New features
New features in Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition 8.8.1:
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
This release can be installed on computers running Windows Server 2016, and you can use domain controllers running Windows Server 2016 for backup and restore operations. - Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory now offers support for SQL Server 2016. - Support for the Protected Users security group in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher.
- Support for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 R2 and 2016 environments
From this release, the Active Directory Virtual Lab can create virtual machines using SCVMM version 2012 R2 and 2016.Forest Recovery Console improvements:
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The Verify Settings operation can be performed for selected domain controllers.
- Forest Recovery Project credentials can be stored at the domain level.
Resolved issues
The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.
Table 1: General resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Expired unpacked backups are not removed from the local drive. In this case, the local drive may run out of space. | 125942237 |
| RMAD cannot install SQL Server Reporting Services reports. | 126069993 |
| Unable to import a list of backups if it was exported on a machine in a different time zone. | 126617145 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory console crashes while setting up the agent access account in the collection properties. | 128568735 |
| Unable to perform the backup operation using the least-privileged user account. | 125942213 |
| RMAD console may crash or malfunction while trying to load the delayed ErdWizards.dll. | 127278559 |
| RMAD does not support AD LDS (ADAM) instances hosted on non default ports. | 117631237 |
| Unable to exclude some domain controllers from Backup. | 131707417 |
| The Recovery Manager for Active Directory console opens slowly if there is a large amount of registered backups (10000+). | 133953745 |
| The Set-RMADCollection cmdlet reverts the Computer Collection settings to their previous state. | 117239979 |
| The time that is required to back up a domain controller is increased. | 134585919 |
| You may get the Microsoft Managements Console error while opening Recovery Manager for Active Directory and clicking on the Backup Agent Management node. | 132810445 |
| The Recovery Manager for Active Directory console cannot be started under different user accounts (for example, using the ShellRunAs utility). | 128311093 |
Table 2: Forest Recovery Console and Forest Recovery Agent resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Forest-wide FSMO roles are seized if recovering only the child domain. | 125111311 |
| The Update Project Wizard dialog cannot save some properties if the originally used domain controller was removed from the forest. | 123414281 |
| The forest recovery process may hang: a user cannot abort the process. | 128311177 |
| The update of the Forest Recovery Agent may fail if the agent service is stopped before performing the update. | 129147597 |
| The Forest Recovery Console does not use DSRM credentials correctly on the "Get information about domain controller" verification step. | 109440468 |
| The "Reinstall Active Directory" operation does not work for read-only domain controllers that are running Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2. | 132745583 |
| Forest Recovery project may fail when two or more domains have been excluded. | 132567829 |
| Configuration of SYSVOL replication is detected incorrectly during the recovery process. | 126478667 |
| The forest recovery operation may fail on the "Adjust to Active Directory changes" recovery method when more than one domain is excluded from the recovery process. | 132197065 |
| The Forest Recovery Console cannot find read-only domain controllers in a branch site. | 132653231 |
| If the Forest Recovery Agent is already installed on a domain controller, the "Verify Settings" operation succeeds even with the wrong Domain Controller Access credentials. | 133180579 |
| The "Ensure that domain controller isolation is disabled" step may fail on domain controllers with the German version of Microsoft Windows. | 134383223 |
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