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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

There is now a book available covering everything you need to know about DPM 2010.  YOu can find full details on the book here, http://www.buchatech.com/dpmbook/. It was a pleasure working with the author, Steve Buchanan, on the book and I recommend it to anyone who currently works with, or will be working with DPM. Congratulations Steve!      David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager             http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb     read more

Hi All, Today I heard that Ruud Baars, who was a great memeber of the DPM community working for Microsoft, lost his battle with lung cancer over the weekend.  I worked with Ruud many times during my many DPM experiences and I can say with certainty that he will be missed. Please read Jason Buffington's full tribute to Ruud here, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2011/03/21/rest-in-peace-ruud-baars.aspx. David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb   read more

    If you're at MSS this year, please come and visit me and Mike Resseler (MVP) on Monday afternoon when we present BB36 - System Center Data Protection Manager 2010: Help, the Datacenter is Down... Let's Restore.  In this session we will demonstrate how to restore your datacenter in the event of a disaster.  We will show how it is possible to recover all the major MS workloads, including AD, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and virtual machines. There will also be a surprise addition to the session, so come along and be prepared to be amazed by just what DPM can do! We look forward to... 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

Congratulations to Robert Hedblom who has just received the DPM MVP award. His DPM blog is here, http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com, and I recoemmend you take a look and add to your list of DPM resources.  :-) Well done Robert.   David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb read more

Last week at TechEd Jason Buffington gave another great DPM session, MGT308 - Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 in the Datacenter.  This session primarily focused on leveraging DPM's protection and recovery capabilities in large datacenters and is well worth viewing. Even though TechEd Europe was only last week, it is already available to view now!  Visit Jason's blog post for more details on the session and view the recording.  http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2010/11/11/dpm-2010-session-at-teched-europe-2010.aspx. Enjoy.   David Allen MVP System Center Operations... read more

Today I was pleased to receive an email from Microsoft stating that I have been presented with an MVP for award for another year.  I have once again been presented with an MVP award for System Center Operations Manager, however I will still continue to work with all the products in the System Center suite! Thanks to everyone who has supported me :-)   David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb     read more

Congratulations to Mike Resseler who has received the MVP award for System Center Data Protection Manager.  Mike has posted some great articles on the SCUG.BE Data Protection Manager blog, http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/, and provides continued support in the forums at Microsoft and here at SCDPM Online. Check out details of his achievement here, http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/archive/2010/07/01/mvp-award.aspx. Well done Mike!   I would also like to mention two other people who also got awarded an MVP for DPM, they are: Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Congrats... read more

I was informed recently by MS that the licensing of DPM had changed and I was getting some information together to write a post about it when Jason Buffington posted all the details on his blog yesterday.  So rather than wasting my time writing up the same information as Jason, I might as well just point you at his licensing post.       http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2010/06/23/dpm-2010-licensing-info.aspx The major change is that you no longer need to purchase a license for your DPM server.  With DPM 2007 you would have purchased your DPM management licenses for the... read more