Dogfood Report

Microsoft IT sector in this month posted a public account of the efforts in deploying Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 - and certainly would sign the S erviceP ack release is imminent. It Microsoft, which defines one of its primary functions, "Microsofts first customer," regularly releases a report on its rollout experience near or just prior to the release, a major manufacturing Microsoft product or update.

Windows Server 2003 SP1 is a major Service Pack for the server operating system has brought new security enhancements, such as security and configuration wizards with Windows Firewall Service Pack on the usual patch. Microsoft has said, SP1, will be in the first half of 2005, and Service Pack 2 is in the release candidate testing.

26 in the report, the so-called "Microsoft IT SP1 deployment case studies," was posted on Friday. It provides an overview of methods and problems encountered in the deployment of Microsoft SP1, and the large-scale network, of which nearly 10,000 servers across 15 areas, a total of about 250 domain controller management certification nearly 10 million subscribers.

According to the report, Microsoft, it has encountered several installation failures in its massive upgrade. In some systems running VERITAS Backup Exec as a backup agent, the backup server Hung When Microsoft Systems Management Server use the SP1 deployment. The problem arose because SMS did not stop, backup, restart the server before agents. The solution was to either upgrade manually using Terminal Services or stop backup services, the use of short message service installed SP1, and then restart the backup service, installing SP1. Another problem is that SMS, Microsoft encountered in the deployment of SP1 side of the 64-bit operating system.

Other issues, Microsoft, it said: COM specific new powers and the broad computer restrictions and DCOM to create connectivity problems with some custom applications, devices failed because insufficient disk space on the target system Windows Server 2003 version of the data center, not updates to the hardware vendors requalifies the whole configuration. The problem lies not in the end is a problem, because, as it is a reminder - W indows plan aimed at the data center functions, in this way can we ensure the highest reliability in the data center system.

This document can be downloaded from here.

More ENT cover SP1, see the special report of the last six key to improving the security of Windows Server 2003 SP1.