Website Blog TechCtr Twitter
Website Blog TechCtr Forums Eval
Jason's blog is All Backed Up
From the System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), AVIcode and Operations Manager (OpsMgr) dude
also a Husband, Father, Gamer, Geek, Scout leader, Christ follower and Microsoft marketeer.
Pedro Alves just did a cool blog on protecting Exchange 2010, including DAGs, with DPM 2010. He has been a Premier Field Engineer for both Exchange and DPM, so his blog has really good stuff on both.
Check it out his latest post -- DAGs Protection Hints – DPM 2010
Nice job, Pedro !
Am getting ready for Wood Badge in a few weeks, which is a training program for adult leaders within Boy Scouts. Per a BSA website:
Reflecting the best of nearly a century of Scouting experience, the course draws upon the most current leadership models used by corporate America, academic circles, and successful outdoor organizations throughout the country. It builds on the best traditions and experiences of Wood Badge and also draws from a wide range of sources within and beyond the bounds of Scouting to present the latest in leadership theory and team development. Wood Badge, is the premier training program for all Scout leaders in the Boy Scouts of America. This includes all Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity and Venturing Leaders, District and Council Committee members as well as Professional Scouters. Wood Badge is designed to train adult volunteers using the latest leadership skills and techniques. It is once in a lifetime training experience. There are two parts to Wood Badge course: The first part consists of one week of practical experience where you have the opportunity to learn skills and concepts that underlie the five themes of Wood Badge for the 21st Century. The second part is a plan to apply what you learned in the practical course. You will create and carry out a plan of action.
Reflecting the best of nearly a century of Scouting experience, the course draws upon the most current leadership models used by corporate America, academic circles, and successful outdoor organizations throughout the country. It builds on the best traditions and experiences of Wood Badge and also draws from a wide range of sources within and beyond the bounds of Scouting to present the latest in leadership theory and team development.
Wood Badge, is the premier training program for all Scout leaders in the Boy Scouts of America. This includes all Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity and Venturing Leaders, District and Council Committee members as well as Professional Scouters. Wood Badge is designed to train adult volunteers using the latest leadership skills and techniques. It is once in a lifetime training experience.
There are two parts to Wood Badge course: The first part consists of one week of practical experience where you have the opportunity to learn skills and concepts that underlie the five themes of Wood Badge for the 21st Century. The second part is a plan to apply what you learned in the practical course. You will create and carry out a plan of action.
Am really excited to be taking a week to focus on leadership development that is reputed to make a better servant leader not only within scouts, but hopefully within my family and workplace. Am especially excited that my training week will be done at Philmont … aka Scouters’ Paradise.
If there are any other IT Pro’s that follow my blog and have gone through the Wood Badge program … would love to hear how you integrated your WB ‘ticket’ and your workplace role in IT. Ping me.
Woo Hoo – am very excited to confirm that I will be returning for my third TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand next month.
I have at least three confirmed sessions:
Protecting Application Servers with DPM 2010 - This session will focus on protecting and recovering Exchange 2010 and 2007, SharePoint 2010 and 2007 and SQL Server 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. We will cover how the application VSS writers work with the applications, as well as what is specific to protecting one application or version from another. The session will include demonstrations and unveil most of the DPM application-centric capabilities to help you plan/deploy/manage the backups for Microsoft application servers. If you are managing or planning to deploy Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint, ask yourself "How am I going to back that up?" and then attend this session to learn the answer.
Technical Introduction to System Center Essentials 2010 - System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 is designed to deliver enterprise-class management to mid-sized organizations between 50-500 PCs. This session is full of demos – to highlight each of the major aspects of SCE 2010, including server and client monitoring, software deployment and patching, virtualization management and migration, and how to get started with easy setup and configuration. Come see it here first.
Disaster Recovery and Virtualization Backup, Best Practices - This session will focus on the considerations and best practices for Disaster Recovery and Virtualisation back up. Disaster Recovery without expensive third-party replication products or storage solutions and Virtualization Protection for the modern datacenter.
You can follow TechEd Australia on Twitter at @AuTechEd or join them on Facebook.
.
My friends in New Zealand have confirmed that I am speaking but I haven’t seen the final list of sessions to be presented. please feel free to tweet them at @TechEdLive, to say that we need lots of #DPM sessions in #TENZ Auckland :-)
So, if you are attending TE-AU or TE-NZ, please ping me … so we can perhaps share a coffee and talk about DPM 2010 or SCE 2010. And, if you wanted to attend but found out your TechEd was sold out, please ping me … and maybe we can still share that coffee offsite.
You can ping me via email or tweet me @JBuff.
Last week, the DPM TechNet Forums were reorganized – so that it is easier for you to ask your question to the right group of experts -- and for them to answer you within context:
Check out the new DPM TechNet Forums !
And if you haven’t recently, check out the DPM TechCenter … also on Microsoft TechNet.
Am really excited to announce that DELL is partnering with Microsoft to deliver a solution around System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 !
From my perspective, this is a great match for SMB customers who often rely on Dell for their hardware and use Microsoft OS’s and applications. SCE 2010 provides a single solution to manage it all – physical and virtual, client and server, software and hardware.
Check out Dell’s blog post on it – here.
I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend !
It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours). :-)
It is due out on July 26th and is available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others – check out the website for more info.
The chapter and topic list includes:
FYI > the new website also has the first chapter available as a download.
For those who have followed this blog, I really appreciate your readership – and hopefully, some of you will find some value in the book, too.
Enjoy the first week of July and look for more DPM and other Management & Security blog posts next week.
Thanks for reading,
Barbara Imbert at Seagate recently blogged about Symantec’s 2010 SMB information security survey. As a summary of the findings:
Scrolling down in the survey, to the Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery section:
Check out the rest of my post on Because It’s Everybody’s Business .
Am very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager. These folks have passionately tweeted, blogged, spoken and otherwise educated folks on DPM (2007 and 2010).
Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Mike Resseler – DPM-blog Mike-blog twitter
Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com
Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog
Mike Resseler – DPM-blog Mike-blog twitter
If you are looking for some external expertise and voices on DPM, check out their blogs and tweets.
CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU so much for your contributions to the DPM community and the successful launch of DPM 2010.
One of the most exciting things for me to see is when partners start building service and product offerings around the products that I am blessed to manage. Having come from a reseller/integrator background before joining data protection vendors, I am always particularly excited when a regional partner makes such a commitment. This is the case for my new friends from the Moose Logic Team:
I must also admit that I am envious that they snatched up the Better-Backups.com domain name. Nice find, fellas !!
The folks at Moose have got a great grasp of System Center Data Protection Manager and have done what I hope other regional SME’s do – they packaged DPM within an appliance so that customers don’t have to think about what kind of hardware to run their new DPM 2010 software on. They can just order one item (based on production data size) and find confidence that the experts have already done the rest.
It is a cool site and I especially like their “How it Works” page which talks about how DPM replicates data. It is based (in part) on a podcast that I did a few years ago DPM 2007 SP1 -- How does DPM really work.
And of course, partners like this often have a partner of their own within Microsoft. In this case, I must give a hat tip to Rahul Jacob, a Microsoft Partner Technology Consultant. PTC’s like Rahul spend all day helping Microsoft partners understand our newest technologies, so that they can start bringing offerings like this DPM appliance to their customers. This is a great example of a good partnering.
Rahul is also active within our System Center Influencers community of customers and partners, which is a good place to make these connections.