RE: Server Management does not open.
- From: v-branee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Brandy Nee [MSFT]")
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:22:12 GMT
Hello Bill,
Just a follow up. Can you open the other snap-in in Administrative Tools
(e.g. DNCP, DNS, Services, etc)? Have you installed any anti-virus software
on your server?
Best regards,
Brandy Nee
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>""Brandy Nee [MSFT]"" wrote:
>> 1. You mentioned "I could not open the Server Management program to see
the
>> ToDolist etc" and "I have not been able to open it since! either on the
>> console or on an RDC connection." I have following questions:
>>
>> a. Please be more specific, can you open Server Management? OR
>>
>> b. You can Open Server Management, but there is no TO DO List.
>
>No window for MMC Server Management opens at all.
>
>> I suggest that capture a screen shot for us to better understand your
>> scenario.
>
>There is nothing to see, so a capture would not help.
>
>>
>> 2. Please explain in detail "On clicking the entry in the startup menu
>> nothing happens. On finding it in the Administrative Tools folder, same
>> thing; it doesn't open."
>>
>> Do you mean the Start Menu and the Administrative Tools folder is empty?
I
>> suggest that capture a screen shot for use to better understand your
>> scenario.
>
>The entry in the start menu is there in the usual place at the top of the
>left column of the start menu; though its icon is a sphere with a yellow
>triangle with an exclamation mark on it instead of the usual crossed
spanner
>& hammer in front of a tower case.. On clicking it nothing opens.
>On going to administrative tools in the normal manner via the Start menu,
>the icons are as expected, the Server Managment item is there again with
the
>sphere&triangle icon, on clicking it no window opens.
>
>>
>> 3. I suggest that we reinstall MMC on your SBS Server. Please refer to
the
>> following KB article for detail steps:
>>
>> 829622 How to Reinstall the Small Business Server 2003 Consoles
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=829622
>
>With this peculiarity happeing so early in the build of a new system, I
>think that merely re-installing MMC on spec, without full diagnosis, could
>lead to an unknown number of future problems, so if anything is to be
>re-installed it will be better for me to Zap the HD & start all over
afresh,
>reinstalling the whole server.
>>
>>
>> 4. For your additional information:
>>
>> LaunchConsole.exe launches either Server Management or Server Management
>> for Power Users console depending on the group membership of the users
>> logging ON THE SERVER.
>>
>> It launches the management console appropriate for the user logging on
the
>> server. This EXE has no associated UI nor does it accept command-line
>> parameters. The console that is launched is determined by the following
>> logic. So please try whether you can open Server Management by following
>> methods:
>>
>> - If the user is member of Domain Admins, LaunchConsole.exe launches
>> %allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Small Business
>> Server\Administration\itproconsole.msc
>>
>> - If the user is member of Domain Power Users, LaunchConsole.exe
launches
>> %allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Small Business
>> Server\Administration\mysbsconsole.msc
>>
>
>Based on your comments above it tried RUN:
>mmc "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>Data\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Administration\itprosbsconsole.msc"
>This brings up a small dialog:
> Snap-in failed to initialize
> Name: Small Business Server Administrator Home Page
> CLSID: (0142952-E3F9-931C-8D6E6608CD54)
>Clicking the OK on that does open an MMC window with the expected Server
>Management items in its left column, but on clicking them most say
>"Snapin-failed to initialize" etc. First time, though may open later.
clearly
>that is not a proceedure in which I can place any trust for a stable
future.
>
>Bill Williams
>
>
>
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>> >I am setting up a Dell server, with Win2003 SBS preinstalled by Dell,
for
>> >various reasons I had to leave the setup process for 3 days. So I
logged
>> out.
>> >
>> >On returning to it 3 days later after logging in with the only account
>> >(administrator) I found that I could not open the Server Management
>> program
>> >to see the ToDolist etc.
>> >
>> >On clicking the entry in the startup menu nothing happens. On finding
it
>> in
>> >the Administrative Tools folder, same thing; it doesn't open.
>> >
>> >I did a Remote Desktop Connection from a differrent computer and the
>> Server
>> >Management opened of its own accord as it is supposed to, so thinking
that
>> >perhaps the problem was that it had been already open in that session
for
>> 3
>> >days, I closed it to retry from the console. I have not been able to
open
>> it
>> >since! either on the console or on an RDC connection.
>> >
>> >I don't think it relevant but the console is working through a DRAC
card
>> (a
>> >remote control card that can reboot & power cycle the server etc).
>> >
>> >
>> >Anybody got any ideas on the best way to get this back to normal
>> conditions?
>> >
>> >Bill
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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