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I recently had problems with the Automatic Updates on a Windows 2003 server (the problem described in this article also applies to Windows XP).
I was running WSUS in my domain, but the updates didn’t arrive. A quick investigation resulted in A LOT OF ERRORS in the event viewer. For a couple of days, the following error had returned every one or two minutes or so!
The following error may appear in your Eventlog. The error mostly occurs without notice.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10020
Date: 30-12-2008
Time: 10:05:12
User: %username%
Computer: %computername%
Description:
The machine wide Default Launch and Activation security descriptor is invalid. It contains Access Control Entries with permissions that are invalid. The requested action was therefore not performed. This security permission can be corrected using the Component Services administrative tool.
In all recent server editions of Windows, shutting down or rebooting a server always requires a reason to perform the action. This is an action performed by the Shutdown Event Tracker service.
In a production environment, I can only encourage to keep this annoying screen because it saves you from accidentally rebooting a server. However, in a test environment it can be quite annoying.
When using Microsoft Update or Windows Update to update Windows XP or Windows 2003, the following error may occur:
Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page. You may find the following resources helpful in resolving the problem: Error number: 0x80072F78
In Trend Micro Management Console, it is possible to add a Windows 2003 server to install the Trend Micro ServerProtect client.
After filling in Login Credentials and serial number and pressing OK, the following error may occur:
Error: Failed to complete this Operation.Target Server: SERVERNAME (538051332)