For my information if needed later this week!
Office 2003 sp2 has been released along with sp2 for Visio 2003 and sp2 for OneNote 2003. That’s going to take some investigation back at the office!
Update It’s a 100+mb download for the full install or 50+mb for the intelligent download AND there is no uninstall feature.
Update2 There is a webcast on the 6th October about the outlook update.
KB article 896358 shows the steps on re-enabling this ability on intranet/lan locations.
There are 8 windows updates (on my machine) for XP available now. At the moment my automatic updates has not picked them up, but you can of course get them by going to the windows update site.
We’re installing Windows Update Services on Monday in a test environment. It is something I’ve intended to do but did’t want to disrupt the network with changes before I leave. But now that I’m leaving we want something in place before I go. We downloaded the software and stepbystep guide from Windows Update Services Open Evaluation and I’ve got some bedtime reading to do.
Not having that much internet access and the time to blog, I’ve quickly gone through my feeds and pulled a couple of things out of them
- A WUS Wiki which sounds like a bad day for Jonathan Ross, but is actually a wiki for the new Windows Update Services.
- Links to video’s of the Tsunami. This hit whilst we were on holiday and I never got to see any moving pictures of the wave itself – saw plenty of horrific news photos of the devastation afterwards though.
- I removed Norton AntiVirus off the home computer as the subscription had run out and I’m not impressed with the number of infections that have gotten past it this year. Instead I’ve tried the free home edition of Avast’s Antivir software which looks ok. It certainly picked up on eicar when I downloaded it – will be interesting to see how it copes with email borne virus’s
A good review of Windows Update Services which I need to look at later……
After the tipoff from Adam that version 5 of windows update is available I thought I’d take a look.
I’m not impressed so far. Its taken a long time to download the various activex components and then if you make the mistake of clicking the menu’s apart from Install Updates, then the only way back is to use the back button – the install updates is greyed out.
The “hide this update” is a big improvement on the old version though as it was a nightmare remembering the patch number for the journal viewer option that wasn’t needed and choosing the option to not use it in the version 4 side of things.
Another plus is that it came up with the same number of patches that version 4 had.
The dialog box is a little different, and clearer to read too.
Microsoft sent me an email the other day saying that their Software Update Services beta program has been delayed and the *plan* won’t be finalized until January 2004. So goodness knows when it’s actually going to commence. At least this way they won’t need to worry about supporting Win98 (which they didn’t in the previous version either – but now they have a REAL excuse not to)