Intel will be making Symantec Backup Exec 2010 available to its system builder partners through its network of authorized distributors. The addition of Symantec Backup Exec expands Intel's software offering for channel partners that are part of the chipmaker’s Enabled Solutions Acceleration Alliance(ESAA).

For following are a series of articles on this exciting announcement:

• Intel Newsroom announcement - http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2010/10/28/chip-shot-intel-beefs-up-north-america-channel
• Blog post on Intel Server Room Blog - http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/...

Here is a fix for the 0xe000fedl - a failure occured querying the Writer status.

We have seen this error a fair amount recently and mainly on customers Hyper-V environments. All the fixes that Symantec suggests have been tried but non of them work.

This particular fix is for VMs that have been created by doing a Physical to virtual conversion of a server. The reason the above error occurs when you run a backup of these Virtual Machines is due to them having the same disk ID as the host server. This is normaly 00000080.

If you use Diskpart to examine the disk IDs of the Host server and the virtual servers you will probably notice that the disk IDs are the same (00000080). This is due to the Physical to Virtual conversion.

To fix this you can use a tool called dumpcfg.exe which will allow you change the disk ID of the Virtual server. You will need to do this with each Virtual Machine that you have done a Physical to Virtual conversion of on your Host...

Backup Exec 2010 R2 is the second release of Backup Exec 2010 and is generally available to all users starting today, August 2nd, 2010.

This release features improvements in usability, licensing and renewal management, deduplication, virtualization, and extends platform and application support. Here are some of the most important features that the release introduces...

• Enhanced Installation and backup wizards reduce the time and complexity of setting up your backups
• Backup recommendation tool identifies potential gaps in your backup strategy and provides recommendations on the agent(s) required to ensure complete data protection.
• Integrated RSS and Renewal Assistant help keep you informed and current.
• NEW! support for SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 SP1, Microsoft SQL 2008 R2, Enterprise Vault 9, Mac OSX 10.6, NDMP NetApp ONTAP 8.0, EMC DART 6.0, and OST support for Data Domain DDOS 4.8 with Boost Technology.

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Earlier this month, Symantec Backup Exec 2010 was recognized as the Best of Tech·Ed 2010 award winner by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine at the Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2010 IT Pro Conference in New Orleans.  Backup Exec 2010 was awarded the top honor in the backup and recovery category based on its innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers.  
 
Backup Exec 2010 (BE 2010) is the latest update to Symantec’s industry leading Backup Exec product and became generally available earlier this year.  BE 2010 helps mid-sized businesses save time and money by protecting more data and utilize less storage through fully integrated data deduplication and archiving technologies.  It also helps organizations eliminate duplicate data with a simple three-step process that does not require an additional point product.  With Backup Exec...