SQLSERVERAGENT EventId 203 error

• David Gray-367412

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  April 24, 2008 at 4:47 am

  #95916

  Hi,

  We have a snapshot replication setup on SQL 2000 whihc has been

  running fine for sometime. Yesterday the infrastructure team

  installed F-Secure antivirus on the server (Windows Server 2003 std)

  and now the whole mechanism is broken.

  We have got rid of F-Secure completely and rebooted the server but the

  the snapshot agent still fails with a source of SQLSERVERAGENT and an

  eventid of 203.

  There's not much I can see on the net regardign this error.

  All replication happens on this server, i.e Distributor, publishers

  and subscribers.

  Anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong?

  Thanks in advance

  Dave.

  Event Type:Error

  Event Source:SQLSERVERAGENT

  Event Category:Job Engine

  Event ID:203

  Date:24/04/2008

  Time:10:31:12

  User:N/A

  Computer:TANDOORI

  Description:

  SubSystem Message - Job 'TANDOORI-XPS-2-SQL-XPS2SQL-BAP-3'

  (0x586F278BE2C2D84D9FBFC0DFDBF02A17), step 2 - Server execution failed

  For more information, see Help and Support Center at

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

• SQL ORACLE

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  April 29, 2008 at 8:52 am

  #808423

  Did you try to exclude the data folders of your SQL Server from Anti-virus scanning?