RE: MS Service Packs

[Alastair Cook <Alastair.Cook () crown uk com>]

You can just run windows update on a vanilla install and get the SP, it will
detect it's not there. 


-----Original Message-----
From: matt [mailto:mdtallon () pobox com] 
Sent: 19 June 2003 19:20
To: security-basics () securityfocus com


Is that to say that you can't just run Windows Update on a fresh install and
get the needed Service Pack as well as the patches?
I thought Update was capable of detecting all necessary fixes...

> Well as far as I know, once you visit windows update, it will only 
> have you install patches that you don't have installed.  So I assume 
> once installing SP3 and doing Windows Update, you should have 
> everything.

> > From my experience Once you' ve installed SP3  you have to run 
> > windows update so that you can get all the patches starting from when 
> > SP3 was released.


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