Greg
Mon Nov 22 13:55:19 CST 2004
Dear Jeff,
thank you for your long response however, I can not rate it too high since
its like a typical MS response: 100% accurate and 100% useless
fact 1. SP 2 was released to improve security issues and solve system problems
fact 2. SP 2 screwed up the system
fact 3. You are saying: remove SP ...... I give up .. have enough - no more
talk with MS
have a nice day
"Jeff Cochran" wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:25:12 -0800, "Greg"
> <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Seems to be a large crew there having similar problems:
> >after installing SP2 , IIS does not work.
> >1. IIS Manager can not start - I had this one - reinstalled IIS three times,
> >almost ended up with reinstalling the whole system
> >2.
http://localhost generates HTTP 500 - Internal server error
> >
> >It seems to me, M$ should do somethign with it allready.
> >Fixing security problems and screwing all other things - it simply sucks.
> >WHy should I pay you guys for the support INCIDENTS if you generate such a
> >huge problems, I am lossing money because of problems you introduced in your
> >SP2.
> >DO SOMETHIGN to fix the problem ONCE FOR GOOD
> >
> >DOES ANYONE AT M$ knows what they are doing ?
> >Yes I agreed to use this message for further product improvements :-)
>
> First, you don't need to use SP2. Second, it's hard to lose money
> using SP2 because of IIS issues, SP2 installs on XP which is a
> workstation operating system. IIS is limited at best on XP, to lose
> money would require a server operating system.
>
> Now, if you configure XP2's new security settings correctly, IIS works
> fine. And reinstalling IIS isn't needed. Or actually even warranted.
>
> Look at it this way. IIS worked. You installed SP2. IIS stopped.
> So you reinstalled IIS. That's about like saying your TV got all 132
> cable channels, then you added a DVD and your TV only got the three
> local channels. So you bought a new TV. Sure, it's possible that
> while hooking up your new TV you connected the cable correctly and all
> your channels came back, but it wasn't your old TV's fault that you
> hooked up the cable wrong.
>
> Go back and jiggle the cables. IIS will work fine.
>
> Jeff
>