Lets bring it on back to a Windows Server them, I was reading the Windows Server Public news-groups today and stumbled accross a post from a one bpacman regarding Microsofts latest Windows Server update that also applys to XP and Windows 2000 (KB929969-Security Bulitin MS07-004)
The fact of the matter is that many Server 2003 System Admins are in for a surprise when they reboot their servers after 1/12/2007, if they have automated updates enabled.
Why?:
On that date Microsoft pushed a critical patch KB929969. The patch did not require a reboot, so your system will work fine for days, weeks or even months, but once you reboot…well lets just get into the symptoms:
Your first clue is that your Manage My Server screen will not work and you will get a Script Error complaining about the mys.dll/mys.hta.
Any attempt to open Computer Management, Enterprise Management, DeviceManagement…etc… will result in an error saying that mmc cannot find the *.msc file.
IIS and SQL server will fail. Any time you hit Cntl F or Search, it will fail.
So what did this patch do to your server? It removed a file. C:\Windows\System32\msxml3.dll was replaced by msxml4.dll, but this file doesn’t replace the msxml3.dll file effectively.
So what can we do to resolve the problem?:
Resolution:
Break out your Install CD and extract the following two files:
\i386\msxml3.dl_
\i386\msxml3r.dl_
from a DOS prompt you will need to expand these files and install them
in the system32 directory
c:> expand -r msxml3.dl_ c:\Windows\system32
c:> expand -r msxml3r.dl_ c:\Windows\system32
Then you need to register the msxml3.dll file
c:> regsvr32 c:\Windows\system32\msxml3.dll
Reboot the system and your server should be fine.
It seems like this Update from Microsoft has caused System admins all around the world nothing bug problems. But until this update is less buggy it looks as though a lot of servers will remain MS07-004 unpatched.
-Although-the article states that the patch causes all sorts of confusion on a Windows Server (due to msxml3.dll being replaced) it seems that the patch has nothing to do with MS XML only VML [Vector Markup Language] (as shown in C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB929969$)
So either bpacman is wrong about msxml3.dll being replaced along with the VML update or right I didn’t do enough research-sorry
-Patrick Image may be NSFW.
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