Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What is Data Protection Manager? -- Planning for your DPM deployment -- Hardware requirements -- Minimum requirements -- Recommended requirements -- Limitations of DPM -- The Windows applications -- The Exchange server -- The SQL Server -- SharePoint -- Virtual platforms -- The Windows clients -- The system state -- The DPM disk pool -- The RAID levels for the disk pool -- Software controllers versus hardware controllers -- The sector size -- The custom volumes -- Deduplication -- Dependent services, local accounts, and groups -- Services -- DPM -- The DPM AccessManager service -- The DPM Agent Coordinator service -- The DPM CPWrapper service -- The DPM Writer service -- The DPMLA service -- The DPMRA service -- Local accounts and groups -- Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) -- The creation of a shadow copy -- A different creation of a shadow copy -- How does the DPM agent operate? -- Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) -- Direction of communication -- The firewall settings for DPM -- Underlying technologies -- Change Journal -- The File System filter -- The DPM File filter -- A GUI walkthrough -- The Navigation bar -- Monitoring -- Alerts -- Jobs -- Protection -- Facets pane -- Ribbons -- On-the-wire -- Resume backups -- Recovery -- Reporting -- Management -- Additional functions and roles within DPM.

End-user Restore Recovery (EUR) -- DPM Self-service Recovery Tool (SSRT) -- Single Instance Storage (SIS) -- PSDataSourceConfig.XML -- Troubleshooting backups -- The local Windows logs -- Troubleshooting VSS -- The DPM agent logs -- The DPM server logs -- Upgrading scenarios -- Summary -- 2. Backup Strategies -- The definition of data -- Microsoft's approach -- Service Level Agreements -- Recovery Point Objectives, Recovery Time Objectives, and Recovery Level Objectives -- Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) -- Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) -- Recovery Level Objectives (RLO) -- What data should we back up? -- Initial tasks -- Server technologies -- Windows workload protection group design -- Enterprise protection group design -- The Platinum class -- The Gold class -- The Silver class -- The Bronze class -- The primary approach -- Non-Windows application servers -- Generic data source protection -- Local services -- The Windows workloads -- The next step -- Protection group names -- Member of the protection group -- Verification of your backups -- Restore training -- The verification process -- Summary -- 3. DPM Server Management Tasks -- Automated installation of DPM -- Migrating a DPM server to a new hardware -- How to calculate storage for DPM -- Creating custom reports in DPM -- DPM Report Views -- Building a custom DPM report -- Create custom DPM reports using Prism for DPM -- Changing the SQL Server instance used by DPM -- Moving the DPM server to a new domain or renaming a DPM server -- Adding disks to the storage pool -- Removing a disk from the storage pool -- Replacing a disk in the storage pool -- DPM network bandwidth and control traffic -- Enabling the network-bandwidth-usage throttling -- Enabling the network-bandwidth-usage throttling for multiple DPM agents at once -- Working with DPM SQL self-service.

Working with third-party tools to deduplicate DPM data -- Summary -- 4. Monitoring and Managing the Performance of DPM -- Publishing the DPM event logs -- Monitoring DPM with SCOM -- Monitoring DPM without SCOM -- Using the new DPM central console -- Installing the DPM central console -- Overview of the DPM central console -- Configuring remote administration of DPM -- Configuring and using role-based access in DPM -- Summary -- 5. Workload Protection -- Working with BMR and troubleshooting common issues in DPM -- Supported operating systems -- How to backup BMR files -- Performing a BMR restore -- Troubleshooting BMR -- Working with system state protection and troubleshooting common issues in DPM -- Restoring the system state from the DPM server -- Using the wbadmin tool -- Protecting the domain controllers -- Restoring Active Directory -- Working with the Active Directory Recycle Bin -- Generic data source protection in DPM -- Non-Microsoft workload protection in DPM -- Protecting Oracle with DPM -- Protecting Oracle using RMAN and pre/post scripts with DPM -- Protecting Oracle as a generic data source with DPM -- Protecting Linux with DPM -- Protecting non-domain/workgroup computers with DPM -- Summary -- 6. DPM-aware Windows Workload Protection -- Protecting SQL with DPM -- Protect SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn -- Remote SQL Server 2012 SP1 -- SQL self-service recovery -- Configuring self-service recovery in DPM -- Installing the DPM self-service recovery tool (SSRT) on a client computer -- Protecting SharePoint with DPM -- Configuring SharePoint protection -- Protecting all SharePoint components -- How to protect a multi-tenancy SharePoint deployment -- How to protect RBS with DPM -- How to protect claims authentication with DPM -- How to protect search with DPM -- Protecting Exchange with DPM -- Configure Exchange protection.

