DPM 2012 SP1: Protection Agent cannot be installed

DPM 2012 SP1: Protection Agent cannot be installed

When trying to manually install a Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Data Protection Manager Agent you may receive this error: Protection Agent cannot be installed on machine where DPM is installed This problem occurs when you’re trying to install the agent from...
The way through Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 upgrade

The way through Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 upgrade

Yesterday I installed SP1 on my DPM 2012 server – see the screenshots below. The setup itself was ok, but the problems began when updating the protection agents on Windows Server 2012 systems. Welcome Screen of Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection...

How to get the number of volumes used by DPM 2010?

Just a quick hit that tells you how many volumes Microsoft Data Protection Manager uses. I got 848… [code lang=”powershell”] $dpmserver = $env:computername #localhost or type your dpm server’s name here $dpmdisks = get-dpmdisk -dpmservername...