{"id":4343,"date":"2007-05-23T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2007\/05\/23\/sp2-to-you\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T11:55:00","slug":"sp2-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/sp2-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"SP2 to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"color:white;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Based on customer feedback and requests, we have improved the Windows Update, Automatic Update and WSUS user install experience with Windows Server 2003 SP2.\u00a0\u00a0 The experience is now more like that with Windows XP SP2 , meaning Windows Update End User License Agreement (EULA) acceptance and a Welcome screen will now be part of installation over WU and AU. 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