you could always go with windows 2008 SP2



On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:20 PM, tremblyj
<networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got off the phone with our support contractor.  They just got off
> the phone with EMC.  They were told support for Windows 2008 R2 is not
> official until the release of v7.5.2 which won't be until at least Q2 of
> 2010.
>
> Also v7.6 does not support Windows 2008 R2.  It also needs the patch for
> the issue with the System Reserved Partition not being assigned a drive
> letter when Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7 is installed.  EMC would not say
> when that patch is coming out though...
>
> As a result, we will install Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - 64 bit and Networker
> v7.5.1 - x64 on our new backup server.
>
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