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• Virtual Machine Manager
  • Improved Support for Network Virtualization
  • Extend the VMM console with Add-ins
  • Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage
  • Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
• Configuration Manager
  • Deployment and management of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
  • Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce infrastructure costs
  • Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell support
  • Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX servers
  • Real-time administrative actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks
• Data Protection Manager
  • Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0
  • Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share
  • Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes
  • Uninterrupted protection for VM live migration
• App Controller
  • Service Provider Foundation API to create and operate Virtual Machines
  • Support for Azure VM; migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System Center
• Operations Manager
  • Support for IIS 8
  • Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services
  • Azure SDK support
• Orchestrator
  • Support for Integration Packs, including 3rd party
  • Manage VMM self-service User Roles
  • Manage multiple VMM 'stamps' (scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps
  • Integration with App Controller to consume Hosted clouds
• Service Manager
  • Apply price sheets to VMM clouds
  • Create chargeback reports
  • Pivot by cost center, VMM clouds, Pricesheets
• Server App-V
  • Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
  • Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on native server

Use this link to get full details and the download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607

Remember though, that SP1 Beta is not supported in production environments, so please only install in your dev/test environments.

Enjoy.

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You can get the download from here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706783, as well as more information as to what is contained within the rollup.

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The public beta is now available for DPM 2012 here, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27216.

Here is a list of what's included in the beta:

• Centralized Management (Built on the Ops Manager platform)
  • Centralized Monitoring and Troubleshooting
  • Remote Administration
  • Remote Recovery
  • Push To Resume Backups
  • Role Based Access
• Continued Best of Breed Application Support
  • SharePoint Item Level recovery without restoring Content DB
  • SQL FILESTREAM support
  • SharePoint RBS support
  • Hyper-V Item Level Restore from a DPM running in a VM
  • Faster protection of VMs on stand-alone Hyper-V servers.
• Fresh DPM 2012 Console User Interface
• Data Source Extensibility Framework
• Certificate Based Protection of non-AD machines
  • File Server
  • SQL Servers
  • Hyper-V servers
  • Clustered Data sources
  • Secondary DPM servers.
• Tape Enhancements:
  • Enhanced Granular Media Co-Location
  • Tape Reliability Enhancements
• Multiple DPM DB databases share a single remote SQL Instance
• Upgrade support from DPM 2010

 

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It was a pleasure working with the author, Steve Buchanan, on the book and I recommend it to anyone who currently works with, or will be working with DPM.

Congratulations Steve!

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Today I heard that Ruud Baars, who was a great memeber of the DPM community working for Microsoft, lost his battle with lung cancer over the weekend.  I worked with Ruud many times during my many DPM experiences and I can say with certainty that he will be missed.

Please read Jason Buffington's full tribute to Ruud here, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2011/03/21/rest-in-peace-ruud-baars.aspx.

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If you're at MSS this year, please come and visit me and Mike Resseler (MVP) on Monday afternoon when we present BB36 -

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It is a very early look, pre Beta, but still a session I think will be well worth attending!

Look forward to seeing you there.  

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

His DPM blog is here, http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com, and I recoemmend you take a look and add to your list of DPM resources.  :-)

Well done Robert.

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

Even though TechEd Europe was only last week, it is already available to view now!  Visit Jason's blog post for more details on the session and view the recording.  http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2010/11/11/dpm-2010-session-at-teched-europe-2010.aspx.

Enjoy.

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

Thanks to everyone who has supported me :-)

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

Congratulations to Mike Resseler who has received the MVP award for System Center Data Protection Manager.  Mike has posted some great articles on the SCUG.BE Data Protection Manager blog, http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/, and provides continued support in the forums at Microsoft and here at SCDPM Online.

Check out details of his achievement here, http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/archive/2010/07/01/mvp-award.aspx.

Well done Mike!

I would also like to mention two other people who also got awarded an MVP for DPM, they are:

Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com

Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog

Congrats to you all 

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

 

 

I was informed recently by MS that the licensing of DPM had changed and I was getting some information together to write a post about it when Jason Buffington posted all the details on his blog yesterday.  So rather than wasting my time writing up the same information as Jason, I might as well just point you at his licensing post.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2010/06/23/dpm-2010-licensing-info.aspx

The major change is that you no longer need to purchase a license for your DPM server.  With DPM 2007 you would have purchased your DPM management licenses for the computers you want to protect and you would have also have had to purchase a separate SKU for the DPM server software.  Now, you no longer need to purchase the separate SKU for the DPM server software, purchasing one or more DPM management license will grant use rights for the DPM server software.

So if DPM was already cheap enough, especially if you purchase SMS-E/D, it's just got even cheaper!

The only thing I haven't I haven't had confirmed by MS is what happens if you had purchased the DPM 2007 server SKU with software assurance, as effectively you will get nothing for having spent the extra for SA.  This might be dealt with on a per customer basis but if I find out anything concrete, I will let you know.

For full details of all the changes and licensing options though, check out Jason's blog post above.

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Now we need to wait for the Operations Manager management pack, hopefully that will be available soon?!?!

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399192.aspx

I haven't read it all yet as I have only just discovered that it's there but looking at the headings everything seems to be covered :-)

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It's finally happened, DPM2010 has been released to manufacturing.  

Announced at MMS, this 3rd version of the DPM product brings a lot of improvements and great new features.  Check out full details of the release here, http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/04/19/sc-data-protection-manager-2010-is-released-to-manufacturing.aspx and here, http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/the-right-tools-for-the-job-sce-2010-dpm-2010.aspx.

It should be available by the end of May to some customers and hopefully it'll be generally available from 1st June 2010.

Excellent !

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This is very disappointing, especially with all the news on SCCM, DPM2010 and Service Manager that is scheduled.  I hope as many people as possible can make it to Las Vegas but I do know of many other Europeans that have had to cancel their MMS trip.

For those of you that do get there, have a great time !

If you were planning on attending my session "BB37 Deploying and Managing Data Protection Manager (DPM) in Large Enterprises", unfortunately I wont be there.  If my co-speaker from MS Italy cannot make it as well, it may well be completely cancelled but we'll have to wait and see on that one.

Looking on the bright side, at least I'm not stuck away from home :-)

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With the Icelandic volcanic ash in the air, will I make it to Las Vegas for MMS?

I'm not scheduled to leave until Monday afternoon so I am hoping it will all blow over by then, but as weekend flights are already being cancelled I'm not very hopeful at the moment.

If the flight does go, see you at MMS if you're there !

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Just click the link below, register for the event and you'll be redirected to the download page.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032437151&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Once again, enjoy !

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb