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Cannot Establish a Connection to a Windows File Server Compression Service

Symptoms​

  1. Symptom 1. The following error appears when trying to process an item with Netwrix Auditor for File Servers:
Unable to process item: Cannot establish a connection to a Compression Service (0x80070424 The specified service does not exist as an installed service).
  1. Symptom 2. The Netwrix Auditor Application Deployment Service is not installed on the target server.

Cause​

The error appears when the Remote Registry Service was disabled on the target server.

Resolution​

To resolve the error, do the following:

  1. Enable the Remote Registry Service referencing the following article: Windows File Servers — Enable Remote Registry Service — v10.8.
  2. Reboot Netwrix Auditor Server.

After that, the Netwrix Auditor Application Deployment Service appears on the target file server. Depending on the amount of audited data, further data collection may take a while.