Security Configuration Wizard - Cannot apply Security Policy Error

5 Jan 2007 11:31 AM

Michael Martel

Greetings!

I'm just finishing rolling out SCW to all my servers and configuring them.
It's been working _very_ well. Except on one server. On this one server I
try and apply the policy and I get the message:

Cannot Apply Security Policy
The Security Configuration Wizard cannot continue because the security
policy could not be applied to the selected server.

Problem: unspecified error

When I view the log file, I see that the error is in the Extension
Microsoft.OS.Services. It says :

HRESULT 0x80070005
Error Configuring C:\WINDOWS\security\msscw\ConfigureFiles\Services.inf
Access is denied.

HRESULT 0x80070005
Cannot complete extension processing: Microsoft.OS.Services
Access is denied.

The machine is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP1, just like all my
other servers. I'm running McAffe Viruscan 8.5 on the server.

I'm really kind of stumped. 1 out of 37 servers.

Any Thoughts ?

5 Jan 2007 1:19 PM

Leandro Amore

did you try to reinstall the component?
if that's not working you can transform the policy into a GPO and apply it
to the server.
to do that run the scwcmd

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"Michael Martel" <Michael Mar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37913D0B-9C8D-47CE-B715-43059D9E4E0F@microsoft.com...
> Greetings!
>
> I'm just finishing rolling out SCW to all my servers and configuring them.
> It's been working _very_ well. Except on one server. On this one server
> I
> try and apply the policy and I get the message:
>
> Cannot Apply Security Policy
> The Security Configuration Wizard cannot continue because the security
> policy could not be applied to the selected server.
>
> Problem: unspecified error
>
> When I view the log file, I see that the error is in the Extension
> Microsoft.OS.Services. It says :
>
> HRESULT 0x80070005
> Error Configuring C:\WINDOWS\security\msscw\ConfigureFiles\Services.inf
> Access is denied.
>
> HRESULT 0x80070005
> Cannot complete extension processing: Microsoft.OS.Services
> Access is denied.
>
> The machine is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP1, just like all my
> other servers. I'm running McAffe Viruscan 8.5 on the server.
>
> I'm really kind of stumped. 1 out of 37 servers.
>
> Any Thoughts ?

5 Jan 2007 1:34 PM

Martel, Michael H

Yes. Uninstalled, reinstalled. same thing. Removed Virusscan, rebooted and
tried again, same thing. Used Process Monitor from Sysinternals and didn't
see anything obvious. I can navigate to the directory and edit the files in
question, so it's not a file Access denied message.

I'll have to look into setting it up as a GPO.

Thanks.

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"Leandro Amore" <leandro.am***@fake.prisma.cc> wrote in message
news:41A0AC88-41A3-430C-A6D0-E0582A61B728@microsoft.com...
> did you try to reinstall the component?
> if that's not working you can transform the policy into a GPO and apply it
> to the server.
> to do that run the scwcmd
>
> "Michael Martel" <Michael Mar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:37913D0B-9C8D-47CE-B715-43059D9E4E0F@microsoft.com...
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I'm just finishing rolling out SCW to all my servers and configuring
>> them.
>> It's been working _very_ well. Except on one server. On this one server
>> I
>> try and apply the policy and I get the message:
>>
>> Cannot Apply Security Policy
>> The Security Configuration Wizard cannot continue because the security
>> policy could not be applied to the selected server.
>>
>> Problem: unspecified error
>>
>> When I view the log file, I see that the error is in the Extension
>> Microsoft.OS.Services. It says :
>>
>> HRESULT 0x80070005
>> Error Configuring C:\WINDOWS\security\msscw\ConfigureFiles\Services.inf
>> Access is denied.
>>
>> HRESULT 0x80070005
>> Cannot complete extension processing: Microsoft.OS.Services
>> Access is denied.
>>
>> The machine is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP1, just like all my
>> other servers. I'm running McAffe Viruscan 8.5 on the server.
>>
>> I'm really kind of stumped. 1 out of 37 servers.
>>
>> Any Thoughts ?
>

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