- Successfully project managed the migration to new hardware and software versions of over 10 windows servers, small business servers and exchange servers for different clients. Including exchange 2003 to exchange 2007. - Managed the servers and network infrastructure of over 40 clients ensuring all equipment is healthy and monitored and reducing downtime by an average of 30%. - Managed up to five support engineers including assigning work, training etc. - Responsible for identifying and implementing business management software that resulted in 23% increased profit, greatly improved efficiency and reduced billing slippage. Autotask and Connect Wise software. - Introduced ITIL and other help desk standards and policies to improve efficiency and IT support effectiveness delivered to our customers. - Project managed a number of virtualization implementation projects resulting in huge cost savings including £2k a year in electricity alone.
Well finally had to do a complete restore of the server. Did the first restore but the issue still existed. Tried a number of different troubleshooting steps including;
ReplyDeletetrying to find and delete the pending.xml file from the winsxs folder. However it was not there.
Cleared out the software distribution folder
Cleared out the pending registry keys.
Please try the below mentioned commands in recovery console:
C:\windows\system32\config
ren system system.old
ren software software.old
ren SAM SAM.old
ren security security.old
ren default default.old
ren components components.old
c:\windows\system32\config\regback
copy system.old C:\windows\system32\config\system
copy software.old C:\windows\system32\config\software
copy sam.old C:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy security.old C:\windows\system32\config\security
copy default.old C:\windows\system32\config\default
copy components.old C:\windows\system32\config\components
Nothing worked. Microsoft wanted me to send them a CBS log file to analyse it at which point i decided they didn't have a clue what to do and had more time than i was willing to give them. I left it doing another restore to the day before.
The fact is that a windows update totally killed the server and we had to do a complete restore of the whole system from backup. Lucky we had a full backup but i still think it is a little disgusting that this happened in the first place and Microsoft have no answer as i saw this posted a lot on the net with no solutions.