Windows Server 2008 articles, fixes and updates - letter A

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 starts with letter A that have been released. The list is daily updated.

• 958178 A Windows Server 2008 update lets you use the RPC redirection (RDR) interface to enable or disable custom load balancing based on server name and port number Q958178 KB958178 November 19, 2008
• 958912 A Windows Server 2008-based computer may stop responding when you use a Device Specific Module that plugs into MPIO Q958912 KB958912 November 17, 2008
• 955515 A memory leak occurs when you use Windows Event Log API (Wevtapi.dll) to receive WHEA events in real time on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer Q955515 KB955515 November 17, 2008
• 959056 A Windows Server 2008-based computer may randomly restart, and a Stop error message occurs: "0x000000BE ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY" Q959056 KB959056 November 12, 2008
• 958982 A Windows Server 2008-based computer may stop responding when a volume that has quotas configured on its root is mounted or unmounted Q958982 KB958982 November 12, 2008
• 946886 A video call may fail when you try to start the video call by using Office Communicator on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Q946886 KB946886 November 7, 2008
• 950528 A focus switch between an edit control and a button control occurs very slowly on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Q950528 KB950528 November 6, 2008
• 958092 After the Terminal Services mirror driver is disconnected from a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based remote computer, you receive a Stop error on the remote computer: "Stop 0x0000007E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" Q958092 KB958092 November 4, 2008
• 956710 A Hyper-V update is available to increase the number of logical processors and virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 x64-based computer Q956710 KB956710 November 4, 2008
• 958124 A wmiprvse.exe process may leak memory when a WMI notification query is used heavily on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based computer Q958124 KB958124 October 30, 2008
• 957508 An update is available that provides improved features for the Request Filtering module in IIS 7.0 Q957508 KB957508 October 30, 2008
• 944681 A hotfix rollup for the USB audio driver is available for Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based computers Q944681 KB944681 October 30, 2008
• 954442 Applications or services that rely on the Named Pipe File System may encounter latency or time-out issues when many connections are made to a named pipe in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista SP1 Q954442 KB954442 October 29, 2008
• 959215 AD LDS service start fails with error "setup could not start the service..." + error code 8007041d Q959215 KB959215 October 23, 2008
• 958315 A user encounters an offline file sync conflict shortly after a successful synchronization on a Windows Vista-based or a Windows Server 2008-based client computer Q958315 KB958315 October 22, 2008
• 959121 After taking a snapshot of a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 virtual machine, the system fails to complete a reboot Q959121 KB959121 October 21, 2008
• 956774 A Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) client cannot handle files that have paths that contain the volume GUID in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista Q956774 KB956774 October 20, 2008
• 951072 August 2008 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems Q951072 KB951072 October 15, 2008
• 957624 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer behind a NAT device cannot communicate with another computer through an IPsec tunnel-mode connection Q957624 KB957624 October 14, 2008
• 957201 A hotfix is available to update the "(GMT-3:00) Brasilia" time zone and the "(GMT-4:00) Manaus" time zone for 2008 through 2009 in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Q957201 KB957201 October 14, 2008
• 957000 An October 2008 update is available for the Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) Q957000 KB957000 October 14, 2008
• 954429 A multiprocessor computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008 stops responding on a black screen after you resume the computer from hibernation Q954429 KB954429 October 14, 2008
• 950806 A Network Name resource that has the Kerberos protocol enabled does not come online on the first attempt in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster Q950806 KB950806 October 13, 2008
• 954902 After a user is deleted from a role in the Authorization Manager in an Active Directory domain environment, the user can still unexpectedly access that role from a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based client computer Q954902 KB954902 October 9, 2008
• 957931 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer does not respond to 802.1X authentication requests for 20 minutes after a failed authentication Q957931 KB957931 October 8, 2008
• 952685 A deadlock situation occurs in Windows Management Instrumentation Service (WMI) on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista SP1-based computer Q952685 KB952685 October 7, 2008
• 957517 A dedicated complete memory dump file may not be successfully generated if the volume that stores the dedicated dump file has insufficient free space Q957517 KB957517 September 29, 2008
• 954052 A hotfix is available to address the USB transmission rate drop on Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based computers that are connected to some USB devices that have multiple USB endpoints Q954052 KB954052 September 25, 2008
• 946887 A Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computer cannot negotiate the security mode with the partner if you use a subnet address as a source address or as a destination filter address when you configure IPsec policy to use tunnel mode Q946887 KB946887 September 18, 2008
• 957424 A user name that contains Unicode characters is not handled correctly in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 during EAP authentication Q957424 KB957424 September 12, 2008
• 956519 A scheduled task may not run after it wakes a Windows Vista-based or a Windows Server 2008-based computer from hibernation Q956519 KB956519 September 11, 2008
• 957405 An access violation occurs during system startup when the pen service (Wisptis.exe) is configured on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q957405 KB957405 September 10, 2008
• 956550 An application that is running on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista SP1-based system may corrupt files on a local file share when these files are scanned Q956550 KB956550 September 9, 2008
• 954708 An update to add support for the serialization of complex Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data types in the Windows Imaging Component Q954708 KB954708 September 9, 2008
• 956756 A graphics card is not removed from the display settings on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 if you unplug the card while the computer is asleep or in hibernation Q956756 KB956756 September 8, 2008
• 949552 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based client computer may stop responding when you try to log on to a domain if roaming profiles, folder redirection, and the offline folder feature are enabled Q949552 KB949552 September 5, 2008
• 946331 A Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Server 2003-based multiprocessor system stops responding when you resume the system from standby or from hibernation Q946331 KB946331 August 29, 2008
• 953732 A hotfix is available to update the daylight saving time for the "(GMT+02:00) Cairo" time zone for the year 2008 for Windows Vista-based, Windows Server 2008-based, Windows XP-based, and Windows Server 2003-based computers Q953732 KB953732 August 28, 2008
• 955836 A hotfix rollup package is available for the Traditional and Simplified Chinese IMEs in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008 Q955836 KB955836 August 27, 2008
• 955512 Applications or services that call the WNetOpenEnum function may crash when the number of network providers exceeds 16 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer Q955512 KB955512 August 26, 2008
• 953631 After you use the Last Known Good Configuration feature to start a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, some .inf files may be deleted from the %windir%\inf folder Q953631 KB953631 August 26, 2008
• 951725 An update that extends the mechanism for displaying snap-in context Help topics is available for the MMC in Windows Server 2008 Q951725 KB951725 August 26, 2008
• 940518 An update is available that integrates Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 into Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 Q940518 KB940518 August 26, 2008
• 951126 A multiprocessor computer that is running Windows XP stops responding on a black screen after you resume the computer from hibernation Q951126 KB951126 August 25, 2008
• 956584 A hotfix is available to update the daylight saving time for the "(GMT+02:00) Cairo" time zone for the year 2008 in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows XP, and in Windows Server 2003 Q956584 KB956584 August 22, 2008
• 955352 A Windows Vista-based DHCP client does not accept a new IP address until two DHCPOFFER packets are exchanged Q955352 KB955352 August 21, 2008
• 955556 A Windows Server 2008-based computer that supports Windows Hardware Error Architecture error collection stops responding during startup Q955556 KB955556 August 20, 2008
• 955302 A reliability and performance update is available for computers that are running Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Q955302 KB955302 August 18, 2008
• 950087 A print server's performance gradually decreases after you add a shared printer to a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q950087 KB950087 August 18, 2008
• 955249 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer that has a Secure Digital memory card slot enabled stops responding when you try to put it into either standby or hibernation Q955249 KB955249 August 13, 2008
• 953317 A primary DNS zone file may not transfer to the secondary DNS servers in Windows Server 2008 Q953317 KB953317 August 12, 2008
• 941467 Authorization Manager closes the LDAP connection when an attempt to read the Authorization Manager store fails on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Q941467 KB941467 August 6, 2008
• 954424 A Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based guest virtual machine restarts without warning after you uninstall the RC1 integration services on a Windows Server 2008-based computer Q954424 KB954424 July 30, 2008
• 954943 An update is available that lets nonvolatile (NV) cache commands be sent to SCSI-class devices in Windows Vista Q954943 KB954943 July 29, 2008
• 945015 An extra forward slash mark (/) is appended to the query path of a WebDAV PROPFIND request when you visit a SharePoint Portal Server site by using Internet Explorer on a Windows-based computer Q945015 KB945015 July 28, 2008
• 943650 A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista may restart repeatedly with different Stop error codes when multicast forwarding is enabled Q943650 KB943650 July 28, 2008
• 917607 A download is available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that resolves an issue in which you cannot open Help files that require the Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program Q917607 KB917607 July 23, 2008
• 954475 After you restore a clustered disk from a VSS transportable hardware snapshot in a Windows Server 2008 cluster, the clustered disk cannot come online Q954475 KB954475 July 22, 2008
• 954912 An earlier version of a wave driver that is installed correctly on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 cannot be found by an application Q954912 KB954912 July 18, 2008
• 954416 A Windows Server 2008-based multi-homed DHCP server is not authorized in the DHCP MMC snap-in even though you authorized the DHCP server by using Server Manager Q954416 KB954416 July 15, 2008
• 953652 A physical disk resource may unexpectedly fail or go offline when the IsAlive function is executed on a Windows Server 2008 cluster node Q953652 KB953652 July 7, 2008
• 953325 A Windows Server 2003-based computer becomes unresponsive because the paged pool memory is exhausted when an application calls the GetFileAttributesEx and MoveFileEx functions on lots of files Q953325 KB953325 July 5, 2008
• 954423 A Windows Server 2008-based DNS server stops responding, and event ID 7023 is logged in the DNS server event log Q954423 KB954423 July 4, 2008
• 953589 An access violation may occur if you pass an INTEGER value to the ValuePtr parameter of the SQLSetConnectAttr function in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 Q953589 KB953589 July 4, 2008
• 954398 A Windows Server 2008 terminal server stops listening on port 3389 when the server is under stress conditions Q954398 KB954398 July 3, 2008
• 954395 An additional cleanup task remains after you upgrade a server that is running BITS from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 Q954395 KB954395 July 3, 2008
• 951684 A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems may restart unexpectedly when you hot-replace CPUs, and a Stop error message occurs: "0x0000003B" Q951684 KB951684 July 2, 2008
• 953407 A Group Policy "Documents" setting is localized incorrectly as "Recently used files" on a computer that is running a Japanese version of Windows Server 2008 or of Windows Vista Q953407 KB953407 July 1, 2008
• 947300 After you start an attended installation of Windows Server 2008, Setup does not correctly create an MSR partition Q947300 KB947300 June 30, 2008
• 950772 A computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Server 2003, of Windows Vista, or of Windows Server 2008 randomly restarts and then generates a Stop error Q950772 KB950772 June 27, 2008
• 949545 An update is available to resolve an issue in which the Wusa.exe tool returns a "1 (S_FALSE)" error code in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008 Q949545 KB949545 June 26, 2008
• 945285 An End User Defined Character (EUDC) font that was created in Windows XP cannot be deployed to a Windows Vista-based computer or to a Windows Server 2008-based computer Q945285 KB945285 June 26, 2008
• 951720 A Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer may stop responding during shutdown after you install a series of hotfixes and then try to restart the computer Q951720 KB951720 June 25, 2008
• 954356 After you deploy a Sysprep prepared image, the Hypervisor layer service does not start automatically in Windows Server 2008 Q954356 KB954356 June 23, 2008
• 953290 An application may crash when it uses legacy methods to query performance counter values in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 Q953290 KB953290 June 23, 2008
• 951116 A memory leak occurs in performance counters that are used to monitor Windows Server 2008-based computers Q951116 KB951116 June 23, 2008
