Hi again Cyndi,

Sorry, my mistake. 7.6 does NOT support Windows2008 R2, so you will need to go either for 7.5.3 or 7.6.1

Thank you.

Best regards,

Calros.

Thanks Carlos.

But our Domain Admins do not want to monkey with the domain controllers, stating that it is not recommended by MS...

It seems like NW 7.5.2 works with Win2008 R2, but not NW 7.6 Build 142..., but I really do not want to downgrade my installation!

Does anyone have any idea when a NEW version of NW that properly supports Win2008 R2 will be out?

Thanks all.

Cyndi

I see 7.6.1 is now available. I will try that. Last I checked was just before it was released (late September).

Thanks,

Cyndi

Hi there Cyndi,

I would suggest you to take a lok at these previous discussions:

https://community.emc.com/message/478224#478224

and

https://community.emc.com/message/490079#490079

Seems like the unassigned partition is the cause of that error, isn't it?

Thank you.

Carlos.

Cyndi Smith wrote: It seems like NW 7.5.2 works with Win2008 R2, but not NW 7.6 Build 142..., but I really do not want to downgrade my installation!

For some reason people still see this as downgrade (on client side), but it is not.  What EMC is doing is a bit confusing approach if you do not fanatically follow what is going on, but let's just say that each SP brings new features and these features might be or not be part of different code trees.

For example, old and now out of support tree was 7.4.x tree.

Then you have: 7.5.x and 7.6.x.  7.5SP2 brought support for win2k8r2 (backup), SP3 brought few new things in other areas and SP4 is under beta now also contributing some at least one new feature.

Version 7.6.0 brought few new things in VCB area (and some others), SP1 has been focussed on DD while SP2 is VADP (and recently this has been extended for additional testing to commit 2 new features).

So it all comes down to feature set you need - sometimes this is client side based and sometimes this is server side based.  What is important is to keep in mind date when release was made.  This gives you an idea about relationships.   For example (I will focus on GA releases only):

- 7.4.4 - 12.12.2008

- 7.4.5 - 30.09.2009

- 7.5.0 - 22.05.2008

- 7.5.1 - 30.03.2009

- 7.5.2 - 22.02.2010

- 7.5.3 - 14.06.2010

- 7.6.0 - 20.11.2009

- 7.6.1 - 24.09.2010

Would going from 7.5.1 to 7.4.5 be an downgrade?  Not at all

Obviously, each version above has its own feature set and sub releases (patches released once per month).  So 7.5.1 ended with 7.5.1.10, 7.5.2 with 7.5.2.4, etc.  Relying on number of release only and think in terms what is old and what is new might (and will) lead to wrong decisions and most likely installing code with less stability in it.  My rule of thumb is not to install NW core client before it has reached at minimum X.Y.Z.3 release.  As for feature set, I go lowest as I can -  at the moment that would be 7.5.x tree.  My upgrade from 7.4.x went to 7.5.2.4 as that was the version I did tests with.  Now, I moved to latest release within 7.5.x which is 7.5.3.3 and only because I had to address issue with nsrjobdb (still remains to be seen if this is fixed or not).