Content Management Techniques [Shady Khorshed - MVP]

Issues reported with the MCMS security update (updated: 17.04.2007)

Stefan Goßner posted this article in his blog

Customers reported the following problems with the MCMS security update:

Issue 1

Symptoms:

• Resource Gallery Items show up as red-X after installing the update
• the DCA does not start
• Site Manager won’t start and throws an error indicating a missing satellite dll (NrMsgRes.dll) when done locally.
• Site Deployment results in an unspecified XML parser error when done from a remote machine.

Reason:

• The fix will overwrite certain registry keys underneath HKLM\NCompass and point them to C:\...

Workaround:

• If the server portion of CMS is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\CmsInstallLocation
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\SatelliteDLL
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\dir
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\Database Manager\PhysicalExecPrefix
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\Database Manager\PhysicalReadPrefix
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\MCMS\EventMessageFile
  
• If the client portion is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\NCompass Resolution Client\Dir
  
• if Site Stager is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Staging Server\ExePath
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Staging Server\LogsDirectory
  

Issue 2

Symptom:

• The following error message shows up on the CMS site:
  
  Description: Could not load file or assembly
  'Microsoft.ContentManagement.Common, Version=5.0.1200.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system
  cannot find the file specified.
  Severity: 5
  Source: AEJavaProxy
  Debug info: N/A
  Extra info: N/A
  Client Source: Login::ctlLogin_Click
  Recommended Action: N/A

Reason:

• in some situations the fix seems to remove the Microsoft.ContentManagement.Common dll from the GAC.
   

Workarounds

• manually add the DLL to the GAC.

Issue 3

Symptom:

• the fixes addressed by the hotfixes 923755 and 914782 show up again after installing the security fix.

Reason:

• the security fix reverts the fixed files to the SP2 version 

Workarounds

• install the hotfixes again after installing the security fix.