Happy New Year 2009

Dear Blog readers,

Just would like to say thanks for the support for the year 2008.

Please continue to support us in year 2009!

Happy New Year!

Backup Software that protect Exchange 2007 Standby Continuous Replication

Just got an e-mail from local Microsoft that DPM 2007 now SP1!

Its a great news - its now be able to do more - including protecting VMs in Hyper-V, which be able to protect in Virtual Server 2005 SP1.

What is more interesting is, it is now be able to protect Exchange 2007 SP1 SCR! Yeah - a good news huh?

This will give a complete DR scenario.

What are you waiting for, path your DPM 2007 today or start using it.

What is new in Service Pack 1:
http://www.microsoft.com/SystemCenter/DataProtectionManager/en/us/WHATs-NEW.aspx

DPM 2007 sp1 x86 download:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125991

DPM 2007 sp1 x64 download:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125992

Backing up Exchange 2007/Windows 2008 with DPM

Knowing that till today, if Exchange 2007 SP1 to run on Windows 2008, there is a challenge to back it up.

DPM 2007 for sure is the great product ever to backup every 15 minutes.

There are few questions/issues prompt to us, would like to share here:

1) You can install DPM either in Windows 2003/Windows 2008, 32 bit or 64 bit.

2) To backup Windows 2008, you will need to install DPM 2007 feature pack: KB949779 and other latest patches/hotfixes if there is any

3) When protecting your Exchange 2007, you will need to copy this two files (ese.dll & eseutil.exe - from Exchange installation CD/BIN folder) to DPM server bin folder. Please take note, if you are using DPM 2007 32 bit, you will need to get the 32 bit edition of those file.

4) You are then ready to go. If you would like to backup system state, ensure you have enough of free disk space, it will take about 10-18GB of space...

Exchange Virtualization

A long wait, but worth the time. At last, Microsoft release one article about Exchange on virtualization 18 Aug 08.

Personally, feel really great and happy to see this article. Folks that passion about Exchange and would like to plug it to virtualization, this article shows you the supported environment and best practices.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548.aspx

Really worth 10 mins to go through.

Bravo Microsoft.

HIbernation for Windows Vista/ 2008

Recently, get some queries about - where Hibernation goes - which its in power option in Windows XP.

In Windows Vista/2008 - it is now changed.

You need to run the following command as administrator.

powercfg.exe /hibernate on - to enable hibernation

powercfg.exe /hibernate off - to disable hibernation

To know more about this, please visit the following KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730