Re: KB917537 Failing

Another improperly tested patch. Shame on Microsoft for not even having an updated bulletin on this flaw after 3 days. It's not like they have not heard about it. After Googling the topic it looks like the solution is to stop IIS before starting the installation. A number of people seem to have had success with it. In the command window type

tasklist /fi "modules eq asp.dll"

I just dit it on my SBS2003 standard, manually went back to the Windows Update site, and did the install. I got the "success" notice. If you don't want to take the chance, wait until the patch is patched.

My other gripe is why these updates require restarting the server (even if they fail completely!). Which also means rechecking everything to verify that it started OK, etc. It's pretty pathetic to have to restart the server a couple of times every month at update time while the 'nix people are laughing at us. The "hot patching" alternative that requires writing down the patch numbers and typing in an arcane command line is, shall we say, amateurish. To add insult to injury, if you hit the "Restart" button in the patch success dialog box rather than clicking "Later" and doing the restart manually, it fails to make the appropriate entry in the system log to document the reason for shutdown. So much for integration.

C_O

"Keven" <Keven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9842C017-1240-40FE-B155-E0E1B7613DC6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Multiple SBS03 Premium installs that I manage have all been doing their
overnight updates and failing KB917537 for the last three nights in a row.
I'm shocked that there isn't a litter of information about this already in
here as I had assumed this would be a common problem.. anyone have any info
for me beyond the one reply that someone did a baseline security analysis and
it seemed to work? I'm hoping there is a logical answer as to what is going
on here to fix this as I have multiple servers that I need to apply solution
for.

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