Tag Archives: Data Protection Manager 2007

DPM 2007 Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available for download. Some of the improvements that have been included with this release: Protection for Hyper-V virtualized environments (subject to Hyper-V hotfix) Enhanced protection for SQL Server … Continue reading

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Protecting SharePoint with DPM

The protected computer prerequisites document lists some of the things you need to have in place before you can protect a SharePoint farm with DPM. I soon learnt that the list was not, lets say, exhaustive – and I learnt … Continue reading

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When DPM 2007 email alerts don’t work…

If you’ve configured DPM 2007 to send email notifications for critical alerts, warnings or informational messages, and you do not receive the email alerts, even though the ‘Send Test Email’ works fine, try this: Enter the username simply in the … Continue reading

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Co-locating backup data on a single tape in DPM 2007

If you need to optimally use your backup tapes by storing multiple backups on the same tape, you need to turn on the Media Co-location feature in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. By default, DPM 2007 uses a … Continue reading

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DPM 2007 error 31008 when creating Protection Group

I was trying to create a protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to protect SharePoint Server 2007. I followed the protected computer prerequisites documentation and made sure the following were done: Installed KB940349 on the SharePoint front … Continue reading

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Recovering a single Exchange 2007 mailbox using DPM 2007

In this post, I explain how you can use System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (hereafter DPM) to recover a single Exchange Server 2007 mailbox to a Recovery Storage Group (hereafter RSG) and ‘merge’ the restore with the actual mailbox. … Continue reading

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