Protect Exchange Server

After you’ve read the whitepapers and watched the videos – try it out. Use your browser and start your own DPM and Exchange server environment. In this lab, you will configure the DPM storage, set up protection of Exchange, including Disk and Tape based media, create a recovery point,  and then restore some Exchange data.

Devin Ganger, Exchange MVP and author of the book “Mastering DPM” (www.masteringDPM.com), sits down with Jason Buffington, DPM Product Manager, to talk about what is special about DPM 2007 and its protection and recovery of Microsoft Exchange backup and recovery.

To assist customers in designing their storage layout for Data Protection Manager 2007, the product team has put together a calculator that focuses on outlining the storage capacity requirements based on a set of input factors. For the first release, the calculator focuses on Exchange 2007 backup scenarios only. Future releases may include other technologies. Information on the calculator can be found on the DPM product team blog.

If your company relies on Microsoft Exchange Server to manage and deliver information, as well as to communicate with your customers and partners, see how System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 can help you protect your business critical data.

DPM 2007 SP1 offers comprehensive data protection for organizations of all sizes, helping to maintain the business value of your Exchange Server infrastructure by making it better protected and more available.

Here we show you how to use Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to protect servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2003.

In March 2008, the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog posted a great explanation of exactly how DPM protects Exchange-specific data. It’s a great explanation of DPM overall but really nails it for Exchange. If you are interested in Exchange protection, check out the blog on using DPM.