"Back in the day..." Seriously - the odd numbered NT4 service packs rocked. SP3 was incredibly stable, SP4 sucked [deleted], SP5 was rock solid. Don't get me started on SP6 (not 6a, which really should have been called 7....)
However, Exchange 5.5 was the opposite. Even numbers rocked and odd numbers sucked... -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:49 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/
