SP2 in brackets

Using SUS, a variety of updates were installed on my machine. For some
reason, there are two updates that have brackets with SP2 inside them.

I do not have SP2 on my XP machines as work forbids us from using them.

This is what it looks like under appwiz.cpl:

(SP2) Q329441
(SP2) Q819696

According to the details of both these things, they do not have anything to
do with SP2. Can anyone tell me what that SP2 means?

Thank in advance.

 

This is perfectly normal - updates between SP1 and SP2 are labelled with the
(SP2) tag so that the user knows (and the OS, for that matter) that they are
more recent than SP1 - but earlier than SP2 (and are to be included within
SP2).


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Thanks.

How did you manage to find this information out?

Furthermore, why is this important for it to be noted this way? I'm not
seeing why this would be helpful for admins.

 

How did I find this out? - by reading the available information in the
Microsoft knowledgebase.

Why is it important? - because it gives the USER an easy guide to what the
state of his PC is.
It makes no difference to the competent network admin, as he should already
be aware of all patches applied to all machines for which he's responsible
(i.e. he should have done the install, either in person, or by some kind of
patch manager).
For the incompetent network manager, this type of thing is irrelevant as
well, since he probably never patches the machines on the network - and then
wonders why he got hit by the Blaster worm!

If you want to check on whether the patches are actually installed
properly - then I suggest that you download and install/run Belarc advisor -
www.belarc.com - which can do this for you, pretty much (but it's never good
to rely on someone else to do your work for you!)

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