Windows 2003 SP2

[CyberNerd]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=95ac1610-c232-4644-b828-c55eec605d55&DisplayLang=en

[localzuk]

Woo! Time to annoy all the staff with my kicking them all off at some point to apply the patch. Either that or work late...

[Geoff]

The installation of SP2 may potentially regress hotfixes that have been deployed previously; Microsoft has released a script to scan for hotfixes that may potentially regress.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eff8438f-8cc9-43eb-85c7-14dfcc099ee8

[sidewinder]

Hmm I'll leave this till Easter I think

[contink]

The installation of SP2 may potentially regress hotfixes that have been deployed previously; Microsoft has released a script to scan for hotfixes that may potentially regress.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eff8438f-8cc9-43eb-85c7-14dfcc099ee8

Although you should be aware that this line:

Download the compressed file and double-click to activate it. It will then extract files to a directory you choose.

.. is b*llox as it just goes ahead and installs itself where it wants..

 

Not sure what it has or hasn't done but I'll be damned if I can find what's happened to it.

[Norphy]

The x64 version can be installed on XP x64 too.

[mrforgetful]

It doesn't seem to add a right lot.

[Geoff]

Hmm I'll leave this till Easter I think

 

You can't, you can't install any other security patches until the machine has been patched with SP2.

[NetworkGeezer]

Hmm I'll leave this till Easter I think

 

You can't, you can't install any other security patches until the machine has been patched with SP2.

 

From April onwards perhaps but for patches already released they won't have SP2 as a prereq

[Geoff]

No but if you install SP2 later (and you'll have to anyway) the patches get regressed and you'll have to run the vbs checker script reapply them manually as I mentioned before.

[Slartibartfast]

The vbs checker script is extracted to c:\windows\system32 by default, in case anybody is having trouble locating it.

 

WSUS has picked up the service pack, but I haven't tried approving it yet.

[mattx]

I wonder what SP2 breaks first ? ;-)

[Geoff]

I don't think there are any extra 'features' in W2K3 SP2 (Unlike XP SP2). It's merely a rollup of existing hotfixes and patches. The only confusion seems to be that some newer updates don't seem to be included (thus you have to reapply them).

[Slartibartfast]

Windows Deployment Services seems to be the only major new feature. RIS is automatically upgraded to WDS when SP2 is installed.

[Geoff]

That's just for Vista compatibility though isn't it?

[Norphy]

No, you can deploy XP and 2003 images with it too, it still supports all of the old RIS stuff.

[Guest pburchell]

i thought it included some extra policies

[thom]

I just applied it to my WSUS server and there are no initial differences apart from a security wizard guide on the desktop.

Microsoft have given their top 10 reasons to upgrade but lots of them I had already (WDS, MMC3) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2/top-reasons.mspx

Hopefully the wireless (WPA2) additions will help fix my laptop trolley woes.

[tosca925]

Did this come down with WSUS this week?

[PiqueABoo]

you can't install any other security patches until the machine has been patched with SP2

 

Ughh..either I'm reading this the wrong way or that's a bit of a step change. Where's the MS statement on SP2 being a prerequisite for future sec-fixes?

 

Or are you just saying the longer you leave off applying SP2 the more it is likely to regress later?

[tosca925]

Yes it did come with WSUS.

 

We had an issue where after the SP2 install we could not use RIS, we found out that we had to run the WDS mmc for the first time to configure it (easy wizard) then RIS worked fine.

 

We only found out by chance after trying to manually start the binlsvc.