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NT 4 SP5 IS OFFICIALLY OUT! |
from Sunbelt Mailing List
May 5, 1999
Hi
All,
Sometimes these Flashes come rapidly after one another when
hot
news becomes available, but normally you do not hear
from us more than once
a week at the most ;-)
SP5 is officially out! First of all I
suggest to have a look
at the SP5 readme.txt, so you do not have to download
a 32Meg
file. That will answer a lot of your questions right away.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/sp5/readme.asp
THE
FINAL VERSION IS AVAILABLE NOW ! This is the new URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/sp5/
I
just checked it, worked at 09:30pm Eastern Time. It has both 40-
and 128bit
encryption versions available.
The location I published yesterday is
definitely not the final
version. This was a Release Candidate, and was not
given out as
it still had a bug in it. It means that if you downloaded it,
you'll
have to grab the real SP5 again by now. A Release Candidate might
still have some problems attached with it, so better get the FULL
version that is now available.
In short, the SP5 is a combination of
a series of hotfixes and
can be split in several groups: printer and print
spooler bugs,
memory leaks (what else is new), security vulnerabilities,
user-mode
(access violation) and kernel mode (stop code) failures and RRAS
problems. It also contains some Y2K updates.
SP5 is really a Service
Pack, no major new features, just a bunch
of patches, meaning for us simply
less hotfixes to keep track of.
They said they would do it, and this _does_
make life a bit easier.
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2) GET FREE
T-Shirt AT NetWorld+Interop
If you are only backing up your critical data
just once a night,
NSI Software in conjunction with Microsoft, Compaq, and
Hewlett
Packard invite you to see their HIGH AVAILABILITY and DISASTER
RECOVERY presentations at this years NETWORLD+INTEROP '99 in Las
Vegas,
NV (May 11-13).
Presentations on NSI Software's award winning
application Double-
Take will be given in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion,
Compaq Booth,
and in the Hewlett Packard Booth. Stop by one of these
locations
and ask any NSI rep for your free "When once a night just isn't
enough" T-shirt.
Can't make it to the show? Grab the 30-day eval and
test it out
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/dtake.htm
(if you decide to buy
we'll throw the T-shirt in <grin>.
)
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3) Boy, you guys _really_
downloaded NetOp in droves!
Here are all the new features for
V6.0 grouped together
We have had 2,000 downloads of NetOp the last two
days, WOW.
That meant our T1 was maxed out and this week we are
doubling
our capacity. If your download timed out, please retry
tomorrow
and you'll see it is faster. To help you save some time, we
got
all the new features in V6.0 together in one page. NetOp _really_
is a
true gem. If you have not looked at it after you downloaded,
you really
should install it right away. Check out these killer
features: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Netpv6feature.htm
That's
all for this NewsFlash. See you next weekend!
Warm
regards,
Stu
@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
Java Lobby Member
Java Site Accredited