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The Microsoft application agent enables onboarding existing stand-alone deployments, including their existing backups, to Data Manager. Existing backups are Microsoft application agent backups that are performed before integrating the Microsoft application agent with the Data Manager software and added as an asset to a Data Manager protection policy.
With the onboarding capability, Data Manager provides the following centralized features:
Notes:
• Onboarding is not supported for DD Boost-over-FC backups and 32-bit FCI instance backups.