On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, D N Vaidya wrote: > May I know what is SUS stands for? Also I want to know the best practice for > deploying new Service Packs and Hot fixes in production environment. Because > I faced some problems after installing SP4 of Win2K server on one production > machin. That machine became very slow and stopped sending mails to the > Internet but i can send mails within Intranet. > > Next time I dont want to repeate same mistek.
Every desktop support group I have worked with in larger firms has had controlled pilots of SP and hotfix rollouts. Seems to work well for them as a best practice. Obviously it can't catch every interaction but gives a comfort level. > Also where I can get the > technical info of new service packs i.e. what changes that SP is going to do > on my system and is there any way to roll back only required component of SP > or Hot fix. technet.microsoft.com usually has these answers. For W2K SP4 the technet article is unusually thorough - (I can't determine if it is accurate but I don't have any complaints) Hope this helps. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
