Sure, as best I know - just uninstalling the patch did not work. So, on the phone with PSS. Found RPC can be reenabled, sort of, if you go into safe mode (otherwise you don't have permission to do a freaking thing) and get to the registry, I think it was HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/RPCss, and change 'ObjectName' from NT Authority\NetworkService' to just 'LocalSystem'. It's not a 'recommended practice', PSS explained, but it will grant you some control.
The eventual fix was to first restore the System State from hopefully recent backup - but that didn't completely resolve it. Then we ran a long 'secedit' command line string, and the machine appeared to come back properly. But - when it rebooted it gleefully told me it had reinstalled the missing update and was going to reboot [shudder]. So I quickly uninstalled the patch again before it rebooted, disabled the automatic update svc, and rebooted - machine was then OK. I'll send you the secedit string offline if you want it, but I highly recommend calling PSS if you end up with an operational server with the problem. No charge. Good luck, David From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS-patch 09-001 Can you detail the resolution to your problem? I have an SBS, and was contemplating the upgrade this weekend. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, David Florea <[email protected]> wrote: I just resubbed after an absence, so I may have not seen prior traffic about Tuesday's update: I had a horrible experience with patch KB958687 on an SBS2003 server -- immediately after rebooting, RPC was inoperable, which caused the NICs to fail, and most other dependent services to not start (which was most of them). Took six hours with PSS to repair, but fortunately the file structure was intact. So much for early adopting. PSS indicated there were many of this problem, though it may be limited to SBS servers, not sure, they were pretty close-mouthed about it. Just a word to the wise. David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
