assumes that you have already registered an account for use with Azure...

We recently released an update rollup package that adds the following features to the Windows Azure Online Backup for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Data Protection Manager (DPM) and for a computer that is running Windows Server 2012...

Here’s a KB for DPM 2012 that actually came out a few months ago but somehow slipped through the cracks and never got a mention here on our blog. It resolves a lot of questions we get around here so I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it. If you...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

An attempt to use the new Optimized Item Level Recovery (ILR) feature of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) for SharePoint recovery with a clustered SQL server as the instance specified as the location to "temporarily stage content...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn AG using DPM 2012 fails with error 0x80990F75: Symptoms When attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) using System Center 2012...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where SharePoint item-level recovery fails when the site collection name contains a space. ===== Symptoms Assume that you perform an item-level recovery on a Microsoft SharePoint...

This article describes the issues in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 that are fixed in hotfix rollup package 7 for System Center DPM 2010. This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues: When a Microsoft SharePoint site collection...

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta - Installable Bits (if you want to do that instead of VMs) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

When trying to restore to a Recovery Database (RDB) you may get an agent timeout with the following error message: ID 41 Details: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (0x8007274D) You may also see errors in the Exchange...

When opening Reporting Services Configuration Manager, the Web Service URL and Report Manager URL fails with the following error: Reporting Services Error An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError...