SBS 2003 Update with SP2 failed: "Failed to install catalog files

FYI in case anyone else runs into this problem.



To start this off, I got the following error when trying to install service
pack 2 for Windows Small Business server (SBS).

SBS 2003 Update with SP2 failed: "Failed to install catalog files



In the svcpack.log file: "Installation Failure: Windows failed to install
the following update with error 0x8007f01e: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
2"





I see that many people have seen this same problem.

Some of the suggestions that I found the on the net were to follow the 11
steps in this Microsoft article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798



I think I tied about 8 of the steps and got tired of rebooting and in some
cases reloading the SP2 from the net. I looked a little more and found the
following secedit command fixed someone else with a similar problem. I used
this command and SP2 installed correctly. The command is copied below.



"secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
/verbose /areas regkeys"



Ray