DPM 2012 R2 Only Administrator Has Permissions to Open DPM Console

DPM 2012 R2 - I had an issue where the only Administrator could log on to the console. There were MMC errors saying the snap-in could not be loaded. I added the appropriate users in to SQL with access to the DPM SQL Database...and it now works! Easy!

DPM 2012 R2 Replica Creation Failed - VSS

To cut a long story short, I had to re-setup a File Server in DPM. The server had been backing up fine before, but when I set up the protection again, the Synchronization Failed with

 

The replica of F:\ on %servername% is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection activities for this data source will fail until the replica is synchronized with consistency check. 
DPM failed to synchronize changes for  F:\ on %servername% because the snapshot volume did not have sufficient storage space to hold the churn on the protected computer.

 

 

 

I checked the disk space on the server - it has 7TB free!
I ran the usual VSSadmin commands, checked the VSS settings via the GUI, changed the sizes to unlimited etc.
The backup still failed with the same error.



As the server had been in production some time I had a thought...when the server was first set up, Quotas were not configured and they are now.  So I turned off the Quotas and the backup worked!