RE: XP SP2 other than windows update
Roland Perry wrote: I'm an IT professional, but only one of my PCs is running XP. And it's a full-price retail copy, not a bundled-OEM or upgrade. Hence me feeling left out when I'm told that "IT professionals" have already been allowed their Windows-update.
Every IT professional I know has had SP2 available three different ways for two weeks: 1) Somewhere on a server for support staff to begin to experiment with and for a small set of guinea pig users to install. 2) On a CD made after the download. On my CD I also have SP1 for Office 2003. Part of being an IT professional includes maintaining an updated set of CDs carried at all times. 3) On a slipstreamed install CD for new installs. Optionally, 4a) On an SP2 image on a RIS server 4b) On a ghost images The final SP2 has been available on M$ site even for people that don't have an MSDN subscription. Anyone that wants to call themselves an "IT professional" _does_ download and try major updates _before_ they are made available to end users, period. Michel.
In article <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB373@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento. ca.us>, Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us> writes
Every IT professional I know has had SP2 available three different ways for two weeks:
1) Somewhere on a server for support staff to begin to experiment with and for a small set of guinea pig users to install. 2) On a CD made after the download. On my CD I also have SP1 for Office 2003. Part of being an IT professional includes maintaining an updated set of CDs carried at all times. 3) On a slipstreamed install CD for new installs.
Optionally, 4a) On an SP2 image on a RIS server 4b) On a ghost images
The final SP2 has been available on M$ site even for people that don't have an MSDN subscription. Anyone that wants to call themselves an "IT professional" _does_ download and try major updates _before_ they are made available to end users, period.
Perhaps it makes more sense when I say that I only have two users, and one of them is myself (and yes, I do have an SP1 CD). Long ago I used to Microsoft's biggest customer in Europe (I think Olivetti was the second biggest), the first major shipper of Windows /386 in the World, and well aware of the issues when rolling out new software to lots of users. The last couple of months I've been in hospital, and missed most of the hoo-ha over SP2, but now that it's officially released I was really surprised I didn't get an automatic update. -- Roland Perry
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