We use WSS 3.0 Came into today and everyone gets this message when trying to connect to SP site: Cannot connect to the configuration database. I remoted into the server and it said that updates had been installed and the server restarted. Did some research on this and found it was caused by the installation of KB949399. And it was suggested to try these steps: ------------------------------------------------ 1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK. 2. Change to the following directory: system drive\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Bin 3. Run the following command: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b If you ran the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, you may experience a long delay, and the wizard may not be completed successfully. ------------------------------------------------------ Did that and got this: Failed to initialize SharePoint Products and Technologies upgrade. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfig urationTaskException was thrown. Additional exception information: The initiali ze command is invalid or a failure has been encountered. Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm. Possible reasons fo r this failure could be that you no longer have the appropriate permissions to t he server farm, the database server hosting the server farm is unresponsive, the configuration database is inaccessible or this server has been removed from the server farm. To diagnose this problem further, review the extended error infor mation located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Exte nsions\12\LOGS\PSCDiagnostics_6_10_2010_10_14_40_243_698891922.log. If this pro blem persists, run this wizard again to disconnect from the server farm. After disconnecting, run the wizard again to create or connect to an existing server f arm. Total number of configuration settings run: 1 Total number of successful configuration settings: 0 Total number of unsuccessful configuration settings: 3 Successfully stopped the configuration of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Configuration of SharePoint Products and Technologies failed. Configuration mus t be performed before you use SharePoint Products and Technologies. For further details, see the diagnostic log located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Micros oft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\LOGS\PSCDiagnostics_6_10_2010_10_14_40_243_6 98891922.log and the application event log. I tried adding the switch "-force" to the end of the command. Same problem. All this from a Microsoft update, causing a Microsoft product to fail. Thanks Microsoft!!! Anyone know of a fix for this?

what did it say in the diagnostic log file?

Hi, Kindly check out this link for some help on this: http://prasanjitmandal.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-fix-central-administration.htmlBR, PM

I uninstalled and re-installed WSS 3.0, and that fixed the problem. A days worth of work, thanks to a Microsoft update. Unfortunately, this company is too small to afford a test server, to first test updates.