After I installed Service Pack 2 on my Windows XP workstation, the Automatic Updates service failed to start with the following error:
The Automatic Updates service terminated with the following error:
The class is configured to run as a security id different from the caller.
After some searching online, I found out that this problem is created when certain Administrative security templates are applied to a computer before installing XP SP2. I finally came across the solution here:
http://www.wsuswiki.com/AutomaticUpdatesServiceTerminated
The solution turned out to be a one-line command entered at the command prompt:
SC sdset wuauserv D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)
Here’s the output:
After I entered it, the AU service started beautifully…
Now I have to figure how to resolve a pesky TFS error message and fix the search index in my SharePoint farm…
The SharePoint Nomad 