•         Hello friends, Just posted over on the DPM Product Team blog on this — including discussion points on: — How Microsoft customers were protecting Exchange previously — Design goals and feature decisions for DPM 2007 — Supportability issues with other Exchange backup/replication solutions — What lies ahead for Exchange mailbox recovery…


  • Answer – I wrote about all of them today.  But since I am publishing in different places, I am posting a set of links for those that are interested. The topics are varied, so please read or ignore as you see fit.  🙂 XBOX DAD Recommendation for the Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver…


  • If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that the only thing I enjoy more than Data Protection and storage technologies is gaming — and specifically family gaming is an area that I think is less covered than it should be. Well, the kind folks over at XBOX.com, specifically Trixie and…


  • Its been about 6 months since DPM 2007 became generally available in the market, so we starting to hear the question “What’s next for Data Protection Manager 2007?” Please join us on Wednesday, April 23rd for a TechNet webcast to answer that question, as we talk about new workloads being protected, new capabilities within the…


  • If you go to the ‘about’ for Windows Server 2008, you’ll see the box to the right, showing Windows Server 2008 as ‘Version 6.0 Service Pack 1″.  I’ll admit to never having noticed this before … But, Iain McDonald (in Windows Server engineering) did an amazing blog on the history of the client OS’s and…


  • This interview is actually a few months old – recorded at IT Forum in November 2007, but I recently found it online and wanted to share it with you. Its about 10 minutes long and talks about what are core features and unique deliverables with DPM 2007. Hope you enjoy it. Click here to watch…