• 954207 A Windows Server 2008 system or a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 system cannot start after you increase or reduce the size of the boot volume on a GPT disk Q954207 KB954207 June 20, 2008
• 953768 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer needs at least the Read permission for Group Policy Objects in Active Directory Domain Services if the computer is configured for loopback processing Q953768 KB953768 June 20, 2008
• 954281 After you install Windows 2000 on a virtual machine that is running on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that uses Hyper-V technology, you can only create a maximum startup disk that is 127 GB Q954281 KB954281 June 19, 2008
• 952790 An application is unable to obtain an exclusive lock to a volume after the system runs for several hours in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Q952790 KB952790 June 19, 2008
• 949015 Applications that perform KCD delegation may not finish the S4U process on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 Q949015 KB949015 June 18, 2008
• 951946 A pop-up window that indicates that a duplicate file name has been selected may not appear as the foreground window when you install the HP System Management Homepage software in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 Q951946 KB951946 June 17, 2008
• 953531 A "0x0000007E" Stop error occurs in Windows Server 2008 after you unmount and delete a persistent VSS snapshot Q953531 KB953531 June 16, 2008
• 953341 A dump file may not be generated on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista if the dump file and the paging file reside on the same volume Q953341 KB953341 June 10, 2008
• 953533 A computer that is running an x86 version of Windows Vista or of Windows Server 2008 on an IDE/ATA disk does not generate a valid dump file when PAE mode is enabled Q953533 KB953533 June 9, 2008
• 950917 A kernel dump file is not analyzable on a computer that is running an x86-based edition of Windows Server 2008 or a 32-bit version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Q950917 KB950917 June 6, 2008
• 952779 A Windows Server 2008-based computer that has a single-processor stops responding if an MPIO-connected device is repeatedly connected and then disconnected Q952779 KB952779 June 2, 2008
• 952694 A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems and that has an Intel ICH6 chipset installed may not shut down completely Q952694 KB952694 May 29, 2008
• 953348 A file moves out of the visible region in Windows Explorer when you use the List format in Windows Vista or in Windows 2008 Q953348 KB953348 May 28, 2008
• 950086 A memory leak may occur in the nonpaged pool memory on the Windows Server 2008-based terminal server when you log on to and log off from a Windows Server 2008-based terminal server through an RDP connection Q950086 KB950086 May 26, 2008
• 952681 A "0x00000124" Stop error message occurs when you use the "hot plugging" feature to add or to remove a PCI Express device on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based computer Q952681 KB952681 May 22, 2008
• 951191 An error code is returned when a Kerberos client requests a TGT against a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller: "KERB5KDC_ERR_C_PRINICPAL_UNKNOWN" Q951191 KB951191 May 21, 2008
• 952287 An application that uses the ADO interface may malfunction, or data loss may occur when the application connects to SQL Server in Windows Vista, in Windows XP, or in Windows Server 2008 Q952287 KB952287 May 20, 2008
• 949887 A memory leak occurs on an RPC server that is running Windows Server 2008 after the RPC server function runs an RPC client callback function Q949887 KB949887 May 20, 2008
• 949843 After you put a Windows Explorer window into full-screen mode on a secondary monitor, the navigation bar does not appear on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer Q949843 KB949843 May 20, 2008
• 949482 After you hot-replace a processor in a Windows Server 2008-based computer, you cannot remove the partition unit until you restart the computer Q949482 KB949482 May 20, 2008
• 948572 A handle leak occurs in a Server Message Block (SMB) session between computers that are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Q948572 KB948572 May 20, 2008
• 949793 Applications may not observe regional settings or may not start when they use a Unicode-only locale Q949793 KB949793 May 13, 2008
• 951246 A scheduled task does not run as expected if a command-line argument is enclosed in quotation marks on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 Q951246 KB951246 May 9, 2008
• 951573 A monitor that reports information to the operating system by using EDID version 1.3 or a later version may behave unpredictably in installations of Windows that support EDID version 1.1 Q951573 KB951573 April 29, 2008
• 950182 A computer that is running an x86-based version of Windows Server 2008 or an x86-based version of Windows Vista may use fewer processors than expected if the number of cores on a socket is not a power of 2 Q950182 KB950182 April 11, 2008
