CU5 for DPM 2012 r2

Ok so have been running DPM 2012 r2 now for almost 4 months now on my companies servers per my Network Admins decision. When I set this up I set my short term recovery to be 14 days. We purchased Azure for our long term retention and when setting this up
in DPM I noticed I could only choose a max of 120 backups. I asked my Admin and he said not to worry about it. As a new network tech I said okay. Now a week ago now I have finally upgraded our DPM 2012 instance to CU5 to support Exchange and also for the long
term retention policy changes. Now when I go into DPM and try and change the old backup Retention policy for online I do not get the new options. I created a new protection group of and added a server I have not setup yet and I do get the new options
on that one.
My question is, is there a way to convert my old protection groups backup policy to the new ones without losing my current online backups? I tried to stop protection of the group and choose the check boxes to leave the data that is online but when I go to
re-create the backup and choose online protection it tells me I cannot change the policies on the protection group as a policy already exists.
Thank you
Dale Senn
Dale Senn

Hi,
Unfortunately the two policies are not compatible so the old policy cannot be converted to the new policy without removing online protection, deleting the online backups and re-protecting.
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<Provider Name="MSDPM" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">999</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-13T15:50:35.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>5112</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>xxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>An unexpected error caused a failure for process 'mmc'. Restart the DPM process 'mmc'. Problem Details: <FatalServiceError><__System><ID>19</ID><Seq>0</Seq><TimeCreated>6/13/2012 3:50:35 PM</TimeCreated><Source>DpmThreadPool.cs</Source><Line>163</Line><HasError>True</HasError></__System><ExceptionType>ArgumentException</ExceptionType><ExceptionMessage>Paths that begin with \\?\GlobalRoot are internal to the kernel and should not be opened by managed applications.</ExceptionMessage><ExceptionDetails>System.ArgumentException: Paths that begin with \\?\GlobalRoot are internal to the kernel and should not be opened by managed applications. at System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck) at System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(String path) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.SQL.SQLDataSource.GetDefaultScratchSpace() at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.SQL.SQLDataSource.RefreshProperties(OMSqlRetryReader reader) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.Datasource..ctor(OMSqlRetryReader reader, Guid protectionGroupId, DpmObjectType objectType, DpmServer server) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.SQL.SQLDataSource..ctor(DpmServer dpmServer, OMSqlRetryReader reader, Guid protectionGroupId, SQLObjectType objectType) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.SQL.SQLObjectFactory.CreateDataSource(OMSqlRetryReader reader, Guid pgId, DpmObjectType objectType, DpmServer server) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.DpmHelper.ConstructDatasource(OMSqlRetryReader reader, Guid protectionGroupId, DpmServer dpmServer, InquiryPath jp) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.DpmServer.ReadOrphanProtectionGroup(IMCatalogDBReader dbReader) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.DpmServer.InitializeProtection() at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.DpmServer.GetProtectionGroups() at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.DpmServer.GetDatasourceWithId(Guid dsId) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.ReplicaAlert.get_Datasource() at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.ReplicaAlert.CommonConstruct() at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.ReplicaAlert..ctor(OMSqlRetryReader alertreader, AlertReader readerHelper, DpmServer server) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.AlertFactory.CreateAlert(OMSqlRetryReader reader, AlertReader dbReaderHelper, DpmServer server) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.AlertController.CollectAlertInlist(AlertReader dbReader, List`1 listOfAlerts, DateTime thresholdTime, Boolean includeResolvedAlerts, DpmServer dpmServer, Hashtable jobIdToBackupFailedAlertCollectionLocal, Hashtable jobIdToDatasetCopyAlertCollectionLocal, Hashtable jobIdToDatasetVerifyAlertCollectionLocal) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.AlertController.PopulateFromDatabase(Boolean includeResolvedAlerts) at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.Alert.AlertController.GetAlertsThreadStart(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack) at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)</ExceptionDetails></FatalServiceError></Data>
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Hi
SP1 for DPM 2012 might fix the issue.
Here is a similar thread that applies to DPM 2007 but possibly the same as DPM 2012, possibly that the DPM service is crashing:
http://owsug.ca/blogs/islamgomaa/archive/2010/03/18/DPM-2007-Crash-Event-ID-999.aspx
another one:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dataprotectionmanager/thread/3b359cef-0499-4f25-9321-3107abe173f4

