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SP4 Nightmare

Last night I've installed, using Remote Desktop, the Windows 2K SP4 on our Web Server.

Yes I know, I've to wait, I've to test it, I've to check that everything goes well in a test environment, but... hey I couldn't resist so I've installed it.

The Server rebooted and after some minutes I went back to check that everything was ok, but... Nothing happened, no Remote Desktop, no WWW, no PING, nothing...

I've spent all the night thinking "...ok Lorenzo you have to wait, you have to test, you cannot do risky things over the RD, tomorrow morning you aren't in the office, what do you do now..." and so on.

This mornig I called our office and I discovered that there was an Hardware failure during the Power On Self Test... @#!?@# a simple F1 after reboot and everything is ok...

So, let's wait for SP5... or perhaps I can try a remote update to W2K3.... I'm joking, I know that's impossible, but perhaps on the next Windows version...

What do you think?

Comments

Frans Bouma said:

You can't save yourself from hw failures. Only a tandem or stratus machine will stay up when hw fails, the rest will go down and stay down.

SP4 is IMHO a very necessary set of fixes. SOme serious base OS bugs were fixed that I was waiting for for some time.
# June 26, 2003 9:16 AM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

I agree with you, I've waited the SP4 for some months.
And now I like the fact that MBSA have stopped telling me that I need a lot of hotfixes that I've already installed.
# June 26, 2003 9:28 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Remote update to WS2K3 is not impossible (done it 3x) just a REAL pain in the ass. You can configure a silent install using the Resource Kit, then initialize it thru a TS instance. The only problem is if something goes wrong you're kinda SOL>
# June 26, 2003 10:51 AM
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