Post-upgrade VSS trigger task vanished / Previous Versions down

Avagon Zales 40 Reputation points
2026-07-31T03:53:10.74+00:00

Quick heads-up / sanity check on a storage box we just upgraded. The OS upgrade seems to have scrubbed the scheduled task responsible for taking VSS snapshots. As a result, Previous Versions is completely dead in the water right now.

What’s the recommended, supported route to re-provision this trigger? Are we supposed to re-enable/re-configure it through the Volume Shadow Copies GUI settings on the drive properties, or is there a native PowerShell cmdlet/WMI method to stand the shadow copy schedule back up without hitting edge cases down the road?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Windows update
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