Missing SMS\Identification registry key

From: Les Landau (LandauL_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 08/08/04


Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 18:12:43 +1000

Hi,

SMS2.0 SP5 on Win2K SP3 and SQL 7.0 in a single central site structure.

Some things in SMS don't seem to be working, like collection update, and
logging to most log files. The only error that I can see is that the
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Identification registry key is missing!

This started occurring about a week or so back, but I cannot see why (i.e.
cannot relate it to any changes in the domain or SMS).

What would cause this key to go missing, and how can I recover it? Backups
run each night, and they seem to work. I will look at recovering the
registry keys from a previous backup, but am worried that something else may
be missing. I did a site reset that seemed to work OK, but did not create
the key. There are no errors in the event log or SQL log either.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Les

-- 
Les Landau
LanNet Services
landaul@ozemail.com.au


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