Re: [Assp-user] Windows Update shutdown ASSP service

[Micheal E. Jr <mi...@es...>]

I am in the same situation as you Bennett, but I haven't scheduled my
server for a reboot yet.  I will this evening though, and I will confirm
or deny your findings.

I've never heard of anything like this ever happening, and it certainly
hasn't happened to me in all the time I have been using ASSP, WSUS and
scheduled reboots.

Is it possible that something else or someone else had marked that
service as deleted?

Bennett Lee wrote:
> I have 2 clients running ASSP on Exchange 2003 servers, one running on
> Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 and the other on Windows SBS 2003 SP2.
> Last night Windows Update installed five updates and rebooted, but the
> ASSP service never restarted (yes, it's set to automatic).  ASSP log
> ends with "Sig TERM", at which time the system rebooted.  I tried to
> restart it this morning, it said that ASSP or its dependencies were
> marked for deletion.  No other services on either server had problems
> after the update.  No event logs related to ASSP or to services failing
> to start.
>
> For those in the same boat, I eventually got ASSP started again by
> closing the Services MMC and uninstalling/reinstalling the ASSP service
> with "addservice.pl -u" then "addservice.pl -i C:\ASSP\assp.pl C:\ASSP".
>
> If this happened to one client, I'd say it's a fluke.  But both my
> clients running ASSP fail on the same night with the same error after
> the same Windows Updates?  The five packages installed last night were:
>
> 	* KB890830 (July 2007 Malicious Software Removal Tool)
> 	* KB928365 (.NET 1.1 SP1 security update)
> 	* KB933854 (.NET 2.0 security update)
> 	* KB935840 (AD security update)
> 	* KB936357 ("reliability" update for Intel processors)
>
> The big question is what's the problem here?  Can the underlying problem
> be fixed so I'm not putting out fires because my clients' mail goes down
> after potentially every Windows Update?
>
> --Bennett
>
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