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Hi everyone,
We know many of you have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx. It has been brought to our attention that the current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will expire on November 1, 2007, rather than March 15, 2008 as originally announced. It is strongly encouraged that you take all necessary steps before November 1, 2007 to back up all your projects and move your Team Foundation Server data to an alternate location. For instructions on moving your TFS data please refer to the article Moving Team Foundation Server, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404879(vs.90).aspx, located on the MSDN Library.
REQUEST: As this change impacts many members of the community, assistance you can provide spreading the word is greatly appreciated. So please share this information with the community any where you see fit – blogs, web sites, user groups, newsletters, etc.
For the latest information and up to date information on this please refer to the Visual Studio Developer Center, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
A short Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is listed below:
FAQ
Q. Will my data be available after November 1, 2007?
A. This is still being researched, however, currently the understanding is that customers will NOT be able to access their date after November 1st unless the data is moved to an alternate installation location.
Q. Can I reset my system date to re-enable the OS image?
A. Again there is still research being done, however, from the current understanding of the problem resetting the system date back DOES NOT re-enable the OS image.
If we have any further information to share will be sure to let you know.
OK folks,
here's one for comment.
By design if an Advanced Client cannot contact a Proxy MP it is basically dead in the water until the PMP comes back online again (or some other intervention is taken), which could potentially go unnoticed for a long period of time depending on the type of the fault, as after all the whole reason of putting a PMP there in the first place is to reduce the impact on the WAN which you're negating but introducing the failover.
But I'd be interested to know how many of you would like the ability to configure your PMPs to failover (and back again) automatically if a Client's Proxy MP is unavailable?
924664 FIX: You cannot stop the SQL Server service, or many minidump files and many log files are generated in SQL Server 2000
943656 Cumulative update package 5 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
942444 FIX: A query that involves an outer join operation runs very slowly in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
942982 Performance is slow when you run a query in SQL Server 2005 that updates a table on a linked server and then joins the table to a table on the local server
941989 FIX: Error message when you synchronize a merge replication in a replication topology that contains two or more re-publishers in SQL Server 2005: "21997 Failed to allocate new identity range"
942905 FIX: Error message when you run a DML statement against a table in a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package: "Msg 6549, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_FuzzyLookupTableMaintenanceInvoke, Line 0"
942904 FIX: Error message when you run the DBCC CHECKTABLE statement or the DBCC CHECKDB statement in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: "Column '' value is out of range for data type 'float'"
942714 FIX: Error message when you use the "bcp_sendrow" function in a SQL Server 2005-based application that uses a SQL Native Client provider: "For BCP, all variable-length data must have either a length-prefix or a terminator specified"
942906 FIX: When you run a stored procedure that uses some views in SQL Server 2005, the performance is slow compared to SQL Server 2000 if the views use the JOIN operator and contain subqueries
936892 Error message in the SQL Server Errorlog file after you upgrade SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 on a server that is running Windows Server 2003: "Unable to update password policy"
943284 FIX: Only the import operation of the first batch is minimally logged when you import the data in multiple batches in SQL Server 2005
935527 Devices that have SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack installed have reduced battery life
941214 A hotfix rollup package that provides an updated Client.msi package is available for the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 client
SummaryThe following bulletin has undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS06-067
Bulletin Information:* MS06-067 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-067.mspx - Reason for Revision: Revised to include MS06-065 as a bulletin that is replaced by this bulletin. - Originally posted: November 14, 2006 - Updated: October 24, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1
941846 A Web site takes a long time to load, and some elements are not displayed correctly when you use Internet Explorer 6 to visit the Web site through an HTTPS connection
943120 When you use Internet Explorer 6 to move from a Web site on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer, Internet Explorer may crash
940277 When Internet Explorer 6 is installed on a Windows XP-based computer, it takes longer than expected to browse the subfolders in the Favorites folder and to open a network share that is mapped to a toolbar
943060 FIX: A query that has many outer joins takes a long time to compile in SQL Server 2005
942711 FIX: You receive a time-out error message when you try to send a message to the target service of a Service Broker application that you create in SQL Server 2005
941233 FIX: Error message when you use the SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005: "Conversions not allowed using bcp_moretext"
943471 Error message when you create a snapshot backup of many databases at the same time in SQL Server 2005: "ERROR Selected writer 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)' is in failed state"
942659 FIX: The query performance is slower when you run the query in SQL Server 2005 than when you run the query in SQL Server 2000
941695 FIX: After you enable the Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) feature in SQL Server 2005, access violations may occur, and SQL Server 2005 may stop responding
941178 FIX: SQL Server Agent replaces the A_DBN token with "master" in a job that responds to a database alert in SQL Server 2005
A BIG thank you to all of you that took the time to attend our first meeting. Not only was it great to be able to meet you all and talk Windows Management it was also great to see various little huddles of people networking together which is one of the primary goals of the groups - giving you the opportunity to talk to like-minded folks and hopefully share experiences and ideas.
We're in the process of planning the next meeting and would LOVE to hear your ideas for topics you'd like to see as after all this group is all about giving you the information you need in a format that works for you.
Thanks once again.
SummaryThe following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS07-055 - Critical * MS07-060 - Critical
Bulletin Information:* MS07-055 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-055.mspx - Reason for Revision: Bulletin updated to include Windows XP x64 Edition among non-affected software. - Originally posted: October 9, 2007 - Updated: October 17, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1
* MS07-060 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-060.mspx - Reason for Revision: Bulletin updated: Vulnerability FAQ updated to explain the nature of the update and plans for addressing similar stability issues. - Originally posted: October 9, 2007 - Updated: October 17, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.2
We're all looking forward to meeting all of you who have registered for the first WMUG meeting later tonight.
Safe trip and we'll see you there.
Some things are new in ConfigMgr, whereas others have changed very little from SMS 2003. This article gives a complete breakdown... [Go to article]
940072 When you browse from one Web site to a different Web site in Internet Explorer 6 on a Windows XP-based computer, Internet Explorer 6 crashes
939653 MS07-057: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer
939317 FIX: The CPU utilization may suddenly increase to 100 percent when there are many connections to an instance of SQL Server 2000 on a computer that has multiple processors
932881 How to make unwanted access to SQL Server 2005 by an operating system administrator more difficult
942176 Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service
942656 FIX: Error message when you set up a snapshot publication on a database in SQL Server 2005: "Error 137, Must declare the scalar variable "
941689 FIX: You cannot connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005, and an error message is logged in the SQL Server error log
942712 FIX: The W3WP.exe process of Internet Information Services stops unexpectedly when you configure a merge replication that uses Web synchronization in SQL Server 2005
942668 FIX: High CPU usage occurs periodically on a subscriber when you synchronize a merge publication in SQL Server 2005
941820 NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing does not work correctly on a computer that is running the SMS 2003 Service Pack 3 Advanced Client
941395 A hotfix rollup package is available for the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 client
SummaryThe following bulletin has undergone a major revision increment. Please see the bulletin for more detail.
Bulletin Information:* MS07-056 - Critical- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-056.mspx- Reason for Revision: Revised to include Windows XP Professional x64 Edition in the Affected Software section; Known Issues set to none; Corrected missing file information to the bulletin text for Outlook Express 6.0 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000 Service pack 4 and Outlook Express 5.5 Service Pack 2 on Windows 2000 Service pack 4. - Originally posted: October 9, 2007- Updated: October 10, 2007- Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical- Version: 2.0
SummaryThe following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details.* MS07-060 - Critical* MS07-058 - Important* MS07-057 - Critical* MS07-045 - Critical* MS07-027* MS06-068* MS06-006* MS05-032
Bulletin Information:* MS07-060 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-060.mspx - Reason for Revision: Bulletin Updated: Hyperlink updated for the Microsoft Mactopia Web site to the correct download location of the 11.3.8 Update in the Deployment Information section. - Originally posted: October 9, 2007 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1
* MS07-058 - Important - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-058.mspx - Reason for Revision: Updating bulletin to show XP professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 as affected software. - Originally posted: October 9, 2007 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Important - Version: 1.1
* MS07-057 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-057.mspx - Reason for Revision: Revised to correct the What does the update do? section for CVE-2007-3893 - Originally posted: October 9, 2007 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1
* MS07-045 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-045.mspx - Reason for Revision: Bulletin revised to correct the name of an affected file in the bulletin text only. - Originally posted: August 14, 2007 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.3
* MS07-027 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-027.mspx - Reason for Revision: Revised to include missing folder information for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 - Originally posted: May 8, 2007 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.4
* MS06-068 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-068.mspx - Reason for Revision: Clarified that MS05-032 is only replaced when both MS06-068 and MS07-045 are installed. For more information, see What updates does this release replace? in the section, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update - Originally posted: November 14, 2006 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.2
* MS06-006 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-006.mspx - Reason for Revision: V1.1 (October 10, 2007): Added Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 937986 to Caveats which documents the currently known issues that customers may experience when they install this security update. - Originally posted: February 14, 2006 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1
