When clicking on Security Auditor, the mmc crashes with the following:
Microsoft management Console has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry or the inconvenience
When expanding Security Auditor nodes MMC crashes and the follwoing error messages appear in Event Viewer:
Event ID: 1000. The source is .NET Runtime 2.0 Error
Faulting application mmc.exe, version 5.2.3790.3959, stamp 45d6a11d, faulting module mscorwks.dll, version 2.0.50727.3082, stamp 492b82c1, debug? 0, fault address 0x001c5fc0.
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3625 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05AE08) (80131506)
This is a .NET Framework issue, not a Quest Console issue. This is caused by unknown issues in the WPF of the .Net 2.0 SP1 and/or .NET 3.5 SP1 Framework.
There are solutions that helps to fix the .Net issue:
1. Install hotfix for .Net Framework:
It was initially here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963676) which was later superseded with a later one (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981574). Please ontact Microsoft directly to obtain the fix for either 32/64 bit version. It is called NDP20SP2-KB963676-x64.exe or NDP20SP2-KB963676-x32.exe. Please also find the KB981574 in the following link: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=33154.
2. Uninstall some .Net hotfixes.
Once the fix is installed, it was seen in some cases that it was not enough, and the removal of older .Net fixes resolves the issue (but the above needs to be installed first), the other fixes (for .Net 2.0) are the following:
KB979909
KB2518864
KB2539631
KB2418241
