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Background: I have a windows 2000 server that I am trying to upgrade to Server 2003. I reckon at some stage during an install of a piece of software that changes to permissions on certain registry keys were carried out. These weren't changed back when the offending software was removed. Now when I do an upgrade to 2003 server it blue screens during install. I'm guessing that it can't access the registry keys that it needs to when performing the upgrade. Brought the server back up again from a backup, changed root key in HKLM to give Everyone Full control and forced this to propagate down to all sub keys. Performed the upgrade and it worked without blue screening. Question: Can I just untick the box and take Full Control back off the Everyone group and carry on as normal with an upgraded server or should I restore the server back to 2000 and find another resolution to doing a proper upgrade? Has anyone any experience on this? Cheers PC.

hi I have two almost identical 2000 servers that I recently attempted an upgrade to server 2003 on. One server works fine, the other blue screened during the install. After restoring both servers back to 2000, I diagnosed the problem on the failed server as being a permissions error because after giving the Everyone group Full Control at the root C: and letting it propagate down through folders, I then performed the upgrade again and it worked fine. There was a piece of software that was installed on the failed server, that has since been removed, that I believe changed permissions on certain folders and has caused the blue screen. Having now restored the server back to its original state I am just querying is there a tool that I can run to check permissions on certain folders so that I can compare them against the other server and see where the permissions differ? Cheers PC

Hi, While performing an upgrade from 2000 server to 2003 server, the server reboots, does a quick blue screen of death flash, and reboots again. This happens continuously. Tried booting into safe mode and same thing happened. The blue screen happens so fast that I cant see the error message. Managed to boot with an ERD commander CD and had a look in the setuperr.log file and found the following entries: Error: setupqry: (0x5) SetupInstallFromInfSection() Failed *** Error: setupqry: (0x5) QueueConfigurationParams Failed *** Error: Sub-component COM+ raised an exception while processing the OC_COMPLETE_INSTALLATION setup message. d:\srv03rtm\com\complus\src\complussetup\comsetup\csetuputil.cpp (line 2712) Error Code = 0x8000ffff Catastrophic failure Failed to execute function 'DllRegisterServer()' in 'C:\WINNT\system32\comsvcs.dll'. *** Error: IIS Setup encountered an error. Please check the C:\WINNT\iis6.log file for further information. *** Error: Setup could not register the OLE Control C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole DB\oledb32.dll because of the following error: LoadLibrary returned error 127 (7f). Its the 'Catastrophic Error' that I am worried about. Had a look through the various sites that claim that reinstalling COM+ components would help but as I cant boot the thing up I can't do the reinstallation. Any suggestions on what it could be? Thanks in advance PC