DPM 2012 R2 Roll Up 2: Agent Terminating or Checksum mismatch during backups

Hi There,
I have dual DPM server deployment. Primary DPM server backs up to disk in my production site and then I have a Secondary DPM server creating replicas to Disk and Tape in my DR site. Both DPM servers are running DPM 2012 R2. I recently installed DPM 2012
R2 Roll Up 2 (Was running Roll up 1 for weeks without issue), careful not to install the bugged version of the update. Everything was running normally and then suddenly about 4 days later some of my resources started failing and became inconsistent on my Secondary
DPM server.
Either:
1. My DPMRA service on my Secondary DPM server terminates with the following Application Log error
Faulting application name: DPMRA.exe, version: 4.2.1235.0, time stamp: 0x536a4419
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16864, time stamp: 0x531d34d8
Exception code: 0x80004005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000047b8c
Faulting process id: 0x1f18
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf8a0713e8c930
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\DPM\DPM\bin\DPMRA.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 19d99bee-f5fd-11e3-93fe-782bcb479b76
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
OR
2. DPM has detected a checksum mismatch during data transfer over the network (ID: 30087)
I have already removed and deleted from disk the failing resources on the Secondary DPM server and then re-added them to the protection groups, but again either the agent terminates or fails with checksum during replica creation or consistency check. Note
that the Primary DPM server is happy and all the resources are green and backing up successfully numerous times a day.
I suspect that the update 4 days before the issues started might have created this issue. Has anyone had these issues or know of potential ways to fix it?
Your help would be greatly appreciated as I really don't want to rebuild the Secondary DPM server.
Thanks
Jacques

Hi,
Here is an update. I have managed to get a workaround.
If I enforce IPSec with ESP between my primary and secondary DPM server then the agent stops terminating or reporting checksum errors.
Still waiting on someone from the DPM team to give a suggestion here as it seems to be a bug that started after I installed Roll Up 2 for DPM 2012 R2
Thanks
Jacques

DPM 2012 R2 unable to connect to Database after failed Update Rollup 4 Installation

We have a DPM 2012 R2 Server with SQL Server 2012 installed locally.
We tried to install Rollup 4 for DPM 2012 R2 (KB3009516) using Windows Update
and it failed with error code 0x80070643. Now when we open the DPM Console
it is totally empty (no Protection Groups, Servers, Disks, just like a fresh install).
In the eventlog we get a lot of Errors and warnings:
Event 941 (MSDPM)
Unable to connect to the DPM database. Make sure that SQL Server is running and that it is configured correctly.
Cannot open database "DPMDB" requested by the login. The login failed.
Event 4209 (MSDPM)
The description for Event ID 4209 from source MSDPM cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
DPM Writer encountered an internal error. Please restart the DPM Writer service, and then try the backup operation again. For additional troubleshooting information, review the application event log and the DPM Troubleshooting Guide.
Event 107 (Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER)
Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database.
Event 274 (SQLISService110)
Microsoft SSIS Service:
Registry setting specifying configuration file does not exist.
Attempting to load default config file.
Then there are some Errors/warnings from SQLSERVERAGENT about failed scheduled Jobs.
I think the failed Installation changed some database Settings, so that now the DPM Console
cant access the database anymore.
I would be happy if someone can help me getting this Server working again!

Our biggest problem is, that the DPM is not working any more. So there is no chance to backup the SQL Server via DPM.
I think the main problem is that DPM have no access to the database. Every time I start the DPM Application, I get an error "verify that the DPM service is running on this computer". In the eventlog are many errors that the msdpm service was unable
to connect to DPM Database. Another "information" is that the user 'nt authority\system' failed to open the database of dpm.
We've tried to reinstall the DPM but its still the same problem. I suppose that is a corrupt database.
Tomorrow I try to restore the database and hope it will be the solution of our problem.

