[350] in winnt
Re: SP4 - Where do we stand?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard Kimble Jr)
Tue May 4 09:37:57 1999
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:37:31 -0400
To: Matt Dricker <mdric@mit.edu>, itpartners@mit.edu
From: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@mit.edu
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Hi Matt.
My apologies. I did see your message sent to ntpartners (still very much
active). I forwarded your message to others in IS, as did others. It has
sparked a renewed discussion as to what our stance should be.
The truth of the matter is there has not been a lot of testing of SP4 on
campus, at least not to my knowledge. We hope to have an official
statement soon, though.
But for now I believe our stance is that all of your machines should have
at least SP3 plus an assortment of critical post-SP3 hotfixes. (If you
need that list let us know.) If your machine is shipped to you with SP4,
do not be overly concerned. There have been reported problems with SP4,
but very few of those problems have caused much concern here in IS. We are
not (officially) recommending at this time that you upgrade from
SP3+hotfixes to SP4, also.
Thanks,
Leonard Kimble
IS/DCS
At 09:16 AM 5/4/99 -0400, Matt Dricker wrote:
>Howdy partners,
>
>I sent this message out yesterday to ntpartners@mit.edu but I haven't seen
>it come back yet (is the nt list still active?), so I apologize if some of
>you see this twice...
>
>We are starting to recieve new NT machines in from Dell with SP4 already
>installed. The last official word I could find from I/S back in November
>said that it was too early to recommend using SP4 at MIT, and to stick with
>SP3 + hotfixes for the time being. Is this still the recommendation & what
>were the specific problems people were finding with SP4?
>
>-Matt
>______________________________________
>Matt Dricker
> Library Technology Consultant / MIT Libraries
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 10-500
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> 617.258.5009 / 258.5623 fax
>mdric@mit.edu
>
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