Recovery Manager for AD 10.3 latest build (Full Hotfix Release) (4373127)

Recovery Manager for AD 10.3 latest build (Full Hotfix Release)

This solution contains the latest full build of RMAD 10.3 (currently 10.3.0.40816)

This Full Maintenance Release is HERE  and addresses the issues described in the attached Release Notes. Please review the problem descriptions included to ensure your issue criteria is met prior to installing this Full Maintenance Release.
This build addresses the issues noted in the attached Release Notes which were found since the release of 10.3.0.39876 and can be installed directly on top of that build or older builds including 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2 and 10.3 as per the included documentation.
Please download the RMAD 10.3.0.40816 Full Maintenance Release by Clicking Here  and installing according to the "...\Documentation\RecoveryManagerForAD_ReleaseNotes_en-us.pdf"
The latest full build of RMAD 10.3 (10.3.0.40816) includes the following:

10.3 Hotfix 2 New Features:

• Support of SQL Server 2022
  • Recovery Manager for Active Directory has been tested and fully functions with SQL Server 2022.
• Allow to ignore missing/malfunctioning VSS writers
  • If DFSR writer is unavailable, RMAD will create a backup with a warning that SYSVOL was not backed up. To change this behavior, a new registry for the Recovery Manager Console has been created.
• Use remote storage credentials for integrity check against backups located on a domain controller
  • Use the Remote Storage credentials instead of the logged on user or scheduled task account, to run the integrity check when creating a backup from the console, or the scheduled task.

10.3 Hotfix 1 New Features:

• PowerShell cmdlets to Manage Password Complexity
  • New PowerShell cmdlets to manage password complexity requirements for forest recovery project files. Ability to modify password requirements via the Set-RMADFEGlobalOptions cmdlet.
• Select Region for Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
  • Ability to specify a region for Amazon S3 cloud storage.

10.3 Hotfix 2 Enhancements:

• Allow to ignore missing/malfunctioning VSS writers – 412323
• INTEGRITY CHECKS: Use remote storage credentials to access the backup storage when running integrity check for backups located on a domain controller – 421517

10.3 Enhancements:

• Salting mechanism for forest recovery project password hashes - 412667
• Show AD tombstone lifetime settings somewhere in a product UI - 353685
• BackupAgent does not respect global logging setting 'Create a new set of log files: Never' on the DC side - 381957
• TLS 1.2 - Enforce in Hybrid Connect Service for communication to On Demand - 384624

10.2.2 Hotfix 2 Enhancements:

• Support for OAuth2 authentication method for email notifications. Required due to deprecation of basic authentication for Exchange Online - 384541

10.2.2 Enhancements:

• Improve message the error while creating remote DCOM object failed because "Access is denied" - 263396
• Cannot restore a user from a backup that requires credentials for accessing it - 267022
• Support GMSA account type to run PS custom script (Agent side only) - 317648
• Installation option for hybrid service in the main product setup - 346507
• New hybrid configuration Powershell API - 346513
• Installer check updated for .NET 4.8 - 349988
• Full support for GMSA accounts for RMAD DRE/FE/Standard - 352707
• Support for Windows 2022 with exceptions. See User Guide – 363862

10.2.1 Enhancements:

• Usability improvements to the Computer Collections Properties dialog including removal of Logging tab and introduction of new tab for Secondary Storage – 283362
• Creation of Management Shell Guide which lists all available PowerShell® cmdlets, with examples. Appendix removed from User Guide - 275100

10.2 Enhancements:

• Rename system state backups to Active Directory® backups - RMADFE-3009, 218405
• Hide the "Components" tab in computer collection settings - RMADFE-3042, 218415
• SCOM 2019 support – 219783
• Pass through Synchronize across time zones from windows task scheduler to RMAD - RMADFE-952, 220703
• Create Logs Daily to be on by default – 223980
• Display operating system version for all backups – 228741

10.3 Hotfix 2 Resolved Issues:

• Online Restore Agent attempts to connect to a wrong domain controller when trying to perform an online recovery. – 431481
• Integrity checks of collections with backups to be stored in Azure Files (SMB share) fail. – 435383
• RMAD console crashes during Online Restore Wizard for AD LDS (ADAM) due to large number of objects. – 437753
• Online restore is failing with the error: Failed to create a remote object. DCOM configuration required. – 440746
• Support gMSA accounts for scheduled collections when "Network access: Do not allow storage of passwords and credentials for network authentication" is enabled. – 444925

