Re: Enabling security center on domain XP SP2 Workstations

From: dmkolb (dmkolb_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:43:02 -0700

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> dmkolb wrote:
>
> > Torgeir Bakken wrote:
> >
> >> 1)
> >> How do you try to start the Security Center?
> >> What messages do you get then (if any)?
> >
> > I attempt to start it from either Start/Programs/Accesories or from
> > the Control Panel and I get "The Security Service is unavailable
> > because the service isn't started or was stopped"
> >
> >> 2)
> >> Check the service that it is enabled:
> >>
> >> Start/Run --> services.msc
> >>
> >> Find "Security Center" in the list and double click on it.
> >>
> >> If the Startup type is not set to Automatic, change it to Automatic.
> >>
> >> Can you start/stop the service with the Start/Stop buttons?
> >>
> >> Go into the Dependencies tab and check that everything looks good
> >> there. SC is dependent on that the "Remote Procedure Call" (RPC)
> >> and "Windows Management Instrumentation" (WMI) services are
> >> running. Check the status of those services.
> >
> > I tried this also and heres what I get:
> > Could not start Security Center on Local Computer.
> > Error 1068: The dependency Service or group failed to start.
> >
> > RPC does start; WMI gives same as above.
> > when I try to open depencies I get Error Win32:
> > The dependency service or group failed to start!
> > Argh!
> Hi
>
> See if the tip from Karl B/Melvin Salazar works for you:
>
> <quote>
>
> From: "Karl B" <karl@gfield.org.uk>
> Subject: Possible solution to the windows update 0x800A0046 problem
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:03:39 +0100
> Newsgroups: microsoft.private.xpsp2.general
>
> Firstly, I take no credit for this I was going though the network
> newsgroup because my dialup network settings had vanished and a guy
> named Melvin Salazar suggested the following which WORKED!
>
> 'You can also try doing the following, it worked for me:
>
> Go to Services under the Administrative Tools folder.
>
> Notice that the logon account is set to a NT/User account under the RPC
> (remote procedure call) service. Change it to Local System account,
> under the Logon tab, and restart the computer. Many of these services
> depend on the RPC, but there was an error when it came to configuring
> this paticular service.'
>
> Now once I made these changes I was able to get my network icons back
> as well as use Windows Update.
>
> Thanks
> Karl
>
> </quote>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
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Nope didn't work either. Thanks for bearing with me thought. anybody else go
this problem?
>