Thanks for the suggestions.  So far it's been a no go figuring out the issue.  
We've been working with EMC on this one for some time and can't figure out what 
is causing it.

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of FAIDHERBE Thierry
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 2:22 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Unable to start nsrexecd when upgrading windows 2003 
server

You can also try to start nsrexecd in debug, to see where it fails

Log as local admin and launch nsrexecd -D 9 from %install_dir%\bin

HTH

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De : EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] De 
la part de bingo Envoyé : jeudi 12 septembre 2013 11:18 À : NETWORKER AT 
LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU Objet : [Networker] Unable to start nsrexecd when 
upgrading windows 2003 server

If you have verified that the service runs as "Local System" account, i am 
pretty sure that deleting/renaming the ..\nsr\res\nsrladb directory will 
resolve the issue.

I have had a bunch of problems when (remotely) updating NW 7.5/7.6 clients.
Don't remember the exact problem any more. However i figured out that NW 
obviously has problems to read/convert the old config files.

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