What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing and Upgrading DPM, helps you to plan and prepare your DPM deployment. Then, you will learn how to install SQL Server for the DPM database. Also, we will cover how you can enable the Transport Layer Security 1.2 protocol for DPM. In the end, we will cover the installation and upgrading of DPM and DPM agents.

Chapter 2, DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks, teaches you the techniques for dealing with the post-installation and management tasks of your Microsoft SCDPM. By the end of the chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM management activities, such as using the DPM console, configuring modern backup storage, creating a dedicated backup network, creating custom reporting using SQL Server Reporting Services, and many more tasks besides.

Chapter 3, Protecting Hyper-V VMs, covers the protection and recovery of Hyper-V VMs at the private cloud scale using SCDPM. Different protection configurations that apply to Hyper-V VMs, and the different restore options that you can exercise, are covered in details.

Chapter 4, Monitoring DPM and Configuring Role-Based Access, provides you with the skills and techniques for dealing with post-deployment monitoring and management tasks of your Microsoft System Center DPM server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM monitoring and management activities.

Chapter 5, Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM, describes how SCDPM orchestrates the backup of different Microsoft workloads. You will learn how to enable file server, SQL server protection, and Windows bare-metal protection with SCDPM.

Chapter 6, Securing Windows Client with DPM, helps you create a plan for backing up end-user data. Secondly, you will configure the SCDPM and Active Directory for end user protection. In the end, you will learn how to install agents automatically and manually on a client computer.

Chapter 7, Protecting Microsoft Azure Stack with DPM, gets into preparing backup tenant workloads in Azure Stack with SCDPM. Also, you will back up the infrastructure layer and Azure stack metadata. 

Chapter 8, Protecting Workgroups and Untrusted Domains, explains NT LAN Manager (NTLM) and certificate-based authentication protection. Also, you will find out about how to protect workgroup machines using NTLM and certificate-based authentication.

Chapter 9, Recovering Data from Backup, describes how SCDPM orchestrates the recovery of different Microsoft workloads. You will learn how to recover file server, SQL databases using self-service recovery, and Windows bare metal recovery. In the end, you will learn about recovering from Azure Backup cloud recovery points as well as recover data from different DPM servers.

Chapter 10, Integrating DPM with Azure Backup, describes how Azure Backup and DPM provide a compelling, hybrid cloud backup solution for your organization. In the end, you will learn about monitoring and centralized reporting with Power BI and Log Analytics.

Chapter 11, Protecting VMware VMs, teaches you about DPM agentless VMware VM backup, and VMware credential management. Also, you will learn how you can create a new role in vCenter. In the end, you will learn how you can add, protect, back up, and recover VMware VMs. To go to this chapter refer to this link: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Protecting_VMware_VMs.pdf

Chapter 12, Implementing Disaster Recovery with DPM, dives deep into how to protect the DPM database as well as how to recover your DPM server in case of disaster. In the end, you will implement DPM chaining and cyclic protection. To go to this chapter refer to this link: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Implementing_Disaster_Recovery_with_DPM.pdf

Chapter 13, Online Articles, this chapter gives understanding about SCDPM concepts and what's new in DPM's latest release. It also covers prerequisites including what's new in DPM's latest release. To go to this chapter refer to this link: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Online_Articles.pdf.