We are excited to announce that both Backup Exec 2010 R3 SP3 and Backup Exec 2012 SP2 will be going gold! We have reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone for both the service packs.
The final release will be available in the form of Technotes in a week’s time.
With a targeted release date of July, the Service Packs will bring support for
- Backup Exec 2012 SP2
- Protection of Windows Server 2012 servers using the Agent for Windows.
- Updated protection of SQL to include:
- Protection of Exchange 2013 (Non-GRT only)
- Protection of SharePoint Server 2013 (Non-GRT only)
- Support for VMware vSphere 5.1
- Backup Exec 2010 SP3
- Protection of Windows Server 2012 servers using the Agent for Windows.
- Updated protection of SQL to include:
- Support for Exchange 2010 SP3 (pending final release from Microsoft)
- Support for VMware vSphere 5.1
But the service packs are more than that. Engineering & Product Management are reacting to what we have heard from our users over the past several months. Overall, there are 100 fixes in 2012 SP2 & 2010 SP3 with key focus on the core product, Exchange, Oracle and Deduplication.
| 2012 SP2 | 2010 SP3 | |||
| Category | Fixes | Category | Fixes | |
| AVVI | 3 | Core | 7 | |
| Catalog | 1 | Dedupe | 7 | |
| Core | 22 | Exchange | 7 | |
| Exchange | 15 | Hardware | 1 | |
| Install | 1 | NDMP | 3 | |
| LiveUpdate | 1 | Sharepoint | 4 | |
| Media | 5 | SQL | 1 | |
| NDMP | 4 | Total | 30 | |
| Oracle | 7 | |||
| RALUS | 1 | |||
| Reports | 1 | |||
| Retention | 1 | |||
| SDR | 1 | |||
| Sharepoint | 5 | |||
| SQL | 1 | |||
| Upgrade | 5 | |||
| Total | 74 | |||