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Spectrum Protect for Mail

add support for Microsoft Exchange "Subscription Edition" ASAP

Microsoft is terminating support of all other Exchange versions and forces all customers to migrate to "Exchange SE" until end of October 2025. So SP for Mail needs to add official support for this Exchange version ASAP. Should not be difficult as...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

TDP support for Exchange SE

Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

256 bit encryption for IBM Spectrum Protect for Lotus Domino

The API for TSM for DOMINO does not support 256 bit encryption, the industry standard. We need to have 256 bit encryption to satisfy a requirement by our internal business partners.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

DP for Exchange GUI behaviour

We would like to have a few improvements in the DP for Exchange GUI.How the GUI bahaves during restore operations.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.

HiI am writing to you because the support has recommended it to me.We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.Unfortunately, I can understand that there is no BA/TDP clients to the version yetCan you then tell me if it in any way is poss...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Reduce permissions required

We would highly appreciate if you could investigate the real permission requirements for the backup service account. Organisatio Level requirement is too high, other vendors are currently investigating and providing test patches.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

adding management class option in the TDP for mail client ( in flash copy manager)

Hi,Here is Elif Ahmetoglu from Vakifbank Cloud System Management team in Turkiye and working on Backup & Storage Platform. we are using TDP for mail client. We want to you add the management class option when creating scchedule job. for exampl...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Recovery mailbox EXCHANGE

The feature exists, but don´t work correctly. TDP EXCHANGE don´t work fine and in several situations we aren´t able to recovery mailboxes. The tools designed don´t work as expected
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

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