Policy

Allow or Disallow use of encryption to protect the RPC protocol messages between File Share Shadow Copy Provider running on application server and File Share Shadow Copy Agent running on the file servers.

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategorySystem > File Share Shadow Copy Provider
Supported onAt least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

Determines whether the RPC protocol messagese used by VSS for SMB2 File Shares feature is enabled. VSS for SMB2 File Shares feature enables VSS aware backup applications to perform application consistent backup and restore of VSS aware applications storing data on SMB2 File Shares. By default, the RPC protocol message between File Server VSS provider and File Server VSS Agent is signed but not encrypted. Note: To make changes to this setting effective, you must restart Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Service .

Internal name
Pol_EncryptProtocol
Policy ID
606d03a4b5e6
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\fssProv\EncryptProtocolREG_DWORD
1
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.