Recently 2 Sever Essential 2016 servers show in the daily report "Windows Server Essentials Storage Service" as not running. I can restart the service but it seems to stop again after 15-20 minutes. Everything including backup appears to be working so I put resolving on the 'back burner'.....till today.
I tried to add a another backup drive using the dashboard but as soon as I click on the "click to set up server backup" link, a popup appears; "An error occurred while configuring the backup policy. Open the health monitoring tab to see if there are any alerts that can help you". There were none and then I noticed the "server folders" and "hard dives" tabs, under storage, are empty as well.
I read the article Server folders in the Essentials dashboard show missing (server-essentials.com) but restarting the service does not seem to resolve any of these problems, even temporarily. Two servers have the same issues and have been updated to Aug 8/2021.
Anyone with any suggestions or similar experience?
Thanks,