Hi,
We're currently working through a support ticket with MS regarding an issue with Windows 2012 deduplication and accessing that deduplicated data via a SMB Share from Windows 7 and Windows XP clients.
What I would like to know is - is this supported? I'm sure I've read that there was no issue with backwards compatibilty, because 2012 handled the "rehydration of data" prior to SMB being involved... (I hope this makes sense).
On the other hand, can anyone point me to some documentation where this is shown to be not-supported?
It doesn't make sense to me that a Windows XP client can't open files from a Windows 2012 deduplicated file share. Surely this would be in BIG RED LETTERS on every piece of documentation related to the feature?
Thank you,
Alex Macaronis