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Does Veeam have any ways of restoring backup images to dissimilar hardware? <br />
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Yes. But you need to manually load the storage driver of your ThinkPad T470.<br />
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Besides, you will have to reactivate your OS licence as the hardware is different. Unless your Surfaces OS are using retail or volume licence, it will not be easy to do the reactivation.
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Unless you have some tough to configure applications i don't see much benefit in restoring your OS images to dissimilar hardware...plus the benefit of fresh installation...choose your installation strategy and keep your Surfaces as they are...they are always have a place..
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Restoring a backup to dissimilar hardware should ONLY happen in a disaster recovery scenario it is NOT a viable deployment strategy as you are describing. And does have legal implications as well.
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I have created several backups of Microsoft Surfaces running the Windows 10 Professional OS that I would like to restore to Lenovo T470 laptops.<br />
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These Microsoft Surfaces are running the Windows 10 Professional OS and are not running Windows 10 OEM software.<br />
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Does Veeam have any ways of restoring backup images to dissimilar hardware? I will gladly purchase new Windows 10 licenses to do this if necessary.
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I have created several backups of Microsoft Surfaces running the Windows 10 Professional OS that I would like to restore to Lenovo T470 laptops.

These Microsoft Surfaces are running the Windows 10 Professional OS and are not running Windows 10 OEM software.

Does Veeam have any ways of restoring backup images to dissimilar hardware? I will gladly purchase new Windows 10 licenses to do this if necessary.

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