I can't Start\Stop\Pause SQL Server or SQL Agent from Remote SSMS

Hello,
I do all of my SQL Server administration remotely from my workstation and
i noticed that the green running status symbol was blank on one of my MS SQL
2005 servers. I also noticed that when i right click on the server name my
options for start stop and pause are disabled. I can see all of the tables
and run my queries without any issues. If i log onto the server itself i can
see the status symbols and start\stop\pause the services for the Server and
Agent. Does anyone know why i wouldnt be able to remotely do this or see the
status of the server services? Thanks in advance for the help!
jrunowski (jrunowski@.discussions.microsoft.com) writes:
> I do all of my SQL Server administration remotely from my workstation
> and i noticed that the green running status symbol was blank on one of
> my MS SQL 2005 servers. I also noticed that when i right click on the
> server name my options for start stop and pause are disabled. I can see
> all of the tables and run my queries without any issues. If i log onto
> the server itself i can see the status symbols and start\stop\pause the
> services for the Server and Agent. Does anyone know why i wouldnt be
> able to remotely do this or see the status of the server services?
Normally, you can only stop and start services on the local machine. This
is not specific to SQL Server, but applies to Windows in general. I guess
that you can configure a machine so that services can be stopped and
started from a remote computer, but it sonds like a dare security-wise.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
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I can not start (initialise) report server status from reporting services configuration ma

I have reporting services installed on my machine and just a couple of days back every thing was working correctly until some thing i have no idea of happened and screwed up every thing. No i can not access report manager and report sever. When i open reporting services configuration manager, the server status is not initialised and results in following error in the computers event log.

Service cannot be started. System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'ReportingServicesNativeServer, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)

File name: 'ReportingServicesNativeServer, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' --> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800736B1): This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)

at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceAppDomainController..ctor()

at Microsoft.ReportingServices.NTService.ReportService.OnStart(String[] args)

at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)

For more information, see Help and Support Center athttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Accessing report manager from the browser also throws this exception.

Server Error in '/ReportServer$SQLExpress' Application.

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Configuration Error

Description:An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message:An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\ReportServer' because access is denied.

Source Error:

[No relevant source lines]

Source File:c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\ReportServer\web.config Line:0

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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210

I'm having the same problem and I was just wondering if you managed to get your report server working

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Okay so I got it working.

I got this solution fromAaron Stebner's blog.

Create a batch file with the following commands:

cd %SYSTEMROOT%\WinSXS
for /D %%i in (*vc80*) do rd %%i /s /q
del manifests\*vc80* /q
cd policies
for /D %%i in (*vc80*) do del %%i\* /q

Run the batch file

Then run a repair install of SQL reporting services.

And it should come back.

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On my side, i got it working by just un-installing and then re-installing reporting services.