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...

Setting Exchange 2007 Pre-Req in Windows Server 2008

Recently prepared few labs on Windows 2008 - Installing Exchange 2007 SP1.

To install Exchange 2007 on top of Windows 2008, first of all, you will need:

1) Exchange 2007 SP1 - will rollup update if possible
2) Active Directory installed of course (Can be in different server)
3) Same in Windows 2008, you will need to install .net framework (3.5) at this time
4) Install Windows PoiwerShell (In Windows 2008 Server Manager, under features)
5) Install Exchange 2007 pre-req server roles and features- then, you are READY

this section, we will share on what is the IIS pre-req in no 5 that we are talking about:-

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ISAPI-Ext
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Metabase
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Basic-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Digest-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Dyn-Compression

Once it installed sucessfully, you can now install Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1