FYI: There was a thread on this in the Vantage group a couple of weeks
back. APC causing problems on servers.
Gary
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Subject: Re: APC Powerchute software - expired Java Runtime certificate has
detrimental effect on Win2k / Win2k3 and SBS Servers
This problem can be worse than the problems that Michael had. We patched an
Exchange 2003 server and rebooted it and it refused to boot. We wound up
booting in safe mode and disabling the APC service to get it to boot. This
happened only after three hours of frustrating testing to try and figure out
why until one of us remembered that he had seen something about the APC
problem.
This one problem caused more down time than we have had on our email servers
in the last three years combined! Shame on APC!
Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:02 AM
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Subject: APC Powerchute software - expired Java Runtime certificate has
detrimental effect on Win2k / Win2k3 and SBS Servers
This week, we were baffled by a significant number of our managed client
servers falling like dominos, each one exhibiting the same symptoms.
Essentially, the consoles were dead or dead slow....couldn't open control
panel or network properties, explorer was crashing (no desktop), IE was non
responsive. Restart the server and the exact same symptoms reappear.
Accessing the admin console across the network via RDP made no difference.
At first sight, we were reasonably confident that the Server had been
hijacked or hit by a virus. <snip>
back. APC causing problems on servers.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Windows NTBugtraq Mailing List
[mailto:NTBUGTRAQ@...] On Behalf Of xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:47 PM
To: NTBUGTRAQ@...
Subject: Re: APC Powerchute software - expired Java Runtime certificate has
detrimental effect on Win2k / Win2k3 and SBS Servers
This problem can be worse than the problems that Michael had. We patched an
Exchange 2003 server and rebooted it and it refused to boot. We wound up
booting in safe mode and disabling the APC service to get it to boot. This
happened only after three hours of frustrating testing to try and figure out
why until one of us remembered that he had seen something about the APC
problem.
This one problem caused more down time than we have had on our email servers
in the last three years combined! Shame on APC!
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Windows NTBugtraq Mailing List
[mailto:NTBUGTRAQ@...] On Behalf Of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:02 AM
To: NTBUGTRAQ@...
Subject: APC Powerchute software - expired Java Runtime certificate has
detrimental effect on Win2k / Win2k3 and SBS Servers
This week, we were baffled by a significant number of our managed client
servers falling like dominos, each one exhibiting the same symptoms.
Essentially, the consoles were dead or dead slow....couldn't open control
panel or network properties, explorer was crashing (no desktop), IE was non
responsive. Restart the server and the exact same symptoms reappear.
Accessing the admin console across the network via RDP made no difference.
At first sight, we were reasonably confident that the Server had been
hijacked or hit by a virus. <snip>