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Outline from my presentation today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Mon Jun 28 15:14:05 1999
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:10:01 -0400
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From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
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I apologize for the last second room switch. There was some
miscommunication via the room reservations. Here is an outline of the
presentation I gave today.
-Jonathan
NT Partners: Service Pack 5 and Hotfix Script
Presented by Jonathan McIndoe Hunt
jmhunt@mit.edu
IS/Departmental Computing Support
June 28, 1999
Outline
-Service Pack 5
-Current Recommendations
-Hotfixes Script
Service Pack 5
-TechEd 99
-Get On the Bandwagon! What’s New in the Latest Windows NT Service Pack
Brian Komar (Microsoft)
Future Service Packs
-Starting with SP5
-Released on a regular schedule
-No new features will be introduced in Service Packs
-Bug fixes only
Top 10 Pre-Installation Best Practices
1. Read the Readme.txt
2. Install the Service Pack in test environment
3. Previous uninstall directories copied to a safe location
4. Perform full backup of files and registry
5. Run SRVINFO.EXE from Windows NT Resource Kit and port to file
6. Create Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) using rdisk /s
7. Confirm compatibility with third party software
8. Close all active debugging sessions
9. Perform a full system restart and check the event view
10. Confirm adequate disk space availability
Security Fixes
-PPTP (VPN) enhancements
-MSCHAP v2
-Manage security event log
-Requires explicit privilege
Ability to disable LM authentication
Y2K Fixes
-Find files
-Date Modified
-Word document properties
-Wrong century
-Clock Fixes
-User Manager leap year
-Clock jump
Networking Fixes
-WINS/DHCP and DNS Enhancements
-Improved administration tools and client access
-Remote Winsock (DNS Port 53)
-Greater flexibility with increased security
-Set preferred domain controller
-reduce WAN traffic
Interoperability Fixes
-Support for NTFS V5
-Windows 2000 volume accessibility
-Euro currency
-SFM Issues
8 Post-SP5 Hotfixes
Csrss-fix
LSA3-fix
NetDDE-fix
Perfctrs-fix
RAS-fix
RASPassword-fix
RRASPassword-fix
Winhlp32-fix
Current Recommendations
-Service Pack 3 with Hotfixes
-http://web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt/sp.html
-http://web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt/hotfixes.html
Hotfixes
-A hotfix is a fix to a particular problem, they are not regression tested
as thoroughly as Service Packs. They may cause additional problems.
-http://web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt/hotfixes.html
-ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/hotfixes-p
ostSP3/
Disclaimer
-I/S does not and will not provide any support for my script
-Use at your own risk
-I personally will be glad to answer question, but not in any official
capacity
-jmhunt@mit.edu
-I may be slow to respond
fixme.cmd fixes.txt (not supported)
set serverpath=\\server\hotfixes
set params=hotfix -n -z -m
choice /t:n,15 Do you wish to install the above hotfixes?
if errorlevel 2 goto end
FOR /F %%v IN (%serverpath%\%1) DO %serverpath%\%%v\%params%
Preparing to use a script
Set up a share \\server\hotfixes
-Download the hotfixes that you want from Microsoft
-Extract hotfixes to folders on the share
e.g. ginafixi.exe /x
Prepare a fixes.txt
-List the directories you extracted each hotfix to
-Be sure to check dates of similar files since hotfixes quite often replace
the same files, e.g. ntoskrnl.exe
-Put the newer hotfixes last on the list
Samples
Conclusions
-Third Party Apps
-GUI
-Will check what is installed already
-SPCHECK
-Questions?
