Performing General Maintenance on Servers Running Windows SharePoint Services

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

General maintenance includes tasks such as disk and file maintenance, updating operating systems and applications, and protecting data by using antivirus software and performing regular backups. Some special considerations apply when you are performing server maintenance on computers running Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint Services that are protected by System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM).

When you need to perform maintenance on a protected server and do not want protection jobs to continue for the duration of the maintenance, you can disable the protection agent.

To disable a protection agent

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.

  2. On the Agents tab, in the display pane, select the name of the computer with the protection agent you want to disable.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Disable protection agent.

  4. In the dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to proceed.

In This Section

Using Windows Maintenance Tools on Windows SharePoint Services Servers

Performing Windows SharePoint Services Maintenance Tasks

Applying Operating System Updates on Windows SharePoint Services Servers

Running Antivirus Software on Windows SharePoint Services Servers