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Deploying Veeam Agents Using Generated Setup Files

When you configure the Veeam Agent management infrastructure in Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create protection groups of the Computers with pre-installed agents type. If you selected this protection group type, you must deploy Veeam Agents on the computers that you plan to protect.

Deploying Veeam Agents Using Generated Setup Files IMPORTANT

Mind the following:

The deployment operation must take place on the Veeam Agent computer side.
You must use only those Veeam Agent setup files that are generated by Veeam Backup & Replication after the protection group for pre-installed Veeam Agents is created. To learn more, see Specifying Packages.
If any other version of Veeam Agent is already installed on the computer you plan to protect, you must uninstall it first.
If you uninstall Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows added to the protection group of the Computers with pre-installed agents type and then re-install it on the same computer, Veeam Agent will not connect to the Veeam backup server automatically. To connect Veeam Agent, you must repeat the configuration step of the Veeam Agent deployment scenario.

Deployment scenario depends on the Veeam Agent you work with: