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System Center User Group Meeting - May 2012

Registration for the next System Center User Group meeting is now live… Register here: http://scug.dk/content/SystemCenterUserGroupMeeting-May2012.aspx We are very excited to announce our next event and offer you the opportunity to come and meet with...

Posted to Announcements by Ronni Pedersen on 01-28-2012

Data Protection Manager , Recovery Virtual Machine / Disaster Recovery

With Data Protection Manager 2012 its possible to protect whole virtual machines and recover then as full machines , saving the time to install agents and rebuild the OS from bare metal With Data Protection Manager 2012 we have the ability to restore...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 01-04-2012

Data Protection Manager , Silently Changing File Recovery Points Retention

I ran into a issue today where DPM silently have changed the File Recovery Points , in the above senario we keep 60 snapshots within the limit of 64 snapshots If we change the retention so we go beyond the supported 64 snapshots DPM will...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 12-29-2011

Data Protection Manager , Backup / Restore Exchange 2010

This post will show the steps needed to protect and recover a Exchange 2010 database in a single server installation , future post will show recovery in DAG. First step is to create a new Protection Group containing the Exchange database...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 12-16-2011

Data Protection Manager , Additional Protection of Domain Controllers Recommended Part 1/2

repost from flemmingriis.com This is part 1 of 2 , next post will try to cover the steps for recovery when there is only tapes left. Data Protection Manager require a domain to be able to work , this means that in a disaster recovery scenario we...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 12-03-2011

Data Protection Manager 2012 , Disaster Recovery

Repost from : flemmingriis.com Backup is one thing , Restore is another especially disaster recovery , in this blog post we will cover the scenario where everything is gone except the backup tapes , first blog post will cover getting the domain up and...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 12-03-2011

Data Protection Manager 2012 (Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Generic Data Source Support)

One of the many new features in DPM2012 is the ability to use Generic Data Source Support where application owners can provide VSS support so Data Protection Manager can make a backup of the application, Microsoft have provided a writer for VMM...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 10-19-2011

Filed under: DPM, VMM

SCUG.dk User Group Meeting: Session update

The scheduled breakout session on “Deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012” with Johan Arwidmark, wil be replaced with the following session: Title: Inside Windows 8 – Deployment Tools Update Abstract: What’s new in Windows 8 Deployment...

Posted to Announcements by Ronni Pedersen on 10-18-2011

Data Protection Manager 2012 beta 2 (Protecting Sharepoint 2010)

One highly requested feature is the ability to backup and restore sharepoint server , Microsoft have improved their sharepoint support in Data Protection Manager 2012 and added support for single item level recovery without having to restore the whole...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 10-11-2011

Filed under: DPM, DPM2012, Sharepoint

Data Protection Manager 2012 (Protecting Hyper V Guests)

One of the great features in Data Protection Manager is the ability to protect virtual machines without having to install agents, this will though HyperV and VSS create a backup of the virtual machine. This is one of the many “smaller” features...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 10-03-2011

Filed under: DPM, DPM2012, HYPERV

Data Protection Manager 2012 beta 2 (Disaster Recovery of Data Protection Manager Server)

This post will cover the disaster recovery of Data Protection Manager Server , there are a few ground rules that needs to be followed. NEVER ever loose your tapes (duh) ALWAYS keep a backup of the configuration database ALWAYS keep a domain controller...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 09-29-2011

Filed under: DPM, DPM2012, DR, Disaster Recovery

Data Protection Manager 2012 Backup Configuration Database

There is one thing that cant be said to many times about Data Protection Manager (regardless of version) ALWAYS backup the configuration database and when you have created one backup create another one. DPMBackup.exe this can be schedules with windows...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 09-28-2011

Filed under: DPM, DPM2012

Getting started with Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Central Console)

One of the new features in Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta 2 is the Central Console based on Operations Manager 2007/2012 , this have enhanced the feature set from the old management pack to include direct links to the Data Protection Manager...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 09-14-2011

Getting Started with Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Remote Administration)

One of the new features in Data Protection Manager 2012 is the improvements in administration , this is the basic part install the Remote Administration and “point” to one Data Protection Manager Server at a time , handy for smaller inviroments...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 09-12-2011

Filed under: DPM, DPM201

Getting Started with Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Remote SQL Installation)

One of the many new features in Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta 2 is the ability to host mutiple Data Protection Manager SQL databases on the same SQL server. Locally on the SQL server the DPM install wizard needs to be run or the sqlprepinstaller...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by Flemming Riis on 09-11-2011

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