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by shanghai sam

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I am running windows 2000 sp2 on a network. I have installed the Adminpak.msi. When I open up the Admin tools and try to open up the Active Directory users and groups I get a popup message:

MMC Snap-in failed to initialize, Name: Ras Dialin - User Node Extension CLSID:{B52C1E50-1DD2-11D1-BC43-00C04FC31FD3}.

This message is also present when I open the computer managment console and click (Local users and groups). I only get this message the first time I open either of these snap-ins After I open the MMC. If I close the message box and the Active directory snapin opens with no problems and the Computer managment users and groups open with no problems.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the adminpak, did a repair installation on Windows 2000, and performed an in place upgrade install on 2000. I also exported the registry key the message referenced saved it in a folder on my hard drive and then deleted that key. Nothing seems to work. If any one has any sugestions I am all ears.

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by joseph moore

Well, this happens quite a lot. I've seen this happen on snap-ins that should still be working (on Removeable Storage on one server) and on snap-ins that were deleted (I removed IIS, and the snap-in was still there, generating this error).
There are a couple of Technet articles for you to look at, but they don't really help much. The first one is "Uninstalling the DNS Service Does Not Remove the DNS Snap-in from the Computer Management MMC (Q242768)":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q242768
(please remove any spaces)

And look also at "Error Message "Snap-in Failed to Initialize" When You Use Microsoft Management Console (Q297064)":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q297064
(again, remove any spaces)

Both articles basically say that this is a known problem in Win2k, but that there really isn't a good fix for it.

You could try and manually remove the snap-in info from the Registry manually. There seems to be 2 spots where it iskept:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\NodeTypes

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns

You could search for the Ras Dialin snap-in message, and delete its entire hive structure in both spots.
Of course, before doing this, I suggest you back up the Registry! Just in case!

One last thing: I know you CANNOT open Local Users & Groups on a AD Domain Controller, so don't try that.

hope this helps

by ken howard

Have you installed the new tools from SP2, or the original adminpak....
SP2 changed multiple tools (including the recovery console...) check technet for updated versions...

Ken

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