Mandatory SP2

[Andrew]

According to Assetmetrix and Microsoft, SP2 will be
mandatory sometime in mid December. This is the exact
quote from the link below.

"SP2 distribution via Windows Update Services will be
mandatory on or around December 16th, 2004"

This was quoted from:
http://www.assetmetrix.com/solutions/xpsp2/WinXPSP2ImpactA
nalysis.pdf

Andrew

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Mandatory distribution isn't the same as mandatory download and install ;-)

Tom
"Andrew" > wrote in message
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| According to Assetmetrix and Microsoft, SP2 will be
| mandatory sometime in mid December. This is the exact
| quote from the link below.
|
| "SP2 distribution via Windows Update Services will be
| mandatory on or around December 16th, 2004"
|
| This was quoted from:
| http://www.assetmetrix.com/solutions/xpsp2/WinXPSP2ImpactA
| nalysis.pdf
|
| Andrew
|

[Steve N.]

Andrew wrote:

> According to Assetmetrix and Microsoft, SP2 will be
> mandatory sometime in mid December. This is the exact
> quote from the link below.
>
> "SP2 distribution via Windows Update Services will be
> mandatory on or around December 16th, 2004"
>
> This was quoted from:
> http://www.assetmetrix.com/solutions/xpsp2/WinXPSP2ImpactA
> nalysis.pdf
>
> Andrew
>

The solution is simple; turn off Automatic Updates if you don't want SP2.

Steve

[Alex Nichol]

Andrew wrote:

>According to Assetmetrix and Microsoft, SP2 will be
>mandatory sometime in mid December. This is the exact
>quote from the link below.
>
>"SP2 distribution via Windows Update Services will be
>mandatory on or around December 16th, 2004"

See my explanation under your earlier post regarding this:

AS usual third parties pick up a point and distort it. That is in
relation to corporate use of Update services, that automatically keeps
all machines in a fully updated state: they are being provided a means
whereby they can defer getting SP2 on that until December while getting
other updates.

It does *not* relate to ordinary update if you put that on advise, and
then reject SP2; nor does it mean that there will be no updates provided
for non-SP2 machine via that route



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