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Windows Server 2003 SP2 Downloaded Nearly Half a Million Times
Published: March 28, 2007
by Alex Woodie
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP) was downloaded more than 400,000 times during its first week of availability, a Microsoft developer said in a blog last week.
On March 13, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Server 2003 SP2, a minor release of the server operating system. SP2 includes all of the fixes and patches since the product was released in 2003. The release also brought some new functionality, such as the new Windows Deployment Service (WDS), a new release of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), better SQL Server 2005 performance, support for the Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) security standard, and the Scalable Networking Pack, which enables the use of a TCP offloading engine (TOE) to boost network workload performance.
While Windows Server 2003 SP2 wasn't expected to garner much attention, the download, which is free to Windows Server 2003 users, has attracted its share of new users, according to Joel Sider, a senior product manager in Microsoft's Windows Server division.
"Rapid customer adoption of Windows Server 2003 SP2 continues," Sider writes in a post on the Windows Server Division WebLog. "In less than a week since release, there were more than 400,000 successful downloads!"
Windows Server 2003 users must actively go out and get SP2. While it is a "high priority update," Sider says, it won't be automatically distributed, via Windows' Automatic Updates feature, for three months. After June 12, customers who don't want to install SP2 can prevent it from automatically being downloaded and installed by using the special SP2 Blocking Tool, which is available at the Microsoft Download Center.
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