Ok,
finally everything seems to be resolved. I got a mail from your marketing department. Thanks.

And I apologize for my near-troll like behaviour. I normally don't do this. But the combination of several things made me furious.

“Your account has been banned due to invalid personal data or non-corporative email. To renew your account and provide valid data, please contact sales” This is not a very friendly message. If this hits someone in error, be prepared for a harsh reply. How do you "calculate" if someones ema...

Thank you for your help. This is good news. You are able to opt out of the "newsletters" but, not, when registering yourself - unless this is the "subscribe for updates". I guess this has to be done later some profile management screen - which I am currently not able to access. I...

I have to say, the way your company handles registered users/email addresses is strange: you have canceled my login to the starwind site for no apparent reason - I have given my real email address. Also you did send unwanted mailings without my explicit consent - which I dislike very much - I might ...

No, I use the Microsoft VSS provider which comes with the Server 2012
I only use the Starwind iSCSI target.

The Built in Windows Server Backup

For whatever reason, after I added 3 more remote (USB) disks to the backup, the Server 2012 Software refused to start the backup completely. I was unable to find out the reason, so I reverted to a guest based VSS backup, which makes not much difference since I only have two guest OS running on the m...

I yesterday registered and downloaded the free iScsi target. Looks like it works very reliable and fast, and, it is actually free, no built in adverts in the installer, no hidden drawbacks. I am now able use the 2012 Server backup to make synthetic backups of the Virtual machines to Disks which are ...