DPM Agent Versions

For your reference, these are the major agent versions (as of December 24th, 2009):

1. DPM 2007 SP0 - 2.0.5820.0
2. DPM 2007 SP1 - 2.0.8793.0
3. DPM 2007 SP1 (with KB963102) - 2.0.8824.0
4. DPM 2007 SP1 (with KB968579) - 2.0.8836.0
5. DPM 2007 SP1 (with KB970867) - 2.0.8844.0
6. DPM 2007 SP1 (with KB970868) - 2.0.8851.0
7. DPM 2007 SP1 (with KB976542) - 2.0.8861.0

Core Configurator 2.0 for Windows 2008 R2

A bit of an Israeli pride..

Core Configurator 2.0 is now available to download from: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/

If you are unfamiliar with this tool – it is a graphical tool that allows you to configure a whole bunch of system settings on a Windows Server Core installation:

Core Configuration tasks include:

• Product Licensing
• Networking Features
• DCPromo Tool
• ISCSI Settings
• Server Roles and Features
• User and Group Permissions
• Share Creation …

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Quick Tip – When Copying VHDs to a CSV Disk – Use The Disk Owner!

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a new feature that was introduced in Windows 2008 R2.

If you want to read more about it, how it works, and how you can enable it. There is a lot of material out there that you can refer to:

• Windows 2008 R2 NLB & Failover Clustering
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759255.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630633(WS.10).aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/03/02/9453288.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/02/19/9433146.aspx

Well, after you’ve setup your cluster, enabled CSV, and added clustered disks to CSV, it is now time to copy your VHD files to those CSV disk. The big question is, which cluster node should you perform this operation on?

We’ll, to make a long story short …

Continue reading at our new blog - Quick Tip – When Copying VHDs to a CSV Disk – Use The Disk Owner!