To follow up on my previous post ... after sitting for about a week on our reverted SP3 installation, I made the jump to 2014 as an upgrade on top of 2012 (not as a fresh install).
So far 2014 has been pretty smooth. It was able to "update" most of ...
FWIW for anyone else going through this, ahem, inconvenience - this solution worked word-for-word.
I installed SP4 and the Hotfix that came thereafter.
Our primary job workflow is a primary backup to a NAS that duplicates the backup set to a second...