Cumulative Patch for October 2003 froze SBS

Hey everyone,
I installed the Cumulative Patch for October 2003 on one of my servers, an
SBS2000, SP1 (still have SP3 on Win2k.) Well, the server froze right after
it was installed (via Windows Update.) I have not had a server freeze like
this in a long time. Has anyone experienced the problem. First freeze in six
months. I don't know if the patch installed but I checked afterwards and it
did install. I am pretty pissed off at this point.
JohnJ

Susan
Sun Oct 05 23:09:39 CDT 2003

Did you reboot the server prior to the installation?
Shut down Exchange, A/V, backup programs or any other third party stuff?

And no I haven't experienced that.

johnj wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I installed the Cumulative Patch for October 2003 on one of my servers, an
> SBS2000, SP1 (still have SP3 on Win2k.) Well, the server froze right after
> it was installed (via Windows Update.) I have not had a server freeze like
> this in a long time. Has anyone experienced the problem. First freeze in six
> months. I don't know if the patch installed but I checked afterwards and it
> did install. I am pretty pissed off at this point.
> JohnJ
>
>

--
"Don't lose sight of security. Security is a state of being,
not a state of budget. He with the most firewalls still does
not win. Put down that honeypot and keep up to date on your patches.
Demand better security from vendors and hold them responsible.
Use what you have, and make sure you know how to use it properly
and effectively."
~Rain Forest Puppy
http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/txt/evolution.txt

Susan
Sun Oct 05 23:12:53 CDT 2003

Don't be upset. We cannot have 100% guaranteed "non-happenings" in the
SBS or any server world. Look at the SBS 4.5 platform .... 03-029 in
the early days blasted RRAS to smithereens. They had non functional
servers.

And you rebooted right? What's the server doing now?

Remember any security patch that causes an issue is a free tech support
call.

Make sure you ask for SBS support and say Hi to the SBSers in North
Carolina or Texas.

johnj wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> I installed the Cumulative Patch for October 2003 on one of my servers, an
> SBS2000, SP1 (still have SP3 on Win2k.) Well, the server froze right after
> it was installed (via Windows Update.) I have not had a server freeze like
> this in a long time. Has anyone experienced the problem. First freeze in six
> months. I don't know if the patch installed but I checked afterwards and it
> did install. I am pretty pissed off at this point.
> JohnJ
>
>

--
"Don't lose sight of security. Security is a state of being,
not a state of budget. He with the most firewalls still does
not win. Put down that honeypot and keep up to date on your patches.
Demand better security from vendors and hold them responsible.
Use what you have, and make sure you know how to use it properly
and effectively."
~Rain Forest Puppy
http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/txt/evolution.txt

johnj
Sun Oct 05 23:31:06 CDT 2003

Hi Susan,

No, I did not reboot prior to the installation. I did turn off AV, did not
shutdown exchange. Should I always shutdown Exchange before patching?

Backup exec 9, rev 4454 was running, pretty much it.

After I reset the server, the server came up fine only showing one error
that there was an unexpected shutdown that occurred.

I had Windows Update bring down two patches, one the October Cumulative
patch, the other an update for the Windows Media Player hole, which I
looked at my logs prior and had long ago downloaded and installed
successfully.

Not sure why the Media Player patch had to be downloaded again.

Both patches downloaded fine, the first one being the Cumulative Patch. The
server froze before the Windows Media Player patch could be installed.

-John

"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@pacbell.net>
wrote in message news:%23G2gq%237iDHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Did you reboot the server prior to the installation?
> Shut down Exchange, A/V, backup programs or any other third party stuff?
>
> And no I haven't experienced that.
>
> johnj wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > I installed the Cumulative Patch for October 2003 on one of my servers,
an
> > SBS2000, SP1 (still have SP3 on Win2k.) Well, the server froze right
after
> > it was installed (via Windows Update.) I have not had a server freeze
like
> > this in a long time. Has anyone experienced the problem. First freeze in
six
> > months. I don't know if the patch installed but I checked afterwards and
it
> > did install. I am pretty pissed off at this point.
> > JohnJ
> >
> >
>
> --
> "Don't lose sight of security. Security is a state of being,
> not a state of budget. He with the most firewalls still does
> not win. Put down that honeypot and keep up to date on your patches.
> Demand better security from vendors and hold them responsible.
> Use what you have, and make sure you know how to use it properly
> and effectively."
> ~Rain Forest Puppy
> http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/txt/evolution.txt
>

Susan
Sun Oct 05 23:52:27 CDT 2003

Lemme put it this way.... I've just always have had good luck when I
shut down Exchange. Thus it's my standard procedure.

johnj wrote:

> Hi Susan,
>
> No, I did not reboot prior to the installation. I did turn off AV, did not
> shutdown exchange. Should I always shutdown Exchange before patching?
>
> Backup exec 9, rev 4454 was running, pretty much it.
>
> After I reset the server, the server came up fine only showing one error
> that there was an unexpected shutdown that occurred.
>
> I had Windows Update bring down two patches, one the October Cumulative
> patch, the other an update for the Windows Media Player hole, which I
> looked at my logs prior and had long ago downloaded and installed
> successfully.
>
> Not sure why the Media Player patch had to be d