Microsoft DPM Valuable Features

WayneMcgowan

System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

For many years, I used it at work. It was good at backing everything up. All the features were good in the 2012 and 2016 versions but the file system went really bad in 2019, and their move to ARIA caused a lot of issues. They kept releasing update signals to fix it, but it never fixed the problem.

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Saiyed Shahab Ahmed

Chief Digitalization Executive at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like the core backup feature. I also like the file server backup feature. I find Microsoft DPM interesting because it has fantastic integration with Microsoft products. For example, in Exchange and SharePoint, DPM is excellent when it comes to backing up data. It also does a decent job with open-source products.

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RifkanHasan

Group Assistant, General Manager of IT at CIC

The most valuable feature is the recovery. The recovery of files on its own is no problem.

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reviewer2261112

Microsoft Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The SSO feature is really valuable. It was integrated with Azure Active Directory and it provides access across different Microsoft apps using the same credential.

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reviewer1731429

Senior Consultant at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

The most important feature is that it's easy to use.

The product is scalable.

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reviewer1373331

DBA, Developer at a government with 201-500 employees

The solution really does great recovery. When the typical use case of someone says, "Oh gosh, I've accidentally deleted my file", we have that item-level recovery. It's saved us on many occasions. However, I do believe any backup solution would give a user that kind of performance.

The solution came with System Center so we didn't have to pay for it that way. If you're already a System Center customer, I believe it's a free product, or, at least, it comes with that bundle. That benefit there is you're already in the system set or ecosystem.

In that sense, the price is good since we're on System Center.

The solution backs up Microsoft workloads just fine, when synchronization doesn't fail.

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RamaswamyK

M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd

One of its most valuable features is its capability to give a BMR for all the workstations that I want to connect to or to the servers, as well as the fact that it could do an online backup off the exchange.

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Rodney Carlson

System Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that DPM has an index so individual files can be searched. This is our primary tool for recovering deleted files or folders. Once we implement a System Center Operations Manager, all of our DPM servers can then be seen on one dashboard.

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RamaswamyK

M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd

The solution works well as a backup.

The initial setup is quite straightforward.

You can scale the solution easily.

The stability is very good.

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reviewer1510686

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is almost perfect for Microsoft products. It is not a very powerful tool, but it is okay for small sites and small businesses with Microsoft products.

It is easy to use for backup and restore. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers such as Exchange and SharePoint servers.

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William Mugobogobo

Head of ICT Infrastructure & Security at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require.

The compatibility is very good. We have an IBM AS/400 machine in our office that we're using, and we're able to back it up fine. This is the same for other systems, as well. I think that overall, it is really adaptable, compatible, and scalable.

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it_user1350732

Managing Director at Adalites

I would definitely recommend data protection DPM. It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor. It works flawlessly, never a problem.

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it_user175563

Senior Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Ease of D2D and D2T backups.

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NastaranMesgari

System Administrator with 51-200 employees

The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good.

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it_user156372

Database Expert with 51-200 employees

Recovery.

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it_user6414

CEO at a tech company with 51-200 employees

• Data Protection Manager enables fabric administrators to exercise flexibility and freedom in carrying out live migrations of VMs. As an administrator, it is easier now to handle migration of VMs from standalone to cluster, move them within standalones as well as within and across the cluster. • Offers a perfect solution to redundant data. Data Protection Manager assigns a link to the actual file that connects it to the common area where duplicated cold data is stored. I have found this to be a great saving on file system as file contents are maintained in common chunks. View full review »

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