Creating a plan for backing up end user data

Before you can start protecting Windows clients with Microsoft System Center DPM, you need to define a plan for backing up end user data and determine that all of the prerequisites for that plan are in place. The following recipe builds out this plan at a high level and shows you what things you need to check to ensure that you are in a position to support the backing up of end user data.

Getting ready

Before you can deploy Microsoft System Center DPM to protect Windows clients, you will need to verify that all of the deployment prerequisites have been met:

1. You will need to ensure that the version of the client operating system that you want to protect is actually supported...