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Deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2: The Most Reliable And Efficient Way To Deploy, Configure, And Monitor Critical Updates Like Windows XP SP2
White Papers This unique client-centric architecture enables rapid and reliable deployment of enterprise-critical updates like Windows XP Service Pack 2. With automatic analysis, bandwidth-friendly deployment, reliable installation, and up-to-the-minute status...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Identity Integration Feature Pack For Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory With Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Downloads Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory with Service Pack 2 (SP2) manages identities and coordinates user details across Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft...
[August 31, 2007, 10:35]
IT Professionals - Are You Ready For The 4/12/05 Windows XP SP2 Automatic Update?
White Papers If you haven't already done so, please remember to prepare your PCs for the April 12, 2005, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Automatic Update blocker lift. Since last August, IT professionals have been able to use the Automatic...
[March 30, 2005, 8:57]
Microsoft Tightens XP's Security
News RC1 includes enhancements to the Windows Update service that are intended to make it easier to automatically install critical updates to the operating system. The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP includes...
[March 18, 2004, 7:25]
Microsoft Delays Service Pack 2 Release
News The company says it plans to distribute SP2 using a new version of its Windows Update service, its online software distribution tool. Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will contain a number of new features.
[July 12, 2004, 13:35]
Microsoft Extends SP2 Auto-update Blocker
News Microsoft is doubling the number of months that corporate customers can block automatic delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2. In response to requests from corporate customers, Microsoft on 10 August provided a way to let customers temporarily...
[September 9, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft: Pirate Software Will Not Be Supported
News Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), slated for release by June, boasts major security improvements and is viewed by industry watchers as a milestone in the company's Trustworthy Computing push.
[May 11, 2004, 13:35]
Beta XP Update Ready For Download
News The beta version of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, issued late on Wednesday, is available now for download through BetaPlace, Microsoft's site for registered beta testers. SP2 also turns off the Windows Messenger service by default.
[December 19, 2003, 9:15]
SP2 To Be Forced Out
News Microsoft is alerting customers that it will soon start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 to all customers using Automatic Update, whether they want it or not. At the end of this period (after April 12, 2005), Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to...
[February 28, 2005, 8:50]
Security Flaws Emerge In Windows Update
News Last week, German company Heise Security announced that two flaws could be used to circumvent the new warnings that Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, normally would display about running untrusted programs, potentially giving a leg up to a would...
[August 19, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Accelerates Windows Security Update
News A Microsoft executive has said the company will launch Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in December, months earlier than the company forecast on its Service Pack roadmap. The service pack was originally planned for this year, but had been put back to...
[October 15, 2003, 13:35]
Longer Wait For XP Update?
News The company had planned to wrap up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft representative said on Wednesday that the software giant had decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be released to...
[August 5, 2004, 8:25]
XP SP3 Is Sick Puppy 3, Stupid Patchwork 3, Stupendous Pain-in-the-A__ 3
Blog Comment When I finally decided to use the SP3 Windows Update service, I deliberately only allowed WGA and the Windows Installer to update their patches and then I tried using the SP2 ISO image I had gotten a while back (a week or so), no go.
[June 23, 2008, 9:50]
SP2 Trickles Down To Home PCs
News Placing SP2 to the Windows Update service is the final step in Microsoft's introduction of the security patch. The first computer owners to get Windows XP Service Pack 2 began receiving it on Wednesday night, Microsoft said.
[August 20, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft To Step Up SP2 Downloads
News Microsoft on Tuesday said that as of last week it had distributed 20 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2, last month's comprehensive security update to the company's flagship operating system.
[September 22, 2004, 8:35]
Windows XP SP2: Almost Here review
Reviews SP2 is expected to be released (and made available for download) very soon, and Microsoft will roll the service pack out to its Windows Update service later in the month. You now get four options for how you'd like to receive updates from the...
[August 6, 2004, 9:00]
Corporates Allowed To Block SP2
News We're encouraging our organisational customers -- government, education, corporations -- to start testing and to deploy the service pack as quickly as possible," said Barry Goffe, a group manager in Microsoft's Windows client unit.
[August 12, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft Unprepared For SP2 Support Nightmare?
News The second service pack (SP2) for Windows XP is designed to completely change the way that Windows XP handles security by automatically turning on the firewall and consolidating the operating system's security functions.
[April 5, 2004, 15:50]
Microsoft Delays Release Of Update Tool
News In addition to Longhorn and SP2, Microsoft is readying a service pack release for Windows Server 2003, a 64-bit edition of Windows Server, an update release of Windows Server 2003 code-named R2, and a version of Windows for high-performance...
[July 13, 2004, 16:35]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
News Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a copy of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 available at a site called SP2torrent.com through the BitTorrent file-sharing system. Of course, that gets balanced against, 'How do I make sure...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