DPM 2012 R2 Support and Hyper-V Workloads on REFS Storage

We have deployed all of our Virtual Machines on REFS filesystem. We are in the process of deploying DPM 2012 R2 and would like to know if there is any information available from Microsoft as to when REFS will be supported for Hyper-V workloads on REFS. Any
information will help us plan for whether to move Hyper-V loads to NTFS.
I can see the Windows Server 2003 is now supported in UR2 and wonder if there is a roadmap available that will be included in future UR for DPM 2012 R2.
Also any information for re-enabling the integrity checking in VHDX after we move a VM from REFS to NTFS would be appreciated.

Hi,
I do not believe we will be adding support for protecting Hyper-V hosted on REFS in the near term, so plan on using NTFS.
If you are already using REFS and are getting backup failures, you can create the following registry key on the Protected Server, restart DPMRA service and run a consistency check.
A. On protected server, browse to the registry path: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\2.0.
B. Create a DWORD registry value called "ForceFixup" and set it to 0x1.
C. Restart the DPMRA service on protected server.
NOTE - This will disable use of DPM filter so there will be some backup and possible server performance tradeoffs.
We do not announce fixes in upcoming UR releases.
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DPM 2012 R2 SetAgentCfg.exe wont run

Hi,
We have an RODC that I have got DPM installed on now. I need to run the SetAgentCfg command to finish off the process and get it all work but the application errors saying not compatible with this version of Windows. The RODC is running on Windows
2008 32bit.
Thank you
Nick

Hi,
We don't have x86 version of SetAgentCfg.exe for DPM 2012 R2, but the DPM 2010 version should work ok.
I placed a dpm2010-setagentcfg-x86.zip here for you to try.
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DPM 2012 SP1 - Single Data Source Written to Multiple Tape Drives

Just a question, really...
I know that DPM can write to multiple drives for a single protection group with more than one data source.
However, is it possible for DPM 2012 SP1 (or R2) to write to multiple drives from a single data source from a single protection group?
So if I have "DataSource A" in "MyProtectionGroup" and I allocate 2 tape drives to the PG, could DPM use both drives to backup the PG?
I assume the answer is "no," but I just wanted to double check. Thanks.

Hi,
What you are wanting is a feature called striping and DPM does not have that advanced feature.
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Connection dropped between DPM and Agent during consistency check, following DPM 2012 SP1 to DPM 2012 R2

Recently I have updated a DPM 2012 SP1 standalone server to DPM 2012 R2. That it’s self was a challenge... Following the upgrade most of the protection groups required consistency checks. For some time I have been having problems performing these consistency
checks on remote servers over a 10Meg link.
On the DPM server I would kick off a ping to the remote host, then start a consistency check. Within a few seconds I would start to get dropped pings, and very large ping response times, 3000ms plus. Within 3 minutes the pings would time out completely and
no connections can be made to the remote server, RDP etc. However any other server on the network can connect to the remote client. Eventually the DPM jobs times out and sometime later the pings also return.
The resolution to this has taken some digging but this is what I have found. The DPM agent update does not seem to fully work and requires a reinstall. Here is my process:
Logon to remote client server
Install .net 4 (a raw install of the client requires this, may not be needed when done via DPM)
Via Add Remove Programs, remove DPM agent
Clean up Reg
Delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager"
Delete "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DPM**" (However this key is not there for me)
Back onto DPM Server
Modified protection groups as required to remove all instances of the client server
Remove Agent for client server
Install agent via DPM (watch for the glitch right at the end where it does a failed, then succeed…)
REBOOT client server
Add back into protection group
Consistency check kicked off automatically
This seems to have fixed the issue.

