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

Our Office SharePoint Server 2007 machine was getting a checkup after fixing strange IISRESET error.

I noticed one specific error repeating itself in the event log:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}
to the user CodeJourney\MOSS_SSP_App_Pool SID (S-1-5-21-1905604210-1270511153-766854361-66502) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Source: DistributedCOM
EventID: 10016

I am not exactly sure what that component does, but I do know I want it out of my log.

1: Find the culprit
First of all I want to figure out what component does this, since a GUID is not really something I can relate to.

Start up the registry editor (Run -> regedit)
Make sure you are at right at the top of the tree.

Press “CTRL + F” to open the find menu.

Paste in the guid: {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}

When it’s done searching, look at the top right and you will notice a name of the component. In this case IIS WAMREG admin Service.

2: Add permissions using DCOM Config
Now we are ready to go add the permissions.

Go to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Component services.

Expand “Component Services” on your left, “Computers”, “My Computer”, “DCOM Config”.

Find IIS WAMREG admin Service in the right windows and rightclick it and choose properties.

Note: if the friendly name from he registry does not match with a name in DCOM Config, choose to view the components using details view.
You can find it using the guid then.

Click the security tab, and make sure “Customize” is selected under “Launch and Activation Permissions”.

Click Edit.