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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds

Overview of this book

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring email notifications


You can configure Microsoft System Center DPM to subscribe to notifications and reports via email. If you decide to enable either of these features, you will need to configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send email.

Getting ready

You can subscribe to alert notifications and to reports by email. If you plan to enable either of these features, do the following:

  1. Set up the SMTP server
  2. Subscribe to email notifications

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to configure email notifications:

  1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console will load and the Monitoring task area will be highlighted.
  2. Select the Management task area, click the Options icon on the Ribbon bar, and click the SMTP servers tab. Specify values for the SMTP server name, Port, and From email address. Click Send Test E-mail... and specify where you want to send the test...