Release Notes
These release notes provide information about the Quest® Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition 10.2 release.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory enables fast, online recovery. Comparison reports highlight what objects and attributes have been changed and deleted in Active Directory enabling efficient, focused recovery at the object or attribute level. Accurate backups and a quicker recovery enable you to reduce the time and costs associated with AD outages and reduce the impact on users throughout your organization.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory is based on patented technology.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 is a release with new features and functionality. See New Features and Enhancements.
This section covers new features and enhancements in Quest® Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2.
The following new features are only available with a Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition license. To purchase a new license please send an email to sales@quest.com, or contact your local sales office.
Secure Storage Server
Recovery Manager for Active Directory now has the ability to harden a server and securely store backups on it for use in a disaster recovery scenario.
Microsoft® Azure Virtual Machine Creation
Recovery Manager for Active Directory now supports the creation of Microsoft® Azure resources including virtual machines during a Forest Recovery.
| Enhancement | ID (old) | ID (new) |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 | ||
| Rename system state backups to Active Directory backups | RMADFE-3009 | ADO-218405 |
| Hide the "Components" tab in computer collection settings | RMADFE-3042 | ADO-218415 |
| SCOM 2019 support | N\A | ADO-219783 |
| Pass through Synchronize across time zones from windows task scheduler to RMAD | RMADFE-952 | ADO-220703 |
| Create Logs Daily to be on by default | N\A | ADO-223980 |
| Display operating system version for all backups | N\A | ADO-228741 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 | ||
| Support LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) to encrypt Active Directory connection for online restore of backups. This includes full support for both agent-based and agentless online restores of Active Directory objects and a new global option to specify SSL connection (select the Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection check box in the Recovery Manager for Active Directory Settings dialog). | RMADFE-823 | ADO-222475 |
| Run PowerShell scripts before and after creating a backup. This option allows you to customize your environment by running PowerShell scripts before and/or after creating a backup. Custom scripts can be launched either on the Recovery Manager for Active Directory Console machine or on the domain controller side. | RMADFE-2281 | ADO-218304 |
| Enhancement | ID (old) | ID (new) |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 | ||
| Forest Recovery simulation mode available | RMADFE-920 | ADO-218277 |
| The 'View Recovery Report' action should be available as one of the post recovery dialog actions | RMADFE-3034 | ADO-218413 |
| Encrypt credentials in Forest Recovery project using AESCryptoServiceProvider instead of TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider | RMADFE-2199 | ADO-220948 |
| Allow RMAD backup to continue if forest recovery agent cannot be installed | N\A | ADO-221433 |
| Set default global catalog handling option to "Keep GC Intact" | N\A | ADO-223871 |
| Show 'object's tombstone is expired' detailed warning in the Online Restore Wizard | RMADFE-1613 | ADO-223987 |
| Default recovery method to the Repromotion phase should be "Install AD", not "ReinstallAD" | N\A | ADO-234195 |
| Tool to update backup creation date in simulation projects | N\A | ADO-234197 |
| Keep previous recovery methods when changing recovery mode like Forest Recovery --> Repromotion --> Forest Recovery | N\A | ADO-234201 |
| Every DC in simulation project should have a backup created for this domain controller so all recovery methods are available | N\A | ADO-234203 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 | ||
| ADVL automatic DNS selection doesn't work if no target item has preferred DNS. | RMADFE-3250 | ADO-218271 |
| Support LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) for Forest Recovery Edition, including the ability to select SSL connection when connecting to a forest in the Recovery Manager console. | RMADFE-823 | ADO-218354 |
| Creating Recovery Media (ISO) enhancement - use custom WinRE.wim image | RMADFE-3126 | ADO-218437 |
| Resolved Issue | ID (old) | ID (new) |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 | ||
| Security Vulnerability - Sensitive comments embedded within client-side code sent to an end user machine | RMADFE-3244 | ADO-218142 |
