Base WinINSTALL Version: 8.70.0401, 8.70.0402 or 8.70.0403
(Japanese)
Hotfix WinINSTALL Version: 8.70.0404
(Japanese)
Products affected by this hotfix:
* This
hotfix contains no new fixes for DMS, so does not
need to be applied if the 8.70.0403 hotfix has
already been applied to DMS. However, it
can be applied to DMS with no ill effect.
Product version information:
WinINSTALL hotfixes are
cumulative, and include all fixes for issues corrected in all previous hotfixes. However,
depending on which files are updated in this hotfix
or in previous hotfixes, certain areas of the product
will report a product version corresponding to the previous hotfixes
or the base product release. Following
correct application of this hotfix, the following
versions should be observed in Add/Remove Programs (ARP), in Help / About or when viewing agent status:
|
Component |
ARP Version |
About/Agent Version |
|
Console |
8.70.0404 |
8.70.0401 |
|
Agents |
8.70.0404 |
8.70.0404* |
|
Share |
8.70.0401 |
N/A |
* After
the agents are properly updated, the console will show the correct agent
version (8.70.0404) when a machine is viewed.
However, when new machines are deployed from a share with the hotfix installed, they will initially show the base version
(8.70.0401), but will show the correct version following the next time they are
restarted.
Files included in this hotfix:
|
File |
Old Version(s) |
New Version |
Description |
|
WI870404_DMS_DAS_Enu.html |
|
|
Hotfix description and installation instructions (this file). |
|
Upgrader.xml |
|
|
Hotfix installation trigger file. |
|
WIPXECr.dll* |
(empty) |
8.7004.29.34 |
Updated console module
for PXE Client Reset. |
|
WIPatchCfgu.dll |
8.7004.26.41 |
8.7004.29.44 |
Updated console module for
Patch Management. |
|
WICRAgent.dll* |
8.7004.11.22 |
8.7004.29.25 |
Updated agent module for
PXE Client Reset. |
|
PostInst.exe |
8.7004.11.22 |
8.7004.29.24 |
Updated post-install
module for Client Reset. |
|
PXESTART.BIN |
Dated 9/14/2006 |
Dated 6/12/2007 |
Updated bootstrap loader
for PXE Client Reset. |
|
WIPublisher.dll |
8.7004.12.23 |
8.7004.29.25 |
Updated agent module for
the Publisher agent. |
|
WIConsole.msi |
|
|
Updated console MSI file. |
|
WIAgents.msi* |
|
|
Updated agents MSI file. |
|
UpdateCR.cmd |
|
|
Command (batch) file to
update Client Reset files. |
* The
WIPXECr.dll and WICRAgent.dll files are only needed for DAS, as well as WIAgents.msi. The DMS
product does not require these files, though they can be added to the DMS share
with no ill effect.
Issues addressed in this hotfix:
Issue: DTR 298864 - Blank txtsetup.sif
after adding OS files.
Description: For some OS/service pack combinations, the PXE
server is failing to copy the txtsetup.sif file. The PXE server was using an incorrect code
page for Japanese, resulting in an invalid txtsetup.sif.
Resolution: The PXE server was fixed to use the correct code
page for Japanese.
Important: After applying this hotfix,
we strongly recommend that you use the console to re-add the OS files
previously added to your PXE server(s).
Please see the “Post-install instructions” section at the end for more
information.
Issue: DTR 298877 - PostInstall
log contains invalid characters.
Description: The post-install log messages contain a mixture of
Japanese and garbage characters.
Resolution: The PostInstall
program now correctly passes logs containing Japanese characters to the PXE
agent for logging in the database.
Important: After applying the hotfix,
the PXE client logs should be cleared.
Please see the “Post-install instructions” section at the end for more
information.
Issue: DTR 298872 – Unable to browse to external
domains to add accounts during template creation.
Description: The console is unable to browse to external domains
(other AD domains in the forest) in the domain browser on Windows Server
2003. This works fine on Windows 2000
Server.
Resolution: A flag was added to the
browser code to enable external domain browsing on Windows Server 2003.
