fredag 16 december 2011

Secondary DPM server over WAN link

One thing that many people seem to miss is that there’s a network limitation regarding how poor WAN link you can have to a remote office or site.

Scenario: You have a primary DPM server protecting your production environment. You also have a remote site that is great for offsite replication to a secondary DPM server. However, there’s a limit regarding how poor wan link you can have between those two sites. If the scenario fits your design you must have a WAN link higher than 512 kb.

fredag 9 december 2011

Error 25 with secondary protection of DPM database

I ran into a problem regarding secondary protection of a DPM database. The setup is a primary DPM server and a secondary DPM server, the secondary DPM server protects the primary DPM servers database DPMDB.

Suddenly the protection failed and new recovery points couldn’t be created. The VSS for SQL was in an error state so I rebooted the primary DPM server and verified the VSS writer, everything was ok. I tried to make a recovery point but the SQL VSS failed immediately.

I looked in the System event log and notices an consistent error with the Virtual Disk Service, error 25 that occurred at the same time as the creation of the recovery point.



After restarting the Virtual Disk and DPM writer services the recovery point could successfully be made for the primary DPM Servers database.

fredag 2 december 2011

DPM2012 session @ NIC2012

It’s now official that I will speak at the NIC 2012 conference in Norway Oslo at the 13th and 14th of January.

In my session I will cover the news of DPM2012 and give you all a walkthrough of the new GUI and features.


I will give at least three demos =)

http://www.nic2012.com/

Welcome to attend my session in Norway!

lördag 26 november 2011

VC Redistibutable Package

When installing a DPM Agent on a protection server you will perhaps notice that there are some files that are not cleaned away in a good manner in your %systemdrive%.




This is due to a bug in the installer for the VC redistributable package that is a prerequisite for DPM.

fredag 18 november 2011

Problem with SQL synchronization

During this week I faced an interesting problem. A company in Sweden used DPM to back up their SQL environment. One database that had a recovery model full couldn’t synchronize the log files content to DPM.

On the SQL server side I noticed an error in the event viewer with the event id 5, Active Server Pages. This error occurred at the same time as the backup. To solve this I had to re-register the asp.dll from an elevated command prompt.

Run Regsvr32 asp.dll from an elevated command prompt.

fredag 11 november 2011

DPM 2012 book

Together with Steve Buchanan and Islam Gomma we will write a book about DPM 2012. We are in the planning stages for this book.

I’m asking the DPM community what specific topics you would like to see covered in this book.

Please email me @ robert.hedblom@gmail.com

fredag 4 november 2011

Best Of MMS

Last week I had the great opportunity to present DPM 2012 at Microsoft Best Of MMS 2011 in Stockholm. Thanks all that attended my DPM session.






Got a lot of positive response that will keep me going =)








If you want to know more about System Center Operations Manager or System Center Orchestrator, check out Anders Bengtsson's blog

fredag 28 oktober 2011

Complements for EUR

For those of you who uses EUR I had received some questions regarding how it works etc.

EUR is the functionality that was presented in DPM 2006. This is the ability to let the end-users restore files from file shares using shadow copy function and interaction with DPM.
EUR is based on your NTFS rights on that share. There are some nice complements that Mike Jacquete posted on the DPM forum.


Disable restore Button
This functionality prevents a client from overwriting the current version of a file with an earlier version of the file. The client can only copy the earlier version of a file to an alternative location.
To do this, type either of the following commands at the command prompt, and then press ENTER

REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v NoPreviousVersionsRestore /t REG_DWORD /d 1
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v NoPreviousVersionsRestore /t REG_DWORD /d 1

You can add the DWORD registry entry as part of a user's logon script.

We recommend that you add the DWORD entry to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey. We recommend this for the following reasons:
• The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey is not overwritten by policy updates.
• The HKEY_CURRENT_USER subkey can be written to by logon scripts that are using nonadministrator permissions.

Disable the Previous Versions tab
To disable the Previous Versions tab on individual client computers, follow these steps:
Type either of the following commands at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v NoPreviousVersionsPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v NoPreviousVersionsPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1

fredag 21 oktober 2011

Any wishes?

During the upcoming months I’m planing of doing some sessions on the web via OCS or LYNC describing different functions and or solutinos in DPM 2012.

