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 cannot open the file E:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\bin\Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.msc.
This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file.
Grrrrrrrr… What a pain. I first thought that the .msc file was corrupt, so I copied the same from another DPM server, but to no avail. I found some tips on the internet that led to registering a .dll file, but that didn’t work (regsvr32 msxml3.dll).
I figured something was wrong with DPM, so as much as I didn’t want to, I uninstalled DPM, reinstalled it, restored the DPM database (you are backing up your DPM database right?!??!) but was STILL getting the same stupid error!
So, workaround time. I opened mmc (Start, run, MMC, enter), went to file, add/remove snap-in, and added Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.
This did work, but was really buggy. The MMC kept crashing, and also wouldn’t let me get rid of the right folder view – ugly, but will do in a pinch…
Well, I finally got digging some more, and found that in my %appdata% directory, there lives an MMC folder
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\MMC
Delete the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 file, and then launch DPM. It will launch without any problems. Man, I just wasted about 7 hours on this stupid thing!!! Hope this can help someone!
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