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SP4 Problem

  • May 18, 2005 at 1:55 am

    #164621 

    Having installed SP4 on a server our web application no longer works.  I believe the requests are sent via COM objects.  Not all request go via COM and the ones that don't work fine.No error is being returned the page just sits there as if it is going to do something but never does.  No errors are reported in the Event viewer or anywhere else I can find.  Does anyone have any suggestions.ThanksJamie.

  • May 18, 2005 at 9:11 am

    #559615

    I think I have fixed it.  I don't know whether this is a school boy error or not. 

    When I applied SP4 I connected to the Server via Remote Desktop.  I think this had some impact as it messed up some of the paths for registering the objects.  i.e. oledb, ado and MDAC related dll's as they were registered to a mapped drive!!!  This meant the MDAC installation was messed up. 

    Resolution:

    I reinstalled MDAC.  This took me back to version 2.5.1

    I then reinstalled MDAC 2.8.1 and 2.8.1 SP1

    Hey presto it works fine.

    I did however install SP4 on another machine using the same method and had no problems.

  • May 23, 2005 at 8:59 am

    #560524

    how did you reinstall mdac? i had a problem with vs.net and reporting services where it needed an older verison of mdac but i couldnt revert to an older version.

  • May 23, 2005 at 9:10 am

    #560526

    Find the mdac.inf file (probably C:\Windows\Inf)

    Right Click -> Install point at location for win2k or whatever disk.  This should reinstall to whatever is the on the disk.  You can then role it forward to whatever version you wish.

  • May 23, 2005 at 9:18 am

    #560527

    cheers that worked perfectly

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