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Hey All, A question that is asked a lot, so I thought I write about it. Can VMWare virtual machines be protected by DPM 2010 (and also with DPM 2007 by the way :-))? The answer is YES . How cool is that? Here is a how-to: To achieve this, we need VDR backup. In the current version ...
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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.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=775e1a23-825f-450a-9d71-6b8c951ea748 The hotfix resolves following...
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Hey All, Just saw a nice video about troubleshooting Sharepoint Recoveries with system center data protection manager 2007. The video is created by Shane Brasher who is a Senior DPM Support Escalation Engineer. You can find the video @ http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/03/troubleshooting-sharepoint...
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DPM 2007 message: DPM failed to create the system state backup. If you are trying to create the system state of a Windows 2008 Server operating system, verify that the Windows Server Backup (WSB) is installed, and that there is enough free disk space on the protected server to store the system state...
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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 group, and you receive the following error message: Cannot promote the transaction to a distributed...
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This post is written by Ilse Van Criekinge from Pro-Exchange.be Being anxious to get my hands on Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, I was very happy to see it is available for download now @ Microsoft . After reading the installation guidelines , I went ahead and updated my...
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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides-Release Announcement: Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 . Looking to protect your organization's data but...
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SP1 for dataprotection 2007 is now available , but if there are some prerequisites and known issues with Hyper-V protection: Prerequisites: Before protecting Hyper-V virtual machines with DPM, ensure that the following updates are installed on the target Hyper-V server: The customer should be running...
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What’s new in SP1 for DataProtection Manager 2007: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 provides continuous data protection for Windows application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media and includes the following expanded capabilities...
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Session recording of the DPM event of Octover 14th, 2008 Subject : "In this session, we will provide an overview of DPM 2007, and deep dive of how DPM protects Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V/Virtual Server-using both near continuous protection...
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Back in june i posted this blogpost on what to expect from DPM2007 SP1 . Some weeks ago I attended a session hosted by the Belgian system center user group about DPM where there was a slide on what will be included in SP1. SCR protection for Exchange 2007 support for mirrored Databases and for SQL2008...
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Filed under: System Center Stuff, SCDPM 2007, windows server backup, DPM 2007, windows server 2008, SQL SERVER 2008, exchange 2007, Hyper-V, SQL, windows sharepoint services, MOSS 2007
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Hi! Just did another implementation of a DELL Equallogic PS5000XV iscsi array which is very nice and powerfull equipment well suited for the virtualisation project I'm currently working on. I just had a "few thingies" I wanted to try out offline so I booted up my virtual lab and started...
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Filed under: System Center Stuff, SCDPM 2007, DPM 2007, windows server 2008, windows server 2003, SQL SERVER 2008, virtual server, SCVMM, SQL Server, exchange 2007, Hyper-V, SQL, fun, DFS
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We're organizing our second event and will have Karandeep Anand as a speaker. Karandeep is a Senior Program Manager on the System Center Data Protection Manager team and is very knowledgeable about this product. We took the opportunity to host a session at the Microsoft offices on Tuesday Oct 14...
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Jason buffington interviews Exchange MVP Devin L. Ganger on DPM 2007, nice overview, nice comparisation with 3th party products, I love the part “we didn’t remove any functionality, the product just ‘evolved’ “. Funny :-) watch the video here source
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run the following command to enable colocation of data on tape on the DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name> -OptimizeTapeUsage $true To disable tape colocation run the following command on DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name>...
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This Data Protection Manager Update Package consists of three separate updates. To install each update, follow these steps: Install the hotfix rollup package on the server that is running Data Protection Manager 2007. To do this, run the DataProtectionManager2007-KB949779.exe file on the server. Note...
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I allready mentioned it a few days ago but now the feature pack for DPM 2007 has been made public.The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include...
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SCDPM is a really cool product and I like it a lot (hell yeah!) but sometimes you just wish it could do a little bit more. So there is stuff comming up ! A rollup will be released in the last half of June (It will be available on the Download Center) 1. multiple protection groups per tape : hooray !...
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Some time ago my customer and myself joined the IT-PRO MOMENTUM program in order to accelerate our roll-out of system center virtual machine manager and system center data protection manager . And last week we made a small video about this project that will be appearing later on Technet Edge i believe...
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I was deploying DPM 2007 agents to servers and got this error : can't connect to service control manager: ID 277 After doing some troubleshooting i hunted this problem down to this cause: The servers I wanted to install these agents on didn't have A-records in the correct DNS zone. Adding these...
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Here's my review of the Techdays 2008 that took place in Ghent this year. The short version :-) Day1: the launch I hosted the SQLUG booth and did some chitchat with other communityleaders and members, some customers and some friends... Day 2 : Techdays01 taking the bus to the location i heard people...
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During the techdays 2008 in Ghent i attended a nice session by Jason buffington on SCDPM 2007. I noticed he was using a synthetic tapedrive because all was running in a virtual environment and i hoped he didn't have to drag a real tape drive library around the world. So after the session I had a...