Windows 2003 Server update stopped remote desktop listening on 5 out of 8 servers <newsjune2007[ at ]ronaldduncan.com> 6/28/2007 10:43:46 AM Any ideas how to get remote desktop to listen again without rebooting live servers. We did an update on 8 servers last night, now 5 no longer function with remote desktop. The patches applied were as follows:- 7 servers (4 down 3 remote desktop ok) KB935839 KB890830 KB935840 KB929123 KB924667-v2 1 server all the above plus (down) KB927891 The remote desktop service is running sc qc rpcss - shows the service is still corrrectly setup and sc queryex rpcss - shows the service in state 4 running telnet localhost 3389 does not connect and using netstat -abnv|more shows that it is not listening on port 3389 Any ideas on how the get remote desktop to listen again or to restart the service with out rebooting much appreciated. OTHER SYMPTOMS All the machines where remote desktop is not running did not do a normal reboot. The event log stops at the message USER32 shutdown type restart And there are none of the nomal restart messages. On the machines that are still working it is the normal USER32 shutdown type restart followed by EventLog Event log service stopped And post reboot EventLog Windows banner message and normal boot sequence. All the best Ronald Please copy replies direct to newsjune2007[ at ]ronaldduncan.com which will get straight through to me thanks.

Re: Windows 2003 Server update stopped remote desktop listening on 5 out of 8 servers Harry Johnston <harry[ at ]scms.waikato.ac.nz> 6/28/2007 6:31:13 PM newsjune2007[ at ]ronaldduncan.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > OTHER SYMPTOMS > All the machines where remote desktop is not running did not do a normal > reboot. From the sounds of it they didn't reboot at all. You will need to reboot them, probably at the local console. If you want to doublecheck whether or not they actually rebooted, you can use psinfo from here: <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/PsInfo.mspx> It will show the uptime, compare this to the time since the "reboot". Harry.

Re: Windows 2003 Server update stopped remote desktop listening on 5 out of 8 servers Daniyar <daniyar[ at ]gmail.com> 6/29/2007 9:51:34 AM I had the same issue on about 3 servers, I did not try to fix the problem without rebooting. But after another reboot all started working ok.