Windows 10 VM Hyper-V Guest processing skipped on Host W2K12R2

Challenge

Guest Windows 10 VMs will fail to engage VSS when application-aware image processing is enabled generating an error:
Error    Guest processing skipped (check guest OS VSS state and integration components version) (System.Exception)
 

Cause

Integration services on Windows 10 VM are newer than the integration services on the host and not (or at least at this point) backwards compatible. You can verify this by opening Hyper-V host Event Viewer and go to:
 
Event Viewer -> Applications and Serivces Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Hyper-V Integration -> Event ID 4000



If you log into the VM and try to update the integration services, you will get a message:


 

Solution

Disable application aware image processing for the Windows 10 VM and use "Hyper-V quiescence" instead or engage Microsoft for further information regarding integration services compatibility.
 

More Information

For more information on "Hypver-V quiescence" please go to our Helpcenter.