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• DPM 2010: Use unauthenticated SMTP server

  One of our Belgian ISP providers, Telenet, allows us to send mails using an unauthenticated SMTP server (when connected to the Telenet network). The steps below explain how you can use an unauthenticated SMTP server to send DPM notifications. In the DPM... Posted Oct 04 2011, 04:44 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: issues, dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• Book Review: Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010

  Introduction Steve Buchanon’s book Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 , published by Packt Publishing is a dedicated book about Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager is a Protection and... Posted Aug 26 2011, 02:58 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm, dpm 2010, SCDPM2010, Book Review

• Microsoft’s internal use of SCDPM 2010

  A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a case study about System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.  The customer in this case study is Microsoft’s own internal IT.  This is a very interesting case study as Microsoft is a very large organizations... Posted Jul 17 2011, 09:53 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm, DPM SCDPM Backup, dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, Tips and Trics, SCDPM2010, Whitepaper, documentation

• New DPM 2010 Book

  There is a new DPM book available: “Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010” by Steve Buchanan. I am currently reading this book and might review it later.   Overview A practical step-by-step guide to planning deployment, installation, configuration... Posted Jun 09 2011, 09:44 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm 2010, information, Data Protection Manager, Books

• DPM 2010– SQL transaction log backup failing

  DPM was protecting SQL databases configured for SQL transaction log shipping. DPM detects the log shipping when starting to protect a database. So when you enable log shipping for a database which is already protected by DPM, DPM won’t notice this and... Posted Jun 01 2011, 08:02 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Windows Server 2008, SQL, issues, dpm 2010, Data Protection Manager, Transaction backup

• New DPM2010 book available!

  For all the DPM 2010 administrators / fans... There is a new book out there: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Data-Protection-Manager-2010/dp/184968202X From AMAZON : practical step-by-step guide to planning deployment, installation, configuration, and... Posted May 24 2011, 03:00 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm, dpm 2010, resources, information, book

• Protecting a Virtual Machine and also inside a guest

  Working on the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager booth the last few days got myself quite some insight in what customers want from DPM.  It also brought up a few “issues” that actually are non-issues but where you need to do a few steps... Posted May 18 2011, 09:18 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Hyper-V, dpm, hotfix, dpm 2010, guest protection, host protection

• Force Hyper-V VM backup to use System VSS

  I was preparing a hyper-v backup on a demo environment. I only needed to backup one VM, so configuring the HP Lefthand VSS writer was not really needed. But when performing a backup in DPM, I received the following error: Affected area: \Backup Using... Posted Mar 17 2011, 06:23 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• Getting the non-administrator client recovery working in DPM 2010

  As said in a previous post, with the latest QFE , it is now possible to give your end-users the possibility to recover data from the DPM server through the DPM Client UI, without them being local administrator on their machine. This is a feature that... Posted Mar 11 2011, 03:47 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Troubleshooting, dpm 2010, Client Protection, QFE

• DPM2010: Volume missing (3101)

  Last week I changed the Protection group for the file shares at a customer site. I removed the DFS root share, and added each share in the DFS root server seperatly. When removing the DFS share I choose to retain all data. So I changed the protection... Posted Mar 10 2011, 05:13 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: issues, dpm 2010, Data Protection Manager

• DPM QFE installation

  Our MMS presentation is in two weeks, and I have already started building servers a while ago, but now that the DPM product team has released a QFE I decided to install it on my demo environment.  Many of you will say that this a bad idea considering... Posted Mar 10 2011, 04:18 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm, dpm 2010, Installation, QFE

• New rollup package for DPM 2010 (March 2011)

  Microsoft released the second hotfix rollup package for DPM 2010 (KB2465832) This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues: When you change the ports that are used by the Data Protection Manager 2010 Remote Access service, recovery jobs may fail. On... Posted Mar 08 2011, 09:04 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: hotfix, dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• New QFE available for DPM 2010

  The DPM product team has just released a new QFE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2465832 Things that got resolved: When you change the ports that are used by the Data Protection Manager 2010 Remote Access service, recovery jobs may fail. On some client... Posted Mar 04 2011, 09:55 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm 2010, QFE

• DPM 2010 agent installation stuck at 5%

  After upgrading from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 all agents need to be updated. This went fine on all servers but one, a Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 server. Agent installation started but was stuck at 5%. When trying a manual agent installation on this server... Posted Mar 01 2011, 03:44 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: issues, dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• Upgrading DPM 2007 to DPM 2010

  A customer is running DPM 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2003 with a Remote SQL 2005 database. The customer want's to upgrade to DPM 2010. In this post I will explain my upgrade plan and the issues I ran into. Before starting the upgrade process, I... Posted Feb 20 2011, 08:03 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager