Microsoft Server 2003 SP2 Hotfix Scan Tool

After the Windows Server 2003 SP2 release, I decided to give the Hotfix Scan Tool a spin, to see if it would identify any potential problems prior to testing the SP2 installation itself. The first thing noticed was that the installation details on the download page are incorrect. The site states "Download the compressed file and double-click to activate it. It will then extract files to a directory you choose." which doesn't apply to this download. The installation routine places HotFixScanTool.vbs directly in %systemroot%\system32. Secondly, since this is a vbscript, and it's installed in the system path, you should be able to run it by double clicking it, typing the filename in a cmd window or directly from the run command on the start menu. In my case, that didn't work and I got the following error: Doing Start->Run->cmd.exe and typing in cscript %systemroot%\system32\HotFixScanTool.vbs did the trick though:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cscript %systemroot%\system32\HotFixScanTool.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Detecting if any updates in the Block installation list were 
installed on the system...

No updates in the block installation list were detected.
You can proceed to install Windows Server 2003 SP2

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

So far, so good but if this is an indication of the quality level of the rest of SP2 I'm somewhat worried.

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel