Microsoft has officially announced the availability of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Computer Administrators around the world breath a sigh of relief. Now get to it and update those installation images!
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Showing posts with label wsus. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released to Manufacturing
According to Chris Keroack on the Microsoft TechNet forums Windows XP Service Pack 3 was Released to Manufacturing 21 Apr 21, 2008.
It appears that SP3 will be released for download on April 29th via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Automatic Update distribution for home users is set to begin in early summer.
Great news. A freshly imaged Windows XP SP2 computer is currently installing 92 updates from the internal WSUS servers. SP3 is just in time for a large roll out of new computers around here.
It appears that SP3 will be released for download on April 29th via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Automatic Update distribution for home users is set to begin in early summer.
Great news. A freshly imaged Windows XP SP2 computer is currently installing 92 updates from the internal WSUS servers. SP3 is just in time for a large roll out of new computers around here.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Force detection on Windows Server Update Services Clients
Common Scenario: You just rebooted your server after installing updates. You know there are still updates the your server doesn't have installed, but the server isn't pulling them down from your Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. There's not enough time in your maintenance window to go to update.microsoft.com and download the remaining updates, that's why you have a WSUS server in the first place right?
On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you can force detection by running the command:
%windir%\System32\wuauclt.exe /detectnow
You won't see any immediate results, but within a few minutes the familiar yellow shield should show up in the notification area informing you that updates are being downloaded or that updates have been downloaded and are ready to install.
Even though I'm fairly up to date with updates in my system images and Microsoft Office installs, I still try to run this after imaging a system or installing Microsoft Office just to make sure nothing was missed before handing things over to the customer.
On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you can force detection by running the command:
%windir%\System32\wuauclt.exe /detectnow
You won't see any immediate results, but within a few minutes the familiar yellow shield should show up in the notification area informing you that updates are being downloaded or that updates have been downloaded and are ready to install.
Even though I'm fairly up to date with updates in my system images and Microsoft Office installs, I still try to run this after imaging a system or installing Microsoft Office just to make sure nothing was missed before handing things over to the customer.
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