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The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 has been released and is now available to you for download.  Here are some of the enhancements in cluded for the different System Center products, including System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network Virtualization Extend the VMM console with Add-ins Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image Configuration... read more

Hi All, The public beta is now available for DPM 2012 here, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27216. Here is a list of what's included in the beta: Centralized Management (Built on the Ops Manager platform) Centralized Monitoring and Troubleshooting Remote Administration Remote Recovery Push To Resume Backups Role Based Access Continued Best of Breed Application Support SharePoint Item Level recovery without restoring Content DB SQL FILESTREAM support SharePoint RBS support Hyper-V Item Level Restore from a DPM running in a VM Faster protection of... read more

Looking through the session catalogue for MMS this year, I have found that the superb MS speaker, Jason Buffington, will be giving a session on DPM 2012.  The session is named "A First Look at Data Protection Manager 2012" and can be viewed here, http://www.mms-2011.com/topic/details/BB18. It is a very early look, pre Beta, but still a session I think will be well worth attending! Look forward to seeing you there.   David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb read more