Event ID 10016 - The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

Anonymous
2012-11-20T22:14:35+00:00

Lately I get this system error a lot now that I have upgraded to Windows 8 Pro is a DistributedCom Event ID 10016. Below is the error text:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}

and APPID

{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}

to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Anybody have any idea why I'm getting this error?

Walt

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Anonymous
2013-12-22T16:53:28+00:00

Same thing here. Greyed out. Windows 8.1 seems to fill the Event viewer with far more errors than previous versions.

edit: OK, found out why it was greyed out. There are 2 reg keys you have to set permissions to before you go to the DCOM Configuration in Component services. The CLSID key and the APPID key.

From another forum, although it applies to a different app, same principle:

*1. Open Regedit.2. Go to HKEY_Classes_Root\CLSID\*CLSID*.Note: *CLSID* stand for the ID that appears in your event viewer error. In your case, it's {C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}.3. Right click on it then select permission.4. Click Advance and change the owner to administrators. Also click the box that will appear below the owner line.5. Apply full control.6. Close the tab then go to HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Classes\AppID\*APPID*.Note: *AppID* is the ID that appears in your event viewer. In your case it's {316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}.7. Right click on it then select permission.8. Click Advance and change the owner to administrators.9. Click the box that will appear below the owner line.10. Click Apply and grant full control to Administrators.11. Close all tabs and go to Administrative tool.12. Open component services.13. Click Computer, click my computer, then click DCOM.14. Look for the corresponding service that appears on the error viewer.15. Right click on it then click properties.16. Click security tab then click Add User. Add SYSTEM then apply.17. Tick the Activate local box.So use the relevant keys here and the DCOM Config should give you access to the greyed out areas:*CLSID:

{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}

and APPID

{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-18T21:44:27+00:00

    No, I really don't think so. It's an update for the DVD player(!), which, btw, is not even something most people have installed. You have to go out of your way to install it, as the article mentions, and only then would you get the update, which would be completely irrelevant to this issue anyway. 

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3106246

    Maybe you meant the KB3105211 system update that came out a week ago, but that does nothing for this either.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-19T03:17:32+00:00

    This worked for me, no more error messages in Event Viewer.

    No it didn't errors return 2 days later.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-08T06:24:07+00:00

    I also am getting some 10016 errors after fixing the security permissions and ridding myself of most of them. Now, my new 10016's give me:

    param1 application-specific
    param2 Local
    param3 Activation
    param4 x4c7a3b7dy2188y46d4ya362y19ac5a5805e5x.AppXv1pa150fssxfwf8qn0j65z3gp1qhwkcs.mca
    param5 Unavailable

    So parameter 4 CLSID is some unknown and parameter 5 should be the APPID but it is "Unavailable". Any advice on this? Tough to track an unknown app with no APPID in the registry in order to fix that. Any advice?

    Another:

    EventData
    param1 application-specific
    param2 Local
    param3 Activation
    param4 App.AppXwdz8g2fxr36xz0tdtagygnvemf85s7gg.mca
    param5 Unavailable
    param6 HOME-DESKTOP
    param7 XXXXXX
    param8 S-1-5-XXXXX-1002
    param9 LocalHost (Using LRPC)
    param10 Unavailable
    param11 Unavailable

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T06:27:29+00:00

    Same thing here. Greyed out. Windows 8.1 seems to fill the Event viewer with far more errors than previous versions.

    edit: OK, found out why it was greyed out. There are 2 reg keys you have to set permissions to before you go to the DCOM Configuration in Component services. The CLSID key and the APPID key.

    From another forum, although it applies to a different app, same principle:

    *1. Open Regedit.2. Go to HKEY_Classes_Root\CLSID\*CLSID*.Note: *CLSID* stand for the ID that appears in your event viewer error. In your case, it's {C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}.3. Right click on it then select permission.4. Click Advance and change the owner to administrator. Also click the box that will appear below the owner line.5. Apply full control.6. Close the tab then go to HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Classes\AppID\*APPID*.Note: *AppID* is the ID that appears in your event viewer. In your case it's {316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}.7. Right click on it then select permission.8. Click Advance and change the owner to administrators.9. Click the box that will appear below the owner line.10. Click Apply and grant full control to Administrators.11. Close all tabs and go to Administrative tool.12. Open component services.13. Click Computer, click my computer, then click DCOM.14. Look for the corresponding service that appears on the error viewer.15. Right click on it then click properties.16. Click security tab then click Add User. Add SYSTEM then apply.17. Tick the Activate local box.So use the relevant keys here and the DCOM Config should give you access to the greyed out areas:*CLSID:

    {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}

    and APPID

    {9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}

    I did this and now EVERY application is failing. I can't open the start menu, nothing!! :(

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ww6tqycj4ycctyr/errors.evtx?dl=0

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