I recently had a requirement to add a delegated administrator to DPM 2016. While it’s possible to configure self-service recovery, there doesn’t appear to be any way that I can configure another user to perform the delegated admin role as there is in some other System Center products. It is possible to configure …

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, …

There’s a known issue with Update Rollup 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 that stops expired recovery points being removed, thus leading (eventually) to DPM consuming all available disk space attached to it. This leads to messages such as: and Which mean that new recovery points are not being created …

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 …

Our recent upgrade of Data Protection Manager (DPM) from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 generated one issue which wasn’t mentioned by the documentation on Technet. The documentation on Technet is good and the procedure for upgrading DPM was very quick and easy. Pay attention to the Upgrade Sequencing documentation as not …