Hi,
The prerequisite required for DPM 2012 SP1 that must be installed is a re-rerelease of UR3 which is 4.1.3317.0 - please download and install the update specified.
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Backup fails for a Hyper-V guest with VSS Writer failures using DPM 2012 R2 - Hyper-V guest has Oracle application installed,

I am trying to backup a VM which before it had Oracle installed backed up with no problems. It is a Windows 2008 R2 server which sites on an 8 node Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster (with CSVs). I am using DPM 2012 R2 to run the backups which have been
successful for the last few weeks but then Oracle was installed and the backups have failed since then.
The job fails and a large number of VSS writers go into a 'Failed' state with the 'Last Error' showing as 'Timed out'. I then get 4 popups appear each referring to a 'temporary' drive which appears briefly in Disk Management with a RAW file system.
These pops say "You need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?" (where
X: is replaced by the drive letter assigned to each 'temporary' drive).
The System event log is populated with a large number of warnings with Event 51, Disk, stating "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk<number>\DR<number> during a paging operation". There are also a
few warnings for Ntfs (eventid 57) stating that "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."
Prior to these warnings there are 5 other warnings for partmgr (eventid 58) stating "The disk signature of disk
<number x> is equal to the disk signatuire of disk <number y>" and 4 errors (eventid 1, VDS Basic Provider), "Unexpected failure. Error code: 490@01010004".
There is a script which is run to stop the Oracle application on the server and if this is run then the backups will complete successfully. We have been troubleshooting this by running a certain amount of the script and seeing which part affects the
backup and it seems that if the Weblogic (wls_reports) service is stopped then the backup will succeed but if it is running then the backup will fail and the above symptoms occur.
Another point which may help is that there is a pre-production server which resides on a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V standalone server, has the same scripts and installation of Oracle but backs up without any issues.
I have experienced VSS writer failures before with VM backups but I have not seen this before. It is not intermittent and I can find no work around to alleviate the problem of having no backup (except stopping this service or shutting the server down,
but as it is a production server this is not practical).
If anyone has experienced this before or have any suggestions / advice it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Chris

Hi Chris
I have exactly the same issue.
2008 R2 Server running Oracle
6 node 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster with CSV
Exact same errors and popup "format disk" message.
DPM2012 R2
I also have some other VM's on the same cluster which do back up through DPM
The only difference I can see is the server which has the issue has a legacy network adapter.
Production server so cannot make any changes until later but will add new adapter and report back.
Interesting about the Weblogic service, may test this also.
Cheers
Kev.

DPM 2012 R2 catalog failing, not all database items are available for restore

I recently started protecting my SharePoint 2013 site using DPM 2012 R2. I was able to get item level recovery working, but not all of the database items are showing in the recovery section. I go get the warning "DPM failed to gather item
level catalog for 1 database(s) of the SharePoint Farm Some of the recovery points for these databases in the farm would be associated with an earlier successful catalog. (ID 3133)"
I have looked on the SharePoint front end web server in the WssCmdletsWrapperCurr log file and I do not see any exception there.
It it is strange because I do get the option to restore some items, just not all of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
Resizing the boot partition (usually C:) should not effect DPM in any way. DPM writes directly to it's volumes contained in the storage pool and not through the mount points on the C: drive. So is the DPM UI showing
missing volume next to some data sources ? Try doing a DPM disk rescan and see if that removes the missing volume flag.
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DPM 2012 R2 Rollup 4, Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3 backups with eseutil check fail

Hi,
It could be a coincidence, but ever since installing Update rollup 4 onto DPM 2012 R2, (which was at UR3 I believe) I haven't been able to complete an Exchange express full backup or consistency check with verification using Eseutil checked. If I have the
eseutil check enabled I get the following error:
Type: Consistency check
Status: Failed
Description: Data consistency verification check failed for LOGS of Exchange Mailbox Database Mailbox Database 2011112513 on SERVER.xxx. (ID 30146 Details: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (0x80070020))
Disabling the eseutil verification allows it to succeed, but I'm not happy to continue with that for too long.
I've had this running for many years and this is the first real issue with exchange, its a single stand alone exchange database.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andreas

Andreas,
the error is stating that something else has a handle to a file or files during the ESEUtil check. Typically this is AV. I have also seen where the Exchange limits are exceeded and that causes the issue.
Please ensure you have the DPM AV exclusions for the DPM server and I would advise the DPMRA.exe on the PS. You can also trying disabling or removing AV as a test.
DPM AV exclusions -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757911.aspx
You may also want to test using eseutil against the logs outside DPM and see if that fails with similar issue. Let us know. Thanks
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DPM 2012 R2 Backup job FAILED for some Hyper-v VMs and Some Hyper-v VMs are not appearing in the DPM

DPM 2012 R2 Backup job FAILED for some Hyper-v VMs
DPM encountered a retryable VSS error. (ID 30112 Details: VssError:The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.
(0x800423F3))
All the vss Writers are in stable state
Also Some Hyper-v VMs are not appearing in the DPM 2012 R2 Console When I try to create the Protection Group please note that they are not part of cluster.
Host is 2012 R2 and The VM is also 2012 R2.

Hi,
What update rollup are you running on the DPM 2012 R2 server ? DPM 2012 R2 UR5 introduced a new refresh feature that will re-enumerate data sources on an individual protected server.
Check for VSS errors inside the guests that are having problems being backed up.
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DPM 2012 still requires put end users into local admin groups for the purpose of end user data recovery?

On client computers that are protected by DPM 2010 and prior versions, you had to put the end users account in the local administrators group. If you did not add the end user account to the local administrators group you would get this error after opening
the recovery tab in the DPM client: “DPM found no recovery points which you are authorized to restore on the specified DPM server. You can restore only those recovery points for which you were an administrator at the time the
backup was taken. To restore other recovery points, contact your DPM administrator, or attempt to restore from another DPM.” This is not ideal on many networks because the end users are not allowed to have local administrator access.
Ths fix to this was included in hotfix 2465832 found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2465832.
This hotfix (a hotfix rollup package for DPM 2010) resolves other issues with DPM 2010 as well. You can find the full list of what this hotfix corrects on that link.
One would think this issue should have been resolved in DPM 2012, however I am encountering the same exact issue, had to include end-users into the workstation local admin group before they can search for recovery points on the DPM server. This is not acceptable
practice.
Is there a new hotfix for the same issue on DPM 2012? I am hesitated to apply KB2465832 since it also includes many other fixes for DPM 2010, which may not appicable for version 2012.
Please help.
Thanks,

This is a hands off solution to allow all users that use a machine to be able to restore their own files.
1) Make these two cmd files and save them in c:\temp
2) Using windows scheduler – schedule addperms.cmd to run daily – any new users that log onto the machine will automatically be able to restore their own files.
<addperms.cmd>
Cmd.exe /v /c c:\temp\addreg.cmd
<addreg.cmd>
set users=
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>c:\temp\perms.reg
echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\ClientProtection]>>c:\temp\perms.reg
FOR /F "Tokens=*" %%n IN ('dir c:\users\*. /b') do set users=!users!%Userdomain%\\%%n,
echo "ClientOwners"=^"%users%%Userdomain%\\bogususer^">>c:\temp\perms.reg
REG IMPORT c:\temp\perms.reg
Del c:\temp\perms.reg
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That's a good one! Thanks for that.
I've been scripting on KIX for some time, so here is mine, hope it helps to someone... (it's probably not the best, but it works)
========================================================================
$RC=setoption("WOW64AlternateRegView","on")
$DPMkey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\ClientProtection"
$uservariable = "%userdomain%\%username%"
If KeyExist ($DPMkey)
$Userstring=ReadValue($DPMkey, "ClientOwners")
If $Userstring == ""
WriteValue($DPMkey,"ClientOwners", $uservariable, "REG_MULTI_SZ")
? "Key created"
else
If not instr($Userstring,$uservariable)
$Userstring = "$Userstring,$uservariable"
WriteValue($DPMkey,"ClientOwners", $Userstring, "REG_MULTI_SZ")
EndIf
Endif
EndIf
==========================================================================
The problem actually is that you still need to use an admin account to write on the registry, so ensure you configure it properly on the schedule task.
In case you use a service account on the schedule task... the "$uservariable" will get populated with that account. As a work around to this... I changed it for the following line:
=========================================================
$uservariable = ReadValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI", "LastLoggedOnSAMUser")
=========================================================
The only problem with that, is that key gets created/updated only if user gets logged phisically on that PC, but will not work for anyone connecting through RDP.

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