DPM 2007 SP1 -- Licensing

So, you've heard about System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and all of the cool stuff that it does for protecting Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Virtualization, File Servers and desktops.

Now, let's get nerdy for a few minutes and talk about the licensing specifics of what agents and modules that you'll need in order to successfully deploy DPM2007 - including:

  
• differences between DPML's
  
• the new client license for XP/Vista
  
• approximate street pricing of components
  
• what is special about DPML's in virtualized environments or SharePoint farms
  
• the System Recovery Tool (SRT) for bare metal recovery
  
• why the System Center SMSE rocks

Customers can find out more about DPM at www.microsoft.com/DPM
Partners can get regional information on licensing specifics at partner.microsoft.com/global/licensing