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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

Finally, DPM2010 is now available on MSDN and TechNet.   Now we need to wait for the Operations Manager management pack, hopefully that will be available soon?!?!       David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager   http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb     read more

      I've just seen a tweet from Jason Buffington advising that DPM2010 is available on MVLS so you can download it now!!! In the words of Jbuff, "Woo Hoo".   Enjoy....     David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager   http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb     read more

With a lot of System Center products being RTM'd last week, I have noticed a lot of questions being asked about where the documentation is. Well here is the link for the documentation for DPM 2010 up on the Microsoft TechNet library. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399192.aspx I haven't read it all yet as I have only just discovered that it's there but looking at the headings everything seems to be covered :-)     David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager   ... read more

It's finally happened, DPM2010 has been released to manufacturing. Announced at MMS, this 3rd version of the DPM product brings a lot of improvements and great new features. Check out full details of the release here, http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/04/19/sc-data-protection-manager-2010-is-released-to-manufacturing.aspx and here, http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/the-right-tools-for-the-job-sce-2010-dpm-2010.aspx. It should be available by the end of May to some customers and hopefully it'll be generally available from 1st June... read more

Due to the volcanic ash in the sky above Europe, I will not be able to attend MMS this year :-( This is very disappointing, especially with all the news on SCCM, DPM2010 and Service Manager that is scheduled. I hope as many people as possible can make it to Las Vegas but I do know of many other Europeans that have had to cancel their MMS trip. For those of you that do get there, have a great time ! If you were planning on attending my session "BB37 Deploying and Managing Data Protection Manager (DPM) in Large Enterprises", unfortunately I wont be there. If my co-speaker... read more

  With the Icelandic volcanic ash in the air, will I make it to Las Vegas for MMS? I'm not scheduled to leave until Monday afternoon so I am hoping it will all blow over by then, but as weekend flights are already being cancelled I'm not very hopeful at the moment. If the flight does go, see you at MMS if you're there !     David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager   ... read more

The Monitoring, Backing Up and Restoring Exchange 2010 TechNet webcast is now available for download.  If you didn't manage to make the webcast yesterday, don't worry you can download the recording now. Just click the link below, register for the event and you'll be redirected to the download page. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032437151&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US   Once again, enjoy !   David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager ... read more

The download for DPM 2010 RC is now available, get it now !

http://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452

How exciting :-D