I’m wondering if you got any wishes? What do you want to know about DPM? Do you have any scenarios that you want to see get presented? What does the community want to see?

I’m listening to YOU, get back with info @ Robert.hedblom@gmail.com

fredag 14 oktober 2011

Protection of SharePoint

One common misunderstanding is on what servers you should deploy your DPM agents to so you can start protecting your SharePoint Farm.

First you must install the DPM agent on your WFE (Web-Front-End) servers.

Second, install the DPM agents on your back end SQL servers.

Third you must enable the SharePoint VSS using the executable ConfigureSharepoint.exe with the switch -EnableSharePointProtection

tisdag 11 oktober 2011

DPM2010 management packs

There has been some questions regarding where to find the management packs for DPM2010, Here’s the link where you can download it and import it to your SCOM server.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7612

fredag 7 oktober 2011

Webcast: News in DPM 2012

Interested in DPM? Want to know the new features in DPM2012?

At the 13/10 1PM GMT+1 I will host a webcast (Live meeting) that addresses the new features and will also show the new GUI.

Please email me @ robert.hedblom@gmail.com and I will provide you the link and information you need.

This is free , you don’t have to pay to attend

Date:13/10 2011
Time:1 PM GMT +1

fredag 30 september 2011

Running Hyper-V ILR on a virtual DPM2010 server

Many people run DPM 2010 on a virtual operating system and with that comes many advantages that Hyper-V brings. DPM2010 has a feature that will index your VHD files and make it possible to restore flat-files from within a VHD file, also called and refered to as IRL (Item Level Restore).

This won’t work if you run DPM2010 on a virtual server since the ILR is based on the Hyper-V role and you can’t activate the Hyper-V role on an already virtual environment…or?

Of course you can, but it’s important that you know that this isn’t a supported workaround.

Use OCSetup to install the Hyper-V role. It will be installed even if it fails. This is since it can’t access the ED bit or the virtual extensions on the processor. Hyper-V won’t work but DPM 2010 will after a restart be able to perform a ILR on a VHD.

OCSetup Microsoft-Hyper-V

tisdag 27 september 2011

Webcast, what is DPM and how does it work?

Have you started using DPM? Perhaps you never even have seen the product yet. I will present the product and will during one hour give you as a participant a walkthrough of the product. We will look at this:

• What is DPM
• How does it work
• Walkthrough of the different protection od workloads

This webcast is free of charge.

If you are interested in participating please send me an email @ robert.hedblom@gmail.com and I will provide the information you need to connect and join.

Welcome to join the 30/9 @ 1 PM CET


Looking forward to see you!

måndag 26 september 2011

Best of MMS 2011 agenda is set

The agenda is now set for Best Of MMS 2011. Microsoft Sweden, MVP's and other great people will present the news in the System Center family.

Check out the agenda @ http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/bestofmms2011/agenda.html

fredag 23 september 2011

Backing up cross domains

Using DPM in your environment you’re able to backup other DPM servers cross different domain and forests. This could be used for example in the scenario that a company A made an acquisition of another company B. Company A will be responsible for managing the disaster recovery scenario for company B’s data using Data Protection Manager.

Using DPM to backup other servers or DPM servers across domain and forests boarders there are some prerequisites that must be fulfilled:



  • You must have network access between the domain or forests servers. Use ping to verify


  • You must define conditional forwarders for the domains so your DNS will be aware of the other domain’s DNS information


  • You must have a two-way trust relationship. For domain two-way trust minimum requirements are 2003 domain. For forest trust you must have Windows Server 2008 Forest mode.


  • An account in both domains that are domain admin used for domain trusts or enterprise admin used for forests trusts.

First you must verify your network access. Ping the other network to verify that you have connectivity between the sites.
Second you need to setup a conditional forwarder. I will demonstrate this in 2008R2.
Go to your domain controller in your domain. Open your DNS MMC. Right click on the Conditional Forwarder and choose New Conditional Forwarder.




You will now be prompted with the New Conditional Forwarder window.





