Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2

no1138 — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:25:00 GMT

Yesterday, the Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 was published.

This guide considers potential application compatibility issues that may arise after a Service Pack 2 deployment. The guide provides mitigation procedures that can be followed to overcome compatibility issues. Since the mitigation procedures relax the default security configuration, the guide in no way recommends that they should be followed, but if there is no other way of overcoming compatibility issues, they can be applied in the short term.

The Guide also includes a download of example scripts. The scripts demonstrate how to reconfigure a Service Pack 2 computer to overcome compatibility issues. The scripts are designed as functional samples and will require modification for use in a production environment.

I've only flicked though it, but I am very impressed with the level of detail of what I've seen todate.

4 MSDN Webcasts on XP SP2 are going to take place this week - They are aimed at developers and what are the changes in SP2

no1138 — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 03:48:00 GMT

MSDN Webcast: Overview of XP SP2 for Developers - Level 200

Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada)

Description: Review the changes that Windows XP Service Pack 2 delivers and what they mean for you. Windows XP SP2 is designed to deliver a number of safety technologies in the Internet Connection Firewall, Web Browsing experience, Email /IM and Application Memory Protection. Each of these areas has direct impact on developers and this session covers the major items and what you need to know. Learn how these changes will affect your various development tools.

Recommended Audience: Developer

Presenter: Tony Goodhew, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Tony Goodhew is a Product manager in the Developer Division working on Windows XP Service Pack 2.

MSDN Webcast: Developing Applications Under Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Level 300

Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada)

Description: Windows XP Service Pack 2 delivers a number of safety technologies for end-users. The changes in the Internet Connection Firewall, Web Browsing experience, Email/IM and Application Memory Protection affect many different application types. This session covers example applications, how they are affected and how to modify them to work with Windows XP SP2. The changes will also affect various development tools ranging from Visual Studio .NET to SQL Remote Debugging. This session also details how to configure your development environment to work successfully on machines with Windows XP SP2 installed.

Recommended Audience: Developer

Presenter: Tony Goodhew Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Tony Goodhew is a Product manager in the Developer Division working on Windows XP Service Pack 2.

MSDN Webcast: Windows XP Server Pack 2 Change Walkthrough - Level 300

Date: Thursday, July 8, 2004
Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada)

Description: This session is a detailed walkthrough of the changes to Windows XP with Service Pack 2. It will cover the 4 major areas of change – Networking, Web Browsing, Email/IM and Hardware. In each of these sections the change and its implication will be discussed.

Recommended Audience: Developer

Presenter: Tony Goodhew, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Tony Goodhew is a Product manager in the Developer Division working on Windows XP Service Pack 2.

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server and Windows XP SP2 - Level 300

Date: Friday, July 9, 2004
Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada)

Description: SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 all run on the Windows XP operating system. These services will be affected by Service Pack 2. This webcast examines what the Windows XP SP2 changes do to SQL Server, MSDE, Reporting Services and Analysis Services, as well as how to enable listening on the various network protocols, and when you don't need to make any changes. This session will discuss each network library, how to enable protocols based both on the new Windows Firewall control panel applet and via the netsh command line utility.

Recommended Audience: Developer.
Presenter: Srik Raghavan, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

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Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2

4 MSDN Webcasts on XP SP2 are going to take place this week - They are aimed at developers and what are the changes in SP2