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Installation

Microsoft Management Console

Migration

Windows Media Player

Copyright

These release notes address late-breaking issues and information about this release candidate of the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating systems with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Microsoft Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition operating system with SP2. Unless otherwise specified, these notes apply to the following:

  • Windows Server 2003 with SP2

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2

  • x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 with SP2

  • x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2

  • Itanium-based versions of Windows Server 2003 with SP2

  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with SP2

Installation

  • Depending on the method that you use to install SP2, you may need to reinstall certain applications and components (such as Internet Explorer 7.0 and Windows .NET Framework 2.0). This is especially true if you use Winnt32.exe or Setup.exe from the installation media to install SP2 on a computer that is running SP1.

    To ensure that these applications and components function properly, install SP2 using Update.exe. You can obtain Update.exe from the Microsoft Download Center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=14265). If you are a member of the Technical Beta program, you can also obtain Update.exe from Microsoft Connect (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77995).

  • If you attempt to install SP2 on a computer running any version of Windows 2000 Server that also has the update for KB 980958 (MS06-049) installed, the installation will fail.

    To prevent this, install the revised version of the MS06-049 update (dated September 26, 2006) before you install SP2. For more information and instructions, see article 920958 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77994).

  • If you attempt to install SP2 on a computer running any of the Windows Server 2003 operating systems with Service Pack 1 that also has any of the following updates installed, the installation will fail:

    • KB 909095

    • KB 919030

    • KB 919341

    • KB 920739

    • KB 921306

    • KB 921484

    • KB 922089

    • KB 923010

    • KB 923052

    • KB 923066

    • KB 923162

    • KB 924131

    • KB 924285

    • KB 924441

    • KB 924848

    To prevent this, search the Microsoft Knowledge Base (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=37924) for each of the listed updates you have installed in order to obtain updated versions of these hotfixes before you install SP2.

  • This note applies to the 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 with SP2.

    If you install SP2 using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) method, subsequent installation of optional components or language packs may fail.

    To prevent this, complete the following steps before using the UNC method to install SP2:

To install SP2 with the UNC method
  1. Extract the SP2 update package to a shared network resource on a server other than the one you are updating to SP2, such as the following:

    \\<otherserver>\<share>

    After the extraction, \\<otherserver>\<share> will have either an amd64 or ia64 directory.

  2. On \\<otherserver>, create the following directory:

    \\<otherserver>\<share>\i386

  3. On \\<otherserver>, copy all of the files present in the \amd64\wow or ia64\wow directory (as appropriate) and paste them in the \\<otherserver>\<share>\i386 directory.

  4. Complete the UNC installation by doing the following: connect the computer you are updating to SP2 to \\<otherserver>\<share>, navigate to \\<otherserver>\<share>\{amd64|ia64}\update, and then run Update.exe.

Note

For more information about UNC installations, see the deployment documentation provided in the Readmesp.htm file on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 installation disc.

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Microsoft Management Console

If you start certain snap-ins for Microsoft Management Console 3.0 and then subsequently uninstall Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may not be able to start some or all of the snap-ins in Microsoft Management Console 2.0 afterwards. If this occurs, remove all the files in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\MMC\ folder.

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Migration

If you use Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) version 2.0 to migrate a computer running Windows 2000 Professional from one domain to another, you may encounter serious errors.

To avoid this, download and use Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.0 from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=68791.

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Windows Media Player

If you uninstall Windows Server 2003 SP2, you may not be able to access some Windows Media content that is protected by Digital Rights Management. There is no workaround at this time.

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Copyright

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