Hello All,
Came across SP1 for windows 2003, and read a bit about it, seems its more security centric. I must say moving to windows 2003 was a great experience, its been months since we restarted the online servers. They run smooth.
For now I have just installed SP1 on one of our development machine, but still not sure about upgrading all our production servers with it. Just wanted to find out views about SP1 for windows 2003, is it stable? are there any issues that I need to keep in mind
before upgrading our windows 2003 machines? I have come to know that it is not meant for SBS 2003, is there anything else that I have to be careful about ?
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imranaziz
imra(I need to watch my language)z
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
Been running it on my WS2003 box for the past 9 days running with only one reboot 2 days ago. I'd say it's stable.
Although I'm undecided about the inclusion of WMP10. Whatever happened to servicepacks only containing security updates and patches? -
ZippyV
Fired Up
Is that thing now still not uninstallable? Every non-necessary component on a system is one too much.
Remove it! -
W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
ZippyV wrote:Is that thing now still not uninstallable? Every non-necessary component on a system is one too much.
Remove it!
You can't remove WMP10, but SP1 is removable.
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The Dealman
I am The DealMan
I agree it has all the things you don't need on some server configurations. Just stay up to date on patchs leave sp1 out it just's causes problems like sp2 for xp.
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All our Windows servers are now running SP1. It's well worth it for the improved firewall and the SCW.
I don't like the inclusion of WMP10 either. WMP and OE should definately be optional components on a server. That isn't a good reason not to install it though. -
W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
AndyC wrote:All our Windows servers are now running SP1. It's well worth it for the improved firewall and the SCW.
I don't like the inclusion of WMP10 either. WMP and OE should definately be optional components on a server. That isn't a good reason not to install it though.
Unless your server was also a Streaming Media Server?
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Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde
I don't think you need Player to serve streams. Certainly you can install a Real media server without installing the Real Player... and similarly with QuickTime.
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After I installed it my Media Player has been broken. I can't install MP9 because it say it's already installed, and it won't let me install MP10. So I'm using Real Player (yuck) for now.
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There is always a day that you need WMP on your server!
So I think it's a wise choice to include it! -
The Dealman
I am The DealMan
dotnetjunkie wrote:There is always a day that you need WMP on your server!
So I think it's a wise choice to include it!
What? I disagree because all it does is add another security hole.
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