Everything old is new again. I never really bought it that MS had sufficiently cleaned up its act regarding updates and rebooting. At least now they're admitting it.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jeff Bunting<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just remember if you apply a service pack to a server, without > re-applying > >> the post SP updates the fixes you put in place, will be undone when the > >> service pack is applied, > > > > Is this still true? I thought the $hf_mig$ directory was now used to > prevent > > this from occurring. I haven't reapplied a SP in quite awhile to verify > one > > way or the other. > > That is indeed the way it is supposed to work. When you install a > hotfix, all the possible versions of the files are copied to $hf_mig$, > and when a later update needs to install a newer version, the > appropriate hotfixed file is supposed to be migrated from there. I > forget when this was introduced. XP SP2? 2000 SP4? > > I'm not sure about Vista/2008 and it's "new servicing stack". > Service Packs aren't cumulative releases anymore, so who knows what > else changed? > > While we're on the subject: Reportedly, with Vista and 2008R2, > QCHAIN and its functionality is gone. If an update says to reboot, > Thou Shalt Reboot. Don't defer the reboot and attempt to install more > updates. So says a Microsoft support engineer: > > "If you have an update that pends a reboot, please, reboot the > machine. Because of the way the servicing stack works, we need to > flush out information that is pertinent to that updates installation > first before we can do additional servicing. This can, and often > does, lead to corruption. You cannot QCHAIN updates like you could in > the past." > > > http://blogs.technet.com/joscon/archive/2009/07/15/addressing-some-comments-given-so-far.aspx > > How nice. The claim is things didn't always work with QCHAIN, either. > Great. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
