I know this is my first post, but I just spent a day trying to recover two servers today and I am pissed.
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.
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, Device Management...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.
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 you should be fine.
I hope this helps some people who found themselves in my shoes and Google finds its way to this thread because this patch will probably go down as one of Microsoft's Biggest Blunders in a while.
Bp
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