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Re: news on SP4 - important. Please note
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard Kimble Jr)
Mon Oct 26 17:07:16 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:06:45 -0500
To: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
Hello all.
Please be careful which machine(s) you try out this service pack on. Test
on a non-critical machine and share any problems you may have with the rest
of the group. Also, I misspoke in today's meeting. Service Pack 4 does
NOT include every hotfix since Service pack 3. Please read the docs
carefully.
Thanks,
Leonard
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>To: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
>From: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: news on SP4
>Cc: sampson@MIT.EDU, jmhunt@MIT.EDU
>
>Hi Leonard,
>
>You might want to point out to the NT partners list that they should be
>very cautious about applying such a new service pack. When MS released SP2
>it created almost as many problems as it fixed. Often dealing with the bugs
>you know is better than dealing with a new set of unknown bugs.
>
>This Service Pack is too new for IS to support at this time. We need some
>experience with it before we recommend it to others.
>
>The last time I checked the 128 bit version of SP4 was not yet available.
>If a 40 bit version is installed on a machine that has existing 128 bit
>crypto libraries then the machine will end up being less secure than before
>the service pack was applied.
>
>Paul
>
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