SCE 2010 and DPM 2010 is now RTM

Today Microsoft announced that both System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager is RTM.

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Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate – now available

If you want to try the new version of DPM, you can now download the RC version. There is a couple of new features that wasn’t in the beta version, one that I know people have been waiting for – Support for workgroup machines.

Download from Microsoft Connect

Two new System Center beta products available to test

This week Microsoft released two new beta product from the System Center product suite:

System Center Essentials 2010

Read more about the new features

Download the beta version

System Center Data Protection Manager

Read more about the new features

Download the beta version

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Released (but it's only a Release Candidate)

Today Microsoft released System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 also known as DMP.

New features in the product is:

• Blending continuous data protection with traditional tape backup
• Protection for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and even 2008-previews
• Protection for Exchange Server 2003 and 2007
• Protection for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & WSS 3.0
• Protection for Virtualized Environments hosted on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
• Protection for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 files and shares
• Protection for Windows XP Professional (sp2) and Windows Vista Business edition or better
• System State protection
• Media Encryption for DPM tapes
• Enterprise deployment of DPM agents
• Command-line control through Windows PowerShell
• Document-level restore for SharePoint
• Bare Metal Recovery

Download Evaluation version (Note that it’s a RC version, not RTM, you can read more about it onthe  product team blog)