This error occured on a Windows SBS 2011 server whilst trying to run a Windows Backup to a USB External Drive:
Event ID: 521
Task Category: None
Description:
The backup operation that started at ‘XXXXXX’ has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code ’2155348129′. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
To make sure it is the sharepoint SPSearch4 VSS writer which is causing this problem,
1. Open an administrative command prompt
2. Run, “vssadmin list writers”
3. Take a look at the output and find the details for ‘SPSearch4 VSS Writer”, if it is in error with “Inconsistent Shadow Copy” as shown below run the steps below the error message.
Writer name: ‘SPSearch4 VSS Writer’
Writer Id: {35500004-0201-0000-0000-000000000000}
Writer Instance Id: {34a1fd6e-667d-4671-a551-2d4689c4e508}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Inconsistent shadow copy
To fix this Backup Failure,
1. Open an administrative command prompt
2. change directory to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN “
3. Run “PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures”
4. Reboot server (there are reports that you don’t need to reboot after this command but the backups failed until I rebooted). Apparently this issue can occur after running Sharepoint SP1 or other Sharepoint updates.
When trying to install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 onto Windows 2008 R2 x64 you get the following error dialogue:
This program is blocked due to compatibility issues.
Program: Office Sharepoint Server 2007 – Please read Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 962935
Unfortunatly a quick search of the Microsoft site doesn’t yield this KB. If someone can find it please let me know and I’ll put a footnote to this post.
To fix this you are going to have to slipstream the Office Sharepoint Server 2007 SP2 into the CD or install files you are using.
1. Copy the Sharepoint CD to a folder on the Computer.
2. Download the releavant Service Pack 2 for the architecture you are using (64 bit in this case) from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082&displaylang=en
3. Open a command prompt to the folder with the Service Pack 2 in it and type in the command: officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\users\Administrator\Desktop\Sharepoint\x64\Updates
The path you extract to will most likly different depending on where you extracted the CD.
Note: According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx you are supposed to delete a dll called Wsssetup.dll but I didn’t have this file in my updates folder or any other folder within the CD source so I ignored this step.
From here you should now be able to run the setup.exe from the root of your installation folder.
When trying to install Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you receive the following error:
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Setup Errors
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Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s):
This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions. If it is not available in the list, re-install ASP.NET v2.0.
Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.
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OK
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In my case the .Net Framework was installed but it wasn’t in the Web Services Extensions list. I’m assuming this is because I installed IIS after the .NET framework.
To fix this error you will need to open up a command prompt window and change your directory to “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727″ and run the command “aspnet_regiis.exe -i” as shown below.
After this command completes successfully you will need to open up IIS Manager and go to Web Service Extensions and mark “ASP .NET v2.0.50727″ as Allowed if it isnt already.
Backup, Software, Windows 2008 | Wayne | 
January 18, 2012 5:39 am | 
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