By default, the SharePoint search is not included in the SharePoint protection and, therefore, needs to be enabled for protection. The configuration uses the same executable that is required when you enable the SharePoint VSS.

On one of your SharePoint frontend web servers, open an elevated command prompt and go to the bin catalog for the DPM agent catalog structure at C:\Program files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin. Run the executable with the ConfigureSharePoint –EnableSPSearchProtection syntax and press Enter.

You will now be prompted to enter a username and password. You should enter the username in the [email protected] format

The account that you use must have the security privileges of a farm administrator. If the account you provide has insufficient rights, it will lead to VSS and initialization errors...