Windows XP Updates Prior to SP2

[pilonbrad]

Hi,

I work at a High School where we are running Netware 6.0 SP5 and Zenworks 4.01 ir6.

Most of the computers are running Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1.

We have about 315 computers at the school.

I turned off automatic updates because I don't want people installing Windows XP Professional SP2. I tested out SP2 and there were too many problems even after turning off the firewall and pop up blocker, so I left all the computers at Windows XP Professional SP1.

I noticed there are quite a few Windows XP Updates for all the computers prior to SP2 that haven't been applied yet.

I would like to manually update the computers with these updates but it would take too long and I don't want to turn on automatic updates for my reasonings above.

I there some place on the internet that has all the Windows XP Professional SP1 updates up to the current date prior SP2 compiled into one file that I can install from?

Where are some websites that I can get the Windows XP Professional SP1 updates prior SP2 up to current date to download?

Thanks everyone!

 

[erikhertzel]

I do not believe that you are going to be completely sucessful in what you want to accomplish. You could manually download each update and burn them to CD or whatever media and do it that way that way you had a central location (or a file server).

But, there is no rollup patch for all the updates prior to SP2 and current ones, etc...that I am aware of.

You may be able to use Zen to push the updates without having to manually do all of them. That would save a lot of time.

Best regards.

Erik

 

[chipk]

You're not going to like this suggestion, but I would figure out all the problems with SP2, and how to work around them and set up a WSUS server. We rolled out SP2 through SUS and just turned off the firewall via netsh in our login script, like so:

ver | find "XP"
if not errorlevel 0 goto next
netsh firewall set opmode DISABLE
:next
blah blah blah, rest of your login script

IE settings can also be changed programmatically, but that's a little more difficult. Worth it, though, if you ask me.

 

[BadFrog]

Add a vote for going to SP2. Its not as painful now as it was when it first came out and finding/figuring out workarounds like chipk posted shouldn't be too difficult. Heck put them kids to work and have them do it!

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy"
Albert Einstein

 

[wasisnt]

I agree with using a WSUS server. That way you can pick and choose what updates to install to what computer.

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