| Security Vulnerability - Runtime hardening (SEP, ASLR and other) | RMADFE-3248 | ADO-218146 |
| Full replication fails when a DC is selected for the option 'Unpack each backup upon its creation' in the master console | RMADFE-1858 | ADO-218500 |
| Storage agent settings are not applied on install | N\A | ADO-219910 |
| No progress/wait indication after clicking 'OK' on the 'Add Console…' dialog | N\A | ADO-224321 |
| Backup fails if the Domain Controllers OU has a AzureADKerberos computer object in it as part of Azure AD FIDO deployment | N\A | ADO-227903 |
| Improve documentation with information on number of scheduled computer collections for optimal performance | N\A | ADO-232614 |
| Access Violation in the ProcessRequest function and crashes service | N\A | ADO-232682 |
| Remove mutual exclusion mechansim between replication process and restore process | RMADFE-1575 | ADO-237972 |
| Display correct backup info and support restore for Collections with containers (not DCs) | N\A | ADO-240580 |
| Retriable VSS error causes undefined behavior in Backup Agent on retry | N\A | ADO-241825 |
| Modify the configuration to remove collision problems with SHA1, moved to SHA256 | N\A | ADO-253913 |
| Retention policy ignores collection and consider backups of all collections | N\A | ADO-259645 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 HF1 | ||
| RMAD console crashes while building comparison report. | N\A | ADO-240300 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 | ||
| Agent-based online restore can result in lsass process crash. | RMADFE-3233 | ADO-218222 |
| Unable to restore AD object when user provides smart card PIN and username hint. | RMADFE-3132 | ADO-218574 |
| Configuring a backup schedule is disabled when creating a backup from Recover Manager for Active Directory > Create Backup. | RMADFE-3260 | ADO-219136 |
| SCOM pack Get Collections call results in Access denied errors. | RMADFE-3025 | ADO-220574 |
| Increasing number of scheduled tasks makes Console, Replication, and Cmdlets extremely slow. | RMADFE-1837 | ADO-223040 |
| RMAD console crashed due to missing DLL Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.dll. | N/A | ADO-226682 |
| After restore a User Object Member Of is different than in Active Directory | N/A | ADO-230090 |
| Resolved Issue | ID (old) | ID (new) |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 | ||
| Email notification template contains invalid text and status message | N\A | ADO-252659 |
| Verification email contains incorrect backup data | N\A | ADO-252866 |
| Creating ADVL fails when unable to access VConverter error | N\A | ADO-253382 |
| Wrong replication partner is selected in IFM recovery on second phase. IFM failed | N\A | ADO-253681 |
| IFM script does not automatically reboot DC after installed AD DS tools. IFM failed | N\A | ADO-253778 |
| Install AD moethd on second pahse may fail with "Unable to connect to the replication source" | N\A | ADO-225791 |
| IPSec isolation policy was not removed successfully when previous forst recovery is aborted and left dirt data | N\A | ADO-237004 |
| IPSec isolation policy was not removed successfully during restore | N\A | ADO-237049 |
| The "Reset computer account" operation fails when some other recovery operation failed and retried earlier | RMADFE-2659 | ADO-242197 |
| After upgrade from 10.1 to 10.1.1, the Verify Settings in Forest Recovery console send emails with some kind of strange status messages | N\A | ADO-242679 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 HF1 | ||
| Forest Recovery fails if the only drive encrypted with BitLocker is removed. | N\A | ADO-222308 |
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.1.1 | ||
| IPv6 based UNC Path support. | RMADFE-3232 | ADO-218913 |
| Scanning of all backups does not stop when one of the processes ends urgently. | N/A | ADO-219145 |
| Errors when trying to restore SYSVOL: Need to improve the RPC stability. | N/A | ADO-228250 |
| ADVL converter returns 500 error. | N/A | ADO-230091 |
| Error when booting VM: "Invalid location type. Location accepts only VIDatastore objects." | N/A | ADO-233811 |
-Recovery Manager for Active Directory fully supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2. It is recommended that you upgrade to TLS 1.2 for secure communications.
| Security Resolved Issue | ID (old) | ID (new) |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery Manager for Active Directory 10.2 | ||
| Eliminate SHA1 signing certificates and only accept SHA256 certificates. | RMADFE-2896 | ADO-218357 |
| FIPS: Encrypt credentials stored in Forest Recovery project using AESCryptoServiceProvider instead of TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider. | RMADFE-2199 | ADO-220948 |
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