Hi: I've been trying to get the vss writer to show up or enable, but cant seem to get working! I tried the Info from Article ID: 2009272 "System state backup using Windows Server Backup fails with error: System writer is not found in the backup." no luck. I tried the steps listed in forum: "VSS System Writer is missing" - by booting up with a clean computer then running the takeown steps, and still no luck! Can some one help with something I might have missed... Thanks, James  james luceros

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Hi: I've been trying to get the vss writer to show up or enable, but cant seem to get working! I tried the Info from Article ID: 2009272 "System state backup using Windows Server Backup fails with error: System writer is not found in the backup." no luck. I tried the steps listed in forum: "VSS System Writer is missing" - by booting up with a clean computer then running the takeown steps, and still no luck! Can some one help with something I might have missed... Thanks, James   james luceros Hi, See if following article helps in your case Backup Fails with error message "WMI Writer Missing" in VSSADMIN http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7309.backup-fails-with-error-message-wmi-writer-missing-in-vssadmin.aspx Steps mentioned in the article should work for "VSS System Writer" as well, if it doesn't then pls create a new thread in Backup sub forum as suggested by Mr X. ThanksA UNIVERSE without WINDOWS is CHAOS ! This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. About Me ?

Hi: I've been trying to get the vss writer to show up or enable, but cant seem to get working! I tried the Info from Article ID: 2009272 "System state backup using Windows Server Backup fails with error: System writer is not found in the backup." no luck. I tried the steps listed in forum: "VSS System Writer is missing" - by booting up with a clean computer then running the takeown steps, and still no luck! Can some one help with something I might have missed... Thanks, James   james luceros Hi, See if following article helps in your case Backup Fails with error message "WMI Writer Missing" in VSSADMIN http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7309.backup-fails-with-error-message-wmi-writer-missing-in-vssadmin.aspx Steps mentioned in the article should work for "VSS System Writer" as well, if it doesn't then pls create a new thread in Backup sub forum as suggested by Mr X. ThanksA UNIVERSE without WINDOWS is CHAOS ! This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. About Me ?

Hi Santosh, The article points to two line items that state "Change to your domain" This is not a Domain Server. The server name is: server1 The Workgroup is: ABQ I tried typing both in and get a message invalid parameter "ABQ\domain admins:<RX>"" what am I doing wrong?james luceros

Hello James, I haven't had that issue on Server which is a part of work group. You might want to try following however, I am not sure whether that would work Takeown /f %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /a icacls %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /grant "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX)" icacls %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /grant "server1\Administrators:(RX) icacls %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /grant "server1\Users:(RX) icacls %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /grant "NT Service\trustedinstaller:(F)" icacls %windir%\winsxs\temp\PendingRenames /grant BUILTIN\Users:(RX) Takeown /f %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\* /a icacls %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\*.* /grant "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX)" icacls %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\*.* /grant "NT Service\trustedinstaller:(F)" icacls %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\*.* /grant BUILTIN\Users:(RX) net stop cryptsvc && net start cryptsvc net stop vss && net start vss net stop Winmgmt && net start Winmgmt Thanks Press any key... What the ... Where's any key ? This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. About Me ?

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