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Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

  • From: Roland Perry
  • Date: Wed Sep 01 10:30:57 2004

In article <[email protected]xxxxxxxx
ca.us>, Michel Py <[email protected]> writes

Every IT professional I know has had SP2 available three different ways
for two weeks:


1) Somewhere on a server for support staff to begin to experiment with
and for a small set of guinea pig users to install.
2) On a CD made after the download. On my CD I also have SP1 for Office
2003. Part of being an IT professional includes maintaining an updated
set of CDs carried at all times.
3) On a slipstreamed install CD for new installs.

Optionally,
4a) On an SP2 image on a RIS server
4b) On a ghost images

The final SP2 has been available on M$ site even for people that don't
have an MSDN subscription. Anyone that wants to call themselves an "IT
professional" _does_ download and try major updates _before_ they are
made available to end users, period.

Perhaps it makes more sense when I say that I only have two users, and one of them is myself (and yes, I do have an SP1 CD). Long ago I used to Microsoft's biggest customer in Europe (I think Olivetti was the second biggest), the first major shipper of Windows /386 in the World, and well aware of the issues when rolling out new software to lots of users. The last couple of months I've been in hospital, and missed most of the hoo-ha over SP2, but now that it's officially released I was really surprised I didn't get an automatic update.
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Roland Perry