Windows Server - Windows XP sp3 not applicable for most Windows xp sp2

Asked By jont

02-Feb-09 07:55 AM

I try to rollout Windows XP service pack 3 with WSUS 3.0 sp1. Our clients
are most swedish Windows XP service pack 2.
The settings on the WSUS-server are that we syncronise the language English
(default) and swedish. I approve the patch "Windows XP Service pack 3".

The problem is that most of the clients says that the Windows XP sp3 are not
applicable (not needed !?), why is that. The report also says that most of
them telling me not applicable are sp2.

Why aren't the patch needed ? Can you help me out ?

Sincerely

\\Jonas B

02-Feb-09 11:39 AM

Are you positive that you approved the =Swedish= XP SP3, and not the English
SP3?

Are you positive that the machines are actually Swedish language machines?
Is it possible that they're MUI installations running with the Swedish
language?



In a multi-language scenario, the most likely reason is that there is a
language mismatch.


--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)

MS WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
My Websites: http://www.onsitechsolutions.com;
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
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03-Feb-09 03:23 AM

There is only one patch called "Windows XP service pack3 (KB936929).
Supported languages are swedish among a lof of other languages. I think I
have delivered Windows XP sp3 before to another WSUS group , but that was
another version. This one is updated the 13 of Januari 2009. Could that be
the problem ?

I also have run the cleanup wizard with the default settings, could that
affect this ?

\\Jonas B

03-Feb-09 10:40 AM

Noted. This update, however, contains individual packages for each language.
On a dual-language (English-Swedish) WSUS Server, there would be two
language-specific installation files downloaded:

WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-SVE.exe

and more if you have Express Installation Files enabled.

You should review the WindowsUpdate.log to determine which language was
detected, and thus which of those two files was actually downloaded and
scheduled for installation.



This question seems to be unanswered in this reply. It's a critical
question. Reviewing the WindowsUpdate.log to determine the actual file
downloaded may help.


No. The 1/13 revision, ostensibly, was intended to fix the
applicability/detection logic in the package so that the WUA would properly
report the Not Applicable/Installed status of the update.



Not as long as the update is "Approved", and/or "Needed".



But a secondary issue, supposedly repaired by this Jan 13th revision, is
that the SP3 is already slipstreamed into the installation, and thus cannot
be installed; or that it's already been installed, and the WUA is
mis-reporting the actual status of the update (what was to have been fixed
in the 1/13 revision).


--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)

MS WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
My Websites: http://www.onsitechsolutions.com;
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin