[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me .... - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Tue, Dec 20 2005 21:52 bradley

Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Windows SharePoint Services components may be deleted after you reinstall the Intranet component of Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP1:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;909988

Look at this... it's our first automagically deployed SBS critical patch... isn't that COOL!  Do you realize how long and far we've come from the day I sat across from folks and explained to them how patching was one of the worst things I did on the SBS 2000 box?  Do you realize how far we've come from when I first read about a 99 page white paper from Jeff Middleton who suggested that patching needed to be done monthly?  Do you realize how far we've come from when Jeff explained the qchain process and the dependancies and how it was a mess?

We've come a long long way.....and yes.. that patch is SBS approved [pretty obviously SBS approved since it's specifically for us]

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# re: Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:10 AM by Dominic White

You wouldn't happen to know where I could get a copy on Jeff's paper would you?

# re: Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:23 AM by Susan

It's a three year old document now that has been totally superceded.

# re: Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:54 AM by Dominic White

I am busy writing up my MSc thesis on patch management. The fact that it is dated would only make it potentially more valuable.

Google doesn't seem to know anything about it.

What document has it been superceded by?

Thanks for the help.

# re: Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:29 PM by RS

I'm having the same issue as some others in that this patch, once it is installed, keeps on being downloaded by wuau again and again. Is there a known problem or a workaround or any information on this little bit 'o weirdness?

# re: Call me wacko but the sight of this thrills me ....

Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:36 PM by Susan

Can you ping me directly at sbradcpa-at-pacbell.net I need to see if you installed some files in a different location.