WSE 2012R2, Win Updates + New Drive = WSE Mgt Services stopping

[jmone]

Odd one.  

 

I did some WSE2012R2 Maintenance (Oct rollup patches) and added a new drive to the pool.  I noticed that the Users and Devices in the WSE Dashboad were blank when run on the server I I could not Sign In from a PC at all.  On checking, the WSE Mgt Services was not running.  I could start it but it would stop again.  

 

Tried the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Data\DevicesInfo.bak --> C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Data\DevicesInfo.xml but that did not work.  In the end I had to do a "run wbadmin delete catalog" and then resetup the Server Backup from the Dashboard.

 

Seems OK again.

 

Thanks

Nathan

 

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

It's the new drive that did this. 

 

I'm guessing that the system drive is not disk 0?

 

Or even if it is ... this is a well known issue that Microsoft "can't reproduce" and refuses to acknowledge. Since WHS2011 days...