Today I encountered a strange little problem when I wanted to add my standalone laptop to my HomeLab domain-joined VBR server by deploying the Veeam Agent for Windows (VAW). After creating a “Protection Group” under the “Physical Infrastructure” section which contains an individual computer (my laptop) I got an RPC error message when testing the specified credentials.
After some troubleshooting I found a Veeam forum message stating that the following regkey had to be set to bypass UAC remote restrictions (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/951016/description-of-user-account-control-and-remote-restrictions-in-windows):Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
After setting the regkey the scan and remote Veeam agent install worked as expected.
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