Attempting to add protection to a Windows 10 Anniversary Edition workstation recently failed with the DPM server showing the workstation as ‘unavailable’ when looking at the ‘Production Servers’ list in the console. It appears that the upgrade to Anniversary Edition removes a file that the DPM agent relies on, …

Following the installation of the November 2014 OS updates and the updated DPM agent (to update rollup 4) onto a number of servers, I saw failures when attempting to perform a backup of SQL Server 2012 databases hosted on Windows Server 2012. These manifested as ‘replica is inconsistent’ in the DPM console: On the …