Posted by David
Friday, February 26, 2010 11:00:00 AM
If you have questions about upgrading your DPM 2007 SP1 servers to DPM 2010, this upgrade advisor spreadsheet should hopefully be able to answer them.
It's really simple to use, just select the relevant options from the dropdown lists and hit the Generate Update Steps button. Then simply follow the upgrade steps provided !
Visit the Data Protection Manager blog for more details, http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/26/upgrade-advisor-for-dpm-2010-now-available.aspx.
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Posted by David
Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:00:00 PM
A potential problem with Volume Manager on Windows Server 2008 systems may lead to data loss. This hot fix does not apply to Windows Server 2008 R2 nor does it apply to Vista.
Microsoft recommends that you apply this hotfix on any Windows Server 2008 platform that is currently using or planning to use dynamic disks.
This hot fix is not DPM-specific. However, because DPM servers do utilize dynamic disks, it is important to apply this hotfix on WS08-based DPM servers so that your backup-data is not lost from the DPM storage pool.
Click the link below to get the...
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Posted by David
Friday, February 12, 2010 3:00:00 PM
The DPM team recently posted a blog article that provided PowerShell scripts on automatically protecting new virtual machines in Hyper-V, original article at http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2009/12/03/hyper-v-protection-with-dpm-2010-beta-how-to-automatically-protect-new-virtual-machines.aspx. Basically there are two scripts but both essentially do the same thing, when run they look for any unprotected virtual machines and protects them, the only difference is that one is for clustered Hyper-V hosts and one is for stand alone Hyper-V hosts. Both scripts do exactly what they say they...
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Posted by David
Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:20:00 PM
Another great new feature of DPM 2010 is the ability for to provide SQL administrators the ability to restore their own databases. Using the new Self-Service Recovery functionality, you can specify which user or group in AD can restore which databases and where they can recover them to.
What makes this even better is how easy it is to setup; open the DPM console and click "Configure self service recovery for SQL ..."
Wait for the DPM Self Service Recovery Configuration Tool for SQL Server window to open and click Create Role... .
On the Create New...
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Posted by David
Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:00:00 PM
One of the new eagerly anticipated features of DPM 2010 is the ability to protect machines that are in a workgroup or in an untrusted domain. In the DPM 2010 Beta this feature was not available, however it is available in the DPM 2010 RC and it is very simple to configure.
First of all you need to install the DPM agent on the machine you want to protect. I got the agent installer from the Agents folder on the DPM 2010 install media and just ran the relevant architecture executable, in my case DPMAgentInstaller_x64.exe. You do not need to anything to install this agent, just double...
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Posted by David
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:15:00 AM
If you wanted to refresh the information on an agent in DPM 2007, you had to refresh the information on all the agents which was a real pain if you had a high number of agents. This issue has now been addressed in DPM 2010, now you can select a single agent, hit the "Refresh information" button and it will just refresh the info for that one agent. No more will I have to sit and wait for the one agent I am interested in to refresh while all the other agents refresh first.
This is only a minor change but a very helpful improvement.
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Posted by David
Friday, February 05, 2010 2:16:38 PM
A list of of hardware that has been tested by MS and is compatible with DPM 2010 for providing protection of virtual machines that are on clustered shared volumes has been posted on the Ctrl-P blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/05/tested-hardware-vss-provider-table.aspx
If you are planning on using DPM 2010 to protect your virtual machines, I recommend you take a look. As a note, the list isn't a definitive list, just a list of what's been tested so it will continue to updated, and therefore is probably worth adding to your favourites.
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Posted by David
Friday, February 05, 2010 12:00:00 PM
This is my virtual business card...
Get yours at https://www.mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com. It's very quick and easy to create.
Thanks to Jason for bringing to my attention :-) http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff/archive/2010/02/03/mcp-certification-business-card.aspx
Have fun !
David Allen
MVP System Center Operations Manager
http://www.scdpmonline.org
http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb
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Posted by David
Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:00:00 PM
By using PowerShell you can do much more in DPM than what is possible by just using the console. A good example of this is the ability to create and delete recovery points. Shane Brasher, Senior DPM Support Escalation Engineer, from Microsoft has put together a handy video to demonstrate this.
Source: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/04/how-to-create-and-delete-recovery-points-for-dpm-via-powershell.aspx
David Allen
MVP System Center Operations Manager
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Posted by David
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:00:00 PM
I like using Operations Manager as a central console for DPM but there a few limitations of the current DPM management pack that prevent me from using Operations Manager as much as would like. This doesn't stop me though as by using PowerShell it is not difficult to get far more information into Operations Manager. The first thing I wanted was all my protection groups across all my DPM servers listed; here's how I did it.
Note: This will only work in Operations Manager 2007 R2 as it relies on the PowerShell discovery module.
First you will need to make sure you have the...
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Posted by David
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:59:59 PM
Want to see videos on how to use DPM or how DPM works?
Well you can see all the MS videos at TechNet Edge, just follow this link http://edge.technet.com/Tags/DPM/. This link will display everything tagged with DPM so if any new videos are published, they should appear on this page !
Enjoy...
David Allen
MVP System Center Operations Manager
http://www.scdpmonline.org
http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb
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Posted by David
Monday, January 18, 2010 1:00:00 PM
Data Protection Manager is a great product but one of its shortcomings is that you can only run the DPM console on the DPM server. However, with Server 2008 Terminal Services or Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services it is possible to publish the console so it is accessible from a PC. What's great about this is that the console link can be published in a users Start menu so to them it looks like a standard application. It's also possible to publish the app through TS Web Access but I will be demonstrating how to publish the console to a users start menu.
The steps below outline ...
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Posted by David
Monday, January 18, 2010 10:34:28 AM
During the DPM 2010 RC webcast last Thursday, there were loads of questions posted which the team at MS did a great job at answering. Unfortunately the questions were coming in so thick and fast it wasn't possible to keep up with them all. Luckily enough though, here they all are:
Question: Will there be any limitations on how much data and retention period with Dpm Online to Windows Azure?
Answer: Still in limited Beta.
Question: will there be a better possibilities in DPM 2010 to import and catalog tapes of which the retention date is expired?
Answer: Recatalog flows...
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Posted by David
Friday, January 15, 2010 10:00:00 AM
Yesterday evening I attended the "Get Ready for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate" webcast presented by Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager, Jason Buffington. It was a great webcast with over 300 attendees that highlighted all the improvements that have been made on DPM 2007 and all that is new in DPM 2010. Jason also had a superb team in the background who did a great job answering the hundreds of questions that were posted to them. Job well done all round I'd say !
I was all ready to post an overview this morning of everything in...
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Posted by David
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:15:00 PM
As there is no central console for managing multiple Data Protection Manager servers, I like to use PowerShell wherever possible when performing DPM tasks. Recently I had the need to restore a share so what better time to write another script. :-)
There is a good script at http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/68f52621-2086-40ed-905b-60c9eabe6337 which will restore all shares and volumes within a protection group to a network share but what if you want to just recover a single share. To do this you need to make use of the RecoveryPointForShares parameter with the...
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