How do you do Powershell with MFA enabled on the console

[jdoty]

I am trying to run some powershell scripts in the console and they are failing because the console has MFA enabled. The console is running which is how I launched the Powershell console. I tried the Connect-VBRServer command with credentials but it didn't prompt for MFA and failed with the error below:

Connect-VBRServer : PowerShell client update environment initialization failed: Failed to connect to Veeam Backup &
Replication server:
The logon attempt failed
Execution environment cannot be initialized to Remote
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-VBRServer -Credential $Cred
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Connect-VBRServer], AggregateException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UpdateCheckerErrorId,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.ConnectVBRServer

[ronnmartin61]

MFA would be pretty useless if one could simply bypass it by running PS scripts to perform VBR operations. You'll need to add user/role definition(s) in VBR in order to run your scripts in a user context not subject to MFA...

[jdoty]

THanks, I am useing an account that doesn't require MFA.

[ronnmartin61]

Great. Then MFA isn't the issue. I was able to reproduce this error by not specifying a target server. Try explicitly specifying the remote VBR host i.e.

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Connect-VBRServer -cred $credential -Server <IP/FQDN> 

If MFA is the issue you'll see an error like "Unable to connect to the server with MFA-enabled user account"

[jdoty]

Yes, I am all good now. Thanks again.