> I didn't notice it until now, but for the last two weeks I've been getting
> event id 1025 errors in "Vss Writer" in the VS EV log. "The VSS writer for
> Virtual Server failed during the Identify phase, and would not show up in
> the list of writers on the machine." And that's true: vssadmin list
> writers doesn't mention it.
>
> VS was continuing to work though, as usual, until rebooting the server
> tonight (Server 2003), at which point I received an error in the System
> log: 7000 in "Service Control Manager": "The Virtual Server service failed
> to start due to the following error: Access is denied." Which is probably
> a result of the writer being missing. The service will no longer start.
>
> How do I get the writer back? All I could find was this (see the end):
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/fr-FR/1102/thread/58b3aa1b-518e-4764-9dcd-8ef963fcde44
>
> I followed the procedure, but the "regsvr32 vswriter.dll" command would
> not complete. And when DLLs won't register, they won't register. Even if
> it did, I'm not sure it would have worked.
>
> I have no idea what occurred two weeks ago to prompt all this.