Critical Error 101 - One solution

[Jim]

I spent a few hours trying to figure this one out on my Win2003 server. What
I eventually found was that my DCOM permissions were not adequate.

-Run DCOMCNFG
-Navigate to Component Services\Computers\My Computer
-Right Click Properties
-Goto Default COM security
-Click 'Edit Default' in the 'Access Permissions' group box
-Verify/Add an appropriate user/group with allowed access

This worked for me when the other solutions did not. I hope this helps
someone else.

 

[Aseem]

I have a win2k Pro installed and am getting the same error
And dcomcnfg is different in 2003 and 2000 as i am not able
to follow the steps u listed.
Any more suggestions

 

[Aseem]

Well found a solution
Run Dcomcnfg & enable DCOM then go to Default security and
in Default Access Permissions click on edit default and add
the administrators group to it with full access. ( I donot
know whether this group is there by default as it was not
in mine. I had only the power user group in it.)

 

[Jim]

Glad it worked for you ... I suspect this is a problem with many 101 errors.
I'm not sure why the permissions were not correct on my box. The only
difference is that it was an upgraded Win2000->Win2003 Server install.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This is great feedback--thanks for the posts.

Glad it worked for you ... I suspect this is a problem with many 101
errors. I'm not sure why the permissions were not correct on my box. The
only difference is that it was an upgraded Win2000->Win2003 Server
install.

 

[geoffrey]

i have a different problem with error 101. The program
works fine when installed manually, but using unattended
install, i get the error. I checked DCOMcnfg and its OK.
any thoughts?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Others have reported that the unattended install doesn't work. I'm not sure
that I've seen either success reports or workarounds.

This product is not meant for enterprise use. There are significant issues
with such use, including:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892375 End users may be prompted to allow or
block administrative actions that originate from a central management tool
after they install Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) on a computer that is managed
by Systems Management Server 2003