Urgent help please! Service pack 1 for W2k3 server problem!

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I know this is probably not the best place to post this but i couldnt find a
better place in Microsoft's "well organized" newsgroup system. I installed
the service pack 1 for windows 2003 server on our PDC that is running ICS for
the whole network. Immediatly after the reboot the clients were no longer
recieving IP addresses and as i looked at the network connections on the
server everything about ICS was gone! I have found no way of restoring the
ICS (Internet connection Sharing) to our network! Is this a know issue?
should SP1 have been released with it?

Please help if you can! My job is on the line for this! I need to restore
internet to the network ASAP!

Thanks in advance.
 
Andre Lemos said:
I know this is probably not the best place to post this but i couldnt find a
better place in Microsoft's "well organized" newsgroup system. I installed
the service pack 1 for windows 2003 server on our PDC that is running ICS for
the whole network. Immediatly after the reboot the clients were no longer
recieving IP addresses and as i looked at the network connections on the
server everything about ICS was gone! I have found no way of restoring the
ICS (Internet connection Sharing) to our network! Is this a know issue?
should SP1 have been released with it?

Please help if you can! My job is on the line for this! I need to restore
internet to the network ASAP!

Thanks in advance.
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There are two answers to your question:

The immediate answer: http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBS/tip9300/rh9326.htm
The strategic answer: The wise server administrator will do the following
before installing a major upgrade on a server:
1. Create a full backup.
2. Test the full backup on a spare disk.
3. Schedule the upgrade so that there is enough time for a fallback.
Adopting this strategy eliminates issues such as "My job is on the line".
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
There are two answers to your question:

The immediate answer: http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBS/tip9300/rh9326.htm
The strategic answer: The wise server administrator will do the following
before installing a major upgrade on a server:
1. Create a full backup.
2. Test the full backup on a spare disk.
3. Schedule the upgrade so that there is enough time for a fallback.
Adopting this strategy eliminates issues such as "My job is on the line".
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All the information on the PDC is backed up daily. Thanks for the concern.
My only problem was to once more blindy believe that Microsoft could have
launched a Major Update that would not create more problems that the previous
one. A lesson I have learned now. As for the enough time for a fallback, from
my experience I now realize that I would have to schedule at least a few days
of downtime to install something like this because these updates NEVER work
as they are supposed to.

Regarding the issue at hand, I would love to configure nat to workaround the
issue, the problem is that when i try to configure routing and remote access
for it, it still says ICS in up and wont let me reconfigure RAAS until it is
down. The problem is I cant take it down and while being "up", it does not
work.
 
Use the Services applet and make sure that the Windows Firewall/ICS service
is running and set to automatic. Also, if you use RRAS NAT instead, SP1
requires you to disable this service.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
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