Anyone got any advice on deploying SP3 on XP clients ? (yes, we got about 100 clients on SP2) any gotchas ?
Joe.
None that we experienced when we did it about 2-3 years ago. Pushed it via our old NS6 server and just ran the standard command lines for it to run silently and no reboot. We controlled the reboot to fire off later that night.
It was something like: \\<SERVERPATH>\packages\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU /nobackup /quiet /forcerestart /forceappsclose
There is a full KB describing how to deploy Windows XP Service Pack 3: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO21576
Does this get you what you need, or is there something beyond the KB that you need to do? I followed this KB for Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3; worked perfectly in environments where I deployed it.
Cheers sir :-)
p.s. the KB search engine is absoloutely useless. I searched for "Windows XP Service Pack 3 Managed Software Delivery package" under notification server and deployment server and that doc doesn't come up...