DPM agent deployment considerations -- DAG clusters -- Specifying the Exchange protection options -- Exchange maintenance -- Specifying the DAG protection -- Restore Exchange mailboxes -- Recovering Exchange server mailboxes -- How to protect a multi-tenancy Exchange deployment -- BMR protection technique of Exchange -- Exchange 2013 protection -- Protecting Hyper-V with DPM -- Configuring Hyper-V protection with DPM -- Protecting Hyper-V from DPM running in Hyper-V -- How Hyper-V ILR works with DPM -- Hyper-V 3.0 -- Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) 2.0 -- Protection of Hyper-V servers using SMB and Hyper-V Replica -- Unsupported scenarios for SMB -- DPM scale-out protection -- Enabling the scale-out protection -- Protecting deduplicated volumes -- Recovering volumes with deduplication -- Protecting Resilient File System -- Protecting CSV 2 -- Protecting Windows Clusters with DPM -- Protecting file server clusters -- Planned failover for file clusters -- Changing the resource group -- Protecting DHCP clusters -- Summary -- 7. DPM Non-aware Windows Workload Protection -- Protecting DFS with DPM -- Protecting Dynamics CRM with DPM -- Protecting Dynamics GP with DPM -- Protecting TMG 2010 with DPM -- How to protect IIS -- Protecting Lync 2010 with DPM -- Summary -- 8. Managing Tapes in DPM -- How DPM manages tapes -- How DPM writes information to tape -- Tape information -- Basic tape management tasks for DPM -- Tape commands for DPM -- Tape library commands -- Inventory library -- Rescan -- Refresh -- Unlock library door -- Rename library… -- Disable library -- Add tape (I/E port)… -- Clean -- Disable -- Protection group configuration -- Specify long-term goals -- Select library and tape details -- Co-location of data on tape -- Co-locating tape and upgrading DPM -- Standalone tape drives and tape libraries -- Standalone tape drives -- Tape libraries.

Virtual Tape Library (VTL) -- Firestreamer -- Tape Library Sharing (TLS) -- Tape reports -- Summary -- 9. Client Protection in DPM -- Creating a plan for backing up end user data -- Plan for off-site end user backup -- Configuring DPM and Active Directory for end user protection -- Manually preparing Active Directory for DPM -- Installing the agent automatically and manually on a client computer -- Automatic install -- Manual install -- Scripted install -- Performing image-level backups of client computers with DPM -- Other resources for DPM client protection -- Setting size restrictions on client protection -- Allow non-admin users to perform end user recovery of DPM protected data -- Client Auto Deployment Management pack -- Summary -- 10. Workgroups and Untrusted Domains -- Supported and not supported workgroup/untrusted domain protection -- Using certificate-based authentication with the DPM protection -- Setting up and working with workgroup protection in DPM -- Local accounts or trusts -- DPM agent -- Protection across trusted domains -- Configuring and protecting machines in workgroups and untrusted domains -- Communication -- Host files -- DNS -- Firewall -- VPN -- Installing and configuring the DPM agent -- Protecting the domain controller in an untrusted domain -- Protection in DMZ -- Troubleshooting common issues with protection of workgroups and untrusted domains -- Summary -- 11. Disaster Recovery -- The purpose of a disaster recovery design -- The Active Directory domain -- The Data Protection Manager server -- Databases -- Short-term storage -- Long-term storage -- Public Key Infrastructure -- Windows Azure passphrase -- Recovering your organization's data when the only thing left is backup tapes -- Protecting the Data Protection Manager database -- Planning and implementing DPM chaining -- Planning and implementing cyclic protection.

Off-site DPM strategies.