Windows Server 2003 SP2 Officially Released!

royal

http://bink.nu/Article9703.bink

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

sprkymrk

It's Release Candidate 2, available for testing.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2.mspx

royal

Mark,

The site hasn't been updated and says it's still on Release Candidate. It's just a lag between it being officially released and the site updating to its official final status. Also, SP2 is now a high priority update on Windows Update which means it's RTM not RC2. Here's a picture.

sprkymrk

Cool, thanks for the head's up!

I wonder what will break when I install it on all my production servers tomorrow? Hmm, maybe better wait a week or two.

royal

sprkymrk wrote:

Cool, thanks for the head's up!
I wonder what will break when I install it on all my production servers tomorrow? Hmm, maybe better wait a week or two.

You can always stay late tonight and do it!

sprkymrk

If I stay late tonight I'll end up looking like your avatar. :P

royal

Really?

macdude

Looks like Microsoft is making in a fun week for us. So let the horror stories begin of SP2 breaking stuff.

plettner

macdude wrote:

Looks like Microsoft is making in a fun week for us. So let the horror stories begin of SP2 breaking stuff.

I'm doing my MCSA study on my computer lab but won't install SP2 in case the tutorials in my MS Press book now don't match the SP2 changes.

sprkymrk

icroyal wrote:

Really?

You got me!

macdude

plettner,

I am doing my mcse studies right now. I started to install it home tonight, but then decide against it, since it ain't the study guides. I'll play with it at work, since it will be coming down the line.

plettner

macdude wrote:

plettner,

I am doing my mcse studies right now. I started to install it home tonight, but then decide against it, since it ain't the study guides. I'll play with it at work, since it will be coming down the line.

I found some discrepanices between the my MS Press book and the supplied Server 2003 software. Expecially in the first section - installing AD and DNS. There seemed to be additional steps in what Sever 2003 showed to what the book described. I feel this could be dangerous espcially if the 70-290 uses a lot of simulation tasks.

Adding SP2 to the Server may change a particlular way of changing settings or doing something etc. within 2003.

royal

What discrepancies did you find?

royal

sprkymrk wrote:

icroyal wrote:

Really?

You got me!

I've been thinking about changing my avatar for some time, I figured it was perfect timing.

taktsoi

thank you for this heads up.

downloading it now and will deploy in productions server soon.

lets see what it breaks. hehe....maybe it breaks VSS again...haha

thank you.

plettner

icroyal wrote:

What discrepancies did you find?

I'll have a look this weekend. It was the first stage where the book tells you how to install the DNS. I'll detail it this weekend.

geekie

If I stay late tonight I'll end up looking like your avatar.

LOL

elover_jm

icroyal wrote:

Really?

LOL

plettner

icroyal wrote:

What discrepancies did you find?

Sorry about the delay.

I've found on page 1-22, excercise 3 between steps 4 and 5, I seem to get another wizard which asks about where DNS should be stored. In any case, I just use the defaults. But, in their Figure 1-4, they seem to have been able to configure a static IP - an option I don't get this option following their steps. They also seem to have DHCP installed. Again, I don't get this option. And these aren't mentioned in any of their steps.

I have tried this on a stand alone network but get the same discrepancies.

SWM

Windows Server SP2

Things it has broken at various sites I support :
- ISA 2004 (suddenly blocked SBS DHCP server )
- RRAS VPN
- Internal Outlook 2003 (could not see exchange server)RPC connector issues.

This can all be fixed if latest NIC drivers are installed and a couple of reg hacks.

Thanks Microsoft for the many sleepless nights.

sprkymrk

SWM wrote:

Windows Server SP2

Things it has broken at various sites I support :
- ISA 2004 (suddenly blocked SBS DHCP server )
- RRAS VPN
- Internal Outlook 2003 (could not see exchange server)RPC connector issues.

This can all be fixed if latest NIC drivers are installed and a couple of reg hacks.

Thanks Microsoft for the many sleepless nights.

Thanks for the info. We have held off so far. Will probably get to it in a week or two. I haven't seen a critical reason to roll it out yet, so were taking our time.

geekie

Windows Server SP2

Things it has broken at various sites I support :
- ISA 2004 (suddenly blocked SBS DHCP server )
- RRAS VPN
- Internal Outlook 2003 (could not see exchange server)RPC connector issues.

This can all be fixed if latest NIC drivers are installed and a couple of reg hacks.

Thanks Microsoft for the many sleepless nights

Thanks for that SWM.

I've got it installed on my WSUS server and a test MOM server with no issues so far. Gonna hold off for another month or so for the rest of my environment me thinks

SWM

I have installed it on many W2003 32bit Standard Edition servers with no issues. It seems to cause a problem with SBS servers. Check out this link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555912

Stephen