Microsoft KB Archive/186408

= SMS: Secondary Site Upgrade Fails When It Has Too Many Logon Servers =

Article ID: 186408

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q186408



SYMPTOMS
Under specific circumstances, when you attempt to upgrade a secondary site, the upgrade may fail because of timing-related issues. This may occur in environments where there are several secondary site servers under the central site, and each secondary site has numerous logon servers.



CAUSE
During a secondary site upgrade process, the Upgrade Bootstrap Service is delivered to the secondary site server and started. This issues a site shutdown using a SHUTDOWN.CT1.

Note that the shutdown may take an inordinate amount of time because of the number of logon servers.

During this time, the parent site's Hierarchy Manager Service sends the site install package. The Systems Management Server Despooler Service is still active at the secondary site server because it has not shut down, and it records the following error message:

Executing instruction of type MICROSOFT|SMS|MINIJOBINSTRUCTION|CONFIG

Cannot find config mini inst specific data

Despooler failed to execute the instruction, error code = c0000001

The secondary site never upgrades, it simply goes into an Emergency Restart after 48 hours.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, force an upgrade of the secondary site from its parent site using the PREINST Command: PREINST /UPGRADE:SecondarySiteCode



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbbug kbhman kbpending kbscman kbsetup KB186408

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