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Mark K
9/23/2004 3:07:16 PM

Last night our production servers were updated with the following patches:
814078 jscript5.6
..net1.1sp1
gdi+detection tool,
833989-28 IE6,
867801-25 IE6,
Office XP -28- 832332,
Wordperfect -27- 873379

Since the update, the Windows service I created in VB.NET is no longer able
to update Active Directory. The service runs under the security context of a
domain admin account. The error message I receive is:
ex.Message = Specified method is not supported.
ex.Source = System.DirectoryServices

The last commands executed in code are run against a DirectoryEntry class
object
..Properties(strAttribute)(0) = strNewValue
..CommitChanges()

I've tested this (with the same user) from all of the Win2K servers which
were included in our last patch wave and the same error occurs. I test it on
any Win2K server which was not part of last night's patch wave and it runs
fine. These servers which were not part of last night's patch wave are
otherwise fully up-to-date with all the latest patches. It also runs fine
from my WinXP development workstation which has all of these patches
installed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a production problem
impacting or production environment.

In the meantime, I have the service running from one of the unpatched
servers

Regards,
Mark K

Mark K
9/23/2004 4:01:55 PM

This just in...

We were not aware of any way to uninstall just the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1
patch which was installed last night, so on one of the test servers from
last night's update wave we uninstalled the whole .NET Framework 1.1 and
re-installed.

The problem has gone away on this server.

Any help?

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Mark K
9/26/2004 10:19:52 AM

I'm quoting from the MSDN site:
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Is there a reason that I've never gotten a response from Microsoft in this
newsgroups?

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Gary
10/4/2004 1:41:07 PM

I'm having the exact same problem on one of my servers. I don't really want
to reinstall the framework -- has anyone found a solution?

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Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)
10/4/2004 4:08:34 PM

Others have reported this as well. It may be a bug.

You can work around this pretty easily by using the Value property instead
of (0).

I still haven't installed the new version to see what is different in the
code that causes this problem.

Joe K.

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Mark K
10/5/2004 2:16:01 PM

I finally contacted Microsoft PSS and it turns out that it is a bug. The
patch for this is available from Microsoft and is already included in the
Windows XP SP2 update. My XP box is SP2, therefore I did not have any
problem with my testing of the .NET FX 1.1. SP1.

The patch applies to kb article 835763, although the article didn't seem
describe my problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=835763

Contact Microsoft PSS and ask for the patch. It's been in production since
Friday, 10/1, and it's working fine.

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