Can anyone give/refer me to a brief tutorial on using update.exe to deploy service packs? Thanks for your help.

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Here you go:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...al/sp2guide.asp

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Quick and easy steps, to use the -s: parameter with the update.exe file.

Syntax:

update -s:

Then after the -s: you need to specify the drive or the folder that contains the i386 folder.

Do not put a space between the -s: or the target, for instance:

update -s:c:

Updates the i386 folder on the C: drive

update -s:software

Updates the i386 folder in the sofware folder.

Do not specify the i386 folder but the level above the folder.

The update.exe slipstreams the i386 folder (Source files for Windows 2000.) To update the O/S that is operational run the w2ksp.exe file directly instead of extracting the update.exe file.

Hope this helps.

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nice summation Lexy - thanks!

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I got caught off guard with a slipstream question in the 210 exam and I didn't realise that you could could perform the function that the question asked (Removing slipstreams after they have been applied.) So I decided to find out as much as I could about service pack updates.

It turns out that the answer was to use add and remove programs in control panel but I have yet to see that option appear in any machine I have updated, I think the answer may have been wrong as you are not actually installing software.

A sad and techy function to perform but I think slipstreaming the source files is a superb idea that saves a lot of trouble.

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I hope this can help you.....

http://support.microsoft.com/search...b;en-us;Q296822

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Thanks for the link, that has helped me out in another area to be honest!

The question that confused me was how to remove a slipstrem when you have updated the i386 folder not after installing the service pack. I wasn't aware that you could remove a slipstream and someone else pointed out the add/remove programs as a possible solution.

Thanks anyway for that link.

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