RSSOffice XP Receives Second Service Pack
By Nate Mook | Published August 21, 2002, 11:29 PM
UPDATED Microsoft this week released the second major upgrade to Office XP, a collection of security and bug fixes the software giant has issued since Service Pack 1 debuted last December.
Service Pack 2, which Microsoft says is a comprehensive update, weighs in at 15MB. In addition to previous patches, SP2 also includes numerous tweaks to improve the performance and reliability of Office XP.
Along with general fixes, Service Pack 2 addresses issues in Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, SharePoint and FrontPage. A list of corrections, as well as an overview of SP2 can be found on Microsoft's Support Web site.
Office XP SP2 is available for download via FileForum, and may be ordered on CD free of charge. An administrative update is also available for network administrators installing the update in a corporate environment.
Service Pack 1 must be installed prior to the installation of Office XP SP2.
man, why are you asking this all the time? it takes just a couple of minutes to update with both packs, so instead of posting your question you should have used the time to update the admin install with sp1. it doesn't do any damage, after all. first update with sp1, then with sp2, then update your office. takes 5-10 minutes for everything.
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|Not true, I am afraid. You guys are not reading the whole thing. It says "Before you install the Office XP SP-2 Client Update, install Office XP Service Pack 1". BUT, it also says "You do not have to install Office XP SP-1 before you install the Office XP SP-2 Administrative Update." So YES YOU CAN SLIPSTREAM SP2 WITHOUT SP1.
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|If I want to slipstream SP2 do I have to slipstrem SP1 first ?
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|Quote:
"Service Pack 1 must be installed prior to the installation of Office XP SP2."
So... yes you must slipstream SP1 before SP2.
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|No, you don't if you're slipstreaming:
"NOTE: You do not have to install Office XP SP-1 before you install the Office XP SP-2 Administrative Update."
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|Go to winbeta.org for a SP2 slipstreaming tool. It slipstreams SP2 into a full OfficeXP install. Cannot use a slipstreamed SP1 with it though.
James Wheat
http://belprecomputerwizard.com
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|Correct me if I am wrong, but the Office XP Service Pack 1 file was only 16 MB, not 175.
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|Yep:
1/17/2002 9:39p 18,330,960 oxpsp1.exe
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|SP1 was 18 meg or so, SP2 is 15 meg, so how can SP2 include SP1 and be smaller in size than SP1 on its own.
SP1 + SP2 = 33 meg or so ?
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|Quote:
"Service Pack 1 must be installed prior to the installation of Office XP SP2."
SP2 DOES NOT include SP1.
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|it is possible to have a service pack which contains the previous service pack but be a smaller filesize. this is because all the sp does is update the files, for example say there is a problem with MAPI in Outlook this uses MAPI.DLL say a problem was fixed in sp1 and made the file 1.1mb, now say a problem was also fixed in sp2, this will mean the same file from sp1 has just been edited again. This means the code *could* be smaller if the code with the bug has been re-writen better therefore giving a smaller filesize. if this happens enough the second sp could be smaller than the first. However although this is unlikely it is still possible. Just because SP2 is not twice the size of SP1 doesnt mean it doesnt contain all of SP1 fixes. Look at Windows 2000 SP2 and SP3, roughtly the same filesize but sp3 contains all of sp2 also. I do not know why the office xp sp2 does not contain sp1 also, this is unusual for microsoft.
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|Actually, while Windows has cumulative updates, for some reason I believe Office 97 and 2000 versions required you to install SP1 before SP2. With Office 97 it was even worse, you had to get SR1 and SR2b, and they both had different install methods, so sometimes an SR1 upgrade would munge something so SR2b could never be installed.
They've always kept the service packs separate, for some reason (or just plain laziness). I remember ordering an Office 97 service pack CD, and it simple came with both SR1 and SR2 executables. Kind of annoying, since I had to patch multiple machines at the time without the benefit of an automated network install.
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