We were recently migration on premises virtual machines from Hyper-V to Azure. We were using Azure Migrate and all was going well until the “Prepare for configuring protection” stage of the project.

The error message we were experiencing was:

Error ID

10003

Error Message

Protection couldn’t be configured for cloud/site HyperV-Migration-HyperVSite.

Provider error

Provider error code: 31408 Provider error message: Failed to fetch the version of Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent installed on the Hyper-V host server SERVER.DOMAIN.COM Error: Provider not found Provider error possible causes: It is possible that Registry provider of WMI is corrupted. Provider error recommended action: Build the repository using MOF compiler and retry the operation.

Possible causes

One or more hosts couldn’t be prepared. Check the Provider error for more information. “

The resolution for this error was to run the below commands from command prompt

  • cd wbem
  • mofcomp regevent.mof

We reran the job after running the below commands and the job succeeded ?

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