As I recall it, the "Microsoft Even Numbered Service Pack" horror stories had to do with the NT4 service packs. - 2, 4, 6 (6 of course was followed by 6a even!)
I personally haven't experienced things too bad with W2K service packs to include SP4 - there was a slight scare immediately after installing it (I posted to this group - if you care to check the archives), but that was resolved rather quickly once I was talking to a particularly helpful PSS person. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Blair Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrade sp3 domain to sp4 or w2k3? I am not aware of the Urban Legend. Going to Google it after this email. But I just did install SP4 on an Exchange server and after the reboot my LTO tape drive died, makes a horrible screeching sound when you put in a tape and the clean light doesn't stop blinking. It also destroyed 2 cleaning tapes, eats them right up! -----Original Message----- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrade sp3 domain to sp4 or w2k3? joe wrote: > We are moving from 2KSP3 to K3 directly. Didn't feel the risk of two > upgrades within a half a year was worth it. Especially with many of > the horror stories I have heard around SP4 and the fact of the even > numbered MS SP issue urban legend... > We were laughing about that exact urban legend the other day... Care to share any of the horror stories? Most of our w2k simple servers are sp4 and we haven't seen anything that unusual. al > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al > Lilianstrom > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Upgrade sp3 domain to sp4 or w2k3? > > Hi, > > we have a sp3 based domain - 6000 users, 2500 computers, empty root, > and a single resource domain. Currently looking at upgrading to sp4 on > the way to Windows 2003. Given our desire to get to w2k3 by fall and > our own testing methods we're considering going from sp3 to w2k3 > directly. The Microsoft documentation states that sp3 or later is > required to upgrade to w2k3 so this "should" work. > > Any advice/words of wisdom/pitfalls/horror stories/etc would be > appreciated. > > tia, al > -- Al Lilianstrom CD/CSS/CSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
