My department is responsible for keeping workstations current with critical security patches via “software delivery� push installations. Procedures for WinNt, W2k and XP are well established, but now XP Tablet PC Edition is creeping into the picture.

Our problem: patches for XP Tablet are not documented as well as the other OS’s. Several examples:
*XP Tablet Edition isn’t a selection in the drop-down on the Windows Update Catalog http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
*System Requirements for XP SP1a on Microsoft’s downloads site only lists XP Home and XP Pro. http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/p...sp1/sysreq.asp
*Microsoft’s page for MS03-039 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-039.mspx does not list XP Tablet Edition while a third party advice site http://www.updatexp.com/kb824146.html specifically lists XP Tablet Edition.

Everything I read points to the fact that XP Tablet Edition is a “…superset of XP Pro SP1…� therefore if a patch pertains to XP Pro SP1, it also applies to XP Tablet Edition. I just don’t have a “warm-fuzzy� feeling about this. Is there documentation that specifically states: “Everything that applies to XP Pro applies to XP Tablet�? We don’t want to push a patch to a tablet and have it crash.

Thanks,

Jerry