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Error Message: "SMS.EXE - Application Error"

Article ID: 153153

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q153153

SYMPTOMS

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

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

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

Keywords: kbarttypeinf kbnetwork kbsmsadmin KB153153