SharePoint 2007 - Beta2 TR COM Server event log entries
I am the type of guy who prefers a clean event log and when an error pops up I do my best to fix it. Well ever since installing SharePoint Office Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh I have been seeing these errors in the application event log. They look something like this:
ProblemDescription: Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Date: <somedate>
Time: <sometime>
User: <domain\username>
Computer: <computername>
Description:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}
to the user <domain\username> SID (X-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXX). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
I had these errors for each of the identities I had created to run the various application pools used by SharePoint. I searched and searched and have finally found a resolution to this issue courtesy of Harshawardhan Chiplonkar on his blog.
The resolution is as follows:
Navigate to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Component Services
Under Console Root, navigate to Component Services->Computers->My Computer->DCOM Config.
Right click IIS WAMREG Admin service and select properties.
In the Property pane, switch to the Security tab.
Click Edit on the Launch and Activation Permissions section and you should see that only administrators and network service have rights here. Add your service account(s) in here as well to match the admin rights and those errors should go away.
What a relief! The errors are gone and my event log is once again clean as a whistle.