Windows 10: Windows 10 Backup with SBS2011 failing

We've had an office with an SBS2011 server and a dozen Windows 7 clients for several years. The server performs regular backups of the clients.The clients are all part of the SBS2011 domain connected initially via "http://severname/connect".

We recently installed a couple of Windows 10 Pro clients that are part of the server domain.


Backup of these fails. It sits at 1% complete for about 15 minutes then it fails.

The backup status on the client shows "Backup was unsuccessful. An error prevented backup from creating a snapshot of the volumes on this computer."

The VSS service is set to automatic and when I start the backup, the event log has an entry that says "VSS Service Started".

Nothing else shows up in the event logs other than an entry about 4 minutes after the "service started" entry that says "The VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout".

I confirmed with "vssadmin list shadows" that no shadow copy was created.

I can manually create a shadow copy with "wmic shadowcopy call create Volume='C:\' "

Running out of ideas. Any suggestions?

:)

 

Windows 10 fails to update


When you finish testing the Avast suggestion, make sure that you restart your machine.

Then if the issue persists, please return to the trouble shooting list in post# 89

I think there are three steps that remain; the WU troubleshooter, reset WU components, and manual WU reset.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10

no, you can't go back..
I suggest creating a backup image of your os drive