Windows 2000 SP4

Hey I wonder what MS did in Service Pack 3 after viewing the list of bugs fixed in this Service Pack.

You need a free full day to review all the bugs they fixed.

What's going to be with the SP5 !

For the moment I installed it successfully on my laptop, but what's about servers ? I just don't want to be the guinea pig there, too risky after reading the list  ;-))

By the way I read that W2003 Service Pack 1 is only expected in December. If it's true, it might be a huge debugging exercice from Microsoft !

 

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  • I installed it 2 hours ago on my server (dual p3-933 serverwerks chipset/asus board, dual scsi drives, ide drive, tapedrive, 512MBram) with SQLServer2000, exchange 2000, active directory etc. and it works like a charm. Installed it, rebooted, done. No wicked eventlog entries either.





    I'm especially happy with several bugfixes that fix network errors where the os didn't accept new connections. My online box appeared dead several times but when I rebooted using the hw switch and logged on via a remote desktop toolkit, it hadn't crashed, networking simply died. I hope that's fixed now.





    There are a terrible amount of stop error fixes, which really disturbs me, especially the ways some would turn up. Clearly some testing methods and programming skils weren't up to par.

  • Thanks Frans, I will have a try tomorrow ;-)

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