{"id":8972,"date":"2007-06-25T16:39:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2007-06-25T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"windows-2003-sp2-can-fail-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8972","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2003 SP2 Can Fail To Install"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\" style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial\">There have been some reports to MS that SP2 for Windows 2003 can fail to install if there are <i><span style=\"font-style:italic\">too many<\/span><\/i> updates installed on the computer.\u00a0 Apparently the database that maintains this information can have <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;822798\">problem with more than 100 updates<\/a>.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/sbs\/archive\/2007\/06\/22\/sp2-may-fail-to-install-if-a-large-number-of-updates-are-installed.aspx\">work around<\/a> has been posted by Mark Stanfill.<\/span><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\" style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial\">Symptoms of this problem are you get a \u201c<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial\">Failed to install catalog files\u201d error when you perform a manual installation.\u00a0 You will also get \u201c960.484: InstallSingleCatalogFile: MyInstallCatalog failed for Tmp.0.ntprint.cat; error=0xfffffbfe\u201d in svcpack.log.<\/span><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\" style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial\">Mark has posted a manual and a scripted work around.\u00a0 The latter will prove valuable to anyone deploying SP2 via start up script or via something like SMS.<\/span><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\" style=\"font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-family:Arial\">Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/sbs\/archive\/2007\/06\/22\/sp2-may-fail-to-install-if-a-large-number-of-updates-are-installed.aspx\">Mark Stanfill<\/a>.<\/span><\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some reports to MS that SP2 for Windows 2003 can fail to install if there are too many updates installed on the computer.\u00a0 Apparently the database that maintains this information can have problem with more than 100 updates.\u00a0 A work around has been posted by Mark Stanfill. Symptoms of this problem are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 2003 SP2 Can Fail To Install&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}