WinServer2003: Telephony Service stops one second after starting

July 16, 2007

We have been using a Windows Server 2003 box as our VPN server for years.

When it attempted to automatically install Service Pack 2 last week, it ran

out of disk space on c:\. I then deleted a bunch of stuff, including some

unused Windows components, then successfully updated to Service Pack 2.

Now, everything works, except VPN. The Remote Access Service won't start,

because it depends on the Telephony Service. When you start that service

manually, it starts then stops one second later. If you set Telephony to

automatic, the event log fills up with starts and stops once per second.

I don't know if this is a result of SP2 (probably not) or the result of

accidentally deleting a file or component that is needed for Telephony (more

likely), but in

any event, I don't know how to go about troubleshooting this, and we do need

to get our VPN server up and running again.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

July 18, 2007

Re: WinServer2003: Telephony Service stops one second after starting

On Jul 16, 9:56 am, scooper <scoo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> We have been using a Windows Server 2003 box as our VPN server for years.

> When it attempted to automatically install Service Pack 2 last week, it ran

> out of disk space on c:\. I then deleted a bunch of stuff, including some

> unused Windows components, then successfully updated to Service Pack 2.

>

> Now, everything works, except VPN. The Remote Access Service won't start,

> because it depends on the Telephony Service. When you start that service

> manually, it starts then stops one second later. If you set Telephony to

> automatic, the event log fills up with starts and stops once per second.

>

> I don't know if this is a result of SP2 (probably not) or the result of

> accidentally deleting a file or component that is needed for Telephony (more

> likely), but in

> any event, I don't know how to go about troubleshooting this, and we do need

> to get our VPN server up and running again.

>

> Any suggestions?

>

> Thanks in advance.

Try uninstalling RRAS and reinstalling it.

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