That said, if you consider moving to something like CA ARCserve (which I cannot wait to see the back of in our data centre!), they also don't support Windows 7.Win7, much like BE's Remote COnsole, is only supported for the ARCserve Manager Console.check their SCL below. Could be security could be the additional connectivity offered (I know an EVA for instance won't connect to Windows 7!) could be the amount of resources that can possibly be made available to a server. Like teiva said, Windows 7 isn't an enterprise/server product, and backup software companies obviously develop their products for a server market for a reason.

Your backups would end up running at a time when there is minimal user interaction so this wouldn't affect server performance too much. I agree, to a point, of having a separate server to run your backups, but if you can't do that, have the correct solution in place and run BE on a server that is a file/Exchange/SQL/Lotus Notes/etc server. The other thing is this: with Windows 7 as a standard as a desktop solution, are you still using servers running Windows Server x? If so, why not simply install BE on that. What's very interesting is that you mention you need an 圆4-bit OS to back up Exchange 2010.quite right, but if you have Exchange 2010 in your environment (be it physical or VM), then I reckon it won't cost too much to buy a properly licensed Backup Exec 2010 R3. I would appreciate an honest answer on this and a guarantee if this is going to be supported in 2012 or with an update to 2010. I know that we are not the only customer that wants and needs this. If Symantec will not support running this on Windows 7 we will have to have our customers, 32, that currently use Backup Exec migrate to another program that will support running on this platform.

We cannot have them buy another license for server or a license for a virtual machine that they cannot afford. And now with not being able to get Windows XP 64bit we need an affordable solution for them. The reason that I ask, and many will need to know, is you MUST have a 64bit OS to backup a newer Exchange server if it is running 64bit. It does work in Server 2008 though, which is not too different than Win 7 right?

Now when 2010 came out it is not supported per the white paper. In a previous thread a technical support agent replied when asking about this in 12.5 and said 'Windows 7 Support is scheduled to be part of BE 2010 (which is due for release soon) There are currently no plans to provide support for BEWS 12.5.' Now that Win 7 is the standard we tried to install on that and as you know fails. We like to have our customers use a separate box for the running of Backup Exec.

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