Hi!
I've deployed the patches released in October 2014 to 8 servers running Windows 2003 Server SP2, these are webservers, they connect to a SQL 2000 Server and this one hasn't been patched with this release. After the servers were patched we reboot them, and when they start again the Webservice failded to connect to the database, the owner claims that this error is caused due the patch installation, the workaround was the change of the connection string from this:
<add key="xxxx_Connection" value="Driver={SQL Server};Server=xxxxxxx;Database=xxxxx;uid=xxx;pwd=xx;" />
to this:
<add key="xxx_Connection" value="packet size=4096;data source=<server fqdn>;initial catalog=xxx;User ID=xx;pwd=xx;" />
I don't know any patch that could be affecting this but I need to ask to be sure.
thanks