If you are a DPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the 2012 R2 release. No prior knowledge about System Center DPM is required, however some experience of running backups will come in handy.

Over 60 recipes to achieve a robust and advanced backup and recovery solution leveraging SCDPM Key FeaturesAdapt to the modern data center design challenges and improve storage efficiencyEffective recipes to help you create your own robust architectural designs Solve data protection and recovery problems in your organizationBook Description System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent. What you will learnInstall and prepare SQL Server for the SCDPM databaseReduce backup storage with SCDPM and data deduplicationLearn about the prerequisites for supported Hyper-V Server protectionIntegrate SCDPM with other System Center products to build optimal servicesProtect and restore the SCDPM databaseProtect your data center by integrating SCDPM with Azure BackupManually create online recovery points and recover production data from AzureProtect and learn about the requirements to recover Azure Stack with SCDPMWho this book is for If you are an SCDPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the new release of System Center Data Protection Manager.

Whether you are an IT manager, an administrator, or security professional who wants to learn how Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center can help fulfil compliance and security requirements, this is the book for you. Prior knowledge of Microsoft System Center is required.

If you are tasked with monitoring the IT infrastructure within your organization, this book demonstrates how System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager offers a radical and exciting solution to modern administration.

Written by a team of Microsoft System Center Most Valued Professionals (MVPs), this is the ultimate guide to using Data Protection Management (DPM) to safeguard your organization's valuable information. Packed with tips and real-life solutions. Overview Practical guidance that will help you get the most out of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012. Gain insight into deploying, monitoring, and administering System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 from a team of Microsoft MVPs. Learn the various methods and best practices for administrating and using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012. In Detail Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager is a centralized data protection solution. DPM is used for data protection and recovery for Microsoft workloads. Data Protection Manager allows backup and recovery of Microsoft Workloads, including SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, Client Computers, and Hyper-V. Enabling disk and tape-based backup methods, DPM also allows central management of the system state and "Bare-Metal Recovery." Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 is a guide for administrators of System Center Data Protection Manager. By the end of this book, users will be able to carry out automated installs, migrate DPM to new hardware, set up custom reporting, use the DPM central console, and implement offsite DPM strategies such as chaining, monitoring, and cyclic protection. In this book you will gain insight from Microsoft Most Valued Professionals into the new features in DPM 2012 along with an understanding of the core tasks that administrators will face, including installing and configuring DPM 2012, workload protection, and managing the system. It will also show administrators how to effectively create backups of the protected workloads and use these backups to recover from a disaster It will also contain information on backup networks, client protection, and how to automate tasks in DPM to make your job as an administrator easier. After reading this book you should be confident enough to master protecting your organizations data with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. What you will learn from this book Implementation of effective Backup Strategies. How to use DPM Central Console and SCOM to monitor DPM. Carrying out disaster recovery for DPM. Automation with DPM using System Canter Orchestrator along with PowerShell . Using DPM with workgroups and untrusted domains. How to perform common management tasks for DPM. Better tape management with DPM. Using client protection with DPM. Approach This book is a Packt tutorial, walking the administrator through the steps needed to create real solutions to the problems and tasks faced when ensuring that their data is protected. Who this book is written for This book is for network administrators, system administrators, backup administrators, or IT consultants who are looking to expand their knowledge on how to utilize DPM to protect their organization's data.

This book is a step-by-step guide packed with recipes that cover architecture design and planning. The book is also full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions. If you are a solutions architect, technical consultant, administrator, or any other virtualization enthusiast who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real-world environment, then this is the book for you. We assume that you have previous experience with Windows 2012 R2 and Hyper-V.