Issue: DTR 299714 – Account to access PXE server
cannot contain Japanese characters.
Description: If the user credentials contain one or more Japanese
characters, setup hangs at the "Setting up Windows" phase. This is caused by MBCS characters in the user
credentials.
Resolution: The PXE server was fixed
to write MBCS characters in the user credentials.
Issue: DTR 299218 – No dynamic LST files are being produced.
Description: The Publisher was not producing dynamic LST files.
Resolution: The Publisher was corrected to produce dynamic LST
files.
Issue: DTR 299144 – Documentation lacking on
automatic configuration of Windows firewall exclusions for the WinINSTALL
agent.
Description: The information below is not presented in the documentation of the
WinINSTALL PXE Client Reset feature.
Resolution:
If you create a PXE reset template for Windows XP or 2003 and configure that
template to both enable the Windows firewall and deploy the WinINSTALL agent,
firewall exclusions for the default ports used by the WinINSTALL agent, 3674
UDP and TCP, are automatically added during the reset. You do not need to add these exclusions
yourself, and doing so will improperly configure the firewall.
Issue addressed in previous hotfixes:
Description: In the Japanese console, if the shortcut bar is
closed, patch bulletin information cannot be downloaded or refreshed. An HTTP BAD REQUEST (400) error is received.
Resolution: With the shortcut bar closed, a garbage application
name was being sent with the HTTP request.
This has been corrected.
Description: MSSecure.xml files prior
to April 10, 2007 had an error which WinINSTALL compensated for in Patch
Management. Microsoft corrected the
error in MSSecure.xml, but the code to compensate for
the original error caused the file to no longer be parsed by the console for
Japanese, French and German.
Resolution: The MSSecure.xml parsing
code has been modified to deal with both the broken MSSecure.xml,
and the corrected version.
Description: Related to DTR 18275, if a previous download of MSSecure.xml fails, when the issue is resolved, the default
language for the bulletins changes from its previous setting (e.g. Japanese) to
English. It can be manually changed back
via the UI, in which case the bulletins will be downloaded in the correct language.
Resolution: The MSSecure.xml parsing
code has been modified to deal with both the broken MSSecure.xml,
and the corrected version.
Description: After downloading bulletins, the bulletin list may
not be properly refreshed, and appears blank.
Resolution: The display issue with refreshing the bulletin list
view was corrected so that the list is properly re-drawn following a download.
Description: If a Japanese XP machine
is reset with the firewall enabled and the template includes deployment of the
WinINSTALL agents, the reset will fail with an error regarding SIF file
corruption due to use of localized (Japanese) characters in the SIF file.
Resolution: The PXE Client Reset
agent was changed to generate a SIF using English characters, as Microsoft
doesn’t support localized SIF files.
Description: The query for available machines in the Create PXE
Clients dialog screen can cause a long delay in larger environments.
Resolution: The query has been rewritten to significantly
reduce the delay.
Install instructions for this hotfix:
Note 1: The
default for all agents is to check for upgrades on startup. Please confirm that this option has been set
in Agent Settings… / Advanced / Check for upgrade at
startup, and set if necessary.
Note 2: After
the DAS agents are properly updated, the console will show the correct version
(8.70.0404) when a machine is viewed.
However, when new machines are deployed from a share with the hotfix installed, they will initially show the base version
(actually, 8.70.0400, not 8.70.0401), but will show the correct version
following the next time they are restarted (and updated).
Post-install instructions:
1. In previous releases, there were some logging issues
with PXE Client Reset where log entries were written in ANSI, resulting in logs
that couldn’t properly represent Japanese characters. Logs are now written in Unicode (fixed by DTR
298877), however existing log entries will appear garbled and may cause some
console instability. These old log
entries should be purged from the database.
To purge the existing log entries:
2. DTR 298864 addresses issues with an invalid txtsetup.sif file being created. As a result, following installation of the hotfix, if you have added any OS files to PXE prior to
application of the hotfix, those files should be
re-added following application of the hotfix to gain
the benefit of this fix. The following
steps are necessary, for each OS that was previously added to PXE, on each PXE
server: