What is a Service Pack?
Microsoft maintains a large online database of fixes for operating systems and applications. These fixes are refered to as Service Packs. NT has its share, and typically the latest Service Pack has the latest fixes, including security patches. Installing a Service Pack is NOT something to be taken lightly — to turn on or off some features involves some Registry editing. Installation can in some circumstances disable or cause conflicts. Often after a new product has been loaded, even a Microsoft product, you must reinstall the Service Pack. For this reason, LAN administrators often neglect the timely installation of Service Packs. For the hacker, this is a decided advantage — especially if the site has numerous NT servers and workstations in need of patching. One day maybe Microsoft will make Service Pack installation a little less painless, but until then you will find MANY locations will be either under-patched or not patched at all. Typically Service Packs are fairly well tested, a
Microsoft maintains a large online database of fixes for operating systems and applications. These fixes are refered to as Service Packs. NT has its share, and typically the latest Service Pack has the latest fixes, including security patches. Installing a Service Pack is NOT something to be taken lightly — to turn on or off some features involves some Registry editing. Installation can in some circumstances disable or cause conflicts. Often after a new product has been loaded, even a Microsoft product, you must reinstall the Service Pack. For this reason, LAN administrators often neglect the timely installation of Service Packs. For the hacker, this is a decided advantage — especially if the site has numerous NT servers and workstations in need of patching. One day maybe Microsoft will make Service Pack installation a little less painlful, but until then you will find MANY locations will be either under-patched or not patched at all. Typically Service Packs are fairly well tested, a
A Service Pack is a software update containing system enhancements and bug fixes in one installable package. Service Packs are available only for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3). Service Packs contain all previously released SAS 9.1.3 hot fixes. The individual hot fixes contained in a Service Pack are no longer available for separate download. The latest Service Pack can be downloaded from the SAS Hot Fix web site, and must be applied to your system before installing any currently available hot fixes. Note – Service Pack download is not available for all operating systems. The content of Service Packs varies by operating system.
