I just noticed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is available on WSUS.  I don’t dare approve it for install without some major, heavy-duty testing, but I’m glad to see it finally available.  Hundreds of patches have been released since SP2 and installing them all on a new system build is painful.  SP3 will include all of those previous pages.

There are also a couple of new features included.  Network Access Protection is now supported for connections to Windows 2008 servers with NAP enabled.  There has also been some IP Stack hardening added, similar to the hardened IP stack in Vista.

Once I get a couple of other projects wrapped up, I’ll do some testing and hopefully get SP3 rolled out in the near future.