The long awaited final service pack (SP4) for Recovery Solution 6.2 has been released today, February 1, 2011! You can read the Release Notes here: DOC3495. Some highlights and new features:
One interesting note I gathered was the following:
■ Upgrade from 6.2 SP4 to 7.0 SP1 is not supported.
Not sure that this point what the upgrade path is then for those of us planning to migrate to SMP7 in the future; perhaps another hotfix to allow for the upgrade?
The next question on my mind is "what does this mean for support lifecycle"? Well have a look at the RS End-of-Life Statement article (HOWTO21450), the support timelines have been extended as follows:
Engineering Support (meaning additoinal programming could be done for a hotfix)
o Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP4 – until 12/31/2011
o Recovery Solution for Clients 7.0 SP1 – until 1/2/2012
Technical Support (general support for problems, not requiring a hotfix/coding)
o Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP4 – until 11/26/2012
o Recovery Solution for Clients 7.0 SP1 – until 7/2/2013
I haven't had a chance to install SP4 yet on my Dev server, but when I do I'll post back with my findings!
One more question.
Have you earlier run Recovery Server uninstall on this computer? Have you removed and recreated any Cluster on your NS?
Seems to be staying loaded now. Was very odd.
Upgraded using solution center, went from 6.9 SP3, I re-installed using the setup files, and so far so good. I was able to FSR a Windows 7 system. I am howver having trouble with two of my XP systems doing an FSR, am about to try a 3rd.
Hi,
Did you have clean install of the RS server or upgrade?
Thank you,
Andrew.
I have installed 6.9 SP4 in my lab envorinment. Now it seems my Server install keeps randomly uninstalling. Anyone else experiencing this?
Mayed,
Your best bet would probably be to just stand up a new NS by running Altiris_NS_6_0.exe from http://www.solutionsam.com/Solutions/6_0/ then adding RS once NS is installed from Solution Center (or manually download from SS too here; note you'll have to run that on your NS). You can use your existing production RS licenses.
Hi Rene,
According to the release notes, RS 6.2 SP4 can be download from http://www.altiris.com/Download.aspx however I only see the option to download SP3 and RS 7.
Is there another location to download this from? I need to get this tested ASAP as we are currently deploying Windows 7.
Thanks
Majed,
Broadcom Corp.
Thanks Rene, I checked again later on in the day and you are correct (though the date at the bottom of the file still shows August 24th...so maybe it should be re-published once more...)
Hi Kyle,
EOL KB (HOWTO2145) was updated with the information on the SP4 supportability dates.
Rene