How to Install DPM 2012 Beta
Microsoft comes with new DPM Product which will be one of the very important role of Cloud Computing. In this article I am going to talk about how to install DPM 2012 Beta, before we go to hand on , I would like to talk about what the prerequisites , and System Requirements are
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
The Following prerequisites will be installed during the DPM 2010 Installation
.NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package
Windows PowerShell 2.0
Overview
The key DPM 2012 features that will be available for BETA validations are -
- Centralized Management (Built on the Ops Manager platform)
- Centralized Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Remote Administration
- Remote Recovery
- Push To Resume Backups
- Role Based Access
- Continued Best of Breed Application Support
- SharePoint Item Level recovery without restoring Content DB
- SQL FILESTREAM support
- SharePoint RBS support
- Hyper-V Item Level Restore from a DPM running in a VM
- Faster protection of VMs on stand-alone Hyper-V servers.
- Fresh DPM 2012 Console User Interface
- Data Source Extensibility Framework
- Certificate Based Protection of non-AD machines
- File Server
- SQL Servers
- Hyper-V servers
- Clustered Data sources
- Secondary DPM servers.
- Tape Enhancements:
- Enhanced Granular Media Co-Location
- Tape Reliability Enhancements
- Multiple DPM DB databases share a single remote SQL Instance
- Upgrade support from DPM 2010
Installation is pretty straight and easy
Here is the step by step dpm 2012 Beta Installation
First Insert the DVD or get the installation pack HERE
Click on Data Protection Manager
Accept the agreement and click on OK
One we Clock on Ok, DPM will install necessary prerequisites
Here is Wizard , Click on Next
If we have existing SQL server was installed , Select the Use an existing instance of SQL Server, In this case , what we have is Test environment and We will select the Use the dedicated instance of SQL Server
And Click o Check and Install
DPM 2012 is going to install the basic components.
At this point DPM Server requires reboot. Now are rebooting the server
Click on setup instillation file and click on Next and and When you are on Prerequisites Check Click on Check And Install again
DPM will install the basic components again 
As you see that now Next Button is not greyed out anymore. Click on Next
This screen is about Product registration. After we register Click on Next
In this screen we are going to Select the installation pats of DPM files and DB files. This is a test environment , I just leave as it is, Click on Next
We are going to create SQL Service Account. Enter the password and Confirm then Click on Next
This is optional for you, I select MS update and Click on Next
This part is also optional , I selected Yes and Click on Next
In this step Click On install. 
Installation has been started , Now is the time to go get cofee or my favorite is Turkish Black Tea
Instillation has been completed. Click on Close
You will see the the DPM icon on your desktop , Go ahead and Click on it
3 comments
MJ Almassud
January 18, 2012 at 7:12 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
very nice.
what do I have to do to use an existing SQL server 2008 R2 that on the same network as the server where DPM 2012 is being installed?
Thanks
MJ Almassud
January 19, 2012 at 1:23 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
this looks great, but I am tryig to use an existing instance of SQL server 2008 R2 that’s not installed on the same box where DPM 2012 is being installed and it’s just not installing and I can provide additional details if that helps.
Thanks
ferhat
January 19, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hi MJ, DPM 2012 requires separate sql 2008 r2 instance and Standard\Enterprise SKU of SQL server 2008 R2 installed.