SP4 Experience

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Interested in hearing from anyone about their experience
after installing W2K Advanced Server SP4. In particular
any critical issues.

Thanks,
MJV

 

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Have been running it since it came out on Adv Server, Regular Server, Pro
and had no issues whatsoever. These machine also run a variety of Back
Office Apps like SQL2k, Exchange 2k etc. It seems to be very solid.

--
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

"MJV" <michaelveith@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Interested in hearing from anyone about their experience
> after installing W2K Advanced Server SP4. In particular
> any critical issues.
>
> Thanks,
> MJV

 

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Scott...Thanks for the feedback...MJV

>-----Original Message-----
>Have been running it since it came out on Adv Server,
Regular Server, Pro
>and had no issues whatsoever. These machine also run a
variety of Back
>Office Apps like SQL2k, Exchange 2k etc. It seems to be
very solid.
>
>--
>Scott Harding
>MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
>Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
>
>"MJV" <michaelveith@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:254ea01c46053$2aa82070$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Interested in hearing from anyone about their experience
>> after installing W2K Advanced Server SP4. In particular
>> any critical issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> MJV
>
>
>.
>

 

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I've had a similar experience to Scott. Deployed it hundreds of
workstations and tens of servers (including Advanced Server).

No issues.

Oli


"MJV" <michaelveith@msn.com> wrote in message
news:254ea01c46053$2aa82070$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Interested in hearing from anyone about their experience
> after installing W2K Advanced Server SP4. In particular
> any critical issues.
>
> Thanks,
> MJV

 

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>In particular any critical issues.

Had 2 small issues -

1. Ran the SP via Term Services, but didn't go for the re-boot straight
after it completed - logged off and thought I'd re-boot it later when the
users were off the system. When I tried to logon on later via TS I couldn't
so had to power off/on. All fine after re-boot though.

2. Did something nasty to the Scheduled Tasks already set up so some file
transfers, backups etc would n't work. Got some advice from this list but
never got to the bottom of it so just shifted the Tasks to a 2003 box.

3. Er- that's it

 

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Two problems were discovered, one critical to the OS, one
critical to the support staff.
1) TCP option 1323 no longer worked under SP4, where
compensating for a slow (satellite) network. Result was
that a very small TCP window was created, and performance
was veerrrry slow. A bug fix was created, and that
problem was quickly resolved.
2) Hyperterminal "send text file" feature appears to no
longer work as it did pre-sp4. We use it to send a
configuration file to a com2 connnected cisco switch.
The com port or hyperterminal is no longer processing the
switch logon commands. If we manually logon, the rest of
the config commands are accepted. If we try to process
the file w/logon commands included, it does three tries,
and fails the logon attempt. After that, the
hyperterminal window shows no text at all, and appears in
a hung state until logoff can be achieved - either by
hardware reboot or using a com port analyzer to see
excactly where the problem occurred. This one is not
resolved yet.

>-----Original Message-----
>Interested in hearing from anyone about their experience
>after installing W2K Advanced Server SP4. In particular
>any critical issues.
>
>Thanks,
>MJV
>.
>