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IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hold-yer-horses dept.

robpoe writes "As reported by ZDNet, IBM's technology department has warned internal users to not install Windows XP SP2 until IBM can fix some known issues with the way IE6 is updated, and Big Blue can make a customized version of the patch - 'The company's technology department said the delay is 'due to known application problems and incompatibility with IBM workstation applications.''" However, the article also mentions that: "One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine."

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  1. Re:This is normal for an enterprise. by djtripp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Our company has issued notices not to install the patch until, well, it can be patched. Also, we will house it locally. Imagine 3000 people all trying to download this 250mb patch (hell, it will proably be around 300mb when it is released) at once... Networking will give a snail a run for it's money.

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  2. It's not a big deal by futuresheep · · Score: 4, Interesting
    We've just sent out the exact same message to our users, and we're only a company of 350 people. Now that the final release is out, we'll test it, and create an install that fits our enviroment.

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  3. Re:Scary headline by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why scary? in my company I know it will not be approved for at LEAST another 3 months. They announced 2 days ago in an internal Email that SP2 is not to be applied to any of the XP machines for any reason.

    This is typical of every large company, I'm betting over 90$ of large american corperations have a hold off SP2 order in their IT departments right now.

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  4. Re:This is normal for an enterprise. by be11o · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I work for a large financial institution and we have taken the same stance. Working closely with IBM, as most large companies do, I have noticed they all use WindowsXP on their notebooks. We however, have not even made the jump to XP; Windows 2000 is still the standard.

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  5. No Wonder. WinXP SP2 installation woes. by osho_gg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have WinXP Home SP1 with all the latest updates applied. I downloaded the SP2 .EXE file from microsoft.com's download and attempted to install it.

    The installation went fine except that somewhere in the middle of the installation I got "Access is denied." error. The installation program then went and de-installed what was partially installed and restored it to SP1 (Thank Goodness!). This was while logged in (as the only user in the system) with administrative privileges. Windows was rebooted and it booted fine in SP1.

    I rebooted SP1 in Safe mode and logged in as the Administrator. I repeated the installation process with exact same error "Access is denied.". Again, reverted to SP1 successfully

    I am thankful that it was possible to change back to SP1 and WinXP booted. But, I just can't seem to be able to install SP2. Now, I am scared than earlier about trying it for the third time.

    Osho

  6. Interesting by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This seems to be a valid theory!

  7. FedEx SP2 Issues by TerminalEcho · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here @ FedEx we tested some SP2 installs and it broke a bunch of our apps. We are also holding out on deploying this service pack to our machines so we can make a custom SP2. I think alot of companies are doing the same. TE

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