41 Critical Updates ?????

Hello,
I have been setting up alot of Windows 2003 Server (all versions) lately
and I'm getting a little tired to have to apply this ever growing number of
critical updates. Latest count is 41 updates totalling almost 40MB. One of
which has to be installed by itself. Its a very tedious process as you all
know. Anyone know of any plans to wrap all these updates into a service pack ?

Thanks,
Tony

It has been done in the Windows 2003 SP1 RC2 which is a Beta release.

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"Tony Tuccillo" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have been setting up alot of Windows 2003 Server (all versions) lately
> and I'm getting a little tired to have to apply this ever growing number
> of
> critical updates. Latest count is 41 updates totalling almost 40MB. One of
> which has to be installed by itself. Its a very tedious process as you all
> know. Anyone know of any plans to wrap all these updates into a service
> pack ?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony

Sorry I forgot to add this. It is only the Direct X that has to be
downloaded separately from WU the rest being a single download. I would not
install the RC2 on production machines just yet since it is a Beta.
Downloading and installing from WU at this time is not as bad.

Anyway if you would like to try the Beta Service pack I inserted the link
below.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...1/default.mspx

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Peter

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"Tony Tuccillo" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have been setting up alot of Windows 2003 Server (all versions) lately
> and I'm getting a little tired to have to apply this ever growing number
> of
> critical updates. Latest count is 41 updates totalling almost 40MB. One of
> which has to be installed by itself. Its a very tedious process as you all
> know. Anyone know of any plans to wrap all these updates into a service
> pack ?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony

Thank you for the feedback Peter. I totally agree about not wanting to use
beta stuff on production machines. So I'll wait for it to be released for
production. Any idea when that will be ?

Tony

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Sorry I forgot to add this. It is only the Direct X that has to be
> downloaded separately from WU the rest being a single download. I would not
> install the RC2 on production machines just yet since it is a Beta.
> Downloading and installing from WU at this time is not as bad.
>
> Anyway if you would like to try the Beta Service pack I inserted the link
> below.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...1/default.mspx
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
>
> "Tony Tuccillo" <> wrote in message
> news:968AD78C-4B22-4CC7-99CB-...
> > Hello,
> > I have been setting up alot of Windows 2003 Server (all versions) lately
> > and I'm getting a little tired to have to apply this ever growing number
> > of
> > critical updates. Latest count is 41 updates totalling almost 40MB. One of
> > which has to be installed by itself. Its a very tedious process as you all
> > know. Anyone know of any plans to wrap all these updates into a service
> > pack ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
>
>
>

Tony;
All Microsoft has states is first half 2005:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lif...vicepacks.mspx

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"Tony Tuccillo" <> wrote in message
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> Thank you for the feedback Peter. I totally agree about not wanting to use
> beta stuff on production machines. So I'll wait for it to be released for
> production. Any idea when that will be ?
>
> Tony

You can intergrate all your current updates into your existing winnt dir off
your cd and create a new cd to use. Check up about intergrating service packs
in deployment of software.

Cheers

"Tony Tuccillo" wrote:

> Hello,
> I have been setting up alot of Windows 2003 Server (all versions) lately
> and I'm getting a little tired to have to apply this ever growing number of
> critical updates. Latest count is 41 updates totalling almost 40MB. One of
> which has to be installed by itself. Its a very tedious process as you all
> know. Anyone know of any plans to wrap all these updates into a service pack ?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony