DPM 2007 SP1 Implementation – Notes from the field

Hi guys,

A couple of important facts we learn from our DPM 2007 SP1 implementations:

if you are pushing an agent to a remote Windows 2008 machine that has its FW enabled, add the following path to the firewall outbound rules - “C:\Windows\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\Agents\AC\2.0.5820.0\dpmac.exe” so that the service that installs the DPM agent can communicate with the DPM server.

When configuring VSS backup for Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V, please install the following updates:

1. An update is available for Windows Server 2008-based computers to address issues with backing up and restoring Hyper-V virtual machines
2. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VSS writer is not used during a backup job because of corrupted or invalid virtual machine configuration files

Good luck!