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Shadow copies in DPM 2019 are not pruning. When running the pruneshadowcopies.ps1 script fails with access denied to the DPM storage drive.
Server 2019
MS DPM 2019
Both the application and server are fully patched.
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I get that too, so I have to use a tool such as PSexec to run it as the computer system account.
I ran it as system account but I'm seeing a lot of errors for Dismounting VHD's.
False
Dismount-Vhd : The path
"D:\DPM.domain.local\4d90bfc6-a1fc-45ab-81df-df53726c9468\10011dca-f743-44cb-9b3f-5bd4d963c2f1\disk0.vhdx" is not
the path to a mounted virtual hard disk file.
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center\DPM\DPM\bin\pruneshadowcopiesDpm.ps1:267 char:17
Dismount-Vhd -Path $vhdPath
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