Microsoft 365 exchange online or one drive consolidation job fails with "0xe0000904 - An error occurred while retrieving catalog information."

Problem
 

Microsoft 365 exchange online or one drive consolidation job fails with "0xe0000904 - An error occurred while retrieving catalog information."
 

Error Message

Job Log reports the following error:
0xe0000904 - An error occurred while retrieving catalog information

Cause

The Exchange Online backup had a user in backup selection without an activated mailbox. During consolidation, this mailbox selection caused an invalid selection error and thus caused the failure.
In the case of one-drive consolidation, some selections which were unchanged did not create a corresponding entry in those incremental leading to a failure for those selection in consolidation job.
 

Solution

The issue mentioned in this technote is different from the one documented below :
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100062629?
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100071174?

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