Why use Qchain?

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David H. Lipman

Good question but why are you in a time warp ?

It is not 11/11/2003 yet !

Dave


| I developed a .ipf file using sms installer that takes 13 post Windows 2000
| SP4 hot fixes, supresses the reboot, and prompts the user to reboot after
| the last hotfix completes.
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| I'm distributing it through SMS, and targetting systems with SP4.
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| With that said, why would I need to use the qchain program Microsoft
| developed instead of the method I'm using?
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| about that!
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Hi Me - From Q296861:

Chaining Update Installations Without QChain.exe Is Not Safe
When you install updates, if a file is locked or in use, it cannot be
replaced. As a result, the file is placed in the Pending File Rename queue
and is replaced after the computer restarts. The problem occurs in the
following scenario:
a.. You install updates A and B without restarting the computer between
installations.
b.. Both packages contain file X. Package A's file X is version 3; package
B's file X is version 2. The version of file X on the computer is version 1.
c.. When package A is installed, it places its version of file X in the
Pending File Rename queue.
d.. When package B is installed, it places its version of file X in the
Pending File Rename queue.
e.. When the computer is restarted, because package B was installed last,
its version of file X is installed (in the Pending File Rename queue, the
last file is the one that is used). As a result, version 2 is installed
instead of version 3 as you expected.


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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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Me said:
I developed a .ipf file using sms installer that takes 13 post Windows 2000
SP4 hot fixes, supresses the reboot, and prompts the user to reboot after
the last hotfix completes.

I'm distributing it through SMS, and targetting systems with SP4.

With that said, why would I need to use the qchain program Microsoft
developed instead of the method I'm using?
Click to expand...

See my answer to your other post...
 
Jim said:
Hi Me - From Q296861:

Chaining Update Installations Without QChain.exe Is Not Safe
Click to expand...

This is not completely correct anymore, because QChain.exe functionality is
included in all Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 product
updates that use Update.exe. So if you are only chaining updates of this type
(released after December 2002, that is), you don't really need to use
qchain.exe.

But anyway, it would not hurt to put in a callout to qchain.exe after the last
install, before the reboot (just be sure to use the latest version of qchain,
older versions has a bug in it).

Latest version of qchain.exe can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;815062
 
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I developed a .ipf file using sms installer that takes 13 post Windows 2000
SP4 hot fixes, supresses the reboot, and prompts the user to reboot after
the last hotfix completes.

I'm distributing it through SMS, and targetting systems with SP4.

With that said, why would I need to use the qchain program Microsoft
developed instead of the method I'm using?
 
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