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Running DPM scripts outside of the DPM Management Shell

For the most part, running scripts through the DPM Management Shell works for most people. However, if you have many people that may be using your DPM oriented scripts (any script calling a DPM specific commandlet), it may be less confusing for them to run those through the actual powershell console. Also, this allows you [...]

Auto grow Replica space and Recovery point space

DPM has a handy function during client provisioning that allows you to automatically allocate a quota size.  Basically, it takes the used size on for a data source, multiplies it by three, and then divides that by two which give you your quota (say you are setting up a data source that is the C drive [...]

Auto running consistency checks

Frequently data sources can end up in a inconsistent state which will cause the job to fail until a consistency check has happened.  Inconsistent data sources typically are caused by reboots in the middle of a syncronization or general server unavailability during a syncronization period.  You can set consistency checks to run once every 24 hours on a [...]

Updating DPM agents through Windows Firewall

Using the setdpmserver.exe on the client side, DPM does a good job of allowing connections for standard DPM functions through the client side firewall.  However, with Windows firewall enabled you will notice two things that DONT work:

Pushing clients out through the DPM 2007 Management Console will fail with the following error “The agent operation failed because of [...]

Powershell security restrictions

Powershell has a number of security restrictions out of the box to keep malicious code from running and also (I would assume) to protect the user.  The first thing you will notice is that powershell will not run a script without the full path to the script defined.  This means that even if you are in [...]