SP2 deployment problem

[Bill Mitchell]

downloaded XP sp2 full installation package this morning (8/10). placed it
on the server and set up a script to run the installation when I logged on.
Sp2 installed w/o any problems.

But now when I log onto the network the install package does not recognized
that SP2 was already installed and tries to install it again.
I extracted the files from the package and redid the script to point to
update.exe. It went through another installation that route, but still fails
to recognize that SP2 has already been installed.

I thought that update was supposed to cancel itself if it saw that the
update had already been installed.

Bill

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Bill,
You'll need to modify your script to do the detection of whether or not SP2
has been installed. You can do this by checking the file version on a file
like NTOSKRNL.EXE (should be 5.1.2600.2180), or by using a WMI call to query
the CSDVersion property of the Win32_OperatingSystem object.

 

[Bill Mitchell]

Thanks Mike,
I thought that the upgrade automatically checked to see if it was needed
before beginning the installation process.

Bill