In the field DNS Domain you type in the domain name of the domain you want to have DNS information about. Now you must enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers in that domain, you will enter those in the IP addresses of the master servers. Enter the IP addresses and your DNS server will try to resolve it, this could take some time. At the bottom you’ll have the option to Store this conditional forwarder in Active Directory… check this and choose to replicate to all DNS servers in the forests. Now you’re done, click on OK. Now you must do the same operation in the other domains DNS servers and typing in your domain name and DNS servers IP addresses. After this you will be able to ping the resources in the other domain using FQDN.
Now we will make the trust between the domains. You’ll need an account that is a member of the domain administrator group in the domain you want to create a trust with.
Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts. Right click your domain name and choose properties.




Click on the Trust tab.




Click in the New Trust… button in the bottom. The New Trust Wizard will appear. Click Next.



Now you need to enter the Trust Name. Type in the DNS name of the domain you want to make a trust with. For example contoso.com



Next you will decide what kind of trust type you will use, in this example you will use an Forest Trust.




Now choose the Direction of Trust. DPM must have a Two-way trust.




Next you will choose the Sides of Trust. Choose the option Both this domain and the specified domain. This option will create a trust in your domain and the domain your will trust.

You’ll be prompted for credentials of an domain admin account in the domain you’ll trust.


Now define the Outgoing Trust Authentication Level-Local Forest option. Choose Forest-wide authentication. Click Next.






You’ll now define the Outgoing Trust Authentication Level-Specified Forest option. Choose Forest-wide authentication. Click Next.


The Trust Selection Complete windows will now show. Click Next to create the Trust relationship.


A summary window appear regarding the status of the creation of the trust.


You’ll now have the option to Confirm Outgoing Trust. Do this.



Also Confirm incoming Trust.


Now the trust is done and your able to protect workloads in the other domain.

In the DPM console you attach the servers with their FQDN and your able to protect them


fredag 16 september 2011

Best Of MMS 2011


It’s time again for Best Of MMS in Sweden. It will be in Stockholm at the 25th and 26th of October. I will host the session about DPM 2012, welcome to join me @

http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/bestofmms2011/default.html

fredag 9 september 2011

Change the time for detailed inventory

Every day at 09:00 your DPM server makes a detailed inventory of your library. If you would like to change the time of the occurrence you can easily make the necessary changes in DPM PowerShell.

Set-MaintenanceJobStartTime -DPMServerName "servername" -MaintenanceJob LibraryInventory -StartTime 18:00

torsdag 1 september 2011

DPM 2012 Beta Released

It’s with a great pleasure that the DPM team has released DPM 2012 BETA public; you can download it from here (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27216).

The DPM team has really listened to the customer’s wishes and thoughts regarding new features and made a great new version of DPM, DPM2012.

New features announced in DPM 2012 are:

Centralized console: You can monitor a lot of DPM servers or protected members (don’t know if the number is public so you’ll have to wait) within the same console.
The centralized console is based on SCOM so you must have a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Server Components installation up and running before you can install your centralize console for DPM 2012. You’re also able to install your central console on a W7, Vista or Windows XP SP3 client and manage all your DPM servers. If you are running DPM 2010 you’re also able to monitor those DPM servers within the centralized console during your migration process to DPM20102. One important thing is that you have the KB2465832 installed on your DPM2010 servers.

New UI: The DPM team has made the same UI as the other System Center products, YES!
Certificate Based Protection: You can now backup machines from different domains not trusted to the DPM server, this also includes workgroup machines.

Role Based Access: There are 8 different roles based on the administration take made from the DPM admin side. Your helpdesk staff could be included in one role and your escalation engineers are members in another. You’ll also have the ability to create customized roles.
Tape: Enhancements are made for improved reliability, space optimization and much more…

Sharepoint: You’r now able to restore items without moving the content database.

Hyper-V: Able to perform Item Recovery within a virtual DPM server

DPM DB: You can now host multiple DPM Servers on the same SQL instance

Looking forward to the next Beta release!!

fredag 26 augusti 2011

Event ID 517, backing up system state

One important thing regarding backup of system states is that the local installed feature of WSB is operational. If your WSB is having trouble this will lead to problems with your backup in DPM.

In WSB there’s a global catalogue used by the WSB feature. This could enter a corrupted state and causing the System State backup (and BMR) to fail.

