Windows 2003 Server R2 + SP2 => remote administration gone

[Guest Atlan]

Hi Newsgroup,

 

I just want to share a bad experience that we had with the SP2 on

Windows 2003 Server Standard English R2.

 

The installation was fine but afterwards the remote administration was

gone. Which means that the remote clients accessing the server reacted

like there is no terminal service active.

 

We set the [x] in "Control panel > System > Remote Administration"

several times. There we reassigned users that are allowed for remote

access. We checked the firewall for problems with the remote port.

Microsoft ISA Firewall reported successfull pass through of remote

access. To verify that the ISA is not the problem we removed the

firewall and switched the Server Firewall off. But still we where

unable to reactivate remote access. Then we reinstalled the ISA and

reapplied our standard config again => no luck.

 

Finally we removed SP2 and the remote access working again!

 

 

After that we decided to reinstall the server with x64 R2 and applied

SP2 on top: remote administration is now running. Ok, it helped to

speed up our x64 migration but it was still annoying.

 

Best regards,

Holger