Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6. NOTE : The Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6 cumulative patches for Veeam Backup & Replication monitoring and VMware vSphere 7.0 monitoring are available through kb2940 and kb3172 correspondingly. Cause Please confirm you are runnin...

“Unauthorized” error is thrown by SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for business backup jobs

Challenge Backup jobs for SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive items fail with any of the following errors: 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Type: System.Net.WebException 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Stack: 07-08-2018...

Could not invoke guest operation error in a job when using vSphere API for Guest OS connection

Challenge When Microsoft User Profile Disks for example, in a Windows RDS farm are used, Veeam Application Aware Image Processing through vSphere API may fail with the following error: Could not invokeguestoperation. Cause When processing Guest OS data through vSphere API, Veeam needs to deploy a...

Backup jobs using Virtual Appliance (HotAdd) transport mode take longer after installing 9.5 Update 3a

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a, the backup duration may be significantly increased for jobs using the Virtual Appliance HodAdd transport mode. Other transport modes NBD/NBDSSL, Direct SAN, Direct NFS are not affected. Cause This is a known issue affecting VMwa...

WinRM Service cannot process the Request

Challenge When attempting to add an On-Prem or Hybrid organization to Veeam Backup for Office 365 the following error occurs: The WinRM service cannot process the request because the request needs to be sent to a different machine. Use the redirect information to send the request to a new machine...

How to get a Support ID - SEE UPDATED KB LINK BELOW

Challenge When opening a case via the Customer Support Portal, you are prompted to enter a Support ID. Solution Case Creation Requirements To create a Veeam Technical Support case for a given Support ID, you must be designated as either License Administrator or Case Administrator. For more...

How to Find Your Veeam Support ID Number

Challenge When opening a support case, after selecting a Veeam product, the Support ID field will autopopulate if your account has only one Support ID associated with the selected product. If more than one Support ID is associated with the selected product, you will be prompted to either select a...

How to configure Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows email notifications for Gmail

This article describes how to configure Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows email notifications for Gmail account...

Veeam Availability Orchestrator stops collecting vCenter asset information

Challenge There is an issue with the embedded Veeam ONE component of Veeam Availability Orchestrator 1.0 release. The issue results in Veeam ONE not recognizing new VMware vCenter assets approximately 90 days after installation. Cause There is a synchronization issue between Veeam ONE Monitor and...

Granular permissions for Microsoft Azure user

Challenge When adding an Azure account to Veeam Backup & Replication, you would use the Add Microsoft Azure compute account... then, on the Subscription tab of the wizard that opens, select the "Create a new account" option. Doing this will register a new Azure AD Application. The account used to...

How to disable TLS 1.0 with no impact on Veeam ONE functionality

Possible Veeam ONE issues with disabling TLS 1.0 protocol and their resolution plans...

Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1807

Challenge Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1807. Cause Please confirm you are running version 2.0.2.1750 or later prior to installing this cumulative patch 1807. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After upgrading, your build will be version 2.0.2.1807. Solution...

Specified database is not valid

Challenge When installing Veeam ONE using an existing or migrated database, the following error occurs: Specified database is not valid. Please choose Veeam ONE database or create a new database to proceed. Cause This error message occurs when the Veeam ONE installer attempts to install using an...

How to Enable the Firewall Rules Required by Veeam ONE for Event Collection

Purpose This article describes how to enable the Microsoft Windows Firewall rules that Veeam ONE requires to collect event data from monitored Windows servers, such as Hyper-V hosts and Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Solution Using Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security On a server...

Adding on-premises SharePoint organization to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 fails with "Encountered an internal error in the SSL library"

Challenge Adding an on-premises SharePoint organization with the Use SSL parameter enabled fails with the following error: "Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The server certificate on the destination computer : has the following errors: Encountered an internal...

Notification Emails From Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Are Sent in an Unexpected Language

Challenge Email notifications sent by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 unexpectedly contain Chinese characters. Cause The issue is caused by an encoding conflict. By default, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 uses UTF-16 character encoding, and the problem appears under the following circumstances: Us...

Guest Processing for Microsoft SQL Server Results in Logon Failure Error

Challenge When performing any of the following operations, the following error occurs: Back up of SQL Server transaction logs. Truncation of SQL Server transaction logs. Collection of SQL instances metadata for Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL. While the error message varies depending on the actu...

Oracle Database Backup Fails With Event ID 44

Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows jobs with Application-Aware Processing fail to process a Windows guest with Oracle database installed. The following symptoms are observed. The job fails with this or a similar error: Creating VSS snapshot Error: Failed to...

Veeam Agent – Windows recovery image file not found

This article includes steps that advise executing commands using Diskpart, which has no confirmation system to prevent mistakes. Failure to understand how to use Diskpart or typos may cause issues. Please take your time and double-check each command is correct for your environment before executin...

File-Level Restore - FUSE mount is not supported on kernel versions 4.0.0-4.1.33

This issue is related to a known kernel bug and affects any version of Veeam Agent for Linux. Challenge When performing guest file recovery from a backup of a machine running Linux Kernel versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.33, the restore fails to mount with the error: FUSE mount is not supported on kern...