I went into the ‘Repair my Computer’ option off of the SBS DVD boot, and once there, connected the USB drive to a different USB port.

THen I ran the ‘Restore my Computer from Backup’ Option and it this time found the drive with the last backup.

Performed the restore – and am back in business.

-=Ed

Well it is only a little while later, that I find myself in a similar state – yet worse. I too received an error message after aplying the WSUS 3.0 SP2 patch, however instead of being able to reboot, my SBS server is in an endless loop.

Upon Rebooting, after an unusually long time ‘Applying Computer Settings’ an error message is displayed saying “Updates were not configured correctly. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer.”

I am not able to get to a logon screen, in order to do any kind of further troubleshooting.

Safe Mode, and Last known good yeild the same results – before being presented with a logon screen – the system falls back to attempting to ‘revert changes’ but it is abviously failing.

Furthermore, when I boot to the SBS Disk 1, and choose the ‘Repair my Computer’ option, the “Restore from Backup” does not see my WD MyBook, that I have been using for backups.

So for options, I have been thinking about [1]System Restore, or [2]Disabling a service form startup, or [3]somehow clearing the state of the failed updates. Not much on google for this error on SBS.

So, [1]Is there a way that I can do a system restore from the command line?
[2]If I was thinking that disabling WSUS from starting may also allow me to boot into SBS and troublehsoot from there. How do you disable a service from starting, from the Repair environment’s command prompt?
and
[3]Lastly, I was wondering if there is a way to ‘clear’ the error state that seems to be triggering this looping ‘reverting changes’ error.

Any help is appreciated.

-=Ed

As a postscript – Ironically, I was applying patches in order to attempt a Migration from SBS 2008 to WinS08 R2, I have a new Dell Server rarin to go, and am running out of weekend.