Beware installing SQL Server 2005 BOL (May 2007)

Beware installing this update, it can seriously damage your health. I clicked 'install' on my Vista 64 machine and let it trundle off to itself while I was doing some Visual Studio work. It runs for a while and then ... RESTARTs my PC. Without asking and withoug allowing me to save my work. Fresh, new work, gone. Thanks a bunch guys, installing some new docs really merits a restart.

This event is in the system log:

The process msiexec.exe has initiated the restart of computer BLUE on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found

Reason Code: 0x80030002

Shutdown Type: restart

Comment: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Books Online (English) (May 2007)'.

Thanks very much for bringing this issue to our attention. It is sometimes necessary to reboot after a Books Online update - because Books Online, Visual Studio, and SQL Server Management Studio share components - but the expected behavior is a prompt for reboot rather than an automatic reboot. We are actively investigating the issue, and will re-release the update after we identify a solution, so that other customers will not have a similar experience.

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Bryan

Thank you far replying to my post -- I am a bit calmer now I have had about four reboots (on various machines) in the last week because of SQL Server patches and I was a bit fractious.