Backup Exec Console Goes AWOL: The Register

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Link: Backup Exec console goes AWOL: The Register

 

Data security biz Veritas says that some users are unable to log on to its Backup Exec console" after installing the November or December Windows 2016 updates. It has patch removal workarounds to fix this.

 

The logon error message, shown below, reads: “BackupExec Management Service was unable to start. Connection open and login was successful, but then an error occurred while enabling MARS for this connection. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 15 - Function not supported).”

 

Veritas’s recommendations are to remove some of the updates; the .NET framework patches have been confirmed by Microsoft as being "optional" and "can be safely uninstalled". as optional...