* MS05-032 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-032.mspx - Reason for Revision: Clarified that MS05-032 is replaced only when both MS06-068 and MS07-045 are installed. For more information, see Why am I receiving this update in the section, Frequently asked questions (FAQ) related to this security update. - Originally posted: June 14, 2005 - Updated: October 10, 2007 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Moderate - Version: 2.2
4 Critical and 4 Important patches this month:
Critical Security BulletinsMicrosoft Security Bulletin MS07-055 - Affected Software: - Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 - Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-056 - Affected Software: - Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Vista - Windows Vista x64 Edition - Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-057 - Affected Software: - Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Vista - Windows Vista x64 Edition - Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-060 - Affected Software: - Microsoft Word 2000 Service Pack 3 - Microsoft Word 2002 Service Pack 3 - Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac - Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Important Security BulletinsMicrosoft Security Bulletin MS07-058 - Affected Software: - Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Vista - Windows Vista x64 Edition - Impact: Denial of Service - Version Number: 1.0
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-059 - Affected Software: - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 x64 Edition - Impact: Elevation of Privilege - Version Number: 1.0
SummaryThe following bulletins have undergone a major revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS05-004
Bulletin Information:* MS05-004- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-004.mspx- Reason for Revision: Bulletin updated as Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista have been added to the "Affected Software" sections for .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3 KB886906 and .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 KB886903. - Originally posted: February 8, 2005- Updated: October 9, 2007- Bulletin Severity Rating: Important- Version: 4.0
942367 On a Windows XP SP2-based computer that has certain cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer installed, Internet Explorer 6 may stop responding when you try to visit a Web site
942861 Error message when an application connects to SQL Server on a server that is running Windows Server 2003: "General Network error," "Communication link failure," or "A transport-level error"
942666 FIX: The process stops responding when you run an SSIS package that contains a Flat File destination in x64 versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005
941176 FIX: Error message when you run a query that references a column of the XML data type in SQL Server 2005: "The XML data type is damaged"
942660 FIX: Error message when you run the BULK INSERT statement in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: "The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row , column "
942661 FIX: Error message when you try to delete some stored procedures concurrently in SQL Server 2005: “Temp table deferred drop doesn't scale for certain workloadsâ€
941256 FIX: Error message when you run the CREATE ASSEMBLY statement to register a CLR assembly in SQL Server 2005: "An error occurred while gathering metadata from assembly '' with HRESULT 0x80131"
942177 How to determine the version of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
939941 Problems may occur when you try to use POST method or the GET method to pass Form data in a Web page in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 6
935789 FIX: On a computer that is running SQL Server 2005 and that has multiple processors, you may receive incorrect results when you run a query that contains an inner join
942087 FIX: An access violation may occur intermittently when you run an Integration Services package that contains a Data Flow task in SQL Server 2005
940961 FIX: Transactions that are being committed on the principal server may not be copied to the mirror server when a database mirroring failover occurs in SQL Server 2005
937521 FIX: An access violation may occur when you run a query that uses a hash join hint in the x64 version of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
936179 FIX: Error message when you use SQL Native Client to connect to an instance of a principal server in a database mirroring session: "The connection attempted to fail over to a server that does not have a failover partner"
940933 FIX: Some changes from subscribers who use SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition or Web synchronization are not uploaded to the publisher when you use the republishing model in a merge publication in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
940719 FIX: A memory leak occurs when you call the Initialize method and the Terminate method of the SQLDistribution object in a loop in an application that you develop by using Microsoft ActiveX replication controls in SQL Server 2005
938455 How to upgrade to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006
Mark your diaries, the first official WMUG meeting will take place on Wednesday 17th October.
You can find full details on the WMUG home page (http://www.wmug.co.uk)
I'd like to thank Microsoft for all of their help and patience in organising this event.
Everyone is welcome, all we ask is that you register in advance so we know numbers for the size of room we want, for catering and of course for security reasons.
We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible on the 17th.