Mike McCall
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A client's laptop is throwing a ton of Security-SPP errors - "Failed to schedule Software Protection service for re-start at <time_stamp>. Error Code: 0x80070005."
Looking around for solutions I found this from MS:
"The issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true:
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
Looking around for solutions I found this from MS:
"The issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true:
- The Task Scheduler service is disabled.
- The Software Protection Platform service is not running under the NETWORK SERVICE account.
- Read permissions for the NETWORK SERVICE account are missing on the following folder:
C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
- Verify that the Task Scheduler service is running.
- Open the Computer Management tool, and then navigate to Configuration -> Task Scheduler -> Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> SoftwareProtectionPlatform.
- On the General tab of SoftwareProtectionPlatform, select the security options, and then verify that the Software Protection Platform service is set to use the NETWORK SERVICE account.
- In Windows Explorer, browse to the C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform folder, and then verify that the NETWORK SERVICE account has Read permissions for that folder.
- Restart the Software Protection service if it is running."