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Valkery.dll

Created: 09 Aug 2010 | 8 comments
James Herbert's picture
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All,

We are currently running EV 8 SP4 running on Windows 2003 SP2 with Exchange 2003 SP2.  Out clients are running Windows XP SP2/3 and Office 2003 SP2/3.

We have a intermittent and very annoying issue, randomly for some users Outlook hangs on start-up and valkery.dll becomes disabled.  Enabling the add-on and restarting Outlook resolves the issue but the users can get the same thing happen in the future.  Over about a month this has happened to 50% of our users and normally we get this issue for 1 or 2 users most days.

Has anyone come across this before?

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TonySterling's picture
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Are these users coming out of Standy mode?

Tony Sterling
www.bluesource.net or www.bluesource.co.uk
Offices in the US and the UK

James Herbert's picture
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Yes normally they are given the option to disable the add-on that failed last time Outlook started

Thanks
James

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ok then.  Have you seen this technote, might be worth a shot?

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/313915.htm

http://support.veritas.com/docs/313915


Enterprise Vault (EV) Outlook Client Add-in crashes when user comes out of Standby Mode
Exact Error Message
Outlook experienced a serious error the last time the
add-in 'c:\program files\enterprise vault\evclient\valkyrie.dll'
was opened.
 
Details:

This issue can be commonly caused by a conflict with Antivirus Real-time Scan or other Add-ins inside Outlook.

Observation:
If the EV Client Add-in is disabled and then re-enabled, Client functionality will return however the problem will reoccur when taken out of Standby.

Workaround:
This can be fixed by performing the following:

    Reset the Add-in by running ResetEVCLient.exe on workstation.
      - c:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVClient

Note: It is possible to manually re-register valkyrie.dll by running the command below form a DOS prompt.

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVClient\valkyrie.dll"

Tony Sterling
www.bluesource.net or www.bluesource.co.uk
Offices in the US and the UK

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To be fair I think more investigation might be needed on this one.  I loathe the idea of "just" running RESETEVCLIENT, and "fixing it", for it to then go wrong again in about X days time.  So try to work out a pattern.. and discuss once you have that.

 

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Rob Wilcox
Enterprise Vault Engineering
Certification Team
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/rob-wilcox
James Herbert's picture
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Thanks I'll give the RESETEVCLIENT a shot and see if that helps.

The main issue we have is that there is no pattern it is completely random, we sometime get it happen to a user a couple of times in a week then nothing for a few weeks.  As i mentioned it isn't affecting all users as well

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To resolve the issue we have to do the following step.

1. Reboot PC.
2. Login in with diffrenent account with administrator rights.
3.Rename the file below to .old

Windows XP:
File locations:
C:\Documents and Settings\usernamee\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

4.  For safety uninstall client and reinstall client.

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That seems a bit of an extreme approach, you're basically blowing away most of the users profile?

 

Thanks
Rob Wilcox
Enterprise Vault Engineering
Certification Team
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/rob-wilcox
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That is just the usrclass.dat hold no settings and you do not lose any data.  We mainly saw the issue when user where upgrded from Office 97 to Office 2003.  I worked wtih Symantec (old days Veritas) and that is what worked.  In fact if you have any issue that the ResetEVClient.exe does not resolve renaming the usrclass.dat fixes it.