An Impersonating Thread May Revert to the Process Security Context After an Index Server Query (285091)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

This article was previously published under Q285091

SYMPTOMS

After you run a Content Index query with the OLE DB Provider for Index Server (MSIDXS) in an ASP page, the IIS ASP thread is no longer impersonated. The ASP page execution continues with the current IIS Process security context and not with the token that is associated to the Web-client user.

You may also receive an error message, that includes the following errorcode:

error '8007054b'

CAUSE

The OLE DB Provider for Index Server does not restore the ASP thread security context at query completion.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time     Version        Size       File name
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   07-FEB-2001   05:45p   5.0.2195.3237   1,416,464   Query.dll

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with Only One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix kbWin2000PreSP3Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB285091