Removing orphaned/old Agents from DPM Management View

Just a quick tip - we're preparing our upgrades to DPM 2012 and have decided it's about time we cleaned up some bits and pieces in DPM.

One of the "to clear up" items was to remove old no-longer-in-use Protected Computers from the Agents List in Management - for various reasons we'd ended up with some machines who still show up despite being long since removed and thrown away.

There's no way to do this from the main UI, but with a quick bit of DPM powershell you can nuke those old systems...

Run this script:

Remove-ProductionServer.ps1 -DPMServerName DPMSERVERNAMEHERE -PSName SERVERNAMEHERE

NOTE: You'll generally need to do "SERVERNAME.fullyqualified.com" if it is a domain joined server.

Once you've closed/reopened the UI you'll have a much tidier list :-)