• 951048 An application does not start in a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp session Q951048 KB951048 April 10, 2008
• 951020 A logon from a domain that is not at the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level is blocked when you enable the "Display information about previous logons during user logon" policy setting Q951020 KB951020 April 7, 2008
• 949700 A memory leak may occur when an application uses the Refresh method of the IWbemRefresher interface on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer Q949700 KB949700 April 3, 2008
• 951007 An event may be logged after you restart Windows Server 2008: "Event ID: 5 Message: The Virtual Storage Filter Driver is disabled through the registry. It is inactive for all disk drives" Q951007 KB951007 April 2, 2008
• 950571 A hotfix is available to update the "(GMT +03:00) Baghdad" time zone for 2008 in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista Q950571 KB950571 April 2, 2008
• 949189 A Windows Server 2008 domain controller that is configured with the Japanese language locale may not apply updates to attributes on an object during inbound replication Q949189 KB949189 March 31, 2008
• 947721 A Group Policy setting is not available in the security policy settings list on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 Q947721 KB947721 March 12, 2008
• 947727 A third-party program exits unexpectedly or stops responding when the program loads the inetmib1.dll SNMP subagent .dll file Q947727 KB947727 March 11, 2008
• 949530 A Windows Server 2008-based DHCP server that is configured in a workgroup environment may consume too much memory Q949530 KB949530 March 6, 2008
• 947715 A Routing and Remote Access server that is running Windows Server 2008 cannot maintain more than 800 connections Q947715 KB947715 February 27, 2008
• 947056 After you create Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server 2008, you notice that the credential roaming schema differs from Windows Server 2003 Q947056 KB947056 February 27, 2008
• 948723 A document is removed from an .xps print queue and does not print after you resume a Windows Server 2008-based computer or a Windows Vista-based computer from standby Q948723 KB948723 February 11, 2008
• 947708 A user's icon and name are not displayed on the logon screen in Windows Server 2008 after you add the Terminal Server server role Q947708 KB947708 February 8, 2008
• 947050 Advanced resource configuration in Windows Server 2008 failover clusters Q947050 KB947050 February 6, 2008
• 947035 A multicast transmission is not deleted when the multicast transmission is orphaned on a Windows Server 2008-based computer Q947035 KB947035 January 30, 2008
• 947045 A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer that has MADCAP installed cannot obtain a multicast address from the DHCP server Q947045 KB947045 January 19, 2008
• 946408 A Windows Server 2008-based DHCPv6 computer may assign an IPv6 address that is from its exclusion range Q946408 KB946408 January 7, 2008
• 946398 An error is logged in the event log when you use the Multicast component of WDS on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 Q946398 KB946398 January 3, 2008
• 921471 Activation fails when you try to activate Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 over the Internet Q921471 KB921471 January 3, 2008
• 946403 After you connect to a Windows Server 2008-based fax server that does not automatically create accounts, you cannot use the administrator account to manage the fax service by using Fax Service Manager Q946403 KB946403 January 2, 2008
• 934576 Auto-enrollment is not triggered when you try to use Certutil.exe on a Windows XP-based computer Q934576 KB934576 December 1, 2007
• 943070 Authentication may fail, or you may receive an 807 error or a 691 error, when you try to connect to the Network Policy Server on a Windows Server 2008-based server Q943070 KB943070 November 12, 2007
• 936924 A Deny rule does not prevent access for users who connect by using 802.1X authentication on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running Internet Authentication Service Q936924 KB936924 October 11, 2007
• 912029 A data transfer process does not automatically resume after you re-enable the disk drive Q912029 KB912029 October 11, 2007
• 935772 After you upgrade to WDS, an ACPI Multiprocessor image does not appear in the menu of operating system images when you start a PXE client that uses an ACPI Uniprocessor computer HAL Q935772 KB935772 August 29, 2007
• 320286 Access violation occurs when you use the /MAXMEM start switch on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 on computers that have more than 4GB of RAM Q320286 KB320286 March 1, 2007
• 316073 ADMT Version 2 does not migrate a computer if an account with an identical NetBIOS name exists Q316073 KB316073 February 27, 2007
• 930228 A truncated or changed version of the original file name appears in the "Save As" dialog box in Windows Internet Explorer 7 Q930228 KB930228 February 13, 2007
• 924924 Available updates for Windows Vista RC1 Q924924 KB924924 October 17, 2006