Seeing multiple DCOM errors generating event ID 10016 in System Event log

Question

Hi there. Our current SharePoint server running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1 and not on the domain is getting it's event logs filled up every 15 minutes to an hour with the following DCOM error:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Date:  26/11/2014
Time:  4:31:30 AM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Computer: xxx-xxx
Description:
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 NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (S-1-5-20).  This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
I have attempted the following fix to add the local admin account to the security permissions under the following service: 61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1 which was what Microsoft recommended from looking at a few random google results which had no
effect and caused the same error to continue to happen.
We run Windows SharePoint Services WSS 3.0 on this server which is our primary intranet server.
Has this happened to anyone else and what would you suggest we do to fix it?

Answer 1

Hi Steven,
The results of trying this generated the same DCOM error again at the early hours of this morning as it's always done.
The exact error generated from the server is listed below:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Date:  3/12/2014
Time:  4:31:30 AM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Computer: HAL-SPS
Description:
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 NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (S-1-5-20).  This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Given this machine isn't on the domain and we have to log into it as local administrator, the local administrator account has been granted local launch and local activation permissions under IIS WAMREG admin on the server.
Was this the correct account, or should I have granted permissions to another account?
SB.