Specifications

Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Exchange 2013
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The Exchange 2013 Management Pack provides simple but powerful views that makes it easy and fast to
determine if your organization is healthy. However, the views are also robust and structured in a way to
quickly guide you to the root of the problem, should an alert be triggered.
Best Practices and Recommendations
If the Exchange administrator does not want to install the full Operations Manager console on a
local machine or if IT is not comfortable providing that level of access, the Operations Manager
web console is a good option (Figure 60). The web console can be accessed through a browser and
offers near-parity with the full console. This allows the Exchange administrator to access key
information, alerts, dashboards, and views focused on specific areas (such as Exchange 2013).
Figure 60: Web console for Operations Manager
Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager (DPM) has been part of the System Center family since the 2006 version was
launched, and since then, it has continued to evolve with more enhanced capabilities around backup and
workload protection. With the 2012 SP1 release, there have been further incremental improvements in
DPM that make it an excellent companion for Hyper-V, offering granular, efficient protection of virtual
machines and key Microsoft workloads like Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint (Figure 61).