This article describes the improvements that are included in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider. Learn about the details of the improvements and the prerequisites that should be validated before you install this update.
INTRODUCTION
Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider applies to all systems that have Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Provider version 3.5.468.0 or a later version installed.
Improvements that are included in this update
After you apply this update, the following features are available:
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The integration of Recovery Plans and Azure Automation offers robust and simplified one-click orchestration of your disaster recovery plans. Azure Automation runbooks now can be directly started from within ASR Recovery Plans.
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The Track Initial Replication Progress feature prevents virtual machine data from being replicated to a customer-owned and managed geo-redundant Azure Storage account. This new feature is also available when you configure disaster recovery plansbetween on-premises private clouds that are located across enterprise sites.
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The Simplified Setup and Registration feature streamlines the disaster recovery setup by making it simpler to generate certificates and integrity keys. These elements are needed to register your on-premises Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager server with your Site Recovery vault.
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The Enhanced enable protection experience feature for on-premises-to-Azure protection notifies you of Azure compatibility issues for the virtual machines. Therefore, it can reduce prerequisite failures.
Update information
To resolve this problem, install this update from Microsoft Update.
After this update is installed, you no longer have to select a Hyper-V capability profile.
Prerequisites
To install this update, you must have Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Provider (version 3.5.468.0 or a later version) installed.
Note You can check the installed provider version in the Programs and Features item in Control Panel.
Restart information
You may have to restart the computer after you apply this update if the System Center Virtual Machine Manager service is running.
Update replacement information
This update replaces the previously released update 2976408.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
See the terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates.
