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EVT_WDSMCS_E_CP_OPEN_INSTANCE_FAILED
EVT_WDSMCS_E_CP_OPEN_INSTANCE_FAILED is a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Multicast Server result. It indicates that the provider returned an error while WDS Multicast Server attempted to create a content-serving instance.
What to check for EVT_WDSMCS_E_CP_OPEN_INSTANCE_FAILED
- Capture the provider-specific error and serialized instance configuration supplied by WDS.
- Verify provider resources such as storage, permissions, licensing, and dependent services.
- Test a minimal instance configuration before enabling optional namespace or content settings.
for it, Microsoft documentation on the Windows Deployment Services Multicast Application Protocol
Diagnostic interpretation
This result has the HRESULT value 0xC1210257. AllStat records the condition as “The Content Provider %1 returned an error while trying to open a new instance. %n %n Configuration: %2 %n Error Information: %3 %n”.
Evidence to capture
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the evt / wdsmcs / cp / open / instance operation.
- check the documented return contract of the specific API because the same HRESULT can require different recovery in different interfaces.
Retry and recovery
Retry this result only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “The Content Provider %1 returned an error while trying to open a new instance. %n %n Configuration: %2 %n Error Information: %3 %n” has changed.
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