Thursday, April 2, 2009

DPM 2007 SP1 Virtual Labs from Microsoft

TechNet has released 3 Virtual Labs (vLabs) on DPM 2007 SP1.    Much like other labs from Microsoft, you can get your hands dirty in minutes in a full fledged lab environment, instead of building out for hours on your own.  You can go through the student manual – or just play with the features that you want to learn about.  At the end of your time (About 3 hours), the lab reset back (yes, there is a clock in the window).

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There are 3 virtual labs for you, and TechNet is promising more soon:

Technical Introduction to DPM 2007 SP1 – a good basic start, with protection and recovery of Exchange 2007 and SQL Server 2005

How to protect SQL Server with DPM 2007 SP1 – more focused on deeper scenarios, including some data migration from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

How to protect SharePoint with DPM 2007 SP1 – here is your chance to see whole farm protection, with single item restore – nuff said!

How to protect Exchange with DPM 2007 SP1 – is coming, look for it in May

This is a great way to get started with DPM, and to simulate some scenarios without messing up your production environment.  Have fun!

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Welcome!

I use Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 on a daily basis, and although it is a great product, it takes a lot to master. I have created this blog to share my experiences with DPM with other System Administrators out there. All of my experience with DPM is in the role of protecting Microsoft Exchange 2007, and SQL server (the DPM database itself).

There have been many issues that I've run across, and not been able to find answers for on the Internet, so I'm going to "pay it forward" to the IT community!

Hope you find this blog informative!