Windows 2016 The Software Protection service terminated

Question

Hi,

Can someone please help me to fix the following errors on Windows 2016 workgroup server, the server has been patched to the latest level :-

The Software Protection service terminated with the following error:
Access is denied.
1001
The Software Protection service failed to start. 0x80070005
10. 0.14393.5006

Answer 1

Hi @Hussain, Muzzammil ,

I found a thread of the similar issue here
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/6119d4c0-c3c0-40bf-9c3e-46b46915e738/service-not-start-access-denied-software-protection-event-logs

Please run the following commands in an elevated cmd and see if this helps.

icacls %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform /grant "BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)" "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)" "NT Service\sppsvc:(OI)(CI)(R,W,D)" "NETWORK SERVICE:(OI)(CI)(F)"  
net stop sppsvc && net start sppsvc   

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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