[305] in winnt
Re: NT and Y2K
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Mon Feb 8 15:17:32 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:15:43 -0500
To: Michele Brodeur <mbrodeur@MIT.EDU>
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208144020.00a79e30@po7.mit.edu>
Hi Michele et al.
We are still recommending that you hold off on SP4. We are aware that it
is required for y2k compliance and will be evaluating it shortly. Most
people will probably not experience a problem, but those who do will
probably experience major problems. SP4 makes a number of major changes to
how the operating system functions. Unless you have a specific need that
is only addressed in SP4 and cannot wait a few months, I would recommend
continuing to wait.
If you really must go to SP4 at this time, be very careful, be sure to
completely backup your system using ADSM or some other tool, make an ERD
and be prepared to recover the system. One major heads up is that the
drivers for NTFS partitions is changed and you will not be able to view any
NTFS partition that was under SP4 with an SP3 install of NT without
replacing the some of the main system drivers.
Thanks for your patience,
Jonathan
At 02:50 PM 2/8/99 -0500, Michele Brodeur wrote:
>Microsoft states that SP4 is required for NT Server/Workstation to be Y2K
>compliant. However, I've seen the emails regarding problems with this
>update. What is IS recommending that we do for NT to be Y2K compliant?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
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Jonathan M. Hunt
Departmental Computing Support
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