June Black Tuesday patch clobbering SharePoint servers

Looks like MS10-039 is taking out a wide swath of Microsoft SharePoint Server systems.

It’s a complicated problem, with no simple solution. Compounding the problem is the fact that you can’t uninstall the security patch.

I have a more detailed look over on my InfoWorld blog.

Maybe Microsoft will fix it. Or maybe not. Amazing, eh?

Problems with MS10-039

Reader GM wrote in with a big problem, that occurs if you’ve installed this month’s patch MS10-039 / KB 983444.

(Of course, you’ve been following along here, so you haven’t yet installed June’s Black Tuesday patches, right?)

Anyway, if you’re surfing the web and inexplicably getting the warning “Cannot connect to the configuration database” you may have been bitten.

See Microsoft’s solution on the TechNet site.

Microsoft hasn’t yet publicly acknowledged the problem, or pulled the patch, as best I can tell.