Re: How can anyone install these Security updates?

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From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:49:30 -0400

Yes I am worried I might. Seems pretty convincing to me that my domain controller will experience those issues. I'd prefer not to have them. Are you saying you have those issues but there is no harm done or are you saying you didn't on your domain controller? Thanks. 

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George Hester
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message news:OSyuxOJqEHA.376@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I installed this long ago, and many other updates since, and haven't had any
> problems. Have you, or are you just worried you might?
> 
> George Hester wrote:
> > The security issues these things address are bad enough but the fixes
> > can be devastating.  I don't get it.  What's up with this company?
> >
> > Take a look at this security bulletin:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx
> >
> > You get to this by running Windows Update
> > http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp and being told
> > we need KB835732 and "Reading more..." we see this:
> >
> > Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 835732 documents the currently known
> > issues that customers may experience when they install this security
> > update
> >
> > So we go to
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835732 and we
> > read this:
> >
> > 841343 The HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and HOMESHARE environment variables
> > may not function as you intend if you modify them in Windows 2000
> >
> > 841395 The domain controller does not register _GC, _KERBEROS, and
> > _KPASSWD DNS entries when a Windows 2000 server starts
> >
> > 842644 Event ID 256 is logged in the system event log after you
> > install the MS04-011 security update on a Windows 2000-based computer
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;841343 seems banal.  But
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;841395 and
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;842644
> >
> > are downright showstoppers.  We need non-regression tested hot fixes
> > to fix the issues the security fixes fix.  This is UNACCEPTABLE.
> > This is foolishness.  It is sophmoric.  It is irresponsible.
> >
> > I don't understand the philosophy of this company.  I know they are
> > just human beings there like all of us.  They have good days and bad
> > days.  Understood.  But they have a nasty tendency to throw the baby
> > out with the bath water come hell or high water.  My 2¢.
> 
>

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