See also, Dpm server software prerequisites – Dell PowerVault DP600 User Manual

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4. After installation is complete, apply all available Windows Server 2003 service packs and

updates, including Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

All Windows updates are available from

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=451).

Windows Server 2003 SP2 is available from

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=90633).

See Also

Hardware Requirements

DPM Server Software Prerequisites

The System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) server must be a dedicated, single-purpose

server, and it cannot be either a domain controller or an application server. The DPM server

cannot be the management server for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 or Microsoft

System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Before you install DPM, you must install the following:

• Knowledge Base article 940349, "

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99034).

Note

After installing Knowledge Base article 940349 and then restarting the DPM server and/or

the protected server, we recommend that you refresh the protection agents in DPM

Administration Console. To refresh the agents, in the Management task area, click

the Agents tab, select the computer, and then in the Actions pane, click Refresh

information. If you do not refresh the protection agents, Error ID: 31008 may appear

because DPM only refreshes the protection agents every 30 minutes.

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 from

• Single Instance Storage (SIS) on Windows Server 2008 operating system (Pre-release

version). For information about installing SIS on Windows Server 2008, see

If you want to manually install the required prerequisite software, you must follow the steps

detailed in

Following is the DPM server prerequisite software that DPM Setup installs before installing the

DPM application: