Data Protection Manager - Supported Operating Systems
The following is a comprehensive list of operating systems that are supported as protected machines and/or meet the requirements to run System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007.
Important: DPM supports 32-bit and x64-bit operating systems. DPM does not support ia64-bit operating systems.
Wndows 2008 versions require pre-installation of KB950082
Hotfix for Windows Server 2008 support in DPM 2007
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contact Microsoft to receive this hotfix
https://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?RDPATH=dm;en-us;select&target=assistance&c1=509
Overviews of Windows editions are available at the following sites.
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/editions-overview.aspx
Windows Server 2008
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/default.mspx
Windows Vista
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/evaluate/features/compare.mspx
Windows Server 2003
Authors:
Thomas O'Malley
Christopher Allen
Support Escalation Engineers
Microsoft Corporation