System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta

The key DPM 2012 features that will be available in the beta are below: 

Centralized Management (Built on the Ops Manager platform) 

· Centralized Monitoring and Troubleshooting              
· Remote Administration
· Remote Recovery
· Push To Resume Backups
· Role Based Access

Continued Best of Breed Application Support

· SharePoint Item Level recovery without restoring Content DB
· SQL FILESTREAM support
· SharePoint RBS support
· Hyper-V Item Level Restore from a DPM running in a VM
· Faster protection of VMs on stand-alone Hyper-V servers.

Fresh DPM 2012 Console User Interface

Data Source Extensibility Framework

Certificate Based Protection of non-AD machines

· File Server
· SQL Servers
· Hyper-V servers
· Clustered Data sources
· Secondary DPM servers.

Tape Enhancements:

· Enhanced Granular Media Co-Location
· Tape Reliability Enhancements

Multiple DPM DB databases share a single remote SQL Instance

Upgrade support from DPM 2010



You can download the DPM 2012 Beta here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27216

You can also download the DPM 2010 Interoperability Patch hotfix via this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581742

For all the latest news regarding DPM 2012 and the beta please see the System Center Data Protection Manager blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/