Deploying XP SP3 via SMS - any gotchas?

We are late to the party but are currently planning to deploy Service Pack 3
for Windows XP (currently all are SP2) via SMS 2003 in the coming months as
it SP2 will be going EOL in July.

I was hoping that those of you who have already done this might be able to
share some tips or if you ran into any issues when doing so? Were there any
major gotcha problems that arose during the implementation via SMS? I know
one thing to watch for is that the clients have adequate free disk space
(planning 1GB minimum free). Aside from this are there any points to watch
out for? Also, did you encounter any major compatibility issues afterwards
(we will be doing testing ahead of full deployment of course!). Thanks.

Barkley Bees wrote:
> We are late to the party but are currently planning to deploy
> Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (currently all are SP2) via SMS 2003
> in the coming months as it SP2 will be going EOL in July.
>
> I was hoping that those of you who have already done this might be
> able to share some tips or if you ran into any issues when doing
> so? Were there any major gotcha problems that arose during the
> implementation via SMS? I know one thing to watch for is that the
> clients have adequate free disk space (planning 1GB minimum free).
> Aside from this are there any points to watch out for? Also, did
> you encounter any major compatibility issues afterwards (we will be
> doing testing ahead of full deployment of course!).

You have SMS - do you have WSUS?

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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Yes, we are currently using WSUS for "critical updates" and "security
updates" not service packs at this time. Would you recommend to use WSUS for
this over SMS 2003? Thanks.


"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Barkley Bees wrote:
>> We are late to the party but are currently planning to deploy
>> Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (currently all are SP2) via SMS 2003
>> in the coming months as it SP2 will be going EOL in July.
>>
>> I was hoping that those of you who have already done this might be
>> able to share some tips or if you ran into any issues when doing
>> so? Were there any major gotcha problems that arose during the
>> implementation via SMS? I know one thing to watch for is that the
>> clients have adequate free disk space (planning 1GB minimum free).
>> Aside from this are there any points to watch out for? Also, did
>> you encounter any major compatibility issues afterwards (we will be
>> doing testing ahead of full deployment of course!).
>
> You have SMS - do you have WSUS?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>