{"id":5223,"date":"2006-08-01T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-01T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T11:52:00","slug":"windows-server-2003-and-xp-x64-editions-service-pack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/windows-server-2003-and-xp-x64-editions-service-pack-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2003 and XP x64 Editions Service Pack 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a few articles floating around on the Internet since we released the private beta of Windows Server 2003 SP2 a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 To remove any mystery or speculation about what this Service Pack 2 is about, I thought I would take a couple of minutes to lay it out.<\/p>\n

First off, I know SP1 to Windows Server 2003 made some pretty big changes to the way we do security and it introduced a cycle of application testing and some compatibility issues\u2026.this was, however, a necessary evil needed to address server security.<\/p>\n

Now that WS03 SP1 is the foundation for security moving forward, SP2 is back to a \u2018standard\u2019 service pack from MS\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

What this service pack contains:<\/p>\n