You should verify that before making any assumptions. Are you familiar with the expressions that "assumptions make an ass out of you and me?" ( ass / u / me ) This is an expression that Systems Administrators live by. Learn it, live it, love it.
Its bad ju-ju to come to a support list with unverified assumptions. Do your due diligence before posting questions and answers that aren't rooted in your own facts. -- Espi On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > I concur with that diagnosis. But that's the strange part. AFAIK there > *are* > no GPOs. At least none that I have created and installed. I suppose one of > the supporting vendors could have done so. Guess I'll have to fire up > GPEDIT > and see what the heck is going on. > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 8:39 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Error message in logs > > Sounds like a problem with Group Policy Objects. What sort of GPOs do you > have applied to this server? > On 1 August 2011 13:32, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm getting an error message in my log files on Server 2003. The log entry > is as follows: > Security policies were propagated with warning. 0xb : An attempt was made > to load a program with an incorrect format. > > The error message says to search Microsoft for "troubleshooing 1202 > events." Well, apparently my search is f-ed up right now, because I can't > FIND anything on Microsoft's websites about this error! The closest I can > come is a KB article from Windows 2000 Server which includes commands that > don't work in Windows 2003 (registry editing and then issuing a "secpol > /enforce..." command, which is invalid in Windows 2003.) > > When I look at the security log file, I see the following error: "Saturday, > July 30, 2011 9:23:58 AM > Error 11: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. > Error creating database. > ----Configuration engine was initialized with one or more errors.----" > > Anyone know what the hell is going on here and how do I fix it? 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