System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 available

This Community Technology Preview (“CTP2”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. CTP2 includes updates and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components: Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network Continue reading

DPM cannot create a backup because Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the protected computer encountered an error (WSB Event ID: 521, WSB Error Code: 0x807800A1).

Error: The following alert became inactive at 27-9-2011 3:15:52. Status: Inactive Data source type: Data source: System Protection Computer: <ServerName> Description: Last 1 recovery points not created. DPM cannot create a backup because Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the protected Continue reading

DPM DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer <servername> using any of the configured protocols or A DPM agent failed to communicate with the DPM service on <servername> because of a communication error.

Windows 2008 R2 DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer <servername> using any of the configured protocols. Windows 2003 R2 A DPM agent failed to communicate with the DPM service on <servername>because of a communication error. Make sure that Continue reading

DPM Error 30126 DPM could not find find a valid recovery point on disk Or ‘Replica Inconsistent’ showing against System State and Bare Metal Recovery on Protected Server

This error normally occurs due to one of the following two possible causes: Not enough disk space is available on the protected machine to store a backup of the system state files The Windows Server Backup feature is not installed Continue reading

Data Protection Manager 2010 error ID 30140 Details: Internal error code: 0x80990D11

I get the following error in DPM Management console on a SQL2000 server that is protected with DPM 2010 Affected area:            Occurred since:          8/20/2011 4:01:13 AM Description:    Recovery point creation jobs for SQL Server 2000 database ?????? on ???? have Continue reading

DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID 316 on DPM Server or DPMRA Event id 85 on Workgroup Client

DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID: 316 or DPMRA Event id 85 Solution: On the protected server running the DPM agent SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER -isNonDomainServer –updatePassword On the DPM server Update-NonDomainServerInfo –PSName YOURPROTECTEDDPMSERVER –dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER No tags for this Continue reading