Data Protection Manager - General announcement

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  DPM 2012 is now available - Download the Eval and experience it for yourself.
  Praveen T [MSFT] Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:50 PM

  We are very excited to announce the release of DPM 2012. We want to hear from you what you feel about the changes we have made. Here is a quick summary of the changes.  For more details head to the DPM Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm) .

  1.       Centralized Management of DPM Servers (built on top of System Center Operations Manager )

  2.       Certificate Based Protection Backup machines from domains not trusted by the DPM Server domain including workgroup machines using certificates

  3.       Enhanced Hyper-V Support – Faster Hyper-V backups (Express Full) support for standalone Hyper-V hosts and ability to perform item level recovery even when DPM is running inside a VM.

  4.       Enhanced SharePoint Support– Recover files in seconds. Item level Recovery without moving content DBs. SharePoint RBS Support.

  5.       SQL FILESTREAM Support

  6.       Cool New UI – Yes. Download it, see it, tell us how you feel .

  7.       TAPE Feature Enhancements – Improved reliability, space optimization and more flexible job management capabilities.

  8.       Consolidate databases of multiple DPM Servers on same SQL Instance.

  9.       And as always, seamless upgrade experience from your existing DPM environment (DPM 2010).

  Download SCS DPM Evaluation Location: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_103_1_33

   

  
  
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  DPM 2012 SP1 UR3 Re-released .
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Friday, July 26, 2013 7:09 PM

  Due to a couple of undetected regressions in DPM 2012 Sp1 UR3, the original download was pulled. 

  Description of Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836751

  Data Protection Manager Update (KB2853210)
  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2853210  <--- PULLED

  If you already have it installed, you might experience one or both of the following problems:
  

  Problem-1) Updating agents via the DPM console result in the following error:
  
  Agent operation failed. (ID: 370)

  The protection agent installation failed because the files needed to install the protection agent (version 4.0.1920.0) are missing from the PS.Domain.com DPM server. (ID: 317)

  Problem-2) Creating a new PG or modifying an existing PG fails with: ERROR 1004

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  The System Center 2012 Sp1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the above two issues.  You can simply install the new UR3 re-released package available here:

  Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager (KB2877075)
  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2877075

  The new DPM version will now be 4.1.3417.0 after applying this update.

  Blog describing the same: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2013/08/21/update-rollup-3-for-system-center-2012-data-protection-manager-service-pack-1-has-been-re-released.aspx

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  System Center 2012 UR3 is now available - see KB2751230
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:01 AM

  IMPORTANT NOTE: After Installing UR3 - Please read the following article if you are protecting Sharepoint farm with DPM 2012.

  2809773 The Data Protection Manager database grows and the console crashes after installing Update Rollup 3
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809773/EN-US

  Description of Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2756127

  Issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012

  Update Rollup 3 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (KB2751230)

  Issue 1
  After you upgrade System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, the tape management report does not display overdue tapes.
  
  Issue 2
  System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Client Protection does not scale to the limits that are expected.
  
  Issue 3
  When you try to specify a client computer name in the DPMServerName attribute by using Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell crashes.
  
  Issue 4
  When the name of a Microsoft SharePoint site collection contains a space, and you perform a SharePoint item-level recovery operation in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, the operation fails.
  
  Issue 5
  After you rename a SharePoint site in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, you cannot restore the site.
  
  Issue 6
  The SharePoint Recovery Point Status Report displays incorrect data in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012.
  
  Issue 7
  A bare metal recovery fails in certain situations.

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  DPM 2010 - DPM Power shell commands may fail with ArgumentOutOfrangeException after WFM 3.0 update
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Friday, February 22, 2013 12:34 AM

  Please be aware that if you installs either of the following WMI updates on a DPM 2010 server, that some DPM power shell scripts may no longer work.

  Some scripts will fail with an ArgumentOutOfrangeException.  I believe that Pruneshadowcopies2010.ps1 is one such script that will fail which result in recovery points not getting deleted. 

  2506146 Description of Windows Management Framework 3.0 for Windows Server 2008 SP2
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2506146/EN-US

  2506143 Description of Windows Management Framework 3.0 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2506143/EN-US

  Un-installing 2506146 or 2506143 fixes the problem(s).

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  DPM 2012 SP1 Information
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Friday, January 25, 2013 5:10 PM

  DPM 2012 SP1 is not available as standalone package. This is the same media for upgrade or new installations which requires a PID.
  You should download DPM 2012 with SP1 from one of the following sources, MVLS Portal, SA license, Technet subscription, MSDN, etc.

  MSDN link - review MSDN license agreement.
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898

  If you have a license agreement you should be able to find it on https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter

  
  
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  DPM 2010 Documentation to help you plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Now Online
  Parag Agrawal Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:12 PM

  Use this link (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff833813.aspx) to find documentation that you can download and print to help you plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010. You can also browse the product documentation online in the DPM TechCenter Library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=184254).

   

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  DPM 2010 MOM Pack (English Only) is available for download
  Praveen D [MSFT] Friday, October 22, 2010 7:45 AM

  DPM 2010 MOM Pack (English Only) is now available for download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=32077d99-618f-43d0-843d-4ba4f8019f84&displaylang=en

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  SQL 2008 SP2 or SP3 is now supported as DPM 2010 backend
  Praveen T [MSFT] Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:25 AM

  The SQL backend for DPM 2010 server can now be on SQL 2008 Sp2 or SP3 version. If you have a remote SQL backend, it can also be upgraded to SQL 2008 SP2 or SP3. Both the configurations are fully supported.

  
  
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  NEW DPM 2010 and DPM 2012 updates are now available for download.
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:12 PM

  New rollup fixes are now available for download.

  DPM 2010 3.0.8195.0
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  Description of hotfix rollup package 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010    
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2751231
  

  QFE Rollup Package 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35373

  DPM 2012 4.0.1920.0
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  Description of Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2756127

  
  
  
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  DPM 2012 support for Windows Server 2012
  Mike Jacquet Microsoft employee Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:57 PM

  updated 6-5-13

  Hello Everyone,

  System Center DPM 2012 is not supported running on Windows Server 2012.  We have had reports of DPM 2012 console crashes when navigating to the recovery tab if DPM 2012 is installed on Windows server 2012.  This issue is fixed in System Center 2012 SP1 which supports being installed on Windows 2012 operating system.

  If you are already in this condition,  you have two options:

  A) You can upgrade to System Center 2012 Sp1.

  B) You can backup the DPMDB, rebuild the DPM server using Windows 2008 R2 install DPM 2012, then restore your current database. The process is explained in the below technet article.

  Recovering DPM servers
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj244606.aspx

  We also do not support protecting Windows Server 2012 workloads using SCS DPM 2012, you must upgrade to DPM 2012 Sp1.   Please do not expect any support for DPM 2012 running on Windows Server 2012, or issues while protecting data sources in Windows Server 2012.