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Q153153: Error Message: "SMS.EXE - Application Error"

Article: Q153153
Product(s): Microsoft Systems Management Server
Version(s): winnt:1.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbnetwork kbsmsAdmin smsadmin smsgeneral kbArtTypeINF
Last Modified: 27-JUL-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.1 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you configure the Default Network to be Multi-protocol on the SQL Server
Client Configuration Utility, the following error message will occur when you
close the SMS Administrator application:

  SMS.EXE - Application Error
  The instruction at "0x77f8d67f" referenced memory at
  "0x00000010". The memory
  could not be "read".
  Click on OK to terminate the application

WORKAROUND
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Run the SQL Server Client Configuration Utility and select Named Pipes as the
Default Network. After Named Pipes is configured, use the SQL Service Manager to
stop and restart the SQL service.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server
version 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server
version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms

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Keywords          : kbnetwork kbsmsAdmin smsadmin smsgeneral kbArtTypeINF 
Technology        : kbSMSSearch kbSMS110
Version           : winnt:1.1

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