Problems replicating COM+ through Application Center 2000 after installing security fix MS04-012

From: GM (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 03:36:02 -0700

We have had a lot of troubles replicating a set of COM+ applications with Application Center 2000 Sp2 after installing last month's security FIX MS04-012. Today we have finally uninstalled the fix and everything has gone back to normal.

Basically, we have a complex application made of of several COM+ packages. All of the packages are server applications, one of them is a Library application. Each of our dlls contains one component that is registered in one server application and some components that go to the library application. We have been deploying this application for 3 years and everything has always gone fine.

After installing the security fix MS04-012, which contains a bunch of com+ related dlls, Application Center 2000 SP2 is unable to upgrade the dll on the target computer, unless I manually delete both the server and the library application that host the components contained in the dll.

For example: if I have a dll CompDll.dll that contains the components CompA (server application A), compB and CompC (library application B) and I want to change the component CompA I have to manually uninstall the server application A and the library applicationB, so that the system deletes CompDll.dll from my target server and then I can deploy with Application Center. If I don't do it, Application center is unable to substitute COMDll.dll with the new version and my application will stop working.

Is anybody else experiencing problems with Application Center 2000 after patching ? Is Microsoft saying anything ?

Best regards
Gianluca

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