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Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things
From: Mark Shirley <mshirley () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:04:46 -0400
I have to agree here. I think microsoft has done an excellent job about trying to educate the public about what xpsp2 really does. There are countless documents that I personally have printed out that tell me almost anything you need to know about xpsp2 and they have been a life saver. For once turn your browser to microsoft.com and read what they have to say. In particular the following documents have been a great deal of help to us and our org (and no i won't give you urls because i'm too lazy). "Deploying windows firewall settings" "Using the windows firewall INF file" and my favorite so far has been the CIF "Changes In Functionality" which goes into brief but detailed information about xpsp2 and what has changed, why, and what it effects. There really is no doubt that SP2 "breaks" things but so does every hotfix ms releases. If you test it in your enviroment instead of throwing it down on your sus server and just letting things go you won't have issues. This is more then just a package of a few hotfixes wrapped in one. This is a SIGNIFICANT change in the way XP operates. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:40:36 -0700 (PDT), Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com> wrote:
All I can say about this, Greg, is...well...duh!Just FYI, my company is experiencing a high volume of calls from customers claiming that they have installed Windows SP2. Customers claim that SP2 is "breaking" previously working network behavior. Initial testing indicates that the cause is the "Internet Firewall" settings on SP2 which have been set to default closed!I guess MS is just responding to the public's requests. Sure, they could've done a much better job of detecting during installation whether the system was part of a domain or not, but you know, there has been a great deal of documentation of the "on by default" firewall settings in SP2. Maybe someone should talk to your customers about what happens when you install...well...pretty much anything (patches or anything else) without some sort of plan. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Gregory A. Gilliss (Aug 10)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Will Image (Aug 10)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Harlan Carvey (Aug 11)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Mark Shirley (Aug 11)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Harlan Carvey (Aug 11)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Barrie Dempster (Aug 11)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Niek Baakman (Aug 11)
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- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Gregory A. Gilliss (Aug 11)
- RE: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Myers, Marvin (Aug 11)
- RE: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Will Image (Aug 11)
- RE: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Carboni, Chris (Aug 11)
- Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things Will Image (Aug 10)