Microsoft is going to start pushing immediately to clients its Office 2003 Service Pack (SP) three via the Microsoft Update patching mechanism beginning on February 27.Final yr,
Office Pro Plus, Microsoft officials committed to offering customers a three- to six-month heads-up concerning its plan to push Workplace company packs making use of MU.Microsoft created SP3 on the market to Workplace 2003 end users through its Microsoft Downloads web site on September 18, 2007. MU is one of the Microsoft patching/updating mechanisms aimed largely at company customers, and is developed to enable them to get security along with other sorts of updates pushed instantly to multiple consumers.Microsoft posted an update recognize towards the Microsoft Update Product Group blog on January 27 concerning its planned MU push:“Today we are providing our buyers a minimum of 30 days advance discover that Service Pack three (SP3) for Office 2003,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus, which was produced accessible towards the public on September eighteen,
Buy Office 2007, 2007, will be distributed automatically by way of Microsoft Update beginning February 27,
Office Professional Plus 2010, 2008. This means that those clients who have not already installed SP3 and that have chosen to receive updates instantly will start to receive the services pack as early as February 27. The distribution by means of MU is a gradual process and so not every customer will see the company pack on February 27.”Microsoft is billing Workplace 2003 SP3 as adding “important” safety enhancements, as well as improving compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007.Can corporate consumers who still aren;t keen on having Office 2003 SP3 pushed instantly to them block or defer SP3? I;m not entirely sure and have put a question into Microsoft on that. I;ll post the answer here once I receive 1.It sounds like if you;re part of MU, SP3 is coming your way. A Microsoft spokeswoman responded to my question with the following:“To optimize the customer experience, Microsoft recommends people update their Office 2003 applications and servers to take advantage of the improvements and new security tools available in SP3.“MU continues to be an opt-in support and any buyers wishing to remove themselves from the company can do so. That said,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, because of the impact this services pack has on end user protection, we highly recommend that any customer who has not downloaded it does so. We also do not recommend that customers opt out of MU.”