Here’s an example of the event log:
The backup operation that started at '‎2011‎-‎06‎-‎21T10:34:12.022776900Z' has failed with following error code '2155347969' (An operation on the global catalog failed because the catalog is corrupted.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved

To correct this, open the local WSB on the affected server and choose to clear the Global Catalogue in the right action pane.

fredag 19 augusti 2011

Backing up SQL with DPM

Currently there are some questions regarding what is the best practice of backing up SQL databases with DPM 2010. First we must clarify what modes a SQL databases could be in. SQL databases can be in the following recovery models:

• Simple
• Full
• Bulk-full

The thing that differentiates the databases is that the simple database has no transactional log files and can therefore only use the Express-Full backup technique in DPM.

The best practice for SQL server databases is to run a weekly database consistency check (also called DBCC) for avoiding backing up a database with a corruption issues with DPM.

You should not run or use other backup applications on a SQL server that is protected with DPM. This will lead to that DPM will not be able to back up your databases. If you should use DPM to protect your SQL server databases use only DPM, nothing else.

Last but not least verify with the SQL Server administrator that the following task are not scheduled at the same time as the Express-Full backup is running:

• Check database integrity
• History cleanup
• Maintenance cleanup
• Rebuild index
• Reorganize index
• Shrink database
• Update statistics

fredag 1 juli 2011

Vacation

I’m off for my holyday and will be back on the blog the 19th of august.

Have a great summer

fredag 24 juni 2011

Use ESEUTIL.EXE for Exchange 2003 32-bit on DPM 2010

If you are working with Exchange you probably run across a program called ESEUTIL. You can perform many great things with this program. One thing is checking you exchange databases or storage groups for data integrity. This can also be performed by DPM. The benefit of this is that you don’t have to run ESEUTIL on the Exchange Server-side.

But if you’re running a 32-bits version of Exchange 2003 that is protected with DPM 2010 and you want to use ESEUTIL on the DPM server you will run into some trouble. Since the DPM2010 version is a 64-bit server technology you can’t place 32-bit binaries on a DPM 2010 server.

DPM 2010 is a 64-bit server technology that can protect 32-bit server technologies.

But of course there is a solution.

If you download the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management tools at this URL http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=112325 you will be able to use that ESEUTIL version.

fredag 17 juni 2011

Changing the path for System State backups

If you want to designate a server disk for System State backup or just change the path for where the system state backup place its files you can easily achieve this.



First we must just clarify how the system state backup works. For a windows server 2008 you must install WSB or Windows Server Backup Features before you can make a system state backup with DPM. This is because DPM will use WSB’s function and features to make a system state backup and it’s also the only supported way to make backup of a servers system state. The WSB will dump the backup files to the local disk and the DPM agent will then transfer those files to the DPM server.


To change the path where those files will be manage you must edit the PSDataSourceConfig.XML. The file I located in the C:\program files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\Datasources catalogue.







Look for the System Protection part, you’ll see that the default path for system state backup files is C:\windowsImangeBackup. By editing the XML file and change the c:\ to for example X:\ (You’ll need a local drive that has the drive letter X) you will change where the backup files for the system state is placed.






fredag 10 juni 2011

SAN based recovery

In DPM you got a great feature that gives you the possibility to restore data without interrupt your LAN traffic and get great speed in the restoring process. How is this possible? The answer is using SAN based recovery using hardware snapshots.

There are three things you must be aware of.

First: The DPM server and the protected server must be both connected to the same SAN, Or the zoning in the SAN must be configured so the LUN presented to the protected computer and the DPM server is the same.

Second: A SAN where hardware snapshot functionality is enabled

Third: Your SAN must be able to create clones and split a clone to make it writable

fredag 3 juni 2011

Offline VS Online backup of a Hyper-V environment

There are two different techniques DPM uses when it backs up a Hyper-V guest on a host. DPM backs up the guest using a backup using child partition techniques (Online) or backup using saved state (offline).

In the next coming minutes I will try to explain why it differentiates.
Ever seen this, you got a 2008R2 server that gets backed up using saved state? Why, There are VSS’es that are in a stable state running on the virtual machine and all Hyper-V VSS’es looks fine on the host side also.

Let’s try to explain how a backup of a virtual environment works. First you install a DPM agent on the Hyper-V host, that’s the server hosting all the virtual machines. After you have done all necessary configurations in DPM to start protecting your Hyper-V environment you will create the replica. This is where the VSS’es comes in place. The DPM agent on the host will initiate a VSS-Requestor. This will send a VSS request to the virtual machine, the virtual machine will answer to that requests and say what present VSS’s are running within the virtual server.

