Windows Server - Windows XP Service Pack 3 Revision 104

Asked By John

10-Jun-08 12:51 PM

I just finished deploying Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Today, I notice on my WSUS 3.0, there's a newer WinXP SP3 revision.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Revision history:

1)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929)
Revision: 104
Revised: 5/27/2008
Status: Not Approved
The applicability rules or prerequisites have changed. This type of change
means that the set of machines on which the new revision is offered may be
different from the set of machines on which the old revision is offered.


2)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929)
Revision: 103
Revised: 5/6/2008
Status: Install

If I set rev. 103 to Not Approved and rev. 104 to Install, will it download
another 300MB (or so) SP3? Will it REinstall revision 104 to my WinXP SP3
machines? I don't really want my users to have to go thru another round of
large update.

Thanks.

10-Jun-08 09:34 PM

It happens! Quite common for 'revisions' to be released on WSUS.


No. A =revision= generally only changes the metadata or the detection logic.


It will not.

The ground rule of a "revision" is that the underlying =content= has not
changed.

When the =content= changes, a new update with a new GUID will be packaged
and released.s

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Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Senior Data Architect, APQC, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2008)

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11-Jun-08 11:40 AM

Thanks Lawrence.