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Do I need to install the bare metal agent on my Windows clients? - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>To help users decide whether it is necessary to install the bare metal agent on Windows clients.</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <h3 data-id="purpose">Purpose</h3> <p>To help users decide whether it is necessary to install the bare metal agent on Windows clients.</p> <h3 data-id="description">Description</h3> <p>The bare metal agent is necessary only if you plan to use the Windows image-based bare metal recovery feature and run bare metal backups for Windows clients. The integrated bare metal recovery feature, supported for most versions of Windows, enables you to recover a client's operating system from a file-level backup. For clients that you are protecting with this feature, it is not necessary to install the bare metal agent or run bare metal backups.</p> <p>For more details about bare metal recovery options for Windows clients, see <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Flegacy-rs-ueb-admin-guide%2Fdefault.htm%23cshid%3D1905">Windows Hot Bare Metal Protection</a> in the Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator's Guide.</p> </article> </main>