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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 DPM and Active Directory for end user protection


Configuring Microsoft System Center DPM and Active Directory (AD) for end user protection allows you to empower your users to independently control their own backup, and it also provides the ability for the end-user to be able to recover their own data as well.

 

Getting ready

Before you can configure Microsoft System Center DPM and AD for end-user protection, you will need to verify that all of the deployment prerequisites have been met:

  1. You will need to configure AD to support end user recovery by carrying out the following tasks:
    • By extending the AD schema
    • Creating an AD container object
    • Granting permissions to the DPM server to change the content of the previously mentioned container
    • Adding mappings between the source shares and the replica shares
  2. You will need to enable the Volume Shadow Copy service on the protected Windows clients.

Note

Where you already have both schema and domain administrator privileges in AD, the process to extend...