I think Microsoft has come a long from from 3.1 to 2008. ;-)
From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patches LOL. I learned about the old NT 3.1 RK tool delpart many years ago when a colleague interrupted an NT 4 SP on his personal WS because "it was taking too long" Nothing else would fix it. Couldn't do anything with the box until the partition was removed with delpart. I learned at his expense to never interrupt a service pack. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patches I can neither confirm nor deny that, but interrupting a service pack install, most definitely does crash the box J.at least XP SP2 From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patches I have had to reboot systems for patches that sat for hours at one point and reset them. Either is starts were is left off or reapplies the patch(es). I had yet to have a system crash because I had to reboot on a "stuck" update. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patches I don't know I finally re-booted trough ILO and they re-started ok, after the re-boot it did finish the update all ok now! On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Sam Cayze <sam.ca...@rollouts.com> wrote: I have seen the .NET patches take forever. Are they stuck on those? From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patches I have 2 * 2008 Servers that have been sitting at 2 out of 3, 0% for about an hour! Thinking about ILO re-boot? Stefan On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Sam Cayze <sam.ca...@rollouts.com> wrote: Anyone have any issues yet? Sam -- Stefan Jafs -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~