You may experience the following issues on a system that has the Application Virtualization (App-V) client installed:
Issue 1
When you run the vssadmin list shadowstorage, vssadmin list volumes or vssadmin list shadows commands, the following error occurs:
Issue 2
A physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM) fails during ‘Scan System’ with the following error:
Issue 3
Hyper-V virtual machines that have the App-V client installed will be placed in a “Saved State” during backup operations.
When these issues occur, the following events will be logged in the Application event log:
Issue 1
When you run the vssadmin list shadowstorage, vssadmin list volumes or vssadmin list shadows commands, the following error occurs:
Error: The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified command.
Issue 2
A physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM) fails during ‘Scan System’ with the following error:
VMM does not have appropriate permissions to access the resource on the server.domain.com server.
Ensure that Virtual Machine Manager has the appropriate rights to perform this action.
ID: 2910
Details: Access is denied (0x80070005)
Ensure that Virtual Machine Manager has the appropriate rights to perform this action.
ID: 2910
Details: Access is denied (0x80070005)
Issue 3
Hyper-V virtual machines that have the App-V client installed will be placed in a “Saved State” during backup operations.
When these issues occur, the following events will be logged in the Application event log:
Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Event ID: 12348
Level: Warning
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: VSS was denied access to the root of volume \\?\Volume{edec3633-6714-11e1-823e-001372e3804b}\. Denying administrators from accessing volume roots can cause many unexpected failures, and will prevent VSS from functioning properly. Check security on the volume, and try the operation again.
Source: VSS
Event ID: 12348
Level: Warning
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: VSS was denied access to the root of volume \\?\Volume{edec3633-6714-11e1-823e-001372e3804b}\. Denying administrators from accessing volume roots can cause many unexpected failures, and will prevent VSS from functioning properly. Check security on the volume, and try the operation again.
Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Event ID: 8193
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine Error calling CreateFile on volume '\\?\Volume{edec3633-6714-11e1-823e-001372e3804b}\'. hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure
Source: VSS
Event ID: 8193
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine Error calling CreateFile on volume '\\?\Volume{edec3633-6714-11e1-823e-001372e3804b}\'. hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure
Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Event ID: 12293
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::QueryVolumesSupportedForSnapshots(ProviderId,-1,...) [hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.
Source: VSS
Event ID: 12293
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::QueryVolumesSupportedForSnapshots(ProviderId,-1,...) [hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.