RE: Windows Update

From: Chris Freels (cfreels@gracenote.com)
Date: 09/25/01 

Subject: RE: Windows Update
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:37:09 -0700
Message-ID: <A1888241F8FA4E48A3FA130B80024098010166@mail.gracenote.gracenote.com>
From: "Chris Freels" <cfreels@gracenote.com>
To: "Lewis, Matt" <mattl@hawkeyefoodservice.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

The problem that I have found with Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (and
confirmed with Microsoft) is that there are a number of patches that are
not included in SP2 that were released prior to its release. Now the
people I spoke with had no idea why (and when do they ever), but they
did say that we should install all the patches up to and including the
SP. For many of us who have been doing this for a while it seems to be
very common practice with Microsoft to forget or leave out items that
most of us would think are very necessary. All I can say is to
subscribe to either the Security Focus or Microsoft newsletters to
receive the latest patch info and update everything in a test
environment first the once deemed safe install on your production
equipment. I know that many of us were bitten by the OWA update for
Exchange 2000 in June of this year. (climbing down off my soapbox)

Cheers,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Lewis, Matt [mailto:mattl@hawkeyefoodservice.com]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:19 PM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Windows Update

I stopped using it(Windows Update) because it appears to regress some
patches in SP2. After applying SP2 on some machines, I went to it out
of
curiousity and it told me it needed to download about 6 patches, some
dating
back to October of last year. Then once I did that, I rebooted and the
machine still told me I was at SP2, but upon going to Windows Update it
informed me that I should install SP2. Anyone else notice this?

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