Failed to Deploy Integration service to Guest VM in Hyper-V

Symptom

When backing up a virtual machine that has the application (SQL or Exchange) installed, the recovery point does not include the writer information and the activity log of the backup job displays the following warning message:

Failed to deploy integration service to the VM.

Solution

This issues happens often when the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is disabled by firewall on the guest VM. To resolve this issue, use the following steps:

  1. Log into the guest VM.
  2. Open Control panel.
  3. Open windows Firewall.
  4. Click Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall.
  5. Enable Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI).
  6. Click OK.