10.3 Hotfix 1 Resolved Issues:

• Cleanup CNAME DC record - RMADFE-2746, 242105
• Hybrid Restore selection is not being verified in installer when remote SQL and windows creds are being used - 359203
• Online Restore Wizard: "Objects to Be Processed" Add button browse not working properly - 411383
• New-RMADSchedule cmdlet doesn't support several weeks trigger - 414124
• Read zone info from inconsistent/partial registry key - 419904
• Hybrid restore may fail with the 'database is locked' error when restoring 50..100 objects - 424314
• Apply Group Policy step hangs if root domain DNS zone is forest-wide replicated - 427816

10.3 Resolved Issues:

• Online Restore Wizard: Reporting on Unchanged Objects - 377277
• Incorrect email subject message after unsuccessful/incomplete recovery - 406720
• Computer Column - Timing column for the backup jobs to assist users in estimating job lengths - 351058
• When the Additional path is offline, then a job that's only using local-storage completes with a warning. With Remote Storage, the job fails with an error - 370690
• ISO boot fails with a BSOD on Windows 2022 lab. To fix the issue, you need to add the latest cumulative update (any update after 7C-KB5015879) into WinRE.wim. Download the LCU September 13, 2022 — KB5017316 (OS Build 20348.1006) (microsoft.com). See the Quest Knowlege Base article KB4368806 for commands that need to be run - 376632
• Online Restore Wizard Directory object not found when restoring with old 2012 R2 backup to 2019 DC - 380226
• Issue with install - invalid SQL hostname during install/upgrade - 388182
• FSMO Roles are not displayed in the recovery report after restore - 376235
• Tab order on SQL Installer page is wrong - 397266

10.2.2 Hotfix 3 Resolved Issues:

• RMAD fails to perform backups when using GMSA account after Microsoft Patch applied KB5022289 \ KB5022286 - 406231

10.2.2 Hotfix 2 Resolved Issues:

• Include product name and version to the self-extracted installation package - 367930
• Remove Autorun from build, CD package - 380288
• Email notifications to O365 email is not supported when Basic Authentication disabled on tenant - 386176
• RMAD Console crashes when recovering SYSVOL from a backup using Repair Wizard - 388796
• SCOM: computer collection and RMAD instances are in not monitored health state - 393392
• Option to "Repair" an installation is grayed out - 383571
• Online restore wizard does not work on Windows 2016 with LSA protection and Secure Boot enabled - 226670
• Online restore wizard does not work on Windows 2022 with agent based restore and with LSA protection enabled – 367163

10.2.2 Hotfix 1 Resolved Issues:

• Restore-RMADDeletedObject cmdlet crashes when it's used without explicitly specified credentials - 382646
• Domains that are not synced with Azure AD should be present in the list of discovered domains but should not cause error (require credentials) while saving the configuration - 380628
• Cannot save ODR integration settings in RMAD due to an old forest/dc listed in discovered domains - 380625
• Offline Restore Wizard fails with Access Denied to install Offline Restore Agent - 375451
• Setup folder does not include .NET 4.8 after changing product requirement - 373180
• Full replication between two consoles is failing with 'The given key was not present in the dictionary' error - 322095

10.2.2 Resolved Issues:

• RMAD replication doesn't work with Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) configured for console connection - RMADFE-2594, 242195
• gMSA cannot be used when setting up replication - RMADFE-2519, 242560
• Use a gMSA account from one domain as the agent account for backing up DCs in a different domain does not work - 265197
• RMAD not finding backups requested by ODR in different timezones - 316404
• BackupAgent does not respect global logging setting "Create a new set of log files: Never" - 322747
• Update DisksInfoProvider to be more current and ignore unnecessary drive types - 323924
• ERDiskAD.mdb does not get imported, gets overwritten by blank rmad.db3 when installing the new version - 352421
• A v10.2.1 pre-installed backup agent fails when backup is requested by a v10.1.1 console - 353765
• Updating backup agent fails if custom port is configured - 354851
• Global settings dialog has a slightly broken layout on several tabs - 358457
• RMAD Console - Replication: Backup information is not being cleaned out of the console when it no longer exists on source - 359553
• RMAD Console: Diagnostic Logging drop-down reverts to Global Settings when enabled within Advanced settings of Computer Collection - 363140
• Installer log messages are truncated - 364258

