Correction - it was just released: "as read on W2K News":
W2K Service Pack 2 Is Here!
And I'm running it on my machine at home without any problems. I saw last
night on the Sunbelt sponsored NTSYSADMIN list that it was available and
immediately downloaded the 104MB file. I got about 120Kb/sec through my
cable modem, so it was not that long. Made a new Emergency Repair Disk,
backed up the most crucial files and took the plunge. I decided that I'd
play guinea pig so you could have some first impressions. Two things that I
immediately noticed: a) If you want to uninstall this SP2, you need a LOT of
spare disk space! b) It will upgrade your encryption to 128-bit
automatically.
I took the readme.htm file from the install, and plugged it on our website
as a .TXT so you can quickly read it before you download the full 104Meg.
None of the htm-links in it worked yet, as it is not officially released as
of now. Keep in mind, you have to test it thoroughly before you plug it in
your production environment. Test, test again, and then double check and
test one more time.
Now, keep in mind that this thing was sitting over at the link below but
when you look it may or may not be there. Sometimes this code gets yanked
again, as it might be a very late beta and they found a bug. Everything is
possible.
http://msvaus.www.conxion.com/download/win2000platform/sp/sp2/nt5/en-us/w2ks
p2.exe
And it should show up on the MS official webpage, but it is not there yet
either. I would guess this is going to happen very shortly... Here is the
usual page for W2K SP's
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/default.asp
I installed it on my Dell Dual-CPU W2K Pro Workstation, and everything I
have running on it seems to work, including BlackICE defender and ZoneAlarm
which I have both running at the same time. BlackICE to make sure nothing
comes in, and ZoneAlarm to make sure nothing 'illegal' goes out. (like some
one having taken over this box via a trojan and trying to get into our
systems in the office).
So, without repeating everything in the readme file, and saving you guys
from downloading a 100+ Meg (and saving an enormous amount of bandwidth).
Here is the link to the W2K SP2 README file. Better read it!
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=051401-W2KSP2readme.txt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Infocon-Tech
> Sent: 13 maja 2001 22:59
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] FW: W2K SP2
>
>
> This SP has been taken back by microsoft because of the most
> recent security
> hole discovered in WIn2k.
> The new versin of SP2 which will come soon will incorporate the
> new security
> patch which has been released recently, so dont install the SP2,
> or at least
> run the security patch which is disstributed on the MS site.
>
> Marcin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad Kingsley
> > Sent: 13 maja 2001 01:16
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] FW: W2K SP2
> >
> >
> > http://msvaus.www.conxion.com/download/win2000platform/sp/sp2/nt5/
> > en-us/w2ks
> > p2.exe
> >
> > (watch for wrapping)
> >
> > bk
> >
> > .
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "rjj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 6:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] FW: W2K SP2
> >
> >
> > > Where did you find it? I went to windows update and
> > > support.microsoft.com/support/servicepacks and only
> > > found SP1.
> > >
> > > --- Patrick Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Aaron Kaluszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 1:42 AM
> > > > To: Patrick Mathews
> > > > Subject: W2K SP2
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > it's out.
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