Guest Allyn Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 We have a few Win2K3 servers that have had SP2 installed on them a couple times. SP2 will show up for a while, maybe a few months, and in the process of doing some maintenance we'll see they have reverted to SP1. We're puzzled at this, as no one in IT is removing them. Has anyone else experienced this? Thank you.
Guest chriske911 Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Re: Win2K3 Servers continue reverting from SP2 to SP1 After serious thinking Allyn wrote : > We have a few Win2K3 servers that have had SP2 installed on them a couple > times. SP2 will show up for a while, maybe a few months, and in the process > of doing some maintenance we'll see they have reverted to SP1. We're puzzled > at this, as no one in IT is removing them. > Has anyone else experienced this? > Thank you. with OEM servers or workstations there can be a recovery partition that holds a profile of a working system could it be that the SP2 version of the system is not very stable and the recovery software therefore reverts it backt to pre SP2 config? grtz
Guest Allyn Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Re: Win2K3 Servers continue reverting from SP2 to SP1 We are using voluming licensing on the servers, and the servers don't have a recovery partition. I had another thought: We needed to free up drive space, so I deleted backup directories under the Windows directory of the form "$NTUninstallKB...$". Is any information maintained in these that might cause this behavior? "chriske911" wrote: > After serious thinking Allyn wrote : > > We have a few Win2K3 servers that have had SP2 installed on them a couple > > times. SP2 will show up for a while, maybe a few months, and in the process > > of doing some maintenance we'll see they have reverted to SP1. We're puzzled > > at this, as no one in IT is removing them. > > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > > Thank you. > > with OEM servers or workstations there can be a recovery partition that > holds a profile of a working system > could it be that the SP2 version of the system is not very stable and > the recovery software therefore reverts it backt to pre SP2 config? > > grtz > > >
Guest chriske911 Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Re: Win2K3 Servers continue reverting from SP2 to SP1 Allyn has brought this to us : > We are using voluming licensing on the servers, and the servers don't have a > recovery partition. > I had another thought: We needed to free up drive space, so I deleted backup > directories under the Windows directory of the form "$NTUninstallKB...$". Is > any information maintained in these that might cause this behavior? > "chriske911" wrote: >> After serious thinking Allyn wrote : >>> We have a few Win2K3 servers that have had SP2 installed on them a couple >>> times. SP2 will show up for a while, maybe a few months, and in the process >>> of doing some maintenance we'll see they have reverted to SP1. We're >>> puzzled at this, as no one in IT is removing them. >>> Has anyone else experienced this? >> >>> Thank you. >> >> with OEM servers or workstations there can be a recovery partition that >> holds a profile of a working system >> could it be that the SP2 version of the system is not very stable and >> the recovery software therefore reverts it backt to pre SP2 config? >> >> grtz >> >> >> no, not AFAIK those are just the installers necessary to reverse a patch or service pack for a servicepack it is called $NtServicePackUninstall$, for patches it is called $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ it is even stranger that it reverts the installation if you deleted the uninstaller could it be that it is just the label that is wrong and not the actual installation you can check this by looking at versions of files or by the following tool: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279631 grtz
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