One of the best ways to stay up to date with the rapidly changing world of Windows 2000® is via the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB). The KB list bugs, problems, how-to's and other issues from Microsoft.
By using the search facility at http://search.support.microsoft.com you can query the KB for new items entered in the past x days (where x is 7,14,30, or 90). KB articles tend to be released in groups. In perusing the KB database recently, I found 200 entries that were newly added in the past 14 days -- all dealing with post-SP1 issues. Below, I've listed some of the ones I found most interesting (most are driver or file system related).
I know that we've actually spent time here trying to debug a problem that we thought was in our code, only to discover later that the problem had already been documented as an NT problem in the KB. So, remember: Check the KB!
Interesting Post SP1 KB Articles (abbreviated titles):
Article ID # |
Title of Article |
Q237556: |
How to Troubleshoot Win2K HAL Issues |
Q254649: |
Windows 2000 Memory Dump Options Overview |
Q269013: |
Non-Admin User Can't Access Removable Media after NTFS Format |
Q260113: |
"Internal Error - Disk Group Exists and Is Imported" |
Q268094: |
Win2K Can't Read CD-R Discs Created with DirectCD |
Q268236: |
Non-Administrator Can't Access to Removable Media |
Q259283: |
Using File Signature Verif Tool to Find 3rd party Drivers |
Q262320: |
Error Msg When You Open a File on NTFS Volume |
Q268363: |
Intel Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE) in Win2K |
Q229716: |
Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console |
Q266420: |
Win2K Service Pack 1 Fixes for Stress-Induced Issues |
Q266403: |
HOWTO: Enable and Use NDIS Verifier |
Check 'em out! All interesting stuff.