SP4 upgrade with renamed Admnistrator account

[themikehyde]

Hello,
Has anyone attempted an SP4 upgrade on a SP3 system, with a renamed Administrator account? I am curious to know your results.

Thanks,Mike

 

[jimatkci]

Have you had problems with Security Policies after renaming administrator and installing SP4? If so, have you found a resolution? I am having problems with security policies, but I'm not sure where my problems started or how to resolve them as of yet.

 

[themikehyde]

Jim,
Yes, totally. Please search for ordinal 175 error in this forum for more details.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I have 11 hours experience with this issue.
Mike

 

[jimatkci]

Unfortunately, I can't roll back the server to SP3 because I didn't archive files. Usually, if the service pack has been out at least a couple of weeks I trust it. Obviously, that was a bad move on my part. How did you go about resetting the permissions for IWAM account? I figured I would try to reinstall IIS and reset those permissions and see if that helps me. The specific errors I'm getting are that when I try to open the Local Security policy on the domain controller it tells me that my local security database is corrupt and when I try to open the domain controller security policy from administrative tools I get an error message with "An invalid dn syntax has been specified" in the details. Let me know if these were similar to the errors that you received.

Thanks

 

[themikehyde]

Jim, After running thru the procedure in Microsoft article 271071, I ended up completely removing IIS, then reinstalling. Then I setup the websites again. That appeared to fix the IWAM user rughts problem.

By chance, is your administrator account renamed? I am gathering this is what causes the problem with the SP4 install.
Thanks,
Mike