Windows Server 2008 SP2 and the crashing Network Policy Server
Since SP2 was released on April 30th, i’ve installed it on a few uncritical machines.
One of these runs our TS Gateway Server and our NPS Server for Wireless LAN authentication.
Unfortunately, since the SP2 installation, the NPS service started crashing, taking several other services with him.
Error message is as follows:
Faulting application svchost.exe_IAS, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0×47919291,
faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e04189, exception code 0xc0000005,
fault offset 0×0000000000001467, process id 0×1444, application start time 0x01c9d570f76f56bc.
I’ve found one other reference to this issue on the on the TechNet Forums.
I’ve uninstalled SP2 and delayed SP2 deployment until this has been resolved.
computer consultant:
I learned a while ago. When it comes to Microsoft products you need to give them at least 3 months to work out the bugs.
25. May, 2009, 22:12Stu:
Interesting this still hasn’t been resolved. Maybe we need to change our rule of thumb to be 6 months, not 3 months :(
4. August, 2009, 00:02msnriggs:
Have you found a hot fix or workaround yet?
11. August, 2009, 23:31Pete:
I experienced this exact same problem after being direcetd from MS support to install this service pack to resolve NPS problems. If you have NPS do not uninstall it as you will not be able to reinstall without a complete rebuild of the system. rebuilt the system updated to SP2 and got everythign working untill I received these errors.
25. August, 2009, 17:19