Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)).

To resolve this you will need to grant COM permissions to the user running the application pool.

1. Open up Component Services (Start -> Run -> dcomcnfg)
2. Expand Component Services -> Computers
3. Right click My Computer -> Properties

4. On the COM Security tab click Edit Default under the “Launch and Activation Permissions” section

5. Add the IIS_IUSRS group and check allow next to Local Launch and Local Activation

An error occured collecting server information data. Check that WMI is available.

Looking back at the command prompt on the controller I also saw this:

ERROR:Unknown error -1073738789 (c0000bdb)

Wireshark and Procmon did not really indicate any problems. In my situation I was logged into the WCAT controller as a domain user which did not have administrative access on the web server I was trying to start the Perfmon counters on.

After adding this domain user to the administrative users group on the web server, the WCAT test successfully collected the Performance counters specified in my settings.ubr file.

Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Database Engine Services — Error 25012. There was an error attempting to remove the configuration of the product which prevents any other action from occuring. The current configuration of the product is being cancelled as a result.

To correct this I needed to follow the steps below to tell SQL it was no longer in a cluster. Then I was able to uninstall normally.

1. Open Registry Editor (Start -> run -> type in ‘regedit’)

2. Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\ClusterState\SQL_Engine_Core_Inst

3. Change the value of this “SQL_Engine_Core_Inst” key from 1 to 0.

4. Uninstall as normal through Programs and Features

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {12345} to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID from address LocalHost

1. Open Component Servers (Start -> Run -> dcomcnfg).

2. Expand Component Services -> expand Computers.

3. Right click My Computer -> Properties -> COM Security tab.

4. Click “Edit Default” under the “Launch and Activation Permission section.


5. Click Add -> Advanced -> Find Now.

6. Scroll down and select the “NETWORK SERVICE” user -> OK -> OK

7. Select the “NETWORK SERVICE” user and check the allow box next to “Local Launch”.


8. Click OK -> OK

The solution was to install the System Update Readiness tool for the appropriate version of Windows. I recommend the manual install (method 2) here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

After hotfix 947821 is installed just try installing the failing feature or role again. In my case an incomplete Windows update or feature installation was preventing the installation of the SNMP feature.

select @@servername
sp_helpserver

Then to actually change this instance name run the following query. Make sure to update ‘old_instance_name’ and ‘new_instance_name’ accordingly:

sp_dropserver 'old_instance_name'
go
sp_addserver 'new_instance_name','local'
go

Restart the SQL service in order to apply this change. Then confirm it took effect by running the two queries mentioned above:

select @@servername
sp_helpserver

I was able to resolve this by tracking down the correct errmsg.sys file for the “good” version of MySQL. Full instructions for this can be found below.

Full error message:

120327 9:18:48 [ERROR] Error message file ‘/usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys’ had only 481 error messages,
but it should contain at least 641 error messages.
Check that the above file is the right version for this program!
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Unknown error 1146
120327 9:18:48 [ERROR] Can’t open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.

1. Determine the correct version of MySQL:

yum list installed | grep mysql

Example output:

mysql.i386                              5.0.95-1.el5_7.1               installed
mysql.x86_64                            5.1.58-jason.1                 installed

2. Find the tar.gz installer file for your specific version of MySQL. Change the version in the following URL as needed:
http://mysql.llarian.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/

The example output above confirms there are two versions installed. The newer one is the “correct” version (5.1.58). You are looking for the .tar.gz file with no additional details in the name, for example “mysql-5.1.58.tar.gz”.

3. Extract the newly downloaded install files:

tar -zxf mysql-5.1.58.tar.gz

4. Make a copy of the old errmsg.sys file just in case:

mv /usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys /usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys.old

5. Copy the new errmsg.sys file to this same location:

cp mysql-5.1.58/sql/share/english/errmsg.sys /usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys

6. Attempt to start the MySQL service again:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

If this process does not work the best option may be to uninstall and reinstall MySQL (after backing everything up of course).

To confirm this was successful check the logs on the new master firewall. There should be an entry that looks similar to this:
Peer device 5303936 in the Virtual Security Device group 0 changed state from primary backup to master.

This turned out to be a permissions issue with the following folder
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys

Ensure that the “Administrators” group has full control and the “Everyone” group has the following permissions on this folder only:
List folder / read data
Read attributes
Read extended attributes
Create files /write data
Create folders / append data
Write attributes
Write extended attributes
Read permissions

tar -zxvf archive.tar
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

This tar may have been created without compression. In that case just remove the -z option. If this still does not work the tar file may be corrupt. Try confirming the file type using the “file” command:

file archive.tar
html.tar: POSIX tar archive