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

[Brent Westmoreland]

That was sp6, hence the release of sp6a...


On Mar 19, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Ken Cornetet wrote:

If I remember correctly, SP5 killed Lotus Notes, so I wouldn't exactly
call it rock solid.

On the other hand, maybe it WAS an improvement...


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"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...

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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
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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

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Lilianstrom

Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:11 PM
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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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Al Lilianstrom
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