Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Windows Update JUL13 2011 Crashed Network

I started amazing charts this am from an exam room computer and it couldn't find the database. (Running Win XP and Windows 7 peer to peer ). Apparently there have been a lot of Windows Updates this week and they are wrecking havoc. People are complaining a lot on twitter.

Anyway, problem was solved by rebooting the router and restarting the machines. Just thought I would post this here. If you are having trouble try this before calling amazing charts support.

I had a similar problem with Windows Update that messed up my Sharepoint and backups. Turned out being the SharePoint service pack which messed permissions for the SPFarm account. Which messed up Volume Snapshot Service because it was constantly in use, which messed up my backups. My backups are working great and offsite as well.

Go figure. I have windows 7 professional and installed a simple HP networkable printer HP 2035n a workhorse inexpensive business printer and took my IT guy 2-3 hourse to figure out how to get the thing to print. My windows computer should have been plug and play and it is not! When is apple going to take over?

Apple already has. They passed Microsoft in market cap last year. But its hard to overcome 25 years of Windows dominance. Maybe one day AC will run on anything, even my wristwatch. For now I'll use Windows, if they could just squash the bugs!

Companies like HP tend to have their own drivers for their printers instead of universal ones due to all the functions they add. Usually, the manual says in big letters, RUN THE CD FIRST or install drivers or something similar. Especially with network printers as they don't store the driver on the printer. The only time it took me that long to install a printer was when the printer was incompatible with the OS, but I found a workaround. (I knew that it was going in.)

SLUTHRA, YOUR POST IS TIMELY IN THAT AC SLOWED TO A CRAWL LAST WEEK AND 43,000 ERRORS APPEARED IN THE EVENT VIEWER ON MY SBS2008 ENABLED SERVER.THE ERROR INVOLVED "SHAREPOINT SERVICES 3". G. A. SUPPORT CAME IN AND DID SOMETHING TO GET US BACK TO OUR PRIOR STATE OF FUNCTION BUT I CHECKED THIS AM AND THE POSTED ERROR MSGS OCCUR EVERY MINUTE AND CONTINUE. SOMETHING ABOUT A SQL ERROR. THE BACKUP PROCESS SEEMS TO WORK FINE. ANY THOUGHTS?

Aldo, please take the caps lock off. Its the equivalent of shouting, and is quite disturbing.

Aldo, could you please post this error from the event log or email me a TeamViewer ID and Pass so I can take a look.

Instructions Here: http://sluthra.x10.bz/remotesup/remotesupp.htm

Sandeep,
A side note...
Couldn't help noticing your last name.
Are you any relationship to Charu Luthra in Quebec? She is one of our employees.

I don't think so. But I'll ask my dad.

Sandeep, 508 errors/hr, 42,843 in 7 days. Error Windows Sharepoint Services 3 Event ID 3355, database.
"cannot connect to SQL Server"
Win-EUGS07LO7LO7P4\
Microsoft ##55EE not found
DBNETLIB Connection open
SQL server does not exist or access denied

Hope this spaghetti of a message means something. Thanks
Sorry about the "caps on", we use caps in office because screens are small and hard to read.

I had a big mess after the first windows update the last week in June. The windows update yesterday seems to have fixed everything! I can now easily access AC from my VPN. HURRAH!!

Looks like your permissions were messed up as well. Check out this link for the resolution:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee513066.aspx

Thank you for your help. I checked the link and believe you are correct.The repair is complicated but doable. I'll first try another window's update like solodocmom and pray for a repair.

Yea, a little tricky, but I don't get any errors when I get my daily Summary Report.

Ha, it looks like I'm in the same boat. My entire remote web workplace has stopped working. Exchange is messed up along with everything. If I ever get this fixed. I'm never going to update again.

Situation is much worse than I imagined. My Exchange is completely messed up. No access to email or anything. I'm beyond mad. I have to fix this before work on Monday.

Going to try the a restore from the backups. At least Amazing Charts is in tact.

Got lucky. Thank god I fixed the backup issue last week. Managed to do a bare metal restore to Friday at 11 PM. All is back to normal.