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Set up client auto deployment

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager

In large environments with many client computers you can automate the deployment and protection of laptop computers using the client auto-deployment management pack

Prerequisites

You’ll need the following:

  1. One or more DPM servers

  2. An Operations Manager server

  3. A Configuration Manager server

  4. The ClientAD.msi file to set up the management pack.

Deployment steps

Set up DPM client auto deployment as follows:

  1. Install the ClientAD.msi on the Operations Manager server

  2. Configure the Operations Manager server —Specify the domains that contain client computers you want to protect with DPM, and configure exclusions for client computers that you don’t want to protect in these domains. Then configure protection groups.

  3. Import the management pack on the Operations Manager server—After configuring settings you’ll need to import the management pack in order to use it. For more information see How to import a management pack.

  4. Set up the DPM server—On the DPM server, install the Operations Manager agent. In addition you might need also need to add more disks and storage for the protection groups. For more information see Process Manual Agent Installations and Configure storage pools and disk storage.

  5. Add the DPM server —On the Operations Manager server, include the DPM server for auto-deployment.

  6. Set up Configuration Manager —Set up Configuration Manager so that it installs the DPM protection agent on client computers.

Configure the Operations Manager server

Specify the domains

  1. Open the file DomainsForAutoDeployment.txt from \Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Auto Deployment\Config on the System Center Operations Manager server.

  2. Add new line separated entries for the domains from which you want to protect laptop computers.

    Wildcard characters are supported. For example. client*.corp.contoso.com includes protection of all clients whose name starts with word ‘client’ in the domain corp.contoso.com

Configure exclusions

  1. Open the file Exclusions.txt from \Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Auto Deployment\Config on the System Center Operations Manager server.

  2. Add new line separated client system FQDNs for clients which you don’t want to perform auto protection.

    Wildcard characters are supported. For example. client*.corp.contoso.com excludes protection of all clients whose name starts with word ‘client’ in the domain corp.contoso.com

Configure protection groups

  1. Open the file ClientPGSettings.xml from \Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Auto Deployment\Config on the System Center Operations Manager server. This file has the default settings with which a protection group is created.

  2. Edit the details here such as per laptop size, and so on, to set new settings.

    All protection groups created for all DPM servers involved in auto protection will use these configuration settings.

Add the DPM server

  1. On the System Center Operations Manager console, go to the Monitoring view, expand DPM Client Auto Deployment, and then select Auto deployment DPM server state.

  2. On the main pane, select the DPM server you want to include. On the Actions pane, click Include DPM for auto deployment.

    You can also select Exclude DPM for auto deployment to remove a DPM server.

Set up Configuration Manager

  1. Download the System Center Configuration Manager integration program.

  2. Open an elevated command prompt and run the following command: SCCMClientAD.exe –s <Time of daily run><Day of global run><Share path><Configuration Manager site code>.