Errors after Upgrading to SP1 for Server 2003

From: Jussman (Jussman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/07/05


Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:01:01 -0700

Hi I am running Microsoft Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a HP Proliant
DL380 G3 Clustered Solution.

After Approving the updates in SUS for Both Nodes i decided to reboot one of
the nodes only to find that the Printers Were unavailable (Printers
configured on Cluster for failover) after reboot so i uninstalled SP1 and
rebooted and the Printers were available again to that node.... I decided to
reboot the Active cluster just to confirm the update was at fault only to
find that as soon as i moved the active group it failed to start on the Node
where i removed Sp1 the MSDTC service failed to start So i had to forcefully
power down the Node still running SP1 and manually instate the Shares and
bring them online....
After rebooting the Node with SP1 it failed to start the Cluster service but
no joy, so i uninstalled the SP1 on the remaining node and rebooted now both
are operational

I could not find the security configuration wizard under administrative
tools as suggested in the Deployment guide nor was i able to run the Cmd line
utility to try and understand what went wrong.

Both Servers are Domain Controllers / File Servers Application Servers (DNS,
Cluster DHCP, Print etc)
Servers seem to operate Fine after Uninstalling SP1, Just Curious as to why
the Installation Of SP1 Went horribly wrong, Tried the same installation
manually by running SP1 Setup from Exe file as opposed to using sus....?

Any Suggestions Welcome



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