Creating the IT Edition USB Key

IT Edition End of Life: See the upcoming ShadowProtect IT Edition End of Life Date and related End of Sales information.

Previous editions of the IT Edition USB key included a pre-built Windows environment. Microsoft discontinued the distribution of this product, requiring users to create this environment manually.

Arcserve provides the Recovery Environment Builder (REBuilder) to create the Recovery Environment for Windows IT Edition (also known as Windows Recovery Environment IT edition) either in the Standard or PRO version. The resulting IT Edition works the same as previous editions did with the tools to restore system volumes.

IT Edition USB Key

Arcserve ships a USB key for the IT Edition which includes:

• Recovery Environment CrossPlatform.
• Recovery Environment for Windows.
• ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange (GRE)-runs in Demo mode.
• Configuration files to support the Windows Recovery Environment IT edition.

The USB key can boot a system into Recovery Environment CrossPlatform for backing up or restoring system volumes. The REBuilder tool adds the Windows Recovery Environment IT edition to the key to create the familiar IT Edition. Once the tool adds Windows Recovery Environment IT edition to the key, the key can perform the following operations:

• Run ShadowProtect without installing any software by inserting the key into a live system.
• Dual boot a system with the key to display a menu that allows you to run either Windows Recovery Environment IT edition or Recovery Environment CrossPlatform.

Warning! The dual-boot capability of the IT Edition requires using the assigned volume name on the USB drive as shipped. Do not change this. Doing so prevents the dual boot option.

To create the IT Edition with dual boot, follow these steps: