Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager is now better suited for virtual environments, Linux servers, SQL Server support and provides more consistency. With the recent release of the ...

Last month, Microsoft released the first two products in the System Center 2010 wave: the management suite System Center Essentials 2010, and the backup-and-recovery-focused Data Protection Manager ...

Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager moves toward backup, but leaves some machines unprotected Microsoft has made its first attempt at tending to enterprisewide data protection. In our Clear Choice ...

A computer that is protected by DPM can have multiple protection groups protecting data sources. However, all these protection groups must be from one DPM server. When protecting data in a DFS ...

While this member of the System Center family hasn't received as thorough a makeover as others, such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, there are some valuable improvements in this version ...

Microsoft issued a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, with a new centralized console and backup of generic data sources. The top new feature is the centralized console, according to ...

System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM) lets you go beyond the Volume Shadow Copy Service to the next level of backup capability. Learn how you can use DPM to better protect your data. We all ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...