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The Microsoft® Forefront® Protection Server Script Kit provides multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint®. In addition to the ability to manage multiple Forefront servers from a single location, this Solution Accelerator provides easily extensible command-line scripts that help enable server discovery, configuration, deployment, and integration with existing management technologies. It also offers basic reporting capabilities to detect configuration drift and monitor server statistics.

Supported Products

• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
• Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint

Configuration Management and Reporting

• Capture server configuration snapshots and push snapshots to any number of servers
• Compare configuration of any number of servers or baselines
• Obtain statistics from one or many servers, including information about infected files, detected malware, server health, and more
• See summary and/or server detail views

Ease of Use

• Discover Forefront Protection Servers and export information to a .CSV file
• Use customizable Windows PowerShell™ scripts to enhance your existing automation

Full documentation here

Download here

I ran into a problem while installing KB951629 (Forefront for Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 3) on a Hub Transport Server which is installed on Windows Server 2008. On Windows Server 2003 I have never seen this problem.

I got this error message shortly after starting the update.

The installer then tried to undo the install, but it failed with the same error message. I then looked through the installed updates and found it there, but when trying to uninstall it from there I got the exact same error.

The following information was logged:

17.660: DoInstllation: UpdSpCommitFileQueue for FileQueue failed: 0xd
17.707: The data is invalid.
23.744: Message displayed to the user: The data is invalid.
23.744: User Input: OK
23.744: KB951629 installation did not complete. Select ‘OK’ to undo the changes that have been made.
29.157: Message displayed to the user: KB951629 installation did not complete. Select ‘OK’ to undo the changes that have been made.

Solution
After troubleshooting this for a while I found the solution. Actually it is quite simple.

• Stop and disable the "Windows Management Instrumentation" service
• Uninstall the update
• Install the update
• Enable and start the service

That’s it.