Posts Tagged ‘Updates’

Todays update from Microsoft (KB974571) makes Office Communication Server think it is an expired evaluation!

The updates I mentioned in a previous post here http://www.sole.dk/post/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-october-2009/

Happened to have an update that kills Office Communication Server 2007 all editions (R2/Standard/Enterprise) and Live Communication Server 2005 (and SP1 edition).

The error that comes up in the event logs is that the server believes that it is an evaluation and just expired with this message: “The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has expired. Please upgrade from the evaluation version to the full released version of the product.”

I also got this message in the event logs: “Error Code: C3E93C23 (SIPPROXY_E_INVALID_INSTALLATION_DATA)”

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How to fix problems with automatic updates not installing hotfixes and service packs

Microsoft UpdatesSometimes the automatic updates service is interupted while updating the machine, this can result in updates with corrupted data that prevents the service from installing the updates correctly and failing the service. This means the machine will never get past the updates that are giving an error and continue to try and install over and over. This happens on just about any Windows machine that uses Automatic Updates, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

  • The error prevents the workstation or server in installing updates, roll up packs, hotfixes and service packs, both manually and automatically.
  • The error can also be that the Cryptographic service will not start correctly.
  • The event error message contains information like not able to verify integrity of update.inf and similair.
  • The error is in the verification of the update in Microsoft, this authentication is done with certificates by the Cryptographic service. 

The reason I am describing this error, is that it seems pretty normal, it can happen from servers being shutdown due to power failure, crashes, etc. It took me some while to find any good information on how to correct this error, or more correctly I found alot of information but little that helped.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin for October 2009

Next week will be busy, Microsoft is releasing several security updates.

“You hereby receive this month’s Advance Notification. Next week we are posting 13 security bulletins, of which 8 are critical. Rebooting is known to be necessary for 6 of this month’s bulletins.”

The full details of the updates can be viewed at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-oct.mspx (corrected link to october – not september)

To subscribe to update information or see other updates go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx

Knowing what will be updated, before all the servers start downloading and installing can be quite helpfull to predict problems due to updates.