GPO tool

Group Policy made searchable

A free ADMX browser or comparison tool for IT administrators.Search policies, find registry keys, and see exactly what each setting writes to the Windows Registry. Or compare two GPO backups to see exactly what has changed between them.

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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.

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 .

Registry Information

VendorMicrosoft
ProductFile Server VSSProvider
CategoryFile Share Shadow Copy Provider
Applies toComputer Configuration
Supported onWindows8
Registry Key[HKLM]SoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsfssProv
Value NameEncryptProtocol
TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled value1
Disabled value0