Category: Windows Server 2008

Yesterday I started  installing DPM (System Center Data Protection Manager)  2010 on some test servers. My setup is a server acting as a domaincontroller with SQL server and another server acting as the DPM server. Some information I found on Internet states that DPM could not be installed on the following servers.

• Domain Controller
• System Center Operations Manager
• Exchange Server

Also I found that “Cluster Services” must not be installed on the DPM server.
In the final stage of the installation a got the following error.

The Data Protection Manager error logs says:
“[7/27/2010 4:44:44 PM] Information : Add user: *****\SA_DPM to local group: DPMDBAdministrators$DPM on server: *****
[7/27/2010 4:44:45 PM] Information : Adding local group DPMDBReaders$DPM on server *****
[7/27/2010 4:44:45 PM] Information : Deleting local group DPMDBReaders$DPM on server *****
[7/27/2010 4:44:45 PM] * Exception : Ignoring the following exception intentionally => An error occurred while trying to configure DPM.Uninstall DPM by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel, and then run DPM Setup again.Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Setup.Exceptions.BackEndErrorException: Exception of type ‘Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Setup.Exceptions.BackEndErrorException’ was thrown.
at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Setup.Wizard.SecurityConfigurationHandler.DeleteLocalGroup(String serverName, String localGroupName)
at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Setup.Wizard.SecurityConfigurationHandler.AddLocalGroup(String serverName, String localGroupName)
*** Mojito error was: DpmSetupConfigurationError; 2220; WindowsAPI”

It tries to add the domainaccount used for the installation to a “local group” on the server where the SQL server instance is located, huh… 😉
In my testsetup the domaincontroller also has the “remote” SQL server role, and localgroups does not exists anymore on that server. 🙂

That’s probably the reason I get this error. I will try some other configuration and update this post with the results. 🙂

–UPDATE–

I used the option to install SQL Server with DPM and the install finished properly.
I want to test the option with the remote SQL Server instance to. Keep you posted.