Windows XP SP3 Overview Summary :
1. Management
- MMC 3.0 : MMC 3.0 is a framework that unifies and simplifies day-to-day system management tasks in Windows by providing common navigation, menus, toolbars, and workflow across diverse tools.
2. MDAC
- MSXML6 : MSXML6 provides better reliability, security, and conformance with the XML 1.0 and XML Schema 1.0 W3C Recommendations. It also provides compatibility with System.Xml 2.0.
3. MSI
- Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2 : Windows Installer 3.1 is a minor update to Windows Installer 3.0, which Microsoft released in September 2004.
4. Networking
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.5 : BITS 2.5 is required by Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Windows Live™ OneCare™. BITS 2.5 helps improve security.
- IPsec Simple Policy Update : This update helps simplify the creation and maintenance of IPsec filters, reducing the number of filters that are required for a server and domain isolation deployment.
- Digital Identity Management Service (DIMS) : DIMS makes it possible for users who log on to any domain-joined computer to silently access all of their certificates and private keys for applications and services.
- Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) 2.1 : This update enables Windows XP SP3–based programs that use PNRP to communicate with Windows Vista programs that use PNRP.
- Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) : This update to Windows XP provides support for WPA2, the latest standards-based wireless security solution derived from the IEEE 802.11i standard.
- "Black Hole" Router Detection : Windows XP SP3 includes improvements to black hole router detection (detecting routers that are silently discarding packets), turning it on by default.
- Network Access Protection (NAP) : NAP is a policy enforcement platform built into Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows XP SP3 with which you can better protect network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements.
5. Security
- Descriptive Security Options User Interface : The Security Options control panel in Windows XP SP3 now has more descriptive text to explain settings and prevent incorrect settings configuration.
- Enhanced security for Administrator and Service policy entries : In System Center Essentials for Windows XP SP3, Administrator and Service entries will be present by default on any new instance of policy.
- Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module : Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module (Fips.sys) is a FIPS 140-1 Level 1–compliant, general purpose, software-based, cryptographic module in the kernel mode level of the Windows operating system.
6. Setup
- Windows Product Activation : As in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Vista, users can now complete operating system installation without providing a product key during a full, integrated installation of Windows XP SP3.
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