Here are a few points which you can consider while doing computer migration. These points are applicable to all migrations irrespective of the migration tool (ADMT, NetIQ, Quest etc)
Here is a graphical representation of the high level steps involved in an Active Directory migration using ADMT
Pre-creating user account in the target domain is a common scenario these days due to single-sign-on solution, HR management procedure etc
Rights Management Service (RMS) is an add-on to many RMS aware applications. In this article my main focus is to explain how we can utilize RMS technology with Exchange 2003 and how we can take advantage of RMS technology to increase the email security
I am sure we have all either encountered or heard of this "problem" one time or another if the ISA Server is part of the Active Directory Domain. Is it a problem?
Another Data Protection Manager 2010 guide from the DPM team.
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing, upgrading, and configuring DPM 2010, and includes an introduction to the DPM user interface, DPM Administrator Console. This guide also provides step-by-step instructions for troubleshooting, repairing, and uninstalling a DPM 2010 installation.
Download:
Other DPM Guides and Whitepapers:
http://portal.sivarajan.com/2010/08/new-dpm-2010-whitepapers-and-datasheets.html
New DPM 2010 whitepaper and datasheets are available now.
Whitepaper - How to protect Exchange with DPM 2010 – Why and how to protect Exchange data with DPM 2010
Whitepaper - How to protect SQL Server with DPM 2010 – Why and how to protect SQL Server data with DPM 2010
Whitepaper - How to protect SharePoint with DPM 2010 – Why and how to protect SharePoint data with DPM 2010
Datasheet - How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010
Datasheet - How to protect Windows Clients with DPM 2010 – Overview of capabilities for protecting Windows desktops and laptops (running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7) with DPM 2010
The DPM team has released a new whitepaper on “How to protect Exchange with Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010”
You can download this whitepaper from the following location:
Here are the latest DPM 2010 guides from the DPM team:
Planning a System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Deployment
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=277db8f2-dbd9-456a-a99d-8fb6f47f3203
Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4ea389ef-7626-48ac-bac2-66ef4173f167
Data Protection Manager 2010 Operations Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=58ed28c3-252a-452b-b6e1-992bd56cede0
Data Protection Manager 2010 Troubleshooting Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ed702ecc-0469-455c-9337-a0a7f14a3cf3
DPM hotfix and Service Pack Information
I know there are a lot of questions about the latest DPM version and hotfix information. So I started creating this table for my reference. I thought I would share it with everybody.
| Update Type | Version | Release Date | Details |
| DPM 2010 - RTM | 3.0.7696.0 | 04/18/2010 | |
| DPM 2010 - RC | 3.0.7558.0 | 02/08/2010 | http://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452 |
| DPM 2010 - Beta | 3.0.7336.0 | 09/25/2009 | https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070 |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 02.00.8864.0000 | 03/31/2019 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 02.00.8861.0000 | 11/05/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 02.00.8851.0000 | 08/28/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 02.00.8844.0000 | 06/04/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 2.0.8836.0 | 04/14/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 2.00.8824.0 | 02/16/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 2.0.8811.0 | 01/09/2009 | |
| DPM 2007 - SP1 | 2.0.8793.0 | 12/19/2008 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 2.0.8111.0 | 07/31/2008 | |
| DPM 2007 - Feature Pack | 2.0.8107.0 | 07/18/2008 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | |||
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 2.0.5820.0 | 04/24/2008 | |
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | |||
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | |||
| DPM 2007 - Hotfix | 01/09/2008 | ||
| DPM 2007 - RTM | 10/17/2008 |
I originally published this blog on: http://santhoshsivarajan.blogspot.com/2009/10/dpm-2007-version-and-hotfix-information.html
As I mentioned in the previous blog Microsoft will be closing all Newsgroups beginning in June 2010.
http://portal.sivarajan.com/2010/05/microsoft-newsgroups-and-forums-closing.html
Data Protection Manager (DPM) TechNet forum is live now. You can start posting you questions at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/dataprotectionmanager
Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 is RTMed. You can download the evaluation version from the following location:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb727240.aspx
You can read more info here:
The latest DPM 2007 Rollup KB 979970 is now available for download. This is cumulative hotfix rollup package. It includes all previously released hotfix rollups for Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
Download:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979970/
Also, you can see the complete DPM Service Pack and hotfix information here:
http://portal.sivarajan.com/2009/12/dpm-2007-hotfix-and-service-pack.html
I am not sure if you guys are aware that the DPM 2010 RC guides (help files) are available now at Microsoft connect site for download.
Download:
DPM 2010 RC Documentation
DPM 2010 Beta Documentation
Here is a useful tool which will help you understand the DPM upgrade options and requirements.
As you can see in the following screenshot, you can select your deployment/upgrade options in the left side and the required upgrade steps will display on the right side.
