DPM 2010 Pre-Requisite Patches

Posted by David Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:35:00 PM

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The newly released version of Data Protection Manager is only supported on Server 2008 x64 or Server 2008 R2; if you are deploying on Server 2008 x64 you need to make sure you have these three patches installed before you install DPM2010.

"FIX: You are prompted to format the volume when a formatted volume is mounted on a NTFS folder that is located on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista (KB971254)
Dynamic disks are marked as "Invalid" on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista when you bring the disks online, take the disks offline, or restart the computer if Data Protection Manager is installed (KB962975)
An application or service that uses a file system filter driver may experience function failure on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 (975759)

After installing the patches, reboot the server and you'll be good to go!

If you are planning on deploying DPM2010 on Server 2008 R2 then you are lucky, and at time of writing this you do not need to install any patches. You can go straight ahead and install DPM.

Obviously I recommend that you have the latest security and critical OS hot fix's installed before doing anything, the above patches are just specific ones you'll need to install DPM2010.