Where to download the Network install of SP2 ?

[davexnet02]

Hello all,
MS seems to have hidden or obscured access to the complete download,
and are instead suggesting users turn on "automatic updates".

Is this some sort of "phased" approach at implementation?
Why ?

PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.

Dave

[David H. Lipman]

They have always produced the full Service Pack, as a EXE download, for us Net Admins. Be
patient, it will be available soon enough.

Dave



"davexnet02" > wrote in message
...
| Hello all,
| MS seems to have hidden or obscured access to the complete download,
| and are instead suggesting users turn on "automatic updates".
|
| Is this some sort of "phased" approach at implementation?
| Why ?
|
| PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
| the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.
|
| Dave
|
|

[davexnet02]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 22:44:01 GMT, davexnet02
> wrote:

<snip>
>PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
>the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.
>
>Dave
>
Looks like I jumped to conclusions... it's build 2179 that's
posted above.

Dave

[Robert R Kircher, Jr.]

The CD image has complete instructions in the Support director on how to
update administrative installs and distribute the installation to multiple
PCs.

In short, if you simple find the temp directory created when the SP expands
all the files to your system prior to running the install, you can make a
copy of this directory to your software repository and then run the install
from the i368\update\update.msi file.

--

Rob


"davexnet02" > wrote in message
...
> Hello all,
> MS seems to have hidden or obscured access to the complete download,
> and are instead suggesting users turn on "automatic updates".
>
> Is this some sort of "phased" approach at implementation?
> Why ?
>
> PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
> the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.
>
> Dave
>
>

[Alex Nichol]

davexnet02 wrote:

>MS seems to have hidden or obscured access to the complete download,
>and are instead suggesting users turn on "automatic updates".
>
>Is this some sort of "phased" approach at implementation?
>Why ?
>
>PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
>the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.

I would *not* trust a copy posted anywhere but on a Microsoft site. It
may be an old build; may be a wrong language (eg a reference here which
was to a German one), or may have been contaminated.

The main 'complete' download should become available in the course of
the next week: at present only for MSDN subscribers and official Beta
Testers. Watch at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/default.mspx

First will be provision through Windows Update. This will still end
with around a 100 MB download (the full thing is 266 MB) so it is really
not on for dial up users. There will be provision shortly to order it
on CD - Watch for it at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Jone Doe]

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> davexnet02 wrote:
>
> >MS seems to have hidden or obscured access to the complete download,
> >and are instead suggesting users turn on "automatic updates".
> >
> >Is this some sort of "phased" approach at implementation?
> >Why ?
> >
> >PS I see that the full install has already been posted to one of
> >the CD IMAGE usenet groups. It's there for who ever wants it now.
>
> I would *not* trust a copy posted anywhere but on a Microsoft site. It
> may be an old build; may be a wrong language (eg a reference here which
> was to a German one), or may have been contaminated.
>
> The main 'complete' download should become available in the course of
> the next week: at present only for MSDN subscribers and official Beta
> Testers. Watch at
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/default.mspx
>
> First will be provision through Windows Update. This will still end
> with around a 100 MB download (the full thing is 266 MB) so it is really
> not on for dial up users. There will be provision shortly to order it
> on CD - Watch for it at
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

Credit to Scott Finey's newsletter....

How Microsoft Is Rolling Out SP2
One of the more complicated aspects of XP Service Pack 2 is that it will be
available in a variety of forms, and it doesn't have a single release day.
If you get the new code through either Windows Update or XP's built-in
Automatic Updates feature, you won't get it on the same day everybody else
gets it. Why? Because Microsoft is staggering installation over a period of
weeks and even months. According to Microsoft product manager Greg Sullivan,
the software giant expects to deliver tens of thousands of installations the
first day, millions installations per day after it ramps up, and eventually
to have delivered 100 million installations of SP2 via Windows Update and
Automatic Updates.
According to a Microsoft press release, "The timing for customers to receive
the Service Pack 2 download through Automatic Updates depends on a number of
factors, including the customer's Internet usage, location, language, and
the [overall] level of Internet demand for Service Pack 2." Microsoft's
chief concern in staggering the release appears to be its own server load.
The company is expecting huge demand for this release, and it is not a small
release.


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