Service Pack 2 Question

[Fisherman]

When Service Pack 2 came out in Sept 2005, I don't think that I
installed it, but how can I tell?
(Then, I didn't need Outlook Exchange access, and S P 2 was buggy.)
Can I install Service Pack 2 _now_, even though I have applied several
updates that are more recent?
I am running Entourage 11.3.3 (current) on Mac OS X 10.4.9 (current.)

This comes up because I recently took on a new job, and for the first
time in my life, I need VPN access to the company Exchange Server for
email, shared calendars, address book, etc.

Thanks for your service.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi--

Updates are normally cumulative. So everything that was in SP2 was
rolled into the 11.3 update (which is more or less an SP3). There's an
11.3.4 update, which you may or may not have applied, but you are pretty
much up to date. (Here's a script to tell you what is installed:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/fav_scripts.html#favscript_findVersion>

When updates are not cumulative, they force you to install the earlier
one. So if SP3 (11.3) had not included the SP2 (11.2) material, it would
probably have refused to run until you had installed SP2 and were at 11.2.

As far as I know, this is pretty true across the board of all commercial
software, not just MS. Certainly when Apple releases 10.4.8, it includes
everything that was in 10.4.1, 10.4.2, etc (minus the known buggy parts

So, search the newsgroup or ask a new question about the VPN Exchange
access. Or check the general Exchange information here:
http://entourage.mvps.org/exchange/
I think, but I'm no Exchange expert, that you'll need to give more
detail than is in this post for help with Exchange setup.