Description of the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack

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INTRODUCTION

This article describes the issues that are fixed in the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack.

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Issues that the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack fixes

This feature pack fixes the following issues:

948373 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948373/ ) The backup image may be corrupted if you use System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to perform an online backup of a virtual machine that is running in Virtual Server 2005

948936 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948936/ ) When synchronization runs in Data Protection Manager 2007, the DPM service may unexpectedly crash

946647 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946647/ ) Description of the Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package: January 9, 2008

950082 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950082/ ) Description of the Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package rollup 2

951557 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951557/ ) Description of the hotfix rollup package for Data Protection Manager 2007, dated April 24, 2008

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Features that are included in the feature pack

Support to back up virtual machines on clustered Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 hosts
Support to share tape libraries between multiple DPM servers
Support to better use tape capacity by co-locating data from multiple protection groups that have a similar retention range
Support to provide system state protection for Windows Server 2008
Support to provide replica stability on a secondary DPM server when the primary DPM server that the secondary server is protecting is restarted
Provide support for long-term tape retention periods that are greater than 99 weeks
Correct Microsoft Exchange data transfer size issues that exist between the primary DPM server and the secondary DPM server when an express full backup is performed
Provide additional context parameter details and tuning for the DPM Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager
Correct data recovery issues for BitLocker protected volumes after BitLocker protection has been removed
Correct data recovery issues for BitLocker protected volumes on which DPM protected shares reside

Note We do not support the backup of prerelease versions of SQL Server 2008 (formerly code named “Katmai”) in production environments. Support that System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 provides to back up the release versions of SQL Server 2008 in production environments are subject to the Data Protection Manager support policies that are current when SQL Server 2008 is available.

For more information about tape sharing in the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122775 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122775)

For more information about tape co-location, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117936 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117936)

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How to obtain the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack

This feature pack is now included in the DPM 2007 Service Pack 1 that is available on the download center. For more information about DPM 2007 Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

959605 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959605/ ) Description of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack, x86 version

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Download the Data Protection Manager 2007, x86 Feature Pack package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9e1fe35-b175-40a8-8378-2f306ccc9e28&DisplayLang=en)

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack, x64 version

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Download the Data Protection Manager 2007, x64 Feature Pack package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad5cd1a2-9b87-4a2c-90a2-9dbaf1024310&DisplayLang=en)

For more information about obtaining the latest System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

949779 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949779/ ) Description of the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack

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REFERENCES

For more information about the features that are included in the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack and about the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 documentation, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=122057 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=122057)

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