Category Archives: DPM

DPM 2007 Rollup packages now available

While I was away on vacation last week, Microsoft finally released the DPM 2007 Rollup packages to Microsoft Downloads. (I blame Jason Buffington; I’m sure he waited until I was out of office.) There are  both x86 and x64 packages; … Continue reading

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masteringdpm.com back online

Things got hairy enough last week that I forgot to post, but my hosting provider got the problem sorted out and the website is back online.

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masteringdpm.com temporarily down

If you’ve tried to get to masteringdpm.com in the past couple of days, you may have gotten a cryptic error message instead of a site with DPM goodness. I’m working with my hosting provider to get it put back up … Continue reading

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Tech-Talk: Making Backups Cool with DPM

While I was at the Tech-Ed NA IT Pro conference last week, Jason Buffington and I took the chance to invade the Tech-Ed Online fishbowl studio and record a quick Tech-Talk on using DPM. You can now view it online … Continue reading

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Revised guidance on protecting Exchange with DPM 2007

Just a quick note to let you  all know that the Protecting Exchange Server with DPM 2007 white paper is available for download from Microsoft. This is the same white paper I worked on for them last year, but freshly … Continue reading

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Post-Conference report

As I typically do, I’m posting links to my slide decks for the presentations I just finished giving. I apologize to the Connections folks; I was supposed to get this done Monday afternoon or Tuesday and got ambushed by a … Continue reading

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A DPM roundup

This was a big travel week for me; I got the privilege of speaking about protecting Exchange with DPM 2007 at both Exchange Connections (in Orlando) and Microsoft Management Summit (in Las Vegas). The session had a good response at … Continue reading

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Greetings from Orlando!

I’m posting from a break between sessions at Exchange Connections in Orlando, FL. I just had a good session on protecting Exchange with DPM — thanks to everyone who attended and gave lots of good feedback. Next up — a … Continue reading

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DPM book hot off the presses

Early this week, Ryan and I received our authors’ copies of Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, the book we co-wrote about, well, mastering DPM 2007. Amazon says it’s in stock, so if the topic is at all of … Continue reading

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Exchange and DPM data protection myths

[Edited 12/12/2007 to correct KB/MB error in the log file sizes; thanks to Chris Scharff for catching it.] Recently, I’ve seen a couple of pieces of misinformation about Exchange 2007 and DPM floating around in the ether. Rather than let … Continue reading

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Post-Connections report

Vegas was great again, this year; the hotel was as lovely as ever, but the overlap with the Latin Grammys sure did some interesting things to the elevators. Mandalay Bay felt full this year! On the other hand, the beach … Continue reading

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It’s a release!

For those of you who have been waiting for that sweet, sweet DPM 2007 goodness…wait no more. It’s gone RTM. DPM 2007 is an amazing product, so amazing that somebody and his cow-orker are writing a book about it. (Yes, … Continue reading

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Time again for Connections!

Here we are, September almost gone, and it’s time to be seriously thinking about November travel plans already. These plans, of course, include the fabulous Exchange Connections Fall 2007 conference in Las Vegas. Once again, I’m honored to have been … Continue reading

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Data Protection Manager version 2: a whole lot more compelling

When I last visited the topic of Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager, it was during the beta period for version 1. Although I really liked the concept DPMv1 wasn’t really a useful product, especially for me. File server protection is important … Continue reading

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A look at Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager

Remember my previous post about Microsoft Data Protection Server? Now I can talk about it a bit more in-depth. Heck, even The Register is talking about it. Microsoft has changed the name of the product; it’s now Microsoft System Center … Continue reading

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Microsoft Data Protection Server

Have you heard about Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS) yet? If not, you can see what Windows IT Pro‘s Karen Forster has to say about it in her recent Q&A session with Microsoft’s Ben Matheson. Or you could check out … Continue reading

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