Webclient crashing issue. Making server unresponsive and require reboot to fix.

Webclient crashing issue.  Making server unresponsive and require reboot to fix.

Quite a few other people seemed to have experienced it too.

https://windoh.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/webclient-service-crashes-on-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2/

https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/web-service-terminates-on-clients-connecting-to-webdav-resources/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2548470

Above seemed to highlight a fix to the issue that was found out with our Server that had to invoke the WebClient Service when writing files to a WebDav location.

We had a .NET Windows Service Program that would write files in a scheduled manner to a WebDav location.  And what actually caused the server crash was interesting.

The service program ran without problems under a service account.  However, it was when if someone else had logged into the Server with an RDP session and then tried to perform some standard actions with the WebClient i.e by simply navigating to a folder with it, it would cause the Service and WebClient to crash and the server would start becoming unresponsive to a point the only option was to reboot. 

Applying the fix seemed to have made it better.