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Welcome to the 0direction blog! My name is Cory and I am a 10 year veteran of the IT industry currently working for MaximumASP as a Senior System Engineer specializing in Storage and Disaster Recovery. If you find something here that helps you, please leave a comment! If you see something that could be improved or have a question, please send me some feedback! Happy scripting! -Cory

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 [...]