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

(c) Microsoft 2004

Released August 23, 2004
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Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 Download

Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=33953&clcid=0x409

The Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 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.
For information on additional functionality such as error checking go to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rmscpt/html/rmscpt.asp

The documentation also provides medium and small business scenarios. The scenarios
document how the scripts can be used to install and configure Service Pack 2 for
application compatibility.

Before Running the scripts read the Readme.txt for each scenario and the appendix to the Application
Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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Folder contents:

AppComPatXPSP2.doc

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

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Application Compatibility Testing
Chapter 3: Mitigating Application Compatibility Issues
Chapter 4: Deploying Mitigation Fixes
Appendix: Description of script functionality and scenarios

Scripts

The folder containing the scenarios and scripts mentioned earlier

CIS_EULA_v4_Application_Compatibility_Guide.rtf

The end user license agreement for using the guide

Readme.txt

This readme file

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