WA Daylight Savings - Part 3

re: WA Daylight Savings - Part 3

Gawain — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:00:51 GMT

We have 2000 Sp4 machines, thsi patch only says down to XP Home...will it work on 2000 pro machines?

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Derek — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:08:35 GMT

Afternoon Michael,

Apart from doing the obvious on the Smartphones and other Windows Mobile devices. Is there any likely hood of a device o/s update?

regards

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mkleef — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:27:14 GMT

Gawain - Im not sure. Try it on a test win2k machine and check. Given Windows 2000 is in extended support now means unless you have an extended support agreement there wont be a specific patch released for it.

Derek - device O/S update? What do you mean? Did you look at my previous post comments on WinCE based devices?

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Mathew Archibald — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:48:58 GMT

I've just tested the patch on Windows 2000 and it added in the daylight savings box to the date and time settings. I haven't tested the crossover to daylight savings.

Now just need to wait for the Outlook patch and also figure out how to roll this out to hundreds of computers and tick the box.

Regards

Mathew

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mkleef — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:54:57 GMT

Thats good news Mathew about win2k.

Though there wont be an outlook patch. There will be an Exchange one though.

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danovich — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:39:47 GMT

Thanks Michael.

FYI - I've also tested on W2K with no problems. I know MS can't offically say it works since it's in extended support ;-)

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Daniel Myers — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:14:08 GMT

Hi All,

"Theres more to come in December with an Exchange patch coming" - What does this mean for us.

Will there be major exchange issues between December 3rd and the patch release/installation for exchange?

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Liam — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:16:10 GMT

Hi Michael,

Will the patch be available through WSUS?

Regards,

Liam

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Doug Bell — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:28:38 GMT

Michael,

Do you know if this patch will be available through WSUS? If I remember correctly, the Commonwealth Games one was ...

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deanh — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:26:14 GMT

Can we expect these patches to be available through WSUS at some point? I'm not too keen to roll it out to tens of servers and hundreds of desktops manually!

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mgm — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:38:18 GMT

Note that the Outlook information at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/timezone/Outlook.aspx contains Sharepoint information. Someone needs to get this updated asap.

mgm

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danovich — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:29:26 GMT

Any hint of when the Exchange patch will be available? http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/timezone/ says that a ptach will be available 'shortly'

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Luke Notley — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:54:28 GMT

Patch doesn't work on Vista RTM for me...

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arwen — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:37:47 GMT

We tested on several Win2k servers without problem, but failed to deploy the package via SMS. Win2k3 and xp are fine.

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mkleef — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:38:20 GMT

OK so now that its released - albeit rushed theres a couple of known issues.

- Patch doesnt work on Vista

- Deployment through SMS fails

- The MSI could be better...

All of these are known and its expected that an updated patch will come out tomorrow.

Exchange patch will be out after Dec 3rd. Theres no specific ETA that I can share yet.

Windows Update will not host the patch. You have several alternatives in either using the direct registry application, tzedit or the patch that you can deploy through logon scripts etc. To me the registry edit is easiest through a "regedit /s filename.reg" style of thing. Consult the website for more guidance on each of these approaches.

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Netweb — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:20:17 GMT

And sadly it has not been rolled into the other update released for other world DST changes.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388

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Anthony Spiteri — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:55:30 GMT

There is a newer offical patch released...TODAY...best bit for everyone...you have to uninstall the old patch!!

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Hi Anthony,

Please download the patch for the Western Australia Daylight Saving time which was published few hours before.

Due to the criticality and time constrain, we published the packages to the download center ahead of the KB article (this was an exception, we usually publish simultaneously). The KB is in the pipeline and should be up soon, but that the package itself is identical to kb 928388 (except it only changes one timezone instead of 30) .

Below are the links to the supported package. You have to uninstall any other packages (applied for this change previously) before installing this one to avoid any future uninstallation problems. The package will also be published through automatic updates soon.

Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB929120)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C1FB05BC-28F5-41F2-93B2-393EEAC66C99

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB929120)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4872BFD0-BF03-48A0-8CA0-0AE82E48ED77

Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB929120)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=31FEEDFF-A146-41F4-99F0-ACFFE3508FE1

Update for Windows XP (KB929120)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6BACC2D7-E643-4A58-A377-07309AB7ED4D

Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB929120)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B2002F75-FE0E-4634-8CF0-2F30B6320883

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mkleef — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:00:27 GMT

Theres a reason for everything Netweb! Its because the current WA one is an interim patch. The timezone patch will change yet again when the current DST period ends to reflect the alignment and dates for the rest of the country.

Daylight Savings Come To Western Australia

frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:43:49 GMT

So this weekend Daylight Savings came to our friends in the West. Our resident sandgropper, Michael Kleef