Issue: RPC Service Not Getting Started after recovering Server from OS Crash

Symptoms/Observations:

• All Automatic services fail to start
• RPC Service Not starting
• Unable to view description of Services in extended mode in services console.
• Unable to view properties of eventlogs
• Repeated userenv errors in eventlogs

Resolution:

• Open MMC (Start–Run–MMC)
• Go to File–Add/Remove Snap-In
• Add  ‘Security Configuration and Analysis’
• Right click on ‘Security Configuration and Analysis’ & select ‘Open Database’
• Open C:\Windows\Security\Database
• Type a name for database (Ex: test)
• Now select  execute File–‘Setup Security.inf’ (C:\Windows\Security\Templates).
• Right Click on ‘Security Configuration and Analysis’ and select ‘Configure Now’
• Reboot the server

All Automatic Services will be up and running and the server is restored to normal position.

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