You can download this tool from the following location:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/F/3/FF3347F5-C076-400C-A77A-B6FFA0EA56A4/DPM%20Upgrade%20Advisor.xls
As you know, you can protect/backup a DPM server using a secondary DPM server. You can see the details on the following TechNet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb795680.aspx
With the recent release of DPM 2010, I have seen a lot questions about protecting DPM 2007 using a DPM 2010 server and vice versa. Anyway, the simple answer is both primary and secondary DPM severs should be running the same version.
Summary
•DPM 2007 Server cannot be protected by a secondary DPM 2010 server
•DPM 2010 Server cannot be protected by a secondary DPM 2007 server
As we move from the Release Candidate to the final DPM product, we want to make sure that Microsoft Partners are ready to help our customers with the latest in data protection from Microsoft.
DPM 2010 is one of two System Center products that will be released next quarter, so we are running a “Partner Readiness Week”. Customers, don’t worry – we have readiness activities planned for you as well. Over the week of February 22-26, we will be providing 5 online training sessions to prepare Microsoft Partners to be successful with the next generation of System Center, including:
System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 offers enterprise-class management to midsized organizations with between 50-500 PCs and up to 50 servers, including physical and virtual machine management.
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 provides continuous data protection for Windows application and file servers, desktops, laptops and Microsoft Virtualization hosts to unified disk-, tape- and cloud-based storage.
We will offer the courses a few times in the upcoming weeks – optimized for different time zones and geographies. Feb 22-26 are being delivered during the European business day.
For access to the 5 courses associated with SCE and DPM – please go to the Microsoft Partner Learning Center and search for keyword SCELMITLLC or this link
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/16/new-dpm-2010-training-for-microsoft-partners.aspx
Issue:
Data Protection Manager (DPM) hangs at "Replica Creation is in Progress" window.
Solution/Workaround:
Disable TCP Chimney Offload. You can use the following command:
netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled
You can see the details in one of my previous blogs…..
(http://santhoshsivarajan.blogspot.com/2009/12/tcp-chimney-offload.html)
The TCP Chimney Offload is a useful networking technology. It allows to transfer the work load from CPU to a Network adaptor during the network data transfer. This helps improve the processing of network data on your computer or server without the need for additional programs or any loss to manageability or security.
But sometimes you run into issues with various applications if this option is enabled. Recently, I have experienced a very slow performance on a DPM 2007 server. My solution was to disable the TCP Chimney Offload properties. You need to enable or disable the TCP Chimney Offload option inside OS and Network adaptor properties. This option will work only if it is enabled or disabled in both locations.
You can see the details of TCP Chimney Offload enabling and disabling procedure in the following KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037
By default the error id 32538 indicates that the DPM has failed to backup more than 100 files. In DPM 2010, the backup process will skip these issues and continue with the backup. But if the number of skipped or filed files exceeds 100, DPM will fail the backup with an error ID 32538. You will see these failed or skipped file information in the log file.
DPM has consistently aimed at making your backups more reliable. The transition from tape to disk as a medium for storing backups provided the first impetus to improved reliability of backups, and was delivered with DPM 2006, our first release. It also brought about novel concepts of improving the ease of use for administrators with two key innovations:
1. Think SLAs, not jobs: DPM allows you to think in terms of business goals and SLA requirements, rather than do the math for finding out what jobs need to run at what frequency and from which source to which target. You need to identify your business requirements and feed it to a wizard in DPM, and DPM figures out the rest (allocating disk space, scheduling jobs etc.) for you.
2. Alert based monitoring: You don’t have to deal with individual failures to identify the root causes. DPM filters out the noise and shows what’s actionable.
Next, DPM 2007 built on top of the innovations that had already been put in place and expanded the scope of protection to reliable support for key Microsoft workloads, while adding tape backups and disaster recovery options. The focus was to back up the application data in the consistent and supported way. This was made possible by leveraging the Volume Shadow copy Service technology in Windows, which guarantees recoverability and allows backups with minimal downtime of the application.
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/16/dpm-2010-helping-you-meet-slas-with-less-effort.aspx
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) provides continuous data protection for virtual machines hosted on servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This protection includesonline backup of supported guest virtual machines hosted on clustered or standalone systems; protection of virtual machines during the live migration process; and, itemlevel recovery from host-level backup. DPM 2010 offers disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, and disk-to-disk-to-tape technologies; all of which maintain the business value of a virtualized infrastructure by ensuring that it is better protected and always available.
Combining Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) with the Iron Mountain CloudRecovery solution creates a solution that provides Windows®data protection and recovery from Microsoft with vaulting from Iron Mountain, one of the most trusted names in data preservation. This article describes the solution and contains instructions for installing the Iron Mountain client.
I know there are a lot of questions about Hyper-v hotfixes for Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010. For protecting VMs oV you need to install the following two hotfixes:
KB975343: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975354
KB975921: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975921
Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate is now available for download.
Download: http://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452
Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast, we look at how System Center can improve the health and availability of your servers running Exchange with the Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. System Center has application awareness built into its management solutions to help deliver guidance and best practices to Exchange administrators, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met and saving organizations money.
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft System Center.
Audience(s): IT Generalist.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Register Info: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032437151&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
