Re: MS02-018 Breaking ASP ODBC

From: Richard Donovan (rldonovan@erg-va.com)
Date: 05/23/02 

From: "Richard Donovan" <rldonovan@erg-va.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:20:18 -0400

Update on related subject. Applied Q320206 (MS02-024) and it broke ASP.
Probably some simple explanation, but I had to uninstall (which did work, by
the way.)

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"Bill Smith" <me@here.com> wrote in message
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> Just installed the MS02-018 hot fixes and ran the lockdown tool and It has
> caused me two problems:
>
> 1) IIS 5 web server can't be contacted. I can't view it with MMC (just
> hangs) and can't stop/start the
> service, it just says 'Starting'. I was smart and Backed up my Metabase
> before the patch and that fixed that problem.
>
> 2) But now my asp pages can no longer connect to the Oracle Database, they
> load some VB components that fail to connect to my Oracle database. The MS
> ODBC Driver for oracle complains that the oracle client is not installed.
> However, it is, I can successfully connect with the ODBC test program. I
> tried turning on object access and file auditing, but the logs showed no
> failed access attempts. Uninstalling the patch did not help. I finally
gave
> up and re-stored the server from a clean backup.
>
> This is the first time in a long time that I have had problems with any MS
> service packs or patches, but this just killed one our production servers.
I
> want to install the patch since we try the keep up to date with all of the
> security patches on our web servers, but I can't keep re-storing from my
> backups. I have read that others are also having problems with this patch,
> Is there going to be a new release? Has anyone else had this same problem
> and is there a fix?
>
>
>
> Thank You in Advance,
>
>
>