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Hey All, A new hotfix rollup package is out for DPM 2007. You can find the details here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979970 And the download can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...
Hey All, One of my colleagues is managing a rather large environment on a daily base. He has to manage two backup solutions (HP Data Protector and SCDPM) that share one tape library. From time...
Hey All, Microsoft has updated its whitepaper Bare Metal Recovery of Windows Server 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 It can be found at http://download.microsoft.com/download/2...
Hey All, One of our engineers was having a big issue with the protection of a sharepoint farm. In DPM, he could not resolve the following error: The replica of SSPComponent_SSP Intranet on servername is...
Hey All, During one of the implementations of DPM, one of my colleagues got into problems with the recognition of a tape library. Although the tape library worked during the staging phase, when it got...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;976542 Cheers, Mike
Hey All, Ever needed to get data from a tape that is already expired? In DPM, you won’t have the option anymore to recatalog the tape when it is expired. Santhosh Sivarajan from Houston has found...
Hey All, Microsoft is really pushing the car for could offerings. It has recently announced that it has established a partnership with i365, the software company of Seagate, to provide could-based data...
Dear All, A new hotfix package has been released by Microsoft for DPM 2007. It can be downloaded @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=74ac7461-dbfe-4bc1-85a2-4d2948f30e42...
Hey All, Recently I had to troubleshoot a DPM installation that suddenly didn’t work anymore. After investigation (and having a lot of troubles finding something) I’ve noticed the following...
Hey All, Yesterday, Microsoft has released a new version of KB970867 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970867 ), although the KB article is not yet updated, the new download is already available: http...
Hey All, Today I got this error in a DPM console DPM is unable to retrieve the configuration from <servername> (ID 346 Details: System could not the required space in a registry log) The problem...
Hey All, I’ve got an interesting link from Alkin, SCOM MVP (Thanks!) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=54b4bb57-d6e3-4c1e-a889-a24cfa18fcd4&displaylang=en Microsoft has...
Yesterday I was working on a DPM installation and made a mistake when I was working on a protection group and I needed to change the size of the allocated storage. I made the mistake by lowering the size...
Hey All, Just to let you know, now there is a new course for DPM available from Microsoft Learning: Course 50213A – Implementing Data Protection Manager 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en...
Allright, here is part 3 of the installation of System Center Data Protection Manager. This is the part where we are going to install a lot of hotfix rollups and hotfixes. To have a good DPM installation...
Hey All, here is part two of the installation manual for SCDPM. In the previous part, we have prepared our environment and installed the prerequisites. Now it is time to install the software itself and...
Hey All, In the next 3 posts, an installation guide for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. Let’s start with explaining the environment I’ve used and the prerequisites. First, let’s...
Hey All, Another interesting Powershell script: Allow DPM to backup itself: Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DPMServerName <servername> -AllowLocalDataProtection $true Cheers, Mike
Hey All, Microsoft has released a hotfix rollup package for SCDPM 2007 SP1. This package resolves a lot of issues with this product: Issue 1 If you enable library sharing, you cannot delete a protection...
// Note: For some reason, my tables are not shown. I'll try to fix this but I don't seem to be able to figure out why... Sorry about that. As promised, here is a guidance on how to start a DPM...
Hey All, If you ever want to change the location where DPM places the backup of a System State, here it is. Why would you want to do that? One of the most heard reasons is because you want the backup on...
Hey All, As promised, a post about how Data Protection Manager works. First, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 supports three types of backup as shown in the picture. 1) Disk-to-disk (D2D) 2)...
ith the release of SP1 2 months ago, Microsoft has created a product that can actually take a huge amount of this market. So if you ever think that this product suits your environment, here are a few pointers...
In my next few posts, I will discuss three topics about DPM 2007 SP1. A good backup choice? This will discuss how to “sell” this product to the IT decision takers and talks about the ROI of...