So not being so happy that there are 4 new patches to apply to most of my
80+ servers (after I just finished applying MS03-040 to all of them). I
start the process of applying these patches to a couple of test servers and
immediately had problems. The download of all 4 patches went quickly, the
install process appeared to go a lot slower than normal, since it was the
end of the day for me, I just left installing the patches, and came back in
the morning and while the progress bar was at 100% it did not pop up the
install was successful page like I would expect it to. So I cancelled it,
and rebooted and decided to install the 1 by one. I narrowed it down to
these 2 KB828035 (MS03-043) and KB826232 (MS03-042). I have tried this on a
1/2 dozen boxes and have had the same results.

The boxes I am doing this are DELL 1550, 2450, 25550, 2650's all running
windows 2000 server with SP4. Various amounts of Ram, various Hard Drive
configurations, etc. The applications running on the Servers (exchange,
Domino, IIS, etc). I have tried disabling NAV (7.6 Corporate) with no luck.

What I have been able to narrow down, if 043 has a problem on 1 box, 042
will not have the problem on the same box. So there seems to be no rhyme or
reason to it.

Also if after waiting an hour or so, and canceling the install, if I go back
to the windowsupdate site, it will tell me that the patch was installed (and
add/remove programs shows it as being installed).

Needless to say, if I can't find some resolution to this, it is going make
my life miserable to patch these 80 boxes that I am responsible for (and I
am sure it will drive the other admins with there 250+ servers crazy if they
get the same results).

Any thoughts anyone.

Mike-

I am having a similar problem with MS-043 (I think- it's the one that
updates the msger service)

In my case, the patch will begin to install, but gets stuck in a loop when
it tries to install the new files. rtvscan.exe uses a lot of CPU, as does
svchost.exe.

I am also using SAV 7.6. The only other add-on app running at the time is
ISA server

-Ryan


"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I tried it this morning on a dell 2450 without NAV installed and hat the
same problem. Not sure what the problem is but it is aggravating.

"Ryan Ritterson" <ryan.ritterson@[nospamplease]att.net> wrote in message
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Have you tried disabling/killing the processes to be updated before
running the patch? I tried that, but it had no effect. Also, I am running
the diskeeper service as a background task, but I doubt that would have any
effect either. I don't have the benefit of multiple configurations. Is there
any similarity between the boxes on which the patch installs correctly and
the boxes on which it fails? Have you tried a manual download of the patch
as well?

I attempted to contact MS for support, but I have an academic version of
Win2k3 and thus I am not supported.

For the record, I am running Win2k3 Standard box

-Ryan

"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have killed every service that I can possibly kill and it doesn't seem to
make a difference. Up until this morning the only thing in common was the
boxes were all Dell servers running W2k SP4. I did a test Compaq 1850 with
SP3 on it (no NAV) and it did the samething.


"Ryan Ritterson" <ryan.ritterson@[nospamplease]att.net> wrote in message
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I created a new thread in the group, as I think our problems may be
different.

Would you mind posting the log for the update here? (It's in the %windows%
directory, named KB828035.txt or similar)

-Ryan
"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I had a problem with the two patches you mention on our locked down systems.
Solved it by granting local admins the right to debug programs (we had
removed all entries as security precaution). Might be worth checking in your
setup.

"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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