SQL Server Agent failure - service restarted on its own!

• Jono-127296

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  April 23, 2009 at 10:09 pm

  #983372

  Hi Dave

  Here are some links you may find useful. It also includes the link to the WMI utility checker:

  http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d7ba3cd6-18d1-4d05-b11e-4c64192ae97d&displaylang=en

  https://update.thomas.edu/instructions/win_fixsms.asp

  http://www.djkaty.com/wmicorruption

  http://thirdshelf.com/2008/08/13/rebuilding-wmi-repository/

  Regards

  J

• DBADave

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  April 24, 2009 at 5:45 am

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  Thanks for the links. I'll give the WMI fix a try. Besides reboots we've also been able to temporarily fix the problem (and I stress temporarily) by following the instructions in this link.

  http://blogs.msdn.com/echarran/archive/2006/01/03/509061.aspx