Windows Server 2003 R2 - Security Update KB974417
- When I install Security Update KB974417 on my Windows Server 2003 R2, it prevents my ASP.NET2 web applications from running.
What seems to happen is the the VB.NET code in the ASPX.VB application files is prevented from running. No error is reported from the server, nor from the client.
If I uninstall the update, the applications run normally.
Did Microsoft test this update? (I ask that because recently I installed the Office 2k7 SP2 only to find that Publisher was b***ered, until an update-to-the-update was released.)
Do I really need it anyway? The documentation is a bit vague about the risk, and mentions nothing at all about any modifications to code or security that might be necessary to enable applications to run.
Thanks in anticipation.
Ken.
Kenneth Spencer
Answers
Hi,
According to the description, it’s your own developed C# ASP.NET2 applications, so I suspect that there are some compatibility issue with the security update, the issue will be more related to coding development. As we mainly focus on the Security question about Windows Server system and here is not the best support resource for coding development, it is recommend you to get further support in the corresponding community so that you can get the most qualified pool of respondents. Thanks for your understanding.
For your convenience, I have list the related link as followed.
MSDN Forums
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/categories
Vincent Hu
- Marked As Answer byVincent HuMSFT, ModeratorMonday, December 07, 2009 1:38 AM
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Hi,
I don’t know what’s the exact meaning of “Publisher was b***ered”, however, I installed Office2007 SP2 in my Windows Server 2003 R2 computer, and then installed .Net framework 2.0 SP2 and the patch KB974417, after that I start Publisher properly.
Vincent Hu
- Thanks for the reply Vincent.
Comments on your comments:
"I don’t know what’s the exact meaning of “Publisher was b***ered”, "
The word "b***ered" is an old Anglo-Saxon term for "badly broken". I no longer have the details of the problem, but several others experienced it too. When the initial release of Office 2k7 R2 was installed, Publisher 2k7 could no longer open it's own documents. Microsoft eventually issued an update to MSO 2k7 SP2 to correct the problem.
"then installed .Net framework 2.0 SP2 and the patch KB974417, after that I start Publisher properly."
The reference to the above problem was only made in order to illustrate poor testing of service pack releases, and the Publisher issue that I mentioned has nothing else to do with the main subject of my post, namely Patch KB974417.
In this respect I am asking whether others have noted that their ASP.NET2 applications fail after the installation of .Net framework 2.0 SP2 and then patch KB974417.
In my case, patch KB974417 most definitely causes my ASP.NET2 applications to fail, possibly owing to a failure to execute the code in the aspx.vb files. I haven't tried to establish exactly why, because uninstalling the patch KB974417 resolves the issue. Nor have I tried running any of my C# ASP.NET2 applications, so I don't know whether they are affected.
I am suggesting that Microsoft should look again at that patch, and issue advice on what needs to be done to make existing ASP.NET2 web applications work with it, or the patch should be amended accordingly.
As a somewhat long-in-the-tooth IT Consultant and software developer who was born years before Billy Gates, and as one who has made income out of failures of the update and patching processes, I have a rather jaundiced view of pre-release software testing!
Regards
Ken.
Kenneth Spencer Hi,
According to the description, it’s your own developed C# ASP.NET2 applications, so I suspect that there are some compatibility issue with the security update, the issue will be more related to coding development. As we mainly focus on the Security question about Windows Server system and here is not the best support resource for coding development, it is recommend you to get further support in the corresponding community so that you can get the most qualified pool of respondents. Thanks for your understanding.
For your convenience, I have list the related link as followed.
MSDN Forums
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/categories
Vincent Hu
- Marked As Answer byVincent HuMSFT, ModeratorMonday, December 07, 2009 1:38 AM
- Thankyou Vincent. I have already raised this issue in other forums but no-one seems to know much about this problem.
Using your link, I have now added the question to yet other forums.
Living in hope ...
Ken.
Kenneth Spencer
