Guest CCL IT Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 Hello, We are wanting to install service pack 2 on one of our Windows Server 2003 machines which is running IIS6.0 and we need to know if this will stop the service during the period of the install. We understand it will need to stop on a reboot but will it stop during the complete installation of Service Pack 2. Thanks for responses in advance.
Guest Edwin vMierlo [MVP] Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 Re: IIS Service when installing service pack 2 on Server 2003 I do not know the answer, however: If you have a test server, even on a Virtual Machine, you can quiet easily test it. In any case, before you apply a service pack to a production host, you should test it on a test server as a best practice. Rgds, Edwin. "CCL IT" <CCLIT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DE212A19-D99C-4A13-9951-0F036913E2DE@microsoft.com... > > Hello, > > We are wanting to install service pack 2 on one of our Windows Server 2003 > machines which is running IIS6.0 and we need to know if this will stop the > service during the period of the install. We understand it will need to stop > on a reboot but will it stop during the complete installation of Service Pack > 2. > > Thanks for responses in advance. >
Guest CCL IT Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 Re: IIS Service when installing service pack 2 on Server 2003 hello, that is what we would normally do, but we are actually using our test server at present as a live server due to issues with the live server, we have been told to install sp2 on the live server but the main link page is still active on the live server directing the traffic to the dev server. So if we lose IIS on the live we will lose main link to the dev from the live. "Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote: > I do not know the answer, however: > If you have a test server, even on a Virtual Machine, you can quiet easily > test it. > > In any case, before you apply a service pack to a production host, you > should test it on a test server as a best practice. > > Rgds, > Edwin. > > > > > "CCL IT" <CCLIT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DE212A19-D99C-4A13-9951-0F036913E2DE@microsoft.com... > > > > Hello, > > > > We are wanting to install service pack 2 on one of our Windows Server 2003 > > machines which is running IIS6.0 and we need to know if this will stop the > > service during the period of the install. We understand it will need to > stop > > on a reboot but will it stop during the complete installation of Service > Pack > > 2. > > > > Thanks for responses in advance. > > > > >
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