License Logging Service Fails

[Matthew Miller]

We have a Win2K AD network. On our [primary] DC, the License Logging
Services fails to load. It tries to start, reports an error indicating it
failed to start in a reasonable amount of time, and then locks itself into a
"starting" state.

I searched Microsoft's KB, and found an article (#247794) that describes
what problems I am experiencing. However, that KB article refers to NT4
Server; nothing found regard Win2K Servers.

No major issues have resulted from this problem (so far). No other server
is experiencing the problem. Right now, the most I can tell that this is
affecting is a slow [re]boot time of the server, and error messages on all
the other servers stating that the licensing server on our main DC is not
running (Duh!).

To the best of my knowledge, the server in question does not have a virus,
nor has been recently infected and cleaned. Server is running SP4, with all
critical/security patches that applied to our network. Server acts as a DC,
DHCP Server, DNS Server and print server. Nothing else is installed on this
machine, including IIS/SNMP


Anyone seen this before, or can point me to some possible resource?

I have tried other newsgroups, but no success so far....


Thanks All
Matt Miller, MCSA

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

We have a Win2K AD network. On our [primary] DC, the License Logging
Services fails to load. It tries to start, reports an error indicating it
failed to start in a reasonable amount of time, and then locks itself into a
"starting" state.

I searched Microsoft's KB, and found an article (#247794) that describes
what problems I am experiencing. However, that KB article refers to NT4
Server; nothing found regard Win2K Servers.

No major issues have resulted from this problem (so far). No other server
is experiencing the problem. Right now, the most I can tell that this is
affecting is a slow [re]boot time of the server, and error messages on all
the other servers stating that the licensing server on our main DC is not
running (Duh!).

To the best of my knowledge, the server in question does not have a virus,
nor has been recently infected and cleaned. Server is running SP4, with all
critical/security patches that applied to our network. Server acts as a DC,
DHCP Server, DNS Server and print server. Nothing else is installed on this
machine, including IIS/SNMP

Anyone seen this before, or can point me to some possible resource?

I have tried other newsgroups, but no success so far....

Thanks All
Matt Miller, MCSA

License logging service is notoriously buggy and unreliable. Many
admins just turn it off.