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Cognos BI Configuration Cannot Start With a "Not a Valid Win32 Application" Error

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New 64-bit installation of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Windows 2008 Standard (64-bit) or Windows 2008 R2. Cognos BI Configuration connection test to content store passes but the following error occurs within configuration after the service was started. CM-CFG-5077 Content Manager is unable to load the required library CMCacheLib.dll. Ask your administrator or customer support about fixing the link error CMCacheLib (.\CMCacheLib.dll is not a valid Win32 application. ) 'com.cognos.pogo.services.DispatcherServices', 'pogo', 'Failure'. DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error. com/cognos/cm/util/CMExternalUtils.getSystemTicks()J 'com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.ActiveCMControl', 'pogo', 'Failure'. DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error. 'ContentManager', 'getActiveContentManager', 'Failure'. DPR-CMI-4006 Unable to determine the active Content Manager. Retries periodically.

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