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Re: Mixed Messages about SP2
From: "Acunis, Norm" <norm.acunis () ROCHESTER EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:56:01 -0400
I can provide factual and opinionated data: I ran SP2 (revision code level 2 [RC2]) on my machine at home for about 10 days. During that time there were pros & cons: - no problems with VPN either via microsoft's pptp or Cisco's free IPSec client. Both worked without incident with the software firewall service turned on. - performance seemed slower though I began to attribute that to the severe disk fragmentation level that resulted partly from the upgrade. - Windows Media Player seemed pretty glitchy, but was tolerable (for you multimedia fans). - I ran a disk defrag which executed OK. This is the part that is just my opinion. I could not access the network after that, went through level 3 at RoadRunner and they gave up saying it was the cable modem. That was not very likely since my Linksys router was working fine for my daughter's computer. My computer showed the infamouse 169.x.x.x address. - When I discovered that one of two locally attached printers was also not working, I began to think software problem. Tried 7 different system restore checkpoints. None worked. Backed out service pack 2 and tried an earlier checkpoint, also failing. Seemed likely to be registry issues now. Also suspected TCP/IP stack - Did reboot with last known good config option. Unsuccessful. - Tried the least intrusive version of XP repair from CD. Failed. - Returned to my local vendor. So, I guess we could say that my experimentation cost me money, time, and potentially data. I am reporting this from work and so do not have the beta "report a bug" web forms. If anyone wants to report to Microsoft, feel free. It is remotely possible that this was not SP2 related, but I doubt it. ====> OUCH! <==== - -----Original Message----- From: Sadler, Connie [mailto:Connie_Sadler () BROWN EDU] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:29 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Mixed Messages about SP2 Hi, everybody... I am getting mixed messages about Windows SP2 - scheduled for late August or...? Some say "Bring it on!" while others have concerns that it will break services that we depend on today. The services we are most concerned about are our VPN service (Cisco) and Symantec anti-virus. There may be other things. Does anyone have experience yet with the beta version that you're willing to share? How do people "weigh in" on these concerns? Are you doing testing yet that is producing reliable results? Thanks much... Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM Director, IT Security, Brown University Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912 Connie_Sadler () Brown edu Office: 401-863-7266 PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91E38EFB PGP Fingerprint: DA5F ED84 06D7 1635 4BC7 560D 9A07 80BA 91E3 8EFB ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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- Mixed Messages about SP2 Sadler, Connie (Jul 16)
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- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Casto, Bryan J (Jul 16)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Greg Francis (Jul 16)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Shawn Kohrman (Jul 16)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Jeff Kell (Jul 16)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Jim Bollinger (Jul 19)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Kay Sommers (Jul 19)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Casto, Bryan J (Jul 19)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Derek Spransy (Jul 19)
- Re: Mixed Messages about SP2 Acunis, Norm (Jul 19)