So, if you are running a Hyper-V server with a server technology that hasn’t any VSS’es that can backup your server technology within the virtual operating system you will end up with a backup that will run only using saved state.

But there’s more.

Online protection is not possible when;
• Backup (Volume Snapshot) Integration Service is not installed or disabled.
• VM has one or more dynamic disks.
• VM has one or more non-NTFS based volumes.
• The VM Cluster Resource Group in a cluster setup is offline.
• VM is not in a running state.
• Shadow storage assignment of a volume inside the VM is explicitly set to a different volume other than itself.

fredag 27 maj 2011

fredag 20 maj 2011

All Volumes

Many peoples get the All Volumes function misunderstood in DPM. During my DPM courses I got a lot of questions regarding this.

When you create or modify a protection group and chooses to include a disk subsystem of a server you got the All Volumes check box. When you mark this check box you will include all the disks that are present to the system at this moment.

If you install a new disk or inserts a USB stick in the protected server this will not automatically be included in the backup that DPM preforms. You must modify the protection group and manually add the new local disk.

fredag 13 maj 2011

Did you install WSB?

I’ve got some questions regarding system state backups. Many people find it confusing managing backup of system states on 2008 and 2008R2 servers.
Many people make a protection group as they should but they will never get a valid recovery point on their DPM server. The DPM server will only use some MB of the allocated Replica and Recovery Point volumes in the DPM storage pool.


The majority of those administrators forget to add the feature WSB or Windows Server Backup Features. On the affected server, add the WSB feature and your backup of the System State will run.










fredag 6 maj 2011

Short Erase

In DPM you’ll have the ability to erase tapes by using the DPM console. Depending on your tape drive this will take a long time to erase. If you want to speed up this process you can enable short-erase by modifying the registry on the DPM server.

If your tape drive supports short erase, you can enable it on the DPM server by creating the DWORD UseShortErase under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent.

Set the value of the DWORD to 00000000.

After this value is set, all erase operations on the DPM server will be short erases. To revert to long erases, remove this registry key.

Important: Though short erase is much faster than long erase, it does not completely erase the data from the tape. If you have a policy that all data from the tape must be erased and unrecoverable, do not enable short erase.

fredag 29 april 2011

A book on DPM 2010

Looking for a great book on DPM 2010, here it is.



Steve Buchanan is the name of the author and he also has a great blog.

It’s been fun helping Steve with the book and I’m very happy for him that it’s published. Keep up the good work

fredag 8 april 2011

Co-Location of data on Tape

A nice feature that was already present in DPM2007 was the ability to co-locate data on tape. The simple definition of this is to put more than one protection groups members on the same tape. The utilization of tapes in DPM is in many administrators opinion high since DPM will allocate two or more tapes for a protection group. Other backup software uses the same tape and compress, append and do a lot of neat things to fit that data on to the tape. As far as I can see and understand DPM keeps it more simple, and you know what, that’s a good thing. Since DPM can use a lot of tapes if you have a larger environment it could be a good thing enabling co-location of data on tape. This is also useful if you having a lot of small protection groups.

There are some restrictions:
1. You cannot apply co-location selectively. If enabled, it applies to all protection groups.
2. Only protection groups with the same retention period can be co-located on the same tape.
3. Encrypted and non-encrypted datasets cannot be co-located on the same tape.
4. Datasets from different vaults cannot be co-located on the same tape.

If you fine with that open the DPM PowerShell and type: Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DPMServerName -OptimizeTapeUsage $True

tisdag 1 mars 2011

Parental leave

On February 7 I became a father again and will be father vacant until April 4

fredag 11 februari 2011

KB2465832 will soon be here

Noticed in the forum, Microsoft will release a new QFE (KB 2465832) during next month.

In this QFE Microsoft will perhaps address some circular/cyclic protection for you who has problem with VSS in those environments.

Be on the lookout for the release date!

fredag 4 februari 2011

How to get started with End-User Recovery or EUR

A great feature that comes more or less out of the box is the End-User Recovery feature or EUR. The EUR function gives the domain users the possibility to recover files or folder without contacting the IT department. Good in some scenarios and perhaps needs to get better for other scenarios. Though this is a appreciated feature for many companies IT-Departments when they administrating a few 100 or less domain users.

