Freigeben über

WSUS Service fails to start with error 193, WSUS Service is not a valid Win32 application

  • Artikel

As I continue to build my System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (CM12) lab I continue to shoot myself in the foot in a number of ways.  Over the weekend I discovered that my WSUS service was unable to start and was logging “WSUS Service is not a valid Win32 application” in the event log.

After some digging around I found this great post by David Obrien (and great Config Manager blog by the way) that points to the issue: https://www.david-obrien.net/2012/09/18/re-adding-pxe-support-to-configuration-manager-site/

Essentially a file had been created called c:\program and it was stopping the service from starting and renaming it worked a charm.  I’ll have to dig around a little more to work out what really happened here down the line. But thanks David!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks Simon, Was just about to start pulling my hair out over this one until I found this file on the C: drive. All working again Cheers!!!!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Simon, thanks for mentioning my blog and I'm glad I could be of help! Best regards, David

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Awesome job guys, I just had this issue and you saved me hours of research!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks Simon This post really helped, was struggling with this one. I know what you mean about SCCM 2012, this is my first experience with any version of config manager and it seems everything I try takes a lot of research to why it isn't working. Chris

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2013
    Great catch... I had the error too :(

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2013
    Thanks for the article it solved my issue...getting frustrated without the amount of time spent bug fixing SCCM 2012 now though (SP1 or not) :(

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2014
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2015
    OMG, worked :D Thx.

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2015
    Works for me. Thanks a lot.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2016
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2016
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2016
    That was it, thanks for the resolution Simon and David!