Ctrl P - The Data Protection Manager Blog! : Feedback Zone

We need your feedback! Help us improve SQL features by completing this survey...

dpm — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:38:00 GMT

The DPM Team would like to understand your Microsoft® SQL Server backups needs so we can serve you better. We need feedback from people who back up SQL Servers regularly - people like you! Please take a moment to complete this survey and help the DPM Team for Ultimate SQL Backup Improvements!

Click here to begin the survey: https://connect.microsoft.com/Survey/Survey.aspx?SurveyID=6110&SiteID=205

TechNet CHAT live today - DPM Engineering talks about the updates to DPM 2007

JasonBuffington — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:39:39 GMT

DPM Engineering talks about the updates to DPM 2007

As part of equipping you around the new features provided in the Q2 rollup update for DPM 2007, the product team will be hosting a live chat session where you can ask your questions related to DPM 2007, the rollup, the upcoming SP1, or even provide suggestions for what you need to either deploy DPM 2007 or would like to see in DPM v3. Please join us for this collaborative and informational session.

Join us on the day of the chat:

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time

10:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. Mountain Time

16:00 - 17:00 GMT

Join the chat room on the day of the chat:

TechNet: www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/chatroom.aspx

DPM v2 Beta2 - Docs and Support

dpm — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Important docs:

You may download the following important Beta 2 documents from Connect downloads (https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=205&DownloadID=6599):

· Getting Started Guide

· Planning Guide

· Operations Guide

· Upgrade Guide

· System Requirements

· Deployment Guide

· Known Issues/Release Notes

· Troubleshooting Guide

Please also check out our beta FAQ

· Our beta FAQ can be found here (https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=3467&SiteID=205)

Technical Support

· For technical support, please join your fellow beta testers and the DPM Product team in the newsgroup (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.dataprotectionmanager) to get questions answered and problems solved.

Thank you again for your valued participation in the DPM 2007 Beta!

- Balaji Hariharan

DPM MOM Pack Users

dpm — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:24:00 GMT

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 of beta testing the new pack as well. As you know, this helps us design the new pack to help you best.

Mail us at dpmtb[at]microsoft.com.

- Balaji Hariharan

How DPM made Andy's team happy!

dpm — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:50:00 GMT

Thought I will share some great feedback that we received from one of our customers - Andy, who runs the IT department in his university.

Hi,

I am currently running DPM 2006 (and have been for 3 months) and I am absolutely delighted with it. I am protecting over 2,000 shares on 6 servers using just over 1.2TB of sata HDD space. Sure we backup each night to tape as well but I haven't needed to restore from tape since DPM was deployed. That makes me & my end users happy.

Restores from tape that were a hassle in a busy understaffed IT support department can now be completed in seconds. Every week at least two students come to see me with long glum faces. They've lost an assignment, deleted their folders or someone has gotten into their user area and wiped their data (Secondary School aka K12). A few mouse clicks later and their data is back along with their smiles. Happy users. Don't see that too often in an IT department!

So, we have commited to DPM, deployed the Timewarp client and about to educate the users to do their own recovery. Management is impressed with DPM too and it looks like a new box is on the cards as well.

DPM. Good product. Heartily recommend it. Good job Microsoft

Andy.

p.s chuffed to death = Yorkshire for very happy with!

- Balaji Hariharan