RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack levels

[Larry A. Duncan]

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How about running the corporate standard SP2 with hotfixes for the issues you’re experiencing?   Larry A. Duncan, MCSA/MCSE Directory Services Engineer/ Systems Management Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph. 615.598.0241   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Granatella Adam J Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack levels   Well, the problem is, I want/need some of the features that SP3 provides, but the "main" location claims that they haven't had time to properly test SP3 so they want to go ahead with SP2.  Problem here is that we don't have a lot of control over what they do; only what we roll-out... so the two choices are 1) go with SP2 and deal with some of the problems that SP3 fixes (like terminal services, DFS, etc.), or 2) go ahead with SP3 for our location and see what happens.   Either way I don't like the odds, but thanks for the ideas :)   Adam -----Original Message----- From: Larry A. Duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack levels Adam,   It's always a best practice to maintain a consistent service pack level on your servers. Particularly when you have distributed services running across various servers (i.e. DNS, WINS, DHCP, DFS, etc...). Think of how service packs fix known issues on particular platforms... do you really want a patched service interacting with non-patched servers?   Larry A. Duncan, MCSA/MCSE Directory Services Engineer/ Systems Management Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph. 615.598.0241   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Granatella Adam J Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Service Pack levels   Does anyone out there know if having a mix of SP2 and SP3 on the DCs in a domain will cause any problems?  We're moving to a single domain model with 3 major locations.  The "company standard" right now is SP2, but our location has several things that we need SP3 for.  The forest root servers (not empty root, but forest root of our domain) will be at SP2.  The DCs will also have DNS, WINS, and DHCP on them.  Any articles out there if there are issues?  Thanks,   Adam Granatella Infrastructure Analyst Sentry Insurance Transportation Division [EMAIL PROTECTED]   This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this mail in error, please tell us immediately by return e-mail and delete the document. This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this mail in error, please tell us immediately by return e-mail and delete the document.