Easy - tell the Windows Engineers to upgrade the O/S to W2K8-R2 on all the servers they installed TSM 6.4 on!
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 11:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Clients and Non-Supported OS Levels Well, now I have the user/administrator asking if they can/should upgrade the 6.4.0.0 client (and how-high)? Can't really back down since this server has 21TB / 26M objects in backup. It would require starting all over from scratch. Of course, since 6.4.0.1 now detects the OS level and prevents it from being installed on W2K3 boxes, I am guessing they are stuck! On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Prather, Wanda <wanda.prat...@icfi.com>wrote: > I agree it shouldn't be that way. > Anybody ever put in an RFE for that? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Zoltan Forray > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 9:34 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Clients and Non-Supported OS Levels > > This is mostly a gripe at IBM.......... > > Why do the Windows clients allow themselves to be installed on > non-supported OS/levels? or at least issue warnings? > > My Windows folks (yes, they are being lazy and not reading all the > readme/docs), are constantly installing miss-matched/not supported > clients (i.e. 6.4 on W2K3 servers, which is not supported per > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133). Then of > course, they can not be downleveled. > > When someone contacts me about issues with their client/backups and I > say "not supported combination of OS and TSM client level", their response > is, " > *then why did it let me install it if it isn't supported on this OS*" > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations > will never use email to request that you reply with your password, > social security number or confidential personal information. For more > details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
