Service Pack4 > Error - Must Abort 'Metabase' not found?

Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!

Marina
Fri Aug 29 12:10:05 CDT 2003

Did you stop all 3rd party-services? Also IIS, Exchange and SQL? Did you
have the lockdown-tool installed?

Marina

"Doyle" <eagle4417@netzero.com> schreef in bericht
news:008801c36e4c$c1c79c00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
> 4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
> may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
> installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
> Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
> Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
> in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
> Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!
>
>

Mark
Fri Aug 29 14:40:13 CDT 2003

Also, make sure that the IUSR and IWAM accounts have not been disabled. If
they are, temporarily re-enable them to allow the service pack to install,
then you can re-disable them.

Regards,

Mark Stanfill, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000, MCDBA, MCSA
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"Marina Roos" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
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> Did you stop all 3rd party-services? Also IIS, Exchange and SQL? Did you
> have the lockdown-tool installed?
>
> Marina
>
> "Doyle" <eagle4417@netzero.com> schreef in bericht
> news:008801c36e4c$c1c79c00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
> > 4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
> > may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
> > installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
> > Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
> > Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
> > in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
> > Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!
> >
> >
>
>

Rick
Fri Aug 29 17:39:44 CDT 2003

Actually support is $245, if you are getting it for $150, then you are
getting a deal!
If you purchased the retail version of SBS, then you get two FREE calls to
support.
I have never had a problem installing a service pack on a server, even from
the NT 3.51 days and have installed SP4 on several SBS without any issues.
I restart the server (to get a fresh start), then go into services and stop
EVERY service that can be stopped, not just 3rd party ones. I've praticed
this for almost 10 years now and knock on wood, never had a problem.

Rick in the Midwest

"Doyle" <eagle4417@netzero.com> wrote in message
news:008801c36e4c$c1c79c00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
> 4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
> may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
> installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
> Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
> Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
> in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
> Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!
>
>

Gavin
Fri Aug 29 22:44:53 CDT 2003

Went through this for HOURS with Microsoft critical support!

We had to completely uninstall IIS, install SP4, and then reinstall IIS and
Exchange!

Contact me for advice.

Gavin
www.interprom.com

"Doyle" <eagle4417@netzero.com> wrote in message
news:008801c36e4c$c1c79c00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
> 4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
> may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
> installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
> Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
> Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
> in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
> Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!
>
>

Buzz
Fri Aug 29 23:46:11 CDT 2003

The your netzero email address and the $150 statement regarding microsoft
really says a lot about you......

having said that.....the sp4 install runs some scripts to remove IIS
mappings. It is actually running sp4iis.exe. The reason that the error
pops up for you is *likely* that IIS is not started (are you in safe mode?).


"Mark Stanfill [MSFT]" <markstan@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Also, make sure that the IUSR and IWAM accounts have not been disabled.
If
> they are, temporarily re-enable them to allow the service pack to install,
> then you can re-disable them.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Stanfill, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000, MCDBA, MCSA
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
>
>
> "Marina Roos" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
> news:NNL3b.93758$506.93505@typhoon.bart.nl...
> > Did you stop all 3rd party-services? Also IIS, Exchange and SQL? Did you
> > have the lockdown-tool installed?
> >
> > Marina
> >
> > "Doyle" <eagle4417@netzero.com> schreef in bericht
> > news:008801c36e4c$c1c79c00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> > > Hope all of you SBS2000 users have installed Service Pack
> > > 4 by now. User Beware! One hour prior to completion you
> > > may be confronted with the following error: "Must abort
> > > installation because the 'Metabase' could not be found".
> > > Forget about finding anything about this in the Microsoft
> > > Knowledgebase. There new motto is 'Why give away answers
> > > in Knowledgebase when we can charge $150. per incident'.
> > > Someone help a brother out. We must depend on each other!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>