Quick Look: Protecting Exchange 2013 with DPM 2012 R2

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Protecting a server in DPM is a relatively simple process, but there's a couple extra steps for protecting Exchange 2013 that I wanted to discuss. This is assuming you've already got an Exchange 2013 server(s) and you want to back it/them up with DPM 2012 R2.

You'll need two things before you go creating your Exchange server protection group on your DPM server. Firstly, on both your DPM and your Exchange servers, you'll want to make sure you have Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio Update 4 installed. I've found this step was only necessary for protecting Exchange 2013 with DPM 2012 R2. For say, protecting Exchange 2010 with a different version of DPM, then you only need the second item discussed below.

Secondly, you'll need t copy a couple files from the Exchange server over to the DPM server. Specifically, you'll need to copy the ese.dll and eseutil.exe files, which are usually in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin. Copy those to your DPM server into the C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\DPM\DPM\bin folder. If Exchange gets updated, you'll need to make sure the new versions of the files get copied over to the DPM server.

Now you're ready to add your Exchange 2013 server to a protection group in DPM 2012 R2.

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