Deleted User Roles Are Not Removed by Background Processing (820996)

SYMPTOMS

If you delete roles from containers in Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS), you may experience performance degradation in the live site operation.

CAUSE

MCMS uses roles to enforce security access to containers, including channels and postings. A browsing user has memberships in various roles. This problem occurs when you delete a role that is assigned to many different containers. After these roles have been deleted, they are not removed from the database. Because the roles remain in the database, they are still gathered when container permissions are determined. These deleted containers are not used by the server during typical operation, and they are discarded. However, performance may be degraded during the gathering process.

RESOLUTION

Background processing now removes deleted roles from the database.

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

906142 How to obtain the latest Content Management Server 2002 service pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this Is a problem In the Microsoft products that are listed In the "Applies To" section. This problem was corrected in Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 1.