Posted on: 10/21/2012 3:11:35 AM | Views : 470

Hi, we have a SharePoint site installed with data spread between internal Windows database and the SQL Express 2005  installation. Both SQL server instances are patched up to SP4. When server starts the VSS writer service fails to start, when attempting to start manually it generates a side by side wrong configuration error. MS SharePoint VSS writer service starts and runs fine.
We get the following in the error log:  
<code>Activation context generation failed for "c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlwriter.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.ATL,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type= ...

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