What this book covers

Chapter 1, Pre-installation Tasks, gives you a good start in understanding what is needed for a successful DPM deployment.

Chapter 2, Installation and Upgrade, walks you through installing and updating DPM.

Chapter 3, Post-installation Tasks, gives you the facts regarding what it takes to get the solution up and running in a production environment.

Chapter 4, File Server Protection, explains how you should back up and restore your file workloads.

Chapter 5, SQL Protection, builds up on the concept of protecting and restoring the SQL server workload.

Chapter 6, Hyper-V Protection, provides the information needed to understand the protection and restoring of Hyper-V.

Chapter 7, SharePoint Protection, gives you a deeper understanding regarding SharePoint backups, most importantly, restore.

Chapter 8, Exchange Server Protection, covers the backup and restore scenarios for the Exchange server workload.

Chapter 9, Client Protection, teaches you how to build solid backup and restore scenarios for Windows clients.

Chapter 10, Workgroup Protection and CBA, covers how to protect servers that are not joined in the same domain. You will also understand workgroup protection and the Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) mechanism.

Chapter 11, Azure Integration, deals with integration with Azure, which is a hot topic. In this chapter, you have recipes that explain how to integrate your DPM server solution with the Microsoft Azure Backup Vault services.

Chapter 12, Disaster Recovery, covers recipes on disaster recovery scenarios that you can use DPM for.

Chapter 13, Tape Management, has recipes that give you a deeper understanding when it comes to tape management from a DPM perspective.

Chapter 14, Monitoring and Automation, covers proactive monitoring and automation, which is crucial for any Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution.