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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

Setting up DPM protection with certificate authentication


SCDPM can protect computers in workgroups and untrusted domains. You can handle authentication using NTLM or certificates. Using certificates over NTLM authentication is the preferred and recommended approach to ensure a high level of security. This recipe describes how to set up DPM protection with certificate-based authentication (CBA).

For CBA, DPM supports the following workloads, regardless of whether they are deployed in clustered or standalone deployments:

  • SQL Server
  • File Server
  • Hyper-V

The following workloads are not supported for CBA when they are NOT in trusted domains:

  • Exchange server
  • Windows clients
  • SharePoint server
  • Bare metal recovery
  • System State
  • End user recovery of a file and SQL

Note

Please note that if you are protecting a primary DPM server by another DPM server known as a secondary DPM, then the Primary DPM server and Secondary DPM server need to be in the same domain or mutually trusted domain. Certificate-based authentication...