Re: [PCTECH] XP2 Microsoft forced upgrade on April 12th

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stability definately is not a problem. Like others have said, the firewall 
can be a problem. But in our case, I have had 1 computer with a problem with 
our client software and the firewall (out of 100 or more). After we manually 
added it to the exception list, it worked fine.

On Apr 6, 2005 8:21 AM, Bob Crothers <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The masses are already on SP2. There will probably be a big rush of folks
> who have blocked SP2 for all these months, but I wouldn't worry about the
> stability.
> 
> Probably what you should do is start slowly removing the blocker from the
> user machines. That way it wont all hit at one time.
> 
> Bob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> On
> > Behalf Of Glenn Ericson
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:48 AM
> > To: PC-TECH
> > Cc: Midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PCTECH] XP2 Microsoft forced upgrade on April 12th
> >
> > How do you turn off Microsoft auto upgrade feature to AVOID the SP2
> > massive downloads schedules for April 12 when the blocker will no longer
> > function.
> > .
> > I am thinking it would be better to come into the XP2 upgrade
> > cycle a few weeks behind the Masses
> >
> >
> > Glenn Ericson
> > <mailto:Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>mailto:Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx
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