Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrade sp3 domain to sp4 or w2k3?

[Robbie Foust]

Seems like there were some kerberos cached ticket issues when it was 
first released, but patches were made available later for XP clients.  I 
*think* it was SP4, or maybe I'm thinking of 2003...  Anyway, I saw 
plenty of discussions on other lists that made me stay away from SP4. 
I'm also going straight from SP3 to 2003.

- Robbie

Robbie Foust, IT Analyst
Systems and Core Services
Duke University


Al Lilianstrom wrote:
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

 

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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



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