Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

Option 2 – installing the agent manually

You can perform a manual installation in two different ways:

• By providing the FQDN of the DPM server when running the DpmAgentInstaller executable
• By providing the NetBIOS name of the DPM server using setdpmserver.exe if the DPM agent is already installed but not configured

Now follow these steps:

1. On the computer that you want to protect, open an elevated command window, and then run net use Z: \\<DPMServerName>\d$, where Z is the local drive letter that you want to assign and <DPMServerName> is the name of the DPM server that will protect the computer. d$ is where DPM software is installed.
2. For a 64-bit computer, type the following:

cd /d <assigned drive letter>:\Program Files\Microsoft System ...