Category Archives: DPM

Error Opening DPM 2007 MMC

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Nerd

Today did not go exactly the way I wanted it to go.  I had great plans to actually get a lot done.  DPM decided that my plans for a productive day were stupid, and threw this crap at me: MMC … Continue reading →

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Auto Grow DPM Protection Groups by Percentage Thresholds

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Nerd

Managing many DPM servers can turn into quite a time consuming activity, especially when it comes to allocating more disk space to Data Sources.  The Ctrl-P DPM blog has a real simple auto-grow script on their site, but I personally … Continue reading →

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Script – Create Recovery Points

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Nerd

In the environment that I work, DPM protects the Exchange 2007 servers.  I have only one Exchange server in each protection group.  Each Exchange server has between 10-20 Storage Groups (or Data Sources).  If I want to initiate a backup … Continue reading →

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SQL 2005 Install Fails Immediately

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Nerd

I’ve had my problems with installing DPM before, but this was a new one!  DPM setup started ok, but as soon as it got to the SQL install portion, the installer failed, with this error message: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 … Continue reading →

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DPM encountered a retryable VSS error. (ID 30112 Details: Unknown error (0x800423f3) (0x800423F3))

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Nerd

This is a nasty error, and an even nastier “fix”.  I had this error on one of my DPM servers, and no matter what I tried to do on the DPM side, it kept coming back with this error.  I … Continue reading →

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Script to remove all datasources in Inactive Protection

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Nerd

After I moved several protected servers from one DPM server to another, I had a LOT of exchange storage groups left in the Inactive Protection that I wanted to get rid of.  Doing this  manually was very time consuming, and … Continue reading →

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DPM Install Issue: Error 3023 when installing

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Nerd

Error ID 3023: DPM is unable to configure the Windows account because the password you entered does not meet the Group Policy requirements. (ID: 3023) I received this message right after selecting the DPM installer to install SQL, on the … Continue reading →

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