RE: Server Management does not open.
- From: "Bill Williams (DHL)" <BillWilliamsDHL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:25:02 -0800
""Brandy Nee [MSFT]"" wrote:
> 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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> >Thread-Topic: Server Management does not open.
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> >Subject: RE: Server Management does not open.
> >Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:40:05 -0700
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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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> >> >Subject: Server Management does not open.
> >> >Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:21:01 -0700
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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
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
Regrettably I am on a tight timetable and cannot afford the delay, for
uncertain diagnisos & tests.
I have wiped the hard disk & re-installed SBS 2003 from scratch to remove
the above problem
Bill
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