Hey All,

Just had my first week of vacation for this summer (I actually went cooking with a scouts group together with my wife and kids so it was also a bit working ;-)) and when I came back, my inbox, tweets and other stuff had some real interesting information.  An overview:

System Center Data Protection Manager

Six! new posts on the Data Protection Manager technet blog:

• Take Caution when reintroducing old storage pool disk space
• Tested Hardware VSS Provider table
• Why is recovery point consumption smaller than transferred data?
• Replacing Tape Drive Assignments
• The search for DPM Tape Utilities stops here…
• Erasing unsupported tapes & utility automation sample

Jason has also posted an update about his book, Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers.

You can find more information and the first chapter on http://dataprotectionbible.com/ and the post on http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2010/07/05/it-s-almost-here.aspx

David Allen from SCDPMOnline has posted a great article about Centralised DPM Availability Reporting.  Check it out here

System Center Essentials

The Essentials 2010 resource kit is launched.  Find more information here and here

Dell has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver a solution around SCE 2010.  Information can be found here and here

That’s it for now, still a lot of catching up to do for OpsMgr, Virtual Machine Manager and ConfigMgr, but at least I already read the SCE and DPM information

Enjoy the holidays

cheers,

Mike