Fix for HMC4 with Windows 2003 R2 SP2 on MPS servers

Last week when I was in the Microsoft office in Russia the topic of deploying HMC4 with Windows 2003 R2 including SP2 came to the table.

As most of us know, this has been an issue for a long time, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Since HMC4 came out, SP2 gave serious issues on the MPS servers, so on all deployments up to now, SP1 was the way to go.

So much for the history and the bad part...

The good news is.. Microsoft has a fix for the issue since last week !! ( YEAH !!)

To obtain this fix, call Microsoft Support, open a case, asking for Hotfix 324346, kB 939216. This fix will only be available via MS Support for now.

We are planning to build an environment with SP2 soon and I'll post an update when we have first-hand experience with it.