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Sameer Surve

I have been in the Software Industry for more than 16 years and am currently a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services covering US West Region. After many years of procastination for not writing a blog, here is my attempt at it. My current technology focus is on SharePoint, BizTalk. The purpose of this blog is to help others avoid hours that they may potentially spend in researching the issues discussed in this blog. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's views in anyway. The thoughts\recommendations offered here comes AS IS. No warranties, express or implied, are given. They have been offered in good faith and any consequential damage due to their use is the sole responsibility of the user.

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Component Services: Launch and Activation Permissions Disabled in Windows 2008 R2
 

Environment

  • Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008

 

Issue

On Windows 2008 R2, when one

  • Navigates to Component Services > Computers > My Computer > DCOM Config > IIS WAMREG Admin Service
  • Click on Properties (for IIS WAMREG Admin Service) and navigate to the Security tab
  • Edit Launch and Activate Permissions is disabled

 

Resolution

After raking my brain on this issue (and searching) I finally came across the cause and resolution here

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Fix-the-SharePoint-DCOM-10016-error-on-Windows-Server-2008-R2.aspx

 

I am documenting this so others do not have to spend hours trying to resolve (and search) this issue and some of you can get to this issue faster using correct keywords (hopefully)

Published Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:35 PM by sameers

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