What about turning off Access Protection during patching then?

[Mfryksten]

It's stated that this is due to the access protection preventing McShield.exe to unload, but if that's the problem could you disable access protection THEN patch THEN enable access protection again?

Then you wouldn't need to roll out the hot-fix.?

[gnatwest]

This would theoretically work.

[dEcSup]

What if you rolled out using ePO? need to have a script to stop access protection? grin

[tonyb99]

you would use epo policy to switch down the acces protection rules in advance and then reinstate them at a later date

[Travler]

This hotfix will not correct any current issues. It is only to avoid potential problems with future Patches. Personally, I'm not rolling it out until the day I decide to upgrade to 8.5i Patch7. But since I'm probably going to be going to 8.7i by then, I'll probably never need to roll out this hotfix.

[AzPaperSupport]

Is it possible to apply VSE 8.5i HotFix 427887 in a way that does not require a reboot? Does pushing it with ePO avoid a reboot? The few machines I have manually installed the hot fix required one.

We have 200+ servers and scheduling reboots for all is incredibly painful.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[gnatwest]

Any further news on this?

Anyone have the same problem with Patch 7 if they didnt use this hotfix?

[AzPaperSupport]

For me a few machines created the second mcafee process when updating from 8.5 P6.1 to 7 so it seems to be hit or miss.

I want to apply the HotFix but wont if it requires a reboot of all servers (no answer on that yet, time to email support) - I would rather take my chances with some servers creating a second mcafee process. At least that process can be terminated w/o reboot, check solution 2 from KB53512.

[twenden]

In my testing with Patch 7, I have yet to see the problem with those 2 Mcshield processes. Most of our systems are on a mix of Patch 4 and Patch 5. Yesterday, we took the chance and installed Patch 7 on two production servers and have not seen any problems.

We have decided to also take our chances and to start deploying Patch 7 without first doing the hotfix.

[trapanator]

how can I install this hotfix into EPO 3.6.1?