I was one of the unfortunate who happened to install the update Tuesday night. I followed Scott Roberts’ instructions for fixing the EWS web.config, but I had an additional anomaly. Throughout the entire web.config were randomly scattered NULL characters which had replaced valid characters. So for some people, a find and replace on %ExchangeInstallDir% might not completely solve the issue. Try opening the web.config up in a better text editor that is capable of displaying non-text ASCII characters. I used Notepad++ for this. You will still have to find and fix the NULL characters by hand. See the MS Exchange team blog entry for more info.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/09/11/449787.aspx

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Got this error when trying to install a new instance of SQL 2005 Standard on Windows Server 2003 R2:

SQL Server Setup failed to modify security permissions on registry key SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.X\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib for user Username. To proceed, verify that the account and domain running SQL Server Setup exist, that the account running SQL Server Setup has administrator privileges, and that the registry key  exists on the destination drive.

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