10.2.1 Hotfix 2 Resolved Issues:

• RMAD Console Replication error (XML error) during replication when backup runs on master console - 351462
• Cleanup of metadata during restore of an unprotection object failed from accidental deletion - 354567
• RMAD Console: Diagnostic Logging drop-down reverts to Global Settings when enabled within Advanced settings of Computer Collection - 363140
• RMAD build 10.2.1.36279 will not install and triggers MS Defender notification - 366313

10.2.1 Hotfix 1 Resolved Issues:

• Error with diagram explaining Change Auditor integration - 323348
• GMSA workflow in the documentation is reportedly missing steps - 325726
• Cannot retry a snapshot if certain errors occurred while creating a backup - 330733

10.2.1 Resolved Issues:

• Allow to unselect Console storage immediately as alternative has been configured - 220573
• Large number of scheduled tasks can cause Console, Replication and PowerShell cmdlets to be extremely slow - RMADFE-1837, 242166
• Remove a BOM prefix from the script file - 257798
• Unpacking the backup and the retention policy may fail if the DC cannot be accessed via LDAP from the RMAD console machine - 279431
• RPC calls to Backup Agent are not retried on RPC_S_SERVER_TOO_BUSY error - 314812
• Misleading 'Unable to map the network share IPC$ on the computer' error message on attempt to map UNC share - 316902
• Installation fails with an invalid error message when using a local windows credential to connect to the remote SQL server - 317818
• Online Restore Wizard cannot undelete an object using a non-administrative account. Restoring an object in Online Restore Wizard using a non-administrative account may result in the following error for NT-Security-Descriptor attribute: "Cannot retrieve attribute value(s) from Active Directory. Possible reason: Insufficient access rights." To ignore this error, the NT-Security-Descriptor attribute can be excluded from the list of restored attributes - 293311

10.2 Hotfix 1 Resolved Issues:

• Installation of Quest personal certificates to the local certificate store failed. Receive error message to install Quest certificates later. This should not be required - 274643
• Computer Collection scheduled tasks removed after upgrade to 10.2 if gMSA used as the scheduled task account - 280854
• rmad.db3 file gets overwritten during an uninstall -> install of version 10.2 - 283069
• Cannot retain the uncheck "Global Catalog Servers" option in the Advanced tab of the Computer Collection properties window - 230397
• It will display 'Network access is denied' error in Win2016/2019 if specify account to restore GPO with "domain\username" format - 233623
• Cannot see some advanced objects in the object picker in Online Restore Wizard - 275027

10.2 Resolved Issues:

• Security Vulnerability - Sensitive comments embedded within client-side code sent to an end user machine - RMADFE-3244, 218142
• Security Vulnerability - Runtime hardening (SEP, ASLR and other) - RMADFE-3248, 218146
• Full replication fails when a DC is selected for the option 'Unpack each backup upon its creation' in the master console - RMADFE-1858, 218500
• Storage agent settings are not applied on install - 219910
• No progress/wait indication after clicking 'OK' on the 'Add Console…' dialog - 224321
• Backup fails if the Domain Controllers OU has a AzureADKerberos computer object in it as part of Azure AD FIDO deployment - 227903
• Improve documentation with information on number of scheduled computer collections for optimal performance - 232614
• Access Violation in the ProcessRequest function and crashes service - 232682
• Remove mutual exclusion mechanism between replication process and restore process - RMADFE-1575, 237972
• Display correct backup info and support restore for Collections with containers (not DCs) - 240580
• Retriable VSS error causes undefined behavior in Backup Agent on retry - 241825
• Modify the configuration to remove collision problems with SHA1, moved to SHA256 - 253913
• Retention policy ignores collection and consider backups of all collections - 259645

10.3 Security Resolved Issues:

• Salting mechanism for forest recovery project and ADVL project password hashes - 412667
• Enforce password complexity on Forest Recovery project - 253917
• TLS 1.2 - Enforce in Hybrid Connect Service for communication to On Demand - 384624

10.2.1 Security Resolved Issues:

• Do not use SHA1 for key derivation function to generate hash for creation of AES-256 key for backup encryption