XP SP2 earliest by Auto-Updates

[Reagan Thomas]

I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
University and we're preparing our images for the fall
semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
installed now.

From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
question:

What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?

Thanks.

Reagan Thomas
CEAT Labs
Oklahoma State University

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Reagan Thomas wrote:

> I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
> University and we're preparing our images for the fall
> semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
> some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
> installed now.
>
> From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
> we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
> on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
> question:
>
> What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
> SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?
Hi

Here is the distribution plan:

10. August Release to Automatic Updates (for machines running
pre-release versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 only)

16. August Release to Automatic Updates (for machines NOT running
pre-releases versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2)

16. August Release to Software Update Services


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[Paul McGuire]

If you will deploy an SUS server then you will have the option to not
approve the update for automatic update. This will stop any updates from
being installed until you have tested it with all applications in a test
environment.

HTH

Paul McGuire
"Reagan Thomas" > wrote in message
...
> I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
> University and we're preparing our images for the fall
> semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
> some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
> installed now.
>
> From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
> we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
> on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
> question:
>
> What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
> SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Reagan Thomas
> CEAT Labs
> Oklahoma State University

[RogerLemon]

> "Reagan Thomas" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
> > University and we're preparing our images for the fall
> > semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
> > some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
> > installed now.
> >
> > From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
> > we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
> > on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
> > question:
> >
> > What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
> > SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Reagan Thomas
> > CEAT Labs
> > Oklahoma State University
>
>
I'm writing this in England at 17:10 - just before yuor Oklahoma breakfast I
believe. I downloaded SP2 this morning from a link given to me in another
message board. It is available now but MS don't want the servers swamped so
I believe they're quietly letting out links to spread the load. Installation
was not automatic on downloading so you have nothing to worry about - I had
physically to click open the .exe to start the Install Wizard. So far no
problems here but I am surprised the firewall has defaulted to the off
position.