Russell Fulton <mailto:r.fultonat_private> scribbled on Thursday, July 31, 2003 22:26 PM: > We have found some systems that are proving very difficult to patch - > we can't get them to the requisite SP levels because of lack of disk > space or other issues. Does anyone know of safe workarounds for such > systems? What I've done is disabled DCOM on a testing machine, I'm still figuring out if it breaks anything. You can disable DCOM (not let it listen on port 135) by running dcomcnfg and unchecking the enable DCOM box on the default properties tab [1]. Again, I've got no idea what the repercussions of disabling DCOM are. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/datacenter/help/default.asp?url=/win dows2000/en/datacenter/help/dcomcfg_dcom_disable_dcom.htm Regards, -- Steve De Doncker echo steve.incunabula@be | tr @. .@ http://www.incunabula.be/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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