AFP is being deprecated on a new server and will not be supported in the future releases. Micro Focus offers OES CIFS as an alternative to AFP.
Service Proxy is being deprecated on a new server in favor of common-proxy and will not be supported in the future releases. If any service is configured with service-specific proxy users in the earlier versions of OES, then an upgrade to the OES 2018 SP1 or later server moves the service to use a common proxy user.
ShadowFS uses FUSE to create a local mount point for merged view of each DST shadow volume pair. The ShadowFS support is being deprecated and will not be supported in future releases. Use CIS or DST with OES CIFS or NCP as an alternative to ShadowFS.
If you are using or taking advantage of ShadowFS, then request you to email us at oes@microfocus.com
NetStorage is being deprecated and will not be supported in the future releases. Micro Focus offers Filr as an alternative to NetStorage. Although, Filr is a separate product, its Standard version is offered as an entitlement to OES customers. For more information about Filr, see Filr Overview.