DPM on Server 2008 with Windows Firewall
March 25th, 2009
No matter what the MS documentatation states with regards to DPM agent installer automatically setting firewall rules I had no luck with a remote install on a firewall enabled server.
The workaround is remarkably simple.
1. Disable the firewall on target server
2. Deploy the agent and reboot
3. On the target server in an administrator’s command prompt run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin\SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName <servername>
4. Re-enable the firewall on the target server