Yeah, that's going to be what we use going forward on new hardware. But it
doesn't give us the greatest feeling about upgrading existing systems.
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Ed Whitesell
Airpath
"Clearing the Way"
http://www.airpath.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Stiavetti [mailto:gstiavetti@rentoneonline.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:40 PM
To: Ed Whitesell; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
MSDN has an ISO image of 2000 Server with SP1 for a "clean" install, not
sure if that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Whitesell" <edwlist@airpathwireless.com>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: RE: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
We've tried it on two boxes, both failed.
The first dev box was running some websites, SQL, DNS, DHCP, WINS (no AD).
The installer hangs at "Backing up registry". However, if you go to
Add/Remove Programs, it lists SP1. Trying to uninstall it also hangs.
Surprisingly, the box is still functional.
The second box was a fresh install of 2003 Standard. We installed it a
couple of weeks ago, patched it, etc. then let it sit. This morning we
tried running the network install of SP1, thinking that we might have more
success on a "clean" box. It installed and said it was successful, but
after the reboot Windows can't find a bootable device.
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Ed Whitesell
Airpath
"Clearing the Way"
http://www.airpath.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Gravlin [mailto:RGravlin@newvision-inc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:22 AM
To: Thaddeus McNamara; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
I have installed it on a Windows 2003 Standard test server. It's
actually very nice, although the security configuration wizard isn't
installed by default. It comes with a firewall exactly like XP SP2.
The configuration tool itself is really nice, it uses the server role
selection and then continues to:
- shut off client services (dns, dhcp, wins, etc...)
- enable/disable administration services (rdp, backup, firewall, etc...)
- network ports to open (http, dns, etc... You can also add your own!!)
- SMB security signature requirements
- methods used to authenticate with remote computers (domain, local,
file sharing accounts)
- inbound authentication methods (remote hosts that require lan manager,
not configured to use ntlmv2
- configure auditing
- enable/disable web extensions for IIS
- directories to retain for IIS
- deny anonymous write access to content files
Overall pretty nice!!
Hope that answers your question.
Ryan Gravlin
New Vision Consulting, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Thaddeus McNamara [mailto:tk@coast-radio.com]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:54 PM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Has anyone had time to install and test the new Windows Server 2003
Service Pack 1? I haven't seen or heard much of anything on it... But,
I have been a smidge on the BUSY side...
Thadd McNamara
Coast Radio Co., Inc.
IT Director
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