{"id":773,"date":"2012-07-07T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-07-07T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T12:26:06","slug":"mmc-could-not-create-the-snap-in-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"MMC could not create the snap in &#8211; Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mmcerror-full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mmcerror-full.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After recently performing an in place upgrade from Server 2008 Standard to Server 2008 Enterprise (I was after using the DFS features on this particular server) I started receiving an odd error message <strong>when trying to load server manager<\/strong>. The full message is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Name: Server Manager<\/p>\n<p>CLSID: FX:{18ea3f92-d6aa-41d9-a205-2023400c8fbb}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the usual research (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/\">Bing<\/a>) it turns out this error relates to <strong>something in .NET framework needing a reset<\/strong> after the in place upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Fix was simple enough, just navigate to one of the two paths (depending on which architecture version of Server 2008 you have installed) and change the file <strong>machine.config<\/strong> to <strong>machine.config.old<\/strong> and reboot the server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>x86-32<\/strong> &#8211; C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\CONFIG\\<\/p>\n<p><strong>x86-64<\/strong> &#8211; C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v2.0.50727\\CONFIG<\/p>\n<p>Lone behold after the reboot your MMC snap-in will work with no issues.<\/p>\n<p>Do remember however this does change things in .NET and it would be worth checking out any .NET applications on your server after running this fix.<\/p>\n<p>Original solution found <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/winserver2008appcompatabilityandcertification\/thread\/eb317c2f-ebf1-42fe-8fcc-a61a1246f5d9\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recently performing an in place upgrade from Server 2008 Standard to Server 2008 Enterprise (I was after using the DFS features on this particular server) I started receiving an odd error message when trying to load server manager. The full message is MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly. Name: Server Manager&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=773\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[105,103,104],"series":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-software","tag-18ea3f92-d6aa-41d9-a205-2023400c8fbb","tag-mmc","tag-windows-server-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}