Jason Buffington .com

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I served as a Product Manager for a variety of Microsoft products — acting as primary evangelist, GTM planner, feature stakeholder, and field enabler — from 2005 to 2011. Here is an archive of my blogs, articles, and projects as part of my role at Microsoft. 

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  • You gotta get a Home Server!

    My first “home server” was in 1992 – it was NetWare 3.11 and I distinctly remember paying $1,000 for the 1GB 5.25″ full-height SCSI drive that would hold all of my data.  I was working on my CNE certification and wanted some experience at home, while I studied.  I vaguely recall having to go to…

  • DPM 2007 awarded “Product of the Year” for protecting Virtualized Environments

    For folks that have heard about DPM’s protection capabilities around virtual servers, this will not come as a surprise — but today, DPM 2007 was awarded the Gold as a "Product of the Year" from SearchServerVirtualization.com.   SearchServerVirtualization.com announced the winners of its first annual Products of the Year awards, spanning four categories: Virtualization Platforms…

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  • How to protect SharePoint with DPM2007 — new podcast

    Happy Monday, everyone. As promised, I am trying to be more frequent (weekly) with these posts – and hopefully add a lot more streaming-video on common questions. Because DPM 2007 really protects and recovers data in ways that archaic backup mechanisms don’t, I hear quite a few “short question / long answer” queries … meaning…

  • New podcast – Where does DPM fit in the Windows backup market

    Last month, I was interviewed on some key DPM position questions like: Why is Microsoft in the backup business? What makes DPM 2007 special? What environments does DPM 2007 fit best in? If these sound interesting to you, check out this short 5-minute podcast.

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  • DPM 2007 in the heterogeneous enterprise

    One question that I hear frequently is “I love what Microsoft is doing for backup of my Windows servers.  But what about my non-Windows servers?”  Similarly, one might ask “What about heterogeneous environments?“ A different question that is often confused with these is “Is DPM enterprise-ready?”  To separate these questions, let me address the latter with the…

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  • NEW webcast – DPM 2007 Overview

    Please join us today – Wednesday, December 4th at 9:30AM Pacific – for an updated overview of DPM2007. We’ll be going over most of the core features and everything you need to know to get started with your own evaluations of the new Microsoft backup and recovery solution. http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032355427&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US