Re: Windows 2003 SP1

Of the servers one was a Dell Poweredge 2600 which completed Ok.
The other three were all Dell Poweredge 1750 with exact same spec.
The other strange thing was when 2003 was reinstalled it did not appear to
detect the original 2003 installation on the C: partition and reinstalled it
on the D: partition.
I assume it did this because it did'nt recognise a C: partition.
The servers ended up well and truely creamed!!
Any more thoughts.. and thanks for your response anyway.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> "RobertM" <RobertM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E1E4D51F-B187-4712-BEB9-E924BB4353FC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > This post maybe helpful to others re. SP1
> > We have 4 Dell servers in a single domain acting as DCs
> > We updated two of the DCs to SP1 without a problem.
> > The other two got trashed when we installed SP1.
> > Installation completed successfully but on reboot the registry was
> > corrupted
> > with a STOP message and Registry_Error and error code 0x00000051.
> > Reboot in Safe mode and last known good config gave same result.
> > Both DCs are in different geographic sites on different subnets but the
> > error was the same in both cases.
> > This neccessitated a complete reinstall of Windows 2003 server.
> > Then had to seize the FMSO roles, remove DC objects from AD using
> > NTDSUTILS
> > and run metadata cleanup, before recreating the DCs.(DCPROMO)
> >
> > I certainly did'nt want to spend all of last night and early morning doing
> > this, so thanks alot Bill.
> > Any MS pros out there who can throw some light on this?
> >
> > Moral - really check SP1 out and watch it like a hawk.
>
> The moral really is: deploy major changes in stages. Why would you upgrade
> four servers at different geographic sites at the same time? It would make a
> lot more sense to deploy SP1 on one server. Wait until you are sure that
> site is OK (possibly a week or two) then do each of the others in turn. 0x51
> can also indicate hardware incompatibility, low disk space, or file
> corruption. Do all the servers have the same hardware?
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
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