Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition 10.0 - What is new and resolved (4236703)

New Features:

• Ability to backup operating system and System State data (Bare Metal Recovery backup) - Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition (Disaster Recovery Edition) can create operating system backup (BMR backup) along with the System State data backup of your Active Directory environment
• Encryption of Bare Metal Recovery backups - Recovery Manager for Active Directory allows BMR backups to be encrypted and protected with a password to prevent unauthorized access. For Bare Metal Recovery backup encryption, Recovery Manager for Active Directory uses a virtual hard disk encrypted by BitLocker Drive Encryption as a container for the backup (256-bit AES encryption)
• Creation of the Quest Recovery Media a image file with custom drivers to initiate Bare Metal Recovery on the new server - 
  This feature lets you create Quest Recovery Media supporting custom network cards and custom disks
• Full server recovery can be performed from the Bare Metal Recovery backup - The Bare Metal Active Directory Recovery option lets you perform the complete Active Directory restore at the object level, the directory level and the operating system level across the entire Forest
• Restore objects from encrypted backups in Recovery Manager Portal - Added an ability to restore objects from encrypted backups in Recovery Manager Portal
• Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) account can be used to access Backup Agent and backup files - The Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) account can be specified for the "Use the following account to access Backup Agent and backup files" option on the Agent Settings tab of the Computer Collection properties
• Support for 'Per Managed Person/Per Managed User' license type
• Ability to specify custom credentials to install Offline Restore Agent in Repair Wizard - Now you can specify credentials to install Offline Restore Agent in Repair Wizard. This adds an ability to specify custom credentials (e.g. use account from another forest) to run the offline restore
• Promote standalone machine to domain controller using the Install Active Directory method - This recovery method is used to install Active Directory on a clean machine
• Promote standalone machine to domain controller using Install Active Directory from Media (IFM) method - This option lets you restore System State of a domain controller using a media file created from System State Backup. This recovery method can be applied only to servers with pre-installed operating system

• Backing up backlinks may end up with warning "Failed to get members of local groups of domain" when run over unstable connection - RMADFE-804
• The Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) account can be specified for the "Use the following account to access Backup Agent and backup files" option on the Agent Settings tab of the Computer Collection properties - RMADFE-1375
• Active Directory account (assigned to backup scheduler) should not be lockout during replication - RMADFE-1407
• Agent-based online restore does not work in cross forest configurations if you use an account which is a member of the Protected Users security group - RMADFE-1431
• Email notifications from Recovery Manager Console should include name of console server - RMADFE-1476
• Added an option to specify credentials to install Offline Restore Agent on the Target Computer step of the Repair Wizard - RMADFE-1501
• Added an ability to set the connection timeout for the Recovery Manager Remote API Access service - RMADFE-1590
• Offline Restore Agent can crash when the 'Boot files' backup component is selected to restore - RMADFE-1532
• Enumerating target domain controllers in Online Restore Wizard may cause crash of Microsoft Management Console - RMADFE-1601
• Cannot set up alternate credentials for Backup Agent using Recovery Manager Console - RMADFE-1603
• Forest Recovery Agent crashes while checking the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature - RMADFE-1071
• Forest recovery fails with the backup which contains COM registration data of previous Forest Recovery Agent - RMADFE-1360
• Forest Recovery email notification should include name of the Forest Recovery Console server - RMADFE-1392
• The 'Adjust AD' operation fails if a name of an account that is used for different domains differs across the forest - RMADFE-1463
• Do not stop the whole SetDcPasswordOperation operation on exception from one particular domain controller - RMADFE-1427
• Required disk space calculated during the Verify Settings operation should be equal to the same value calculated during the Forest Recovery process - RMADFE-1436
• Forest recovery may fail on the "Raise RID pool", "Invalidate RID pool" and other operations with LDAP calls if NTLM is disabled on domain controller - RMADFE-1442
• Wait for Krbtgt account replication operation may fail if LDAP searches return 'referrals' - RMADFE-1458
• Recovery Manager Console can experience unhandled access violation exception if you restore object having backlink attribute to changed attribute created with type other than 2.5.5.1 and log level is set to trace - RMADFE-1503
• Added an option that lets you replicate the KRBTGT account and purge tickets on domain controllers as a post-recovery action - RMADFE-1534
• The Reinstall Active Directory operation may fail with "The list of domains could not be read from the forest." error - RMADFE-1545
• Provided an ability to perform Forest Recovery with 8.8.1 FR Restore agent installed on DC's - RMADFE-1549
• The 'Ensure that the SYSVOL share is available' recovery step is not completed but there is no event 1206 "The DFS Replication service successfully contacted domain controller <DC> to access configuration information." in the event log - RMADFE-1566
• Scheduled tasks might be corrupted after forest recovery completes - RMADFE-1569
• Recovery process stops with the error "Console uses NEGOTIATE RPC authentication type to connect Restore Service on DC. In case of disabled NTLM please reinstall agent." in case of absence of console certificate on domain controller and blocked Management Agent - RMADFE-1589
• Forest Recovery Agent cannot reboot a domain controller to the DSRM\Normal mode.
  The Forest Recovery Agent issue regarding configuration of boot mode was fixed. Now Forest Recovery Agent works correctly when default Boot Loader is not specified - RMADFE-1608
• Cannot configure DNS Settings properly if more than two DNS IP addresses are specified. If the Use the specified external DNS server option is selected in the Preferred DNS Server dialog, and if more than two IP addresses are specified, the domain controllers will not get all of the IP addresses form the list after the restore. Only two addresses from the list will be used - RMADFE-1614
• Forest Recovery Console stops responding while editing multiple domain controllers in the DNS Client Settings dialog - RMADFE-1618
• In very rare conditions, the Windows Firewall service cannot start in the DSRM mode during Forest Recovery - RMADFE-1635
• Added an ability to use the loopback IP address as one of the DNS servers specified in the Preferred DNS Server dialog - RMADFE-1668
• Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition removes custom firewall rules while uninstalling Forest Recovery Agent.

  While uninstalling Forest Recovery Agent, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition (Disaster Recovery Edition) removes custom firewall rules that have the same name as the default rules even if the option that is responsible for the Firewall configuration is not selected and the firewall settings should not be affected (the Forest Recovery Agent will configure Windows Firewall exceptions option on the Agents tab of the Recovery Project Settings dialog) - RMADFE-1686
• Added ability to restore objects from encrypted backups in Recovery Manager Portal - Added ability to restore objects from encrypted backups in Recovery Manager Portal - RMADFE-1351
• The ADVL conversion fails if some domains from the forest are not selected for virtualization - RMADFE-1440
• Virtual lab creation on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 failed when the Hyper-V storage account password contains a space symbol - RMADFE-1444
• Virtual Lab creation may fail at the "Start Virtual Machine" step with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object - RMADFE-1535
• Added an option to pause the lab creation process after virtual machine is converted - RMADFE-1553
• Unable to fix issues on failed domain controllers or remove the failed machines from the project after virtual lab creation completes. Now you can manually fix the issues or remove the failed domain controllers from the project, then the lab creation process will be resumed automatically - RMADFE-1564
• Virtual lab creation stops working at the "Apply TCP/IP settings" step if the DHCP Client service is disabled - RMADFE-1565
• Virtual lab creation on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 failed on the "Create virtual machine" step if the source machine has more than one disk - RMADFE-1632