{"id":9115,"date":"2008-07-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2008-07-07T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"windows-xp-service-pack-3-coming-to-an-automatic-update-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9115","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Service Pack 3 Coming to an Automatic Update Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windowsxp\/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx\">Windows XP SP3<\/a> will be released via Automatic Updates pretty soon.\u00a0 This means that unless you take certain steps, you can expect SP3 to install onto all XP PC&#8217;s that have AU enabled.\u00a0 I&#8217;m extra careful with service packs because they can affect business application support.\u00a0 So a complete automatic deployment without manual testing or control is not probably ideal.\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few things you can do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow this to happen: That&#8217;s OK is a smaller company where you&#8217;re happy with it already.\u00a0 Maybe you already trust the installer on your hardware platforms and with your software.\u00a0 Beware anyone who has a HP machine with and AMD processor and OEM installed XP Media Edition.\u00a0 There&#8217;s some gotchas there you&#8217;ll want to Google.\n<\/li>\n<li>Block the install using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7c9a07a-5267-4bd6-87d0-e2a72099edb7&amp;DisplayLang=en\">Vista SP1 and XP SP3 blocker tool<\/a>:\u00a0 This works for 12 months from the release of the service pack.\n<\/li>\n<li>Control you updates: Use something like WSUS or System Center Configuration Manager to control what updates are approved and deployed on your network from a central console and use a test lab to evaluate and test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP SP3 will be released via Automatic Updates pretty soon.\u00a0 This means that unless you take certain steps, you can expect SP3 to install onto all XP PC&#8217;s that have AU enabled.\u00a0 I&#8217;m extra careful with service packs because they can affect business application support.\u00a0 So a complete automatic deployment without manual testing or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows XP Service Pack 3 Coming to an Automatic Update Near You&#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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","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=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}