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Support Tip: Optimized ILR feature of DPM 2012 for SharePoint recovery fails...
An attempt to use the new Optimized Item Level Recovery (ILR) feature of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) for SharePoint recovery with a clustered SQL server as the instance specified...
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DPM Blog: Now on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android, you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version...
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KB: You receive "Unknown error (0x80040e37)" in System Center Data Protection...
Here’s a KB for DPM 2012 that actually came out a few months ago but somehow slipped through the cracks and never got a mention here on our blog. It resolves a lot of questions we get around here so I...
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Download an update that adds features to Windows Azure Online Backup in...
We recently released an update rollup package that adds the following features to the Windows Azure Online Backup for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Data Protection Manager (DPM) and...
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DPM 2012 SP1 and Azure Backup and Recovery – Steps from start to finish
Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here, and today I’m going to walk through configuring Data Protection Manager to perform backups and recoveries using the Azure cloud.Note: This article assumes that you have...
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Issues that occur after you deploy System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager...
We have a new article out that lists a couple issues you might see after deploying DPM 2012 SP1. You can check it out here:2801420 - Issues that occur after you deploy System Center 2012 DPM SP1...
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System Center 2012 SP1 – Data Protection Manager is Generally Available!
This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1. You can read more about the release on the System Center...
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How to create a custom report in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager
As you already know, there are some reports that come out of the box when you install System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM):However, you still might need a report that includes different...
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KB: The Data Protection Manager database grows and the console crashes after...
We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where after installing Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager you notice that the DPM database grows and eventually the...
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Hotfix: Backups are unsuccessful when you use Windows Azure Online Backup
When you try to back up data by using Windows Azure Online Backup, is the backup process is unsuccessful? If so this hotfix may be for you.The Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) certificate...
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How to provide redundancy for End User Recovery (EUR) of Distributed File...
Hi, Michael Vargo here, and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how you can provide redundancy for End User Recovery of DFS shared data using Data Protection Manager.The environment diagram below...
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Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1–DPM updates
Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for Data Protection Manager:Issue 1: An express full backup job in System...
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Reduce backup storage consumption of private cloud deployments using System...
System Center 2012 SP1 - DPM has enabled data protection for Windows 2012 Private Cloud deployments. Customers have been looking for a way to exclude some of the VHD/VHDX that have temp data or...
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SC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Windows 2012 VM Mobility – Uninterrupted Data Protection
Technorati Tags: DPM 2012 SP1 VM Mobility private cloud protectionOne of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere. Whether the VM migrating within a...
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SC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Efficient Protection of Windows 2012 Dedup Volume
Windows 2012 introduced deduplication feature that provides great savings for the file systems with lot of redundant data. File systems in general, most of the data is cold meaning most of the files...
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Support Tip: Hyper-V hosts fail and log Event ID 5120 when being backed up
Michael Vargo| Senior Support Escalation EngineerSome customers are experiencing failures on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts that utilize Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) when backing up virtual...
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SC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Leveraging DPM ScaleOut feature to protect VMs deployed on...
Windows 2012 improved the CSV clustering by increased scale and performance. Windows 2012 clusters can be as big as 64 nodes and 8000 VMs. Windows 2012 clusters can now have their storage on a...
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MVP Speaker Series Presentation on “Backup That Really Works”
Robert Hedblom, one of our Microsoft MVPs, gave a great presentation a few days ago on “Backup That Really Works” using multiple components of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. If you would like to...
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DPM and System State Backup Explained
Chris Butcher| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our...
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How to setup DPM 2012 to protect SharePoint 2010
Microsoft’s own Chris Butcher posted a couple great videos that walk you through how to protect SharePoint 2010 using System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. It’s a two part series which run about...
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