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Service Pack 2: This time, it's serious
Talkback Perhaps one reason why SP 2 hasn't be deployed yet on a mass scale in the first place. Perhaps Redmond has forgotten how a normal Windows administrator week looks like. There's little time left to just deploy SP2 here and there and deal with any...
[April 4, 2005, 21:26]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look
Talkback I for one would appreciate a prompt response to these questions, which is why I have supplied an email address. Three things need clarifying. Firstly, will the mid summer version be smaller than the size of Build 2098?
[May 11, 2004, 18:41]
Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3 right here!
Blog Comment I experienced two quirks only, one of which is annoying, the other was cured in the final realease. Contrary to so many of the comments on ZDNet and elsewhere, I have installed XP SP3 successfully on a number of computers including ones with AMD...
[June 17, 2008, 15:19]
Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3 right here!
Blog Comment Simply because it seems that at least one but probably 2 or 3 dependency files for SP3 are available only through Windows Update. The significant bit of data that you included was that you did the following:
[June 18, 2008, 9:25]
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 On the Block
Blog Comment No more vista, and now am down to only one machine with windows OS, out of 5. Why update this mistake? I bought a Toshiba laptop a year ago, and it had vistake pre-installed. I didn't plan on using it, as I am a happy Linux user, but decided to...
[May 28, 2009, 12:04]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look
Talkback One of the biggest problems I've seen with the personal firewalls is that they tend to restrict traffic that should come through, especially if there is a local network running. The reviewer makes a couple of naive and potentially dangerous...
[March 25, 2004, 7:19]
Service Pack 3 OR Surprise Package 3?
Blog I've edited the boot.ini file to allow the system to dual-boot the “same-OS” in 2 different locations with two different service packs. I managed to get a bit of a heads-up in that one test system at work exhibited this same behavior with a Beta...
[June 7, 2008, 16:03]
Uncovering the Exchange ActiveSync Enhancements in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
White Papers Enterprise IT organizations that require strictly configured policies for all types of messaging clients in the organization will benefit from the new Exchange ActiveSync policy settings available in Exchange Server 2007 SP1, as they will let one...
[April 2, 2008, 1:02]
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
White Papers The scenario presented in this cookbook will take one through the steps necessary to install Virtual Server and SCVMM, and then convert a workload to a virtual machine. Many mid-sized and larger businesses may want to create virtual machines to...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
Explaining the Database Size Limit Changes in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2
White Papers One of the really interesting changes that comes with Exchange 2003 SP2 is the new database size limit increase in the Exchange 2003 Standard Edition. As most of the people know the Standard edition of previous Exchange versions has a hard-coded...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Microsoft delays Service Pack 2 release
News Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will contain a number of new features. Work on Service Pack 2 has consumed a far greater amount of resources than the software maker originally intended. The company says it plans to distribute SP2 using a new...
[July 12, 2004, 13:35]
US Report: Win 98 service pack to arrive in 1999
News But Microsoft said it gauges the need for service pack on the amount of user feedback it gets, and it delayed plans to release one earlier. The service pack will contain fixes to the bugs that have surfaced in the program, including the so-called...
[October 6, 1998, 7:09]
Microsoft posts Service Pack 6 for NT 4.0
News Users with one computer should download the stub file, which downloads the remaining pieces of the service pack. Microsoft on Wednesday afternoon posted the sixth service pack for Windows NT 4.0 to its Web site.
[October 29, 1999, 15:17]
Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1: Managing a CCR Cluster Using the Exchange Management Console
White Papers Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces several high availability enhancements. One of the disappointments with the Exchange 2007 R version was that all CCR cluster related management had to be done via the respective cmdlets in the...
[April 2, 2008, 1:02]
Windows XP Service Pack 2 review
Reviews In order to get our hands on Windows XP Service Pack 2's final code, we downloaded the whopping 266MB network installation package for all of our test machines as soon as it was available at Microsoft's Download Center.
[August 12, 2004, 9:25]
Windows XP Service Pack 1 review
Reviews Also, the service pack weighs in at a whopping 133MB (although you can get a scaled-down 20MB -- 30MB version if you've been regularly downloading Windows updates), and it demands more than 500MB of free disk space.
[September 11, 2002, 10:14]
Price defines whether Win7 is classed as a 'service pack' for Vista.
Talkback Windows 7 could well stll turn out to be a 'Service Pack' for Vista. How its defined is by the price charged for a Vista->Windows 7 Upgrade - a minimal price - it effect becomes a service pack. This sort of cheap upgrade option would cost MS far...
[June 10, 2009, 8:06]
Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1 Refresh) upgrade
Blog With many holding out on buying Vista until the first Service Pack it's really important to Microsoft to get it right with this release. I can't wait for the final buid so I've taken the gamble of installing the Service Pack 1 RC1 update although...
[January 15, 2008, 15:42]
"♬ Service Pack 3 Done give me the Blues♬♬"
Blog AND why should putting all those SP2+ updates make any difference to a Service Pack install? I seem to remember that Service Packs for the OS have been traditionally designed to be a complete install unto themselves, with NO prior dependencies...
[June 17, 2008, 1:44]
US Report: Service Pack for Win 98 due next week
News As reported Thursday, Service Pack 1 for Windows 98 is slated to go to limited beta testing before the end of this week, that's just one week after Microsoft officially unveiled the new operating system.
[July 3, 1998, 10:09]
