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[bluejap]

What happened to the SP3 install file? We have thousands of computer that we use autopatcher on to update. It wasn't until today that we noticed that SP3 was missing. Many of our PCs have from no service pack and up.

[Cristiano]

i regret to inform, but we never had an module to deploy sp3 himself. but it's possible do an custom module to deploy that. this code is an module that i did to deploy sp2 some time ago:

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[AutoPatcher 5.6 Module]

[General]
Title=Windows XP SP2 (KB835935 Windows XP x86 SP2)
Description=Windows XP SP2
Author=Microsoft
ModuleAuthor=Cristiano Portela
WebPage=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=23354
ReleaseDate=20041008

[Behavior]
ParentID=WINDOWS_CRITICAL_PARENT
UniqueID=KB835935_x86
Critical=True
AutoExpand=False
Depends=
TimeToInstall=120
TimeToRemove=120
RequiresReboot=True

[DetectionRegistry]
RegistryPath=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
KeyName=CSDVersion
KeyValue=Service Pack 2

[DetectionFile]
FilePath=windows:\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}
FileName=SP2.CAT
FileVersion=ANY
FileMD5=ANY

[OperatingSystem]
WindowsVersion=XP_SP0,XP_SP1
SystemLanguage=ANY

[SystemComponents]
InternetExplorer=ANY
WindowsMediaPlayer=ANY
DotNetFramework=ANY
WindowsInstaller=ANY
MSNMessenger=ANY

[OfficeComponents]
Word=ANY
Excel=ANY
PowerPoint=ANY
Outlook=ANY
Publisher=ANY
Visio=ANY
Project=ANY
OneNote=ANY
FrontPage=ANY
InfoPath=ANY
Access=ANY

[Installation]
"Module:\WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-PTB.exe" /passive /X:C:\temp
regedit /s "Module:\KB835935_runonce.apf"

[Removal]
"Module:\WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-PTB.exe" /passive /forcerestart /overwriteoem /uninstall

[Slipstream]
"Module:\WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-PTB.exe" /passive /norestart /overwriteoem /integrate:"share:

with that, all that you have to do is change WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-PTB.exe to the name of the install file for the service pack and put the sp into an folder with the same name than the module, plus _files. taking the module name as sp2_files.apm, then the folder has to be sp2_files.apm_files

this is the content of KB835935_runonce.apf

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]
"sp2"="C:\\temp\\i386\\update\\update.exe /passive /forcerestart /o /f"

don't forget this file or deploy the sp will be too dangerous. the same kind of module can be done to any sp

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[_def_x_]

Ditto to what Cristiano said - you never saw it in an AutoPatcher release.

The network install is 331,805,736 bytes - that's nearly 332MB - pushing the XP_Enu release to nearly 575MB. Sadly, the
XP_Ptb release is over 600MB - yeah?

Anyway, if you need to download and install the network installer - the easiest service pack to deploy, here's the link.

-> Service Pack 3 For XP (x86) Network Installation Package

[Cristiano]

> XP_Ptb release is over 600MB - yeah?
yep, but the ptb script doesn't have any module to deploy any sp. this one includes the main xp enu, plus extras and .net and also the translation packs for the .net. if xp enu + .net and extras, then you will have an folder that is bigger than the ptb script by something like 30-40MB (due the 2k updates, that the ptb script don't have)

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