I contacted Microsoft support. They agree that it does have to do with Oracle12c upgrade and provided workaround for the issue.

FROM DAC Connection:

Workaround to add oracle publisher support w/o...

Similar Issue here. Did you able to solve your problem?

Phil Factor (6/10/2010)

I use something similar myself. It is simple stuff. If you're interested I'll tidy it up...

There is no information of hard disk size in this command.

Is there any other o/s command which can give you the current hard disk sizes?

I completely agree with you on this. MS SQL Server 2005 SP2 is messed up.

See this thread started by me on Microsoft forums about problem in installation of SP2 on one...

I figured it out "C:\" should be the servers c drive or UNC path

I am receiving the same error..name of the sheet is "Sheet1"...

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[OLE/DB provider returned message: [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'Sheet1$'....

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/dbadmin/

I completely agree with Grasshopper.

YOU CAN pause the server using a command prompt..so answer should be first one and not the second.