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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 remote administration


With Microsoft System Center DPM, you have the ability to install the DPM Administration Console on a remote system, either on servers or workstations, so that you can manage a single DPM server instance without having to log on to the DPM server directly.

Getting ready

The DPM Administrator Console and the Management Shell can be installed on systems running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. The server or workstation must be running, at a minimum, .NET Framework 4.0.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through the process of installing the Microsoft System Center DPM Remote Console on a Windows 10 management workstation so that you can administer DPM remotely:

  1. Copy or make available the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager media to your Windows 10 management workstation and click Setup.
  2. In the setup screen for...