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Windows 2003 Server Not Functioning after updates
I installed updates last night on our Windows 2003 Server. (Web Server). After reboot all services stop functioning. IIS is discounted and I cannot connect to local machine. Network adapters are not visible, In event reviewer cannot open log files to view errors. Cannot delete updates from friday. Went into device manager cannot view properties on anything. Any ideas on what else to do???
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Does anyone know if RPC Failure can cause all services failure?
you have at least 30 service who depend directly on RPC. For a full list in the service.mcs RPC properties, dependencies you will see a large list.
look here http://blogs.technet.com/asiasupp/archive/2007/05/29/service-starting-problem-after-installing-sp2.aspx
Dan
look here http://blogs.technet.com/asiasupp/archive/2007/05/29/service-starting-problem-after-installing-sp2.aspx
Dan
Do you have a backup of this server? .. It sounds like you don't, and if that's the case then you're at disaster recovery time, and you will have permanently lost a finite amount of data. There's no way around that.
Bottom line, If you don't have a backup, there's no easy way out of this.. and if your RPC server is stuffed, you really are in trouble. That O/S isn't going to get fixed.
You could do a repair install of windows over the top of your current configuration. This should leave intact on the server the files that would have been in the various websites, and database storage files (if you have any) ...
BUT
You are going to wave goodbye to your IIS metabase... which means the websites will not be setup on the server. You would need to recreate them all in IIS, along with any site specific settings such as host headers, default documents, etc.. re-pointing these new websites at the locations of the files from the old websites which are still on the hard drive.
Also (if applicable), you would need to reinstall your database server applications and re-link them to the database files which may not be an easy process either.
If you can still log onto the server, then before doing anything else, copy the contents of WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\M
Bottom line, If you don't have a backup, there's no easy way out of this.. and if your RPC server is stuffed, you really are in trouble. That O/S isn't going to get fixed.
You could do a repair install of windows over the top of your current configuration. This should leave intact on the server the files that would have been in the various websites, and database storage files (if you have any) ...
BUT
You are going to wave goodbye to your IIS metabase... which means the websites will not be setup on the server. You would need to recreate them all in IIS, along with any site specific settings such as host headers, default documents, etc.. re-pointing these new websites at the locations of the files from the old websites which are still on the hard drive.
Also (if applicable), you would need to reinstall your database server applications and re-link them to the database files which may not be an easy process either.
If you can still log onto the server, then before doing anything else, copy the contents of WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\M
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Problem fixed ....... Had to go into regedit and delete the hardware key for rcpss root and had to add permissions to dhcp, rcpss, & tcpip. Added local administrator and network services. After reboot all services came back up.
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