SCDPM: Great resources from Microsoft and the community
Hey All,
Many of my colleagues, friends online are asking me a lot about SCDPM, and certainly when they have problems. Because SCDPM has not (yet) the popularity of Operations Manager or Configuration Manager, it is more difficult to find good community resources or assistance. So I decided to list some of (in my opinion) important sites.
First, you have the Microsoft resources
The official site: http://www.microsoft.com/DPM
The official blog site: http://blogs.technet.com/DPM
Jason’s blog: http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff (product manager of SCE and DPM and a true DPM hero)
Newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dataprotectionmanager
DPM 2010 Techcenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff399192.aspx
DPM 2007 Techcenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb795539.aspx
There are some other Microsoft employees that I like to follow also:
http://blogs.technet.com/sjimmie/default.aspx This guy blogs about SCDPM and Exchange
Now let’s talk about the non Microsoft resources.
Of course you have the Belgium System Center User Group community ;-) http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm
DPMReference: http://dpmreference.blogspot.com/
System Center Central: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/61/tag/Articles+Data_Protection_Mgr/Default.aspx
Matthijs Vreeken: http://scdpm.blogspot.com/ (Nice!)
David Allen: http://www.scdpmonline.org/ (Great!)
Now for the support, I would like to draw attention to the site of David Allen (MVP). Not only is he by far the biggest DPM Expert that I know, he also has a forum on his site where he responds on various questions. So if you have a DPM question or problem, make sure you check out his great forum because his response rate is extremely fast. Spread the word!
Cheers,
Mike