Core on <server_name> has reported the Warning event "VSS snapshot has excluded writers"
Date/Time: <date> <time> VSS Full snapshot of '<list of disks>' on '<server_name>' was taken with excluded VSS writers 'SqlServerWriter {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a} has state '' and error '''
There's no SQL Server and no SQL VSS Writer on the protected server
To resolve the issue, please access the Exchange server and:
- open Services
- go to Properties of Message Queueing service
- click on Log On tab
- change account from Network Service to Local Account
- close the dialog window
- go to Properties of Net.Msmq Listener Adapter service
- perform the same account change to the Local Service
- close the dialog window
- restart the Message Queueing service
Back to to Core console, access the Exchange agent, click on Exchange drop-down and select Force Log Truncation. This will initiate a full VSS backup with Exchange log truncation. Do this twice to make sure that writer's failed state got cleared and task finished successfully with no errors or warnings.
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