Admin Share requirement to add servers

[GhalebDweikat]

Hello,

At the moment, we are unable to add Windows Servers to our infrastructure if access to the Admin$ is not provided. While it is indeed a requirement to deploy Veeam agents and services to the target machine, it is still against our security policy to grant access to the Admin$.
Is it possible to explore other methods of deploying services/agents to target windows machine without requesting access to the Admin$?


Regards,

[foggy]

You can try to install the required packages manually (can be found Backup/Packages in the product installation folder).

[GhalebDweikat]

We attempted that with one of the support agents but without access to the admin share Veeam cannot detect the server since it tries to connect to the admin share anyways even if the packages are installed manually.

[widmerkarl]

Hello Ghaleb,

Please make sure that all ports necessary for Veeam are accessible as mentioned in this KB article:
https://www.veeam.com/kb1518

This means the ports of the VM you want to backup on the one hand and the Veeam backup server on the other.

As read on MWPreson.net it is possible to install all the Veeam packages manually:
http://blog.mwpreston.net/2016/01/12/ma ... -services/

I'm not sure if Veeam tries to connect over the Admin$ share if any components are installed, i don't know this behaviour.

For example when you have a Veeam proxy somewere on your network, you should be able to add this server as a proxy in Veeam when you installed the necessary packages. There shouldn't be an additional try from Veeam to install the packages when the connection over the necessary ports is possible.

[foggy]

I'm not sure if Veeam tries to connect over the Admin$ share if any components are installed, i don't know this behaviour.

Access to share shouldn't be required once components are installed.