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From: Susan Bradley on 17 Mar 2010 23:21
Susan Bradley wrote:
> Flo Wireheads wrote:
>>
>> "Susan Bradley" <sbradcpa(a)pacbell.net> wrote in message
>> news:OJM2SKixKHA.3564(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Flo Wireheads wrote:
>>>> On all of the laptops running Windows Vista Business SP2 on our
>>>> Windows SBS 2008 network, it is taking several hours to startup ever
>>>> since the March 9th Small Business Server client update. It hangs
>>>> there with the "Please wait" message for over 30 minutes. Most of
>>>> the users encountering this indefinitely long wait have tried to
>>>> break out of it and shut down and restart their laptops. When this
>>>> happens, Windows Explorer hangs and they spend all day trying to
>>>> restart their systems. Only when the system is started without the
>>>> network, will it finally make it to the Windows login screen.
>>>>
>>>> The update cannot be uninstalled. It takes too long to unistall all
>>>> the updates and SP2. The problem does not happen with Vista SP1 and
>>>> XP Pro clients on the network. I have had to downgrade one laptop
>>>> from Vista Business SP2 to XP pro SP3 because it doesn't take so long.
>>>>
>>>> We have lost over 3 days of work for 4 people. For the newer laptops
>>>> that came with Vista Business SP2, I have had them start their
>>>> laptops in the office without the network, and then turn it on once
>>>> logged on in standalone as a work around. I have had to disable
>>>> Windows Updates on both the server and the clients until I can find
>>>> a solution that doesn't involve having everyone in the office
>>>> standing around all day waiting for their computer to start up.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else encountered this problem and if so, what was your
>>>> solution?
>>> March 9th Small Business Server client update
>>>
>>> What March 9th update are you specifically referring to?
>>
>> The Windows Small Business Server Client update that was automatically
>> installed on March 9th. It was in the list of installed Windows
>> Updates. We first encountered the Please Wait problem on March 10th. I
>> have disabled this update on the server. It's gone forever so I can't
>> tell you the KB #.
>
> There wasn't a SBS client update automatically installed on March 9th.
>
> When you say you disabled this, how exactly did you do this? If so it's
> still in the MU on the box just in the disabled updates section that you
> can get back.
>
> Also if you installed it on the server (yes?) Can you email me at this
> email address the windowsupdate.log file under the c:\windows directory?
>
> I'm not blowing you off or anything, but truly there was no such
> specific SBS client update deployed via Microsoft update on March 9th.
>
> Can you download the SBS best practice analyzer and run it on the box
> and report what it says?
Whoops sorry.

www.sbsbpa.com is the short link to the sbsbpa download
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