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56452.book Page 3 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM Chapter 1 Getting and Installing SP1 As you’ve already read, you can get an awful lot of the features ascribed to R2 free of charge; just install SP1. And while I’m sure that many of you have already installed SP1, I also know that unfortunately some of you have been waiting to take the plunge.
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6452.book Page 5 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM INSTALLING SP1 TIP WSUS is a big topic and not one we’re covering in this book, but you can find more information and download links at www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updateservices/ default.mspx. If you don’t currently have a tool to make patching easier, consider WSUS. It’s free and pretty good.
56452.book Page 6 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM 6 CHAPTER 1 GETTING AND INSTALLING SP1 Figure 1.1 Unpacking SP1 Figure 1.2 “Hello!” from SP1 Figure 1.3 SP1’s software license I find agreeing to software licenses of all kinds sort of liberating, you know? I mean, when I go to install a piece of software, I’m usually a little anxious about whether it’ll break something and cause me trouble.
56452.book Page 7 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM INSTALLING SP1 Now, personally I have not experienced a single problem with 2003 SP1. Yes, I’ve run into trouble with some NT 4 service packs, but not with any of the 2000, XP, or 2003 service packs, so I’m inclined to trust SP1 and not bother with the backups. Notice, however, that the SP1 install wizard doesn’t offer you the option not to back up, which is one reason why I don’t install SP1 with the GUI much.
56452.book Page 8 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM 8 CHAPTER 1 GETTING AND INSTALLING SP1 SP1 from the Command Line As I’ve already said, many folks will choose to start up sp1.exe and run the SP1 installation from the GUI because it’s simple. But if you have some special needs, then consider running SP1 from the command line with one or more of its options.
56452.book Page 9 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM INSTALLING SP1 Letting the SP1 Installer Overwrite Non-Microsoft Files The /o option tells you to automatically overwrite any existing files that didn’t come with 2003 RTM.
56452.book Page 10 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM 10 CHAPTER 1 GETTING AND INSTALLING SP1 Here’s another command-line example. To tell sp1.
56452.book Page 11 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM INSTALLING SP1 your C: drive is low on free space but your E: drive has 400MB free, you could tell the SP1 installer to put the RTM backups in a folder named e:\rtmbackups, along with the other options that we used in the last example, like so: sp1 /d:e:\rtmbackups /forcerestart /passive /o /f You needn’t even create the e:\rtmbackups directory; the SP1 installer will do it for you.
56452.book Page 12 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM 12 CHAPTER 1 GETTING AND INSTALLING SP1 Rolling Out SP1 with a GPO In Mastering Windows Server 2003’s Chapter 12, we showed how to create a domain-based group policy object (GPO) that would deploy software to domain members. You can use software deployment GPOs to roll out SP1 as well, quite simply. There are just a few steps. 1. Extract the files in the SP1 installer with the -x option, as you’ve already read. 2.
56452.book Page 13 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:52 PM SUMMARY 2. Extract the SP1 files to a folder somewhere. 3. Tell the SP1 installer to integrate the new SP1 files in your i386 folder like so: sp1.exe /integrate:folder-location Be aware that folder-location is the name of the folder that contains the i386 folder. So, for example, if the i386 folder with the Setup programs is in e:\i386, then you’d type sp1.
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