After you apply Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, an event is logged in the Application log on the server: "User, group, or role 'WSS_Content_Application_Pools' already exists in the current database"

After you apply Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the following event is logged in the Application log on the server:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Database
Event ID: 5586
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A
Computer: computer name
Description:
Unknown SQL Exception 15023 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

User, group, or role 'WSS_Content_Application_Pools' already exists in the current database.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

You can safely ignore the event that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.