Saturday, July 9, 2016

MMC crashing after re-installing WSUS

MMC console will crash after re-installing the WSUS and while running the WSUS post-install configuration.

The event viewer will show event ID 1000 with Faulting application name: MMC
Faulting application name: mmc.exe, version: 6.3.9600.17415.
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll
If we use procmon when the MMC is crashing, the error points to the missing tools folder in Update Services under C:\Program Files\Update Services. 
After re-installing WSUS, if we check Update Services folder, we cannot find the Tools folder which has wsusutil.exe.

To fix the problem re-install the WSUS and make sure the tools folder is created. Otherwise copy the tools folder from other WSUS installation.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the tip!
    We had to install WSUS on another server and copy 3 folders over to the broken installation;
    Api
    Schema
    Tools

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