Re: Can COM Be Reinstalled?

On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:44:37 -0500, "SCAdmin"
<> wrote:

>Trying to get a stupid app to work (WhatsUp) so it can send e-mail alerts
>when Event Log stuff happens.
>
>Kept getting Access Denied error, did some testing with WMI test.
>
>Some article I ran across suggested changing the permissions inside Control
>Panel / Admin Tools / Component Services. I added myself in there, and
>domain admins, and a couple of other accounts I needed to work with all
>this.
>
>Long story short -- changing the permissions didn't make any difference. So
>I tried to put everything back the way I found it. However, the securtity
>tab inside the dcomcnfg.msc would NOT let me put it back to blank, or empty,
>or null, or whatever you want to call it, which is how it was when I first
>started. So I tried deleting all the accounts. Stupid, I admit, but
>certainly no more stupid than whoever designed this stupid interface.
>
>Anyway, now I can't get com services to work on this server. When I open
>the dcomconfig snap-in, My Computer has a red down arrow next to it.
>Whenever I try to do anything, it says I don't have permission.
>
>I just got finished REINSTALLING WINDOWS SERVER 2003 AND APPLYING THE
>SERVICE PACKS. Still no good. (Sorry for the all caps, but I'm getting a
>little frustrated here.).
>
>Anyway, how the hell can I uninstall / reinstall com, or get it back to how
>it used to be?
>
>Thanks.
>

Try this KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315296
it worked for us, but our problem may have been different.

This one http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892500 is referencing SP1
install with COM+ failure

good luck!
Mike