XP SP2 earliest by Auto-Updates

[Reagan Thomas]

I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
University and we're preparing our images for the fall
semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
installed now.

From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
question:

What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?

Thanks.

Reagan Thomas
CEAT Labs
Oklahoma State University

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I help support a few hundred PC's at Oklahoma State
University and we're preparing our images for the fall
semester which starts in 2 weeks. We already know that
some of our applications *will break* with SP2 as
installed now.

From the announcement of the final SP2 release version,
we understand that all PC's with Automatic Updates turned
on ought to be updated within 2 months, but here is our
question:

What is the earliest date by which we might expect to see
SP2 hit our PC's via Automatic updates?

Hi

Here is the distribution plan:

10. August Release to Automatic Updates (for machines running
pre-release versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 only)

16. August Release to Automatic Updates (for machines NOT running
pre-releases versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2)

16. August Release to Software Update Services

 

[Paul McGuire]

If you will deploy an SUS server then you will have the option to not
approve the update for automatic update. This will stop any updates from
being installed until you have tested it with all applications in a test
environment.

HTH

Paul McGuire