Fixing the SBS Monitoring and VSS errors (and backup not working)

Earlier today I posted that while my SQL Server 2005 upgrade seemed to work fine, the remaining MSDE 2000 instances (monitoring) were throwing errors in the Application log. I figured out how to fix it....

First of all, Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 920899 can be found here, and it fixed my problems. The first go around I missed the following steps, and once I completed that and rebooted the server, the backups worked, the Monitoring worked, etc.


1. Click Start, click Run, type cliconfg, and then click OK.
2. In the Client Network Utility dialog box, click to turn on the Enable shared memory protocol check box, and then click OK.
3. Restart the computer.

Now, I'm getting errors SQLVDI like this "
SQLVDI: Loc=CVDS::Cleanup. Desc=Release(ClientAliveMutex). ErrorCode=(288)Attempt to release mutex not owned by caller.
. Process=4068. Thread=5400. Client. Instance=. VD=. "

but I saw when researching the other issues that this wasn't a huge deal...It's covered via hotfix in KB934396 which can be found here.