{"id":8865,"date":"2007-03-13T18:56:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2007-03-13T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"windows-2003-service-pack-2-rtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8865","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 RTM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just released <a href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!509.entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003<\/a>.\u00a0 Note that this also upgrades Windows XP x64 to Service Pack 2.\u00a0 As usual, it&#8217;s a cumulative update, i.e. if you build Windows 2003 with no service pack then you can bring it up to date by applying this service pack and any post SP2 updates.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole bunch of releases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=95ac1610-c232-4644-b828-c55eec605d55&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X86 Installer<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=096c54b5-7584-4a85-97e6-251a7606809e&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X86 Checked Build<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=1b9fe9e4-1d57-4698-a5cf-db271ed6d90a&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X86 ISO Image<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=c52c9c84-84df-4393-be83-302104506030&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Itanium Installer<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=4fefc7ca-48d1-47b3-a4dc-df28e04b99ad&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Itanium Checked Build<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=08fec2f5-6e3b-4e0d-9314-646414d0a421&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X64 Installer<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=bd2576bb-2007-45c6-bff0-5f0b4509b5a4&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X64 Checked Build<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=8a6ebfb5-833d-44e2-bf92-44648a8bb250&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X64 ISO Image<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s also some deployment preparation tools available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=19661227-3b56-4c75-8a0d-51523ca10c96&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">KB Analyser Tool for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Deployment<\/a>: After you install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack (SP2), the system does not trust binaries that are installed by out-of-band updates. (An out-of-band update is an update that Microsoft makes available outside the regular product shipment cycle.) The Oobmig.exe tool restores trust to these out-of-band updates.\u00a0 There is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=6f4aa504-53c2-4f18-97d1-34bb31362b85&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Itanium<\/a> version.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=eff8438f-8cc9-43eb-85c7-14dfcc099ee8&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hotfix Scan Tool for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2<\/a>: You can use this tool to scan for hotfixes that will potentially regress after you install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.  <\/li>\n<li>System Preparation Tool for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2:\u00a0 This is an updated version of Sysprep.\u00a0 There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=93f20bb1-97aa-4356-8b43-9584b7e72556&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">x86<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=c2684c95-6864-4091-bc9a-52aec5491af7&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">x64<\/a> version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Support Tools have also been updated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=96a35011-fd83-419d-939b-9a772ea2df90&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X86 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a read of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highwaycsl.com\/IT\/Whitepapers\/W2003SP2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">document<\/a> that I wrote on Windows 2003\/Windows XP x64\u00a0SP2 while it was still in beta if you want to know what is included and how to deploy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003.\u00a0 Note that this also upgrades Windows XP x64 to Service Pack 2.\u00a0 As usual, it&#8217;s a cumulative update, i.e. if you build Windows 2003 with no service pack then you can bring it up to date by applying this service pack and any post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 RTM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}