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System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
View All CoursesIn this course, you’ll learn to protect your organization from disaster with Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010. You’ll learn how to install and implement your Data Protection Manager 2010 environment and protect a myriad of Microsoft workloads, including Windows servers, Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. This course is ideal for those who have little to no experience with System center products, but have some experience with Windows server products.
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- Introduction
- What We're Building
- About Your Instructor
- About the Course
- Before you Begin
- How to Use the Course
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Globomantics Corporate Network
- Globomantics Locations
- Headquarters Server Information
- Utica Regional Office Servers
- Physical Lab Configuration
- Lab Overview
- What We Learned
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- Introduction
- About Globomantics
- Current Backup Challenges
- Globomantics Cost Structure
- Immediate Needs
- Globomantics Office Locations
- Globomantics Office Locations Map
- Data Protection Manager 2010 Project Plan
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- What's new in DPM 2010
- Protected Workloads
- Protection Agents
- Protection Groups
- Replicas
- Synchronization
- Storage Pool
- Recovery Point ("Snapshot")
- Continuous Data Protection
- Express Full Backups
- Consistency Check
- DPM Scalability Limits
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- DPM and Organizational Policies
- Recovery Goals and Implications
- Risk and Data Loss Tolerance
- Data Loss Implications
- End User Recovery
- DPM Protection Methods and Limits
- DPM Hardware Requirements
- DPM Software Requirements
- SQL Server Requirements
- Tape Library Support
- Hyper-V Considerations
- The Globomantics Implementation
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- DPM Communication Diagram
- Local vs. Remote SQL Server
- Remote SQL Server Preparation
- Installation Restrictions
- DPM Server Installation
- DPM Server Installation
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Introduction to the DPM 2010 Administrator Console
- Introduction to DMP 2010 PowerShell
- Adding Disks to the DPM Storage Pool
- Adding a Tape Library to the DMP Server
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Common Protected System Requirements
- File Server, SQL, Exchange, SharePoint and Hyper-V Protection Requirements
- Computer Discovery
- DPM Agent Installation Options
- Automatic Installation Method
- Manual Installation Method
- Remote Agent Installation Tip
- Throttling Agent Network Usage
- Enable, Disable and Refresh Agents
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Protection Group Structure
- Creating Multiple Protection Groups
- Short-term and Long-term Protection Policies
- Defining a Backup Retention Time/Range
- Compress or Encrypt Tape Data
- System State and Bare Metal Recovery
- Consistency Check Options
- About Express Full Backups
- Protection Group Considerations
- Optimizing Performance and on-the-wire Compression
- Create and Optimize a Sample Protection Group
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Protecting a File Server
- File Server Protection Considerations
- Recovering Files and Folders
- File-based Recovery Gotchas
- Creating a Manual Recovery Point
- Configuring Notification Options
- A Quick Look at SAN-based Recovery
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Recovery Point Types
- Recovery Point Scheduling Options
- Manual Recovery Point Creation
- Recovery Point Options
- Protection Group Optimization
- System State Protection/BMR Gotchas
- System State Protection
- Bare Metal Recovery
- Disaster Scenario
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Exchange Scope of Backup and Recovery
- Using the Exchange DPM Storage Calculator
- Exchange Protection Considerations
- Why Run ESEUTIL?
- Creating a Protection Group
- Recovering Exchange Data
- Using Recovery Databases
- Recovering a Mailbox Database to the Exchange Server
- Creating a Recovery Database and Recovering a Single Mailbox
- Exchange 2010: Database Availability Groups
- Exchange 2007: Backup and High Availability
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- What's New in DPM 2010
- SharePoint Protection Requirements
- Using the ConfigureSharePoint Utility
- SharePoint and DPM Watchouts
- Creating the SharePoint Protection Group
- What is a Recovery Farm?
- Recovering SharePoint Information
- SharePoint, DPM and Tape
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- DPM 2010 SQL Server Protection Features
- Understanding DPM SQL Backup
- Globomantics SQL Protection
- SQL Server/DPM Best Practices
- SQL Database Recovery
- SQL Server Self-Service Recovery
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- DPM 2010/Hyper-V features
- Hyper-V/DPM Storage Calculator
- Hyper-V Backup Prerequisites
- Hyper-V Needs
- Backup Options
- Unsupported Hyper-V Scenarios
- Additional Recommendations
- Creating the Hyper-V Protection Group
- Recovering Hyper-V Hosted Data
- Single Item Recovery Information
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Using the Monitoring Area
- Monitoring in the Protection Area
- Other Console-based Monitoring Options
- Scheduling and Running Reports
- System Center Operations Manager
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Application Protection Troubleshooting
- Obtaining Replica Information
- Performing Consistency Checks
- DPM-related Performance Monitoring
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- DPM Chaining and Secondary Protection
- A Secondary DPM Server
- DPM Protection Diagrams
- DPM Protection Prerequisites
- Creating the Protection Group
- Switching Protection Roles
- Recovery from a Secondary Server
- Primary DPM Server Recovery Steps
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Where You Started
- Course Building Blocks
- What You've Accomplished
- Your Road Ahead
- My Favorite Supporting Resources
- We Value Your Opinion
- Thank You and Good Luck!
Instructor
Scott D. Lowe
Scott is the Founder and Managing Consultant of THE 1610 Group. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and everything in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet's TechRepublic, TechTarget, and TechGenix.
For TechRepublic, for whom he has written hundreds of articles, Scott writes weekly in the Servers and Storage area, monthly in the IT Leadership area and in other areas on an ad hoc basis. Scott also writes for TechTarget's SearchCIO-Midmarket site and is the lead author for TechGenix's virtualizationadmin.com site. Scott is the author of O'Reilly's Home Networking: The Missing Manual and a coauthor of Microsoft Press' Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion and the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Configuring Windows Small Business Server 2008 book.
