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Under <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #ffc000\">Top 10 Reasons to Install SP2<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">, we highlight the major value propositions of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 customers. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Remember that SP2 patches Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP x64 Edition. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Since we released Beta in June (which was not publicly available <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: Wingdings\">L<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\"> ), we have been receiving very positive feedback on our quality. Well\u2026 I could not stop myself to post this Newsgroup thread:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">I know some people in here have had problems, but honestly, I&#8217;d forgotten that I&#8217;m even using SP2. It installs clean, it uninstalled clean, and it just does what I need it to do&#8230; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Courier New'\">it just works.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">Exactly so. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Courier New'\">No issues at all<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\"> with the latest SP2 beta<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">Pile me on the no issues list too. Working great.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">BYTW, I even tried to throw it a curve by installing IE7 then doing the SP2 upgrade. Worked fine. It seems fine with it.\u00a0 From my standpoint, Ship\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Courier New'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: #ffc000;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Courier New'\">I&#8217;d love to report some really serious issues, but <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">I haven&#8217;t had even some minor ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Courier New'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">Installed and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Courier New'\">running smooth as silk here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">Same here have not had issues on x86 and x64<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Courier New'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">I have been disappointed in that I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Courier New'\">haven\u2019t found a single flaw.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Courier New'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;color: white;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Courier New'\">Like many others here&#8230; I have encountered no issues at all on two test machines and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Courier New'\">in fact applying the service pack fixed some DNS server latency related issues I was having. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">The press is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #ffc000;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/sections\/software\/software.jhtml?articleId=194300628\"><span style=\"color: #ffc000\">already<\/span><\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: white;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">writing up SP2. 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