DPM QFE installation
Our MMS presentation is in two weeks, and I have already started building servers a while ago, but now that the DPM product team has released a QFE I decided to install it on my demo environment. Many of you will say that this a bad idea considering that MMS is so close and things could go wrong... but my trust in the DPM product team is high so I just went on with the installation :-)
As always, my advice is to read the entire knowledge base very well, to make sure that you understand how to install this.
On of the prerequisites of installing this is KB2223201 when DPM 2010 is installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 or KB2279787 when DPM 2010 is installed on Windows Server 2008.
Because I never installed the KB2223201 on that demo machine, I decided to have a look at what the issues could be...
The installer checks this however, and I don't get the change of installing the update without the hotfix.
Make sure that you have this hotfix in front, because this one requires a reboot, and that is something you don’t want to do in the middle of the day.
Now that I got rid of the hotfix prerequisite, I could start the actual installation
Information about the jobs that will fail and that there will be taken a backup of the DPM database
Accept the license agreement
And that’s it, the installer is installing the update
Press Close to finish the installation. I left the Open DPM 2010 administrator console checkbox on because I want to deploy the update to my agents asap, so that I could keep them protected
As you can see, every agent requires an update. By selecting them (or doing it one by one) and clicking on the update available link, you can start the upgrade process
You will get a notification again that running jobs will fail, but then again, they would fail anyhow because you are not running the latest agent version 
And finally it is finished.
This was an installation for a single DPM server with the SQL dedicated on the same box.
If you have the SQL remotely installed, don’t forget to run the Sqlprep-KB2465832.msp (the x64 or x32 depending on your situation) BEFORE you start upgrading your agents.
If you have the DPM Management shell installed on a remote computer, then run the DPMManagementshell2007-KB2465832.msp
And if you have custom DPMRA ports then you need to do additional work after the installation (see the KB for information)
The same goes when you have IBM libraries, read the document carefully.
That’s it for today.
Next thing is testing the client protection with a non-admin user
Cheers,
Mike