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30 October 2009
DPM2007 system state backup error : ID 30214 Details: Internal error code: 0x809909FB
DPM 2007 message: DPM failed to create the system state backup. If you are trying to create the system state of a Windows 2008 Server operating system, verify that the Windows Server Backup (WSB) is installed, and that there is enough free disk space on the protected server to store the system state... Read More...
26 October 2008
System Center Data Protection manager 2007 - SP1 features.
Back in june i posted this blogpost on what to expect from DPM2007 SP1 . Some weeks ago I attended a session hosted by the Belgian system center user group about DPM where there was a slide on what will be included in SP1. SCR protection for Exchange 2007 support for mirrored Databases and for SQL2008... Read More...
26 October 2008
ISCSI target software for short term lab projects....
Hi! Just did another implementation of a DELL Equallogic PS5000XV iscsi array which is very nice and powerfull equipment well suited for the virtualisation project I'm currently working on. I just had a "few thingies" I wanted to try out offline so I booted up my virtual lab and started... Read More...
30 June 2008
good SCDPM 2007 video - interview
Jason buffington interviews Exchange MVP Devin L. Ganger on DPM 2007, nice overview, nice comparisation with 3th party products, I love the part “we didn’t remove any functionality, the product just ‘evolved’ “.  Funny :-) watch the video here source Read More...
30 June 2008
SCDPM2007 – enable and disable OptimizeTapeUsage
run the following command to enable colocation of data on tape on the DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name> -OptimizeTapeUsage $true To disable tape colocation run the following command on DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name>... Read More...
29 June 2008
SCDPM2007 Feature pack installation instructions
This Data Protection Manager Update Package consists of three separate updates. To install each update, follow these steps: Install the hotfix rollup package on the server that is running Data Protection Manager 2007. To do this, run the DataProtectionManager2007-KB949779.exe file on the server. Note... Read More...
29 June 2008
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack now available
I allready mentioned it a few days ago but now the feature pack for DPM 2007 has been made public.The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include... Read More...
20 June 2008
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (SCDPM) what to expect?
SCDPM is a really cool product and I like it a lot (hell yeah!) but sometimes you just wish it could do a little bit more. So there is stuff comming up ! A rollup will be released in the last half of June (It will be available on the Download Center) 1. multiple protection groups per tape : hooray !... Read More...
25 May 2008
my 15 minutes of fame - SCVMM & SCDPM customercase
Some time ago my customer and myself joined the IT-PRO MOMENTUM program in order to accelerate our roll-out of system center virtual machine manager and system center data protection manager . And last week we made a small video about this project that will be appearing later on Technet Edge i believe... Read More...
24 March 2008
SCDPM 2007 - DPM 2007 can't connect to service control manager: ID 277
I was deploying DPM 2007 agents to servers and got this error : can't connect to service control manager: ID 277 After doing some troubleshooting i hunted this problem down to this cause: The servers I wanted to install these agents on didn't have A-records in the correct DNS zone. Adding these... Read More...
23 March 2008
Techdays 2008 - Ghent Belgium - {Hero} - review
Here's my review of the Techdays 2008 that took place in Ghent this year. The short version :-) Day1: the launch I hosted the SQLUG booth and did some chitchat with other communityleaders and members, some customers and some friends... Day 2 : Techdays01 taking the bus to the location i heard people... Read More...
15 March 2008
Techdays 2008 - SCDPM - data protectionmanager 2007
During the techdays 2008 in Ghent i attended a nice session by Jason buffington on SCDPM 2007. I noticed he was using a synthetic tapedrive because all was running in a virtual environment and i hoped he didn't have to drag a real tape drive library around the world. So after the session I had a... Read More...