Good Afternoon All,
I am setting up a simple two node Windows 2008 SP2 Failover cluster. The nodes are brand new and patched with all updates. Having gone through this process many times before I was confident it would be quick and painless. However I am getting the following validation error that I have never seen before:
An error occurred while executing the test. There was an error getting information about the running services on the nodes. There was an error retrieving information about the Services from node 'Node.domain'. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I'm at a complete loss as to where to start. If the task is to simply obtain a list of running services I would have thought that would be relatively straight forward. A simple Get-Service from Powershell will display those details. I have located a KB article that refers to this exact error and there is a hotfix available but this is strictly for Windows 2008 R2 not R1 (SP2).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2559392
Has anyone seen this error before?