RE: Windows 2000 SP4 instalation
- From: "Márcio Santos" <MrcioSantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:21:04 -0700
The biggest reason why I want to perform the upgrade to SP4 is because I want
to upgrade SUS to WSUS and it requires SP4. Has for the database engine I'm
using MSSQL 2000 so I supose it will be peacefull.
I'll take your advice and take my chances over the weekend.
Thanks for your atention...
"DJW" wrote:
> Hi Marcio,
>
> As far as I am aware there is no silver bullet to address this issue.
>
> Microsoft have serveral resources available for helping plan the SP4
> deployment and they discuss testing and what can be done prior to installing
> the service pack.
>
> They also state:
> "Although Microsoft has a high degree of confidence in this service pack, it
> is not possible to test all possible hardware configurations and
> line-of-business (LOB) applications that might be present in all
> environments. We therefore recommend that you test the service pack in your
> environment before you deploy it to all of your users."
>
> Its always a catch 22 situation. The business will fire you if you upgrade
> and it goes wrong, or they'll fire you if you don't upgrade in case it goes
> wrong.
>
> However in my experience, the best thing to do is review the list of
> hotfixes that are applied by the service pack. I think you will find most of
> them are already present.
>
> Look at the new ones and what they may affect. Have a quick google around
> for known problems with SP4 and your database (There were quite a few
> problems around using citrix for example)
>
> On the whole it fixed more things then it broke. In general we have applied
> the service pack to every machine in our business running Windows 2000 and
> had very limited problems.
>
> Assuming nothing makes you run away in terror, block out a weekend. Take a
> good backup and verify it. Run the upgrade and test all services are up and
> running properly. That should hopefully leave you with Sunday to yourself.
> However if anything goes wrong you can always restore with plenty of time to
> spare.
>
> Resources:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.htm
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327194
>
>
> "Márcio Santos" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I need to install W2K SP4 on a W2K SP3. This is the only server on my
> > company and it's running AD, DNS, DHCP. This is also the File and Database
> > server. This server cannot stop or else I'll get fired. Is there any tool to
> > test whether the system is totally ready to install SP4, I mean that can
> > asure me that the patch will be applied sucefully???
> >
> > Thx...
> >
.
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