Tonight I delivered the deployment piece to Windows XP Service Pack 2 TechNet Canada events in Ottawa.  It was a record crowd with a lot of return attendees. Once again - great participation and dialogue by everyone. I had a lot of fun. 

As promised, here are the links that I mentioned during the session.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Information
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/xpsp2dep.mspx

Deploying Windows XP SP2 in Enterprise Environments (awesome document!)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/sp2entdp.mspx

Application compatibility testing and mitigation guide for Windows XP SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/sp2apcom.mspx

Deployment tools found on the support/tools/deploy/deploy.cab
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=838080&product=windowsxpsp2

How to install Windows XP SP2 by using Systems Management Server
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842844&product=windowsxpsp2

Using group policy to deploy Windows XP Service Pack2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/gpdepsp2.mspx

And by request - "Temporarily Disabling Delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 through Windows Update and Automatic Updates". This should be used with caution and is designed to be used for people who keep Windows Update and Automatic Updates available to their clients but are also in the process of deploying XP-SP2 in some other manner as part of a larger project and want to control it's deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2aumng.mspx

Before I forget - a couple of questions came up around specific ADM templates for Group Policy and their settings. I will post a more detailed entry about these templates, where to get them and point out some interesting settings that might be relevant to your situation.  Stay tuned!

For those of you that attended – thanks so much for making this a great session. I look forward to making the next TechNet event even better.  Hang on a second - this is a two way street.  How about some input?

What suggestions do you have for some additional content or subject matter that you would like to see in Ottawa?  What would you do to improve the sessions?  Are you interested in participating by presenting or co-presenting? Click on the feedback link at the end of this post and drop me a line.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Slide decks will be posted soon - hang in there.