Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Martin Janosik
I'm also a bit nervous and curoius at the same time about discontinued functions, namely: Online system state restores - You can no longer restore the system state on a system that is online. Instead, use the Automated System Recovery (ASR) based recovery method to restore the system state in offli

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Bjoern Rackoll
Is there any list of discontinued functions for the server? I found that list only for the client... For us, a real show-stopper is the discontinued support for Windows 7. This OS is still widely used here, and we don't officially support newer versions of Windows for the client for privacy reason

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, The new support matrix is a BIG joke Dropping support for Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2! Bye Rainer Tammer On 12.12.2016 16:18, Martin Janosik wrote: > I'm also a bit nervous and curoius at the same time about discontinued > functions, namely: > Online system state restores - Y

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
No more systemstate restore is just bad. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Rainer Tammer wrote: > Hello, > The new support matrix is a BIG joke > Dropping support for Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2! > > Bye > Rainer Tammer > > On 12.12.2016 16:18, Martin Janosik wrote: > > I'm also a b

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Shawn Drew
This just means it is not supported in 8.1. Microsoft isn't releasing anything new on these OSes either and TSM 7.1 (with xp and 2008 support) will still be around for quite a while. I remember carrying around win2003 for a long long time on TSM 6.3 (which is still supported by the way) -Shawn

Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions

2016-12-12 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Martin, It's true IBM Spectrum Protect did support online system state restores before, but it is against Microsoft's best practices to support it. IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1 is more strictly enforcing the documented best practices from Microsoft for system state restores. IBM did not drop th