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New KB article: KB978901 - Fast inventory fails when you try to use an IBM...
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article for DPM 2007 we recently published. This article discusses an issue where when you try to perform a fast inventory with Microsoft System Center Data...
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New DPM 2007 KB Article: KB978900 - How to troubleshoot Data Protection...
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article for DPM 2007 we recently published. This article discusses an issue where when you install a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007...
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What volume to migrate first?
Sid Ramesh wrote a fantastic script that provides great LDM statistics amongst which how many extents a data source uses. This helps to determine which volume to migrate first to reduce extents if...
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Checking LDM database space usage
When should I be concerned with this? Usually not at all and the DPM2010 RTM release will check actual LDM consumption providing an early warning. Neither will DPM2010 consume all LDM space allowing...
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How much can I shrink recovery point volumes with DPM2010
The script shown below finds out how much recovery points volumes could be shrunk on DPM2010. One word of caution though: use the shrink feature with common sense and not as a regular remedy! Repeated...
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How do I schedule a DPM script from Powershell?
Suppose you found or created one of those valuable scripts but want to run it on a schedule or even schedule itself. Whilst there is this wonderful Powershell Pack that includes a module to utilize the...
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New DPM solution: "DPM encountered a retryable VSS error" when trying to...
Consider the following scenario: You install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Standard Edition on a Hyper-V virtual machine. You configure Forefront TMG 2010 to use all...
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SC Data Protection Manager 2010 is Released to Manufacturing
YES! It is finally here! We are very excited to announce the RTM of DPM 2010. You can read the official announcement at System Center Nexus, as well as the commentary from my blog. DPM 2006 started...
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How to be sure that your SharePoint farm is fully protected
Certainly, you can use DPM 2010 to protect the content databases within the farm, and there is goodness in DPM 2010 such as auto-protection of new content databases within the farm and the one-click...
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Performing a Bare Metal Restore with DPM 2010
So, you’ve protected your server with BMR using DPM and now you need to restore. What's next? Well, I’ve been playing with the new BMR functionality on DPM 2010 for a while now and while it is very...
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Troubleshooting a couple common DPM 2007 console crash issues
In this post I’ll be discussing the two most common errors associated with launching the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 administrator console, the common causes of these errors and how you...
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New Microsoft Advisory Services engagement scenario: Installing System Center...
In case you weren't familiar with our Advisory Services engagement options, Microsoft Advisory Services is an hourly fee-based, consultative support option that provides proactive support beyond your...
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Automatically resolving alerts… such as resume ownership…
Alerts are not generated to be dismissed without evaluation and some resolve automatically but there are moments when automatic handling of alerts is appreciated. More often than not alerts are...
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Space needed to migrate a disk
The MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM script can have many formats one of which is to migrate a source disk to a target disk or array of disks. How much space do you need to migrate? You need at least as...
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DPM 2007: Tapes are labeled as “Unrecognized” after just previously writing...
Here's an interesting issue I worked on the other day and since I didn't see it documented anywhere I thought it would be worth a mention here just in case someone else runs across it: ===== The issue...
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DPM : What's Next ? Let Your Voice Be Heard !
Greetings from the DPM Team !!! We conceptualized DPM 7 years ago with a mission to offer Best Data Protection for Microsoft applications. Our goal has been to offer: Rapid and Reliable Recovery,...
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Need personalized help implementing a Microsoft product or solution? Our new...
I know this isn’t specific only to Data Protection Manager (although it is a big part!) but I wanted to let you know of a new support offering that we're rolling out. I am sure many of you have...
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Congratulations DPM MVPs
We are very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager. These folks have...
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Take caution when reintroducing old storage pool disk space
Assume we have some sort of scenario where protection is continued on new storage pool and are left with old storage pool that contains data but is no longer relevant. You could develop the idea to...
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Tested hardware VSS provider table
System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 tested hardware VSS provider for backup of Virtual machines deployed on Clustered Shared Volumes The table below contains the list of VSS hardware provider...
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