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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

Applying Update Rollups (UR) to the DPM server


Applying updates to your Microsoft System Center DPM server is important: updates keep your DPM server and any protected servers up to date. You may have a preferred mechanism for deploying updates; however, DPM updates are automatically available through Microsoft Update.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM updates for Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) are available through Microsoft Update. Microsoft Update delivers these updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog, which is a repository for Microsoft software updates that is managed and maintained by Microsoft. You can download these updates automatically or manually from the following link: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Data+Protection+Manager.

Note

We always recommend you try and validate these updates in a test environment before you apply them in production.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through applying updates to your Microsoft System Center...