This recipe will cover the information you need to understand both the prerequisites and also help you understand what could be expected from the workgroup protection approach for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2.
Before you start to provide a restore scenario for your workgroup servers, you must understand the supported scenarios where you can use the workgroup protection.
Compared to the normal protection provided by DPM for domain joined servers, you will, for example, not able to protect clustered servers.
The workgroup server could also be a member of another domain that you don't trust. CBA is not a prerequisite for workgroup protection.
The following list can be protected via workgroup protection:
Files
System States
SQL Server
Hyper-V
Primary DPM server via a secondary DPM server (DPM-DPM-DR)
You don't need to open any additional firewall ports to get started with the workgroup protection. The Firewall configuration recipe in Chapter...