[python-win32] com_error creating VSS shadow copy (running as windows service)

[Tim Roberts]

Gerardo García Urtiaga wrote:
>
>
> We have an application that launch a VSS (volume shadow copy), when
> the application is running as administrator user, the shadow copy is
> made correctly, but when the application is running as windows service
> the application has a crash:

Under what user are you running the service?  If you are using
LOCAL_SYSTEM, then you should have administrator privilege, but if you
are using a regular user, then you do not.


> com_error: (-2147221020, 'Sintaxis no v\xe1lida', None, None)
>

That's MK_E_SYNTAX, meaning the string could not be parsed in the
current context.

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