Michael,

I would think that a great opportunity to build things right the first time around.  I've more often than not had to cleanup after little to no maintenance or security...

Thanks, George.

In prior lives I filled most of these roles at the same time.  It is nice to back away, and concentrate on one at a time for a change.

-- grant permission to the Mirroring service account

GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::Mirroring TO [DOMAIN\AccountName]

GO

-- replace ::Mirroring with ::YourEndpointName

Service account has full permissions to the backup folder, and is in the server admins group. When starting the backup, a zero byte file is created, but never populated.

This may have been covered already, but we encountered a problem with the scheduled task not collecting data. First you will need to select the option to execute...