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The following Knowledge Base articles (some of which have not yet been made live) provide information about the various fixes included in this service pack. 

·         KB 887623 Description of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2

·         KB 906337 Issues that are fixed in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 by SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2

·         KB 907763 SPS requires ASP.NET 1.1 be installed on the server if ASP.NET 2.0 is also installed.

·         KB 907377 How to address the case where SPS SP 2 does not updated the databases during service pack installation

·         KB 905229 How to update an evaluation version to SPS RTM if SPS if SPS SP 1 or SPS SP 2 has been installed on it.  

(sorry, had to break the links.  The email I posted from contained internal URLs which did not work)

Additionally, SP2 introduces support for the following:

·         Support for running on 64-bit machines in 32-bit emulation mode

·         Support for Reverse Proxy and Alternate URL support

·         Support for IP-Bound virtual servers

·         Support for off-box SSL termination

·         Support for SQL Server 2005

Lastly, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with SP2 will be Kerberos-enabled by default.