support for windows 7 and windows 208 R2

[giorgiobusoni]

I have migrated a virtual machine using windows 2008 and BESR 8.5 to winodws 2008 R2 and BESR doesn't work anymore, i checked the forum and i found out that windows 7 is actually not supported, and then i think 2008 r2 isn't too. When are windows 7 and 2008 r2 going to be supported? is there a release ay of the new version/patch?

[criley]

They will both be supported with the next version of BESR which is being released very soon. As far as I know, there will be no support included in 8.5.

[Dan_Davis_2]

No offense intended, but I use that on my supervisors...'soon, real soon'.  Except, that my 'soon' is generally a matter of a few days.  In AT&T's case regarding MMS support, it was months.

Can you 'roughly' quantify your 'soon'?  Being a Volume License customer of Microsoft, we were allowed to begin deploying Win7 in August.  We've only deployed to a handful of desktops, but that puts those systems in disaster's path without our safe-t net.  I do desire a quality product over a rushed sack of bugs.

Thnx,
-Dan

[AJT]

It's coming soon :)

[criley]

Dan Davis 2:

No offence taken. BESR 2010 ships on 2nd November.

[Andreas_Horlach]

Dan -

BESR 2010 has been officially released and is available for download. If you have any questions about it, there is a PDF user's manual inside the install package.

[vpa]

Trial version can be downloaded, it's true, but we have no keys to upgrade for our full versions and new link to FileConnect.

[criley]

vpa,

Please contact customer care for issues with licensing/FileConnect:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/assistance_information.jsp

[ashton_har]

It seems strange that Symantec doesn't grant automatically an upgrade license from 8.5 to 2010 (while they did from 8.0 to 8.5)

[ioniancat21]

I think Symantec's take on BESR 2010 is that it's a full version upgrade, rather than an update like it was going from 8.0 to 8.5. I guess the sad reality is that there should have been two upgrades; one for v8.5 to address compatibility with Windows 7 and Server R2 only, then offer the 2010 version as a separate second upgrade option as this version includes the Granular Restore option, which is an add-on with v8.5.

On the bright side, hopefully individuals who purchased a license for 8.5 recently will get the upgrade for free. Now, what Symantec regards a "recently purchased" is the question. I'd say in fairness, a range of up to 3 months before the release date of BESR 2010 sounds about right in my opinion.