What else do I need to do to protect my SharePoint 2010 Server

I got hit with this problem when I was trying to create a Protection Group in DPM to protect our SharePoint 2010 server in our R&D lab. I have already did the necessary pre-requisites on the SharePoint server such as:

• ConfigureSharepoint.exe –enableSharepointProtection
  
• ConfigureSharepoint.exe EnableSPSearchProtection
  

However I still got hit with the error of not meeting the pre-requisites when I tried to create a new protection group for SharePoint

I went over to the SharePoint Server and noticed that DPM agent could not find the registry key that denotes the SharePoint version:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Share Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\Version

I immediately go to the Regedit and yes indeed that the registry key value is not there. I manually added a new String Value and named it as Version and give the value as 14.0.0.4762.

Go back to DPM console and Voila ! it works !!!

DPM 2010 Beta is available

It has been announced that System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) Beta is available for download.

Overview of this exciting product is available in the product site
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/2010beta-overview.aspx

Within this link, you can also download and try it out at:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9686964

My immediate interest is to see how DPM2010 provides backup/restore of Hyper-V R2 virtual machines that runs on Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) ...