Q: I installed Plesk 9.5.2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition environment.
At beginning, all was working fine with Microsoft DNS 6.1.
The problem arise when we installed Microsoft .NET 4.0.
After that, Microsoft DNS integration with Plesk Control Panel stopped working due an error on dnsmng.exe.
As a workaround, we switched to BIND DNS.
When we try to switch back to DNS we receive the following error:
Error: Set default component failed: defpackagemng failed: Execute dnsmng.exe REMOVE * failed:
Execute dnsmng.exe UPDATE * failed:
We got same problem on a server running Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft DNS 5.
It seems to be some kind of inconsitency with .NET Framework or something.
A: The issue is caused by the installation of MS update KB976576. This update updates libraries that are used by MSDNS.
A hotfix can be applied on Parallels Plesk Panel versions 8.6, 9.0 to 9.3, and 9.5.
Before applying the fix, you need to install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update (vcredist_x86.exe) from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en
and back up the original file.
Fix for Parallels Plesk Panel version 8.6:
Replace the file “%plesk_bin%\MsProv.dll” with the file MsPRov.dll from the attachment.
Fix for Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.0-9.3:
Replace the file “%plesk_bin%\MsProv.dll” with the file MsPRov.dll from the attachment.
Fix for Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.5:
Replace the file “%plesk_bin%\MsProv.dll” with the file MsPRov.dll from the attachment.
Once complete, verify that you can perform domain operations and manage DNS records.
Additional information
%plesk_bin% is an environment variable which points to the Parallels Plesk binaries folder. Usually, it is located here: C:\Program files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin.
Attachments:
- MsProv.dll.900-930.zip (178Kb)
- MsProv.950.zip (179Kb)
- MsProv86.zip (186Kb)