This chapter is designed to provide you with skills and techniques for dealing with post-installation and management tasks for your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM management activities, such as using the DPM console, configuring storage, creating custom reporting, working with SQL self service, and many more tasks.
To follow the recipes in this chapter, you need to have successfully installed Microsoft System Center DPM and also have a second instance of SQL Server that has been prepared for a remote DPM database installation.