There are some important considering’s you must have in mind before you enable EUR.


  1. When enabling the EUR function you will modify your Active Directory schema. Inform the Active Directory administrator.
  2. If you enable EUR you can't control on what file servers EUR should operate.
  3. Another downside is that you can’t control which security groups or domain users that should be able to perform the action or not.

If you’re confident knowing this and you still wants to enable the EUR function there are some prerequisites on the client-side that you should have in mind. If your clients in the domain runs on W7 or Vista SP1, the Shadow Copy Client Software is already installed in the operating system. EUR is supported on XP SP2 but you need to install or deploy the Shadow Copy Client Software to those computers.

There are two ways of enabling the EUR, from the DPM console or manually. Let’s have a look on both.

If you go to your console / protection you will see on the left side the link option, click on the link


Now you’ll see the Options window. Go to the End-user Recovery tab. Click on the button Configure Active Directory. You will now see a windows posting that you’ll need to enter credentials for updating the Active Directory Schema.




Enter your credentials and click ok. You’ll now be prompted with a question that want you to verify that it’s ok to update the Active Directory Schema.

If you want to continue press the Yes button. An informational window appears that says it could take some time updating the Active Directory Schema, press ok.



If the updated succeeded, a window pops up and gives you that information. Some users can now get an error message that states that a communication error between the DPM server and the domain controllers. Verify your firewall configurations.



If you want to update the Active Directory Schema manually go to the Domain Controller that has the Schema Master role for the domain. The application you need to update the Active Directory Schema is located on the DPM server at the path %programfiles%\Microsoft DPM\DPM\End User Recovery. In that catalogue you will find the application DPMADSchemaExtension. Copy that to the domain controller and run the application as an administrator.


You will get a couple of questions that you need to answer so the application can update the Active Directory Schema correctly.



Type in the name for the DPM server, not the FQDN.



Enter your domain name.



If the DPM server and file servers is situated in the same domain you don’t need to enter any thing here, just click the OK button.



An informational window appears that says it could take some time updating the Active Directory Schema, press ok.



You will now get a message that the update of the Active Directory went ok.



Go back now to the DPM console. Now you‘ll be able to mark the check box to enable end-user recovery.



You’ll receive this informational message.


Sync the file server workloads and your EUR function is ready to use.

måndag 24 januari 2011

Communication between DPM server and agent

Recently I received several questions regarding what TCP and UDP ports and protocols DPM uses. Here’s a list of the ports and protocols used:









SERVICE PORT PROTOCOL
DCOM 135 TCP (Dynamic)
TCP 5718, 5719 TCP
DNS 53 UDP
Kerberos 88 TCP
LDAP 389 TCP, UDP
NetBIOS 137, 138 UDP
 139, 445 TCP


Note that the ports 5718 and 5719 are DPM specific. 5718 is used for the agent coordinator and 5719 for the agent.

fredag 14 januari 2011

DPM agent installation on a DC or RODC

For various unknown reason the installation of a DPM agent will fail or not connect to the DPM server when you have installed or trying to install the DPM agent on a domain controller.

My friend Mike has wrote a blog post regarding how to solve this, check out this great article by Mike

söndag 2 januari 2011

MVP Award


I’m very proud to announce that the first of January 2011 I received my MVP award for Data Protection Manager.

I’m very grateful for this award. Due to this I would like to write some words to thank those people that believed, and still believe in me and my work.

First I would like to say thank you to my wife Hanna, your support has always been great. Thank you for your patience and understanding when your husband is spending half the nights in front of the laptop.

I would also like to say thank you to my employer Office IT-Partner Borås and my colleges with special thanks to Mr. Per Bidemyr, Mr. Jesper Neuman, Mr. Martin Westberg and Mr. Jörgen Andersson.

There are also some other fantastic peoples around the globe that I would like to say thanks to. First of is the gang at Microsoft starting with Mr. Jonny Andersson, Mr. Mikael Nederman, Mr. Anders Bengtsson and Mr. Michael Jacquet.

Last but not least a warm thank you to Mr. Mike Resseler, MVP for Data Protection Manager.

See you out there in the DPM world!

Best Regards
Robert Hedblom