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Testing Manage Patch Status

By On February 19, 2011 · 10 Comments

In my last post I discussed how the Product Version Job timer job uses the Windows Installer Service to query the installed state of SharePoint 2010 servers and how the Manage Patch Status page in Central Administration displays this information. I also touched on my reservations about what we [...]

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Inside Manage Patch Status

By On February 15, 2011 · 6 Comments

Back in August, I stumbled across a new type of DCOM 10016 error in SharePoint 2010, caused by the Product Version Job timer job. When I found the error, I was primarily concerned with keeping my event logs clean. Since then, the inelegance of my original work-around and the incomplete picture I contented myself [...]

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Product Version Job: DCOM 10016 strikes again

By On August 19, 2010 · 16 Comments

For some time now, IT professionals have been modifying DCOM activation rights in order to keep their System event logs clean. In SharePoint 2010, that fix became slightly trickier, as permissions to modify the DCOM permissions had to be granted through [...]

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