Microsoft System Center Data
Protection Manager 2012 SP1
Learn how to deploy, monitor, and administer System
Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1
Steve Buchanan
Islam Gomaa
Robert Hedblom
Flemming Riis
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Microsoft System Center Data Protection
Manager 2012 SP1
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Credits
Authors
Steve Buchanan
Islam Gomaa
Robert Hedblom
Flemming Riis
Reviewers
Mike Resseler
Yegor Startsev
Acquisition Editor
Mary Nadar
Lead Technical Editor
Arun Nadar
Technical Editor
Hardik B. Soni
Project Coordinators
Abhishek Kori
Wendell Palmer
Proofreaders
Dan McMahon
Bernie Watkins
Indexer
Rekha Nair
Graphics
Ronak Dhruv
Abhinash Sahu
Production Coordinator
Pooja Chiplunkar
Cover Work
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About the Authors
Steve Buchanan is an infrastructure consultant at RBA with a focus on System
Center. He has 13 years of experience in information technology around systems
management and systems administration. Steve authored System Center Data
Protection Manager (SCDPM) 2010 SP1 and was a technical reviewer for the System
Center Service Manager 2012 Cookbook and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Cookbook, Packt Publishing. Steve is a Microsoft System Center MVP and holds the
following certications: Linux +, MCP, MCTS, MCSA, MCITP: Server Administrator,
and MCSE: Private Cloud.
Steve can be found blogging at
www.buchatech.com.
I want to rst and foremost give thanks to God for making
opportunities such as this possible. I would like to thank my wife,
Aya, and my three sons for being patient and supportive as I work
on time consuming projects like this. I would also like to thank all of
my other family and friends. I want to give a big thanks to the other
System Center MVPs Robert Hedblom, Islam Gomaa, Flemming
Riis, Yegor Startsev, and Mike Resseler for being a part of the team
on this book, as it takes a great amount of effort to put something
like this together. I also want to thank the Packt Publishing team for
supporting all the authors and reviewers during this project. I would
also like to say thanks to my employer RBA for being supportive
and encouraging these types of community-based efforts. Last but
not least, thank you to